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Mary Jo Bona
Distinguished Professor
Distinguished Professor
PhD, English, UW-Madison
Research Interests: Feminist theories and literatures; feminist and queer narrative
theories; multi- ethnic American literary cultures; Italian American/Italian diasporic
literary and cultural studies; diaspora/migration/critical race theories.
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Ritch Calvin
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
PhD, Comparative Literature, Stony Brook
Research Interests: feminist theory, Latina literature and culture, Latina feminisms, feminist science
fiction, reproductive technologies.
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Manisha Desai
Professor
Executive Director for the Changing Systems of Power
PhD, Sociology, Washington University
Research interests: gender and globalization, transnational feminisms, global justice, particularly climate
justice movements and human rights.
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Lisa Diedrich
Professor
PhD, WGSS, Emory University
Research Interests: critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist theories,
interdisciplinary methods.
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Victoria Hesford
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
PhD, American Studies, Emory University
Research Interests: gender, sexuality, queer and feminist theory, U.S. queer and
feminist history, popular and mass culture in the postwar era, and critical theory.
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Nancy Hiemstra
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
PhD, Geography, Syracuse University
Research Interests: global migration, immigration enforcement practices, detention
and deportation, homeland security, borders, gender, race, Latin America, feminist
epistemology and methodologies
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Professor
PhD, Sociology, New School for Social Research
Research Interests: sex work, race, gender, sexuality, feminist theory, Black feminisms,
queer and feminist methodologies, and African American political thought and protest.
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Cristina Khan
Assistant Professor
PhD, Sociology, University of Connecticut
Research Interests: feminist methodologies, sexualities, race/ethnic studies, body/embodiment,
Latina/o/x studies, qualitative methods, sex work, and women of color feminisms
Jenean McGee
Assistant Professor
PhD, Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Liz Montegary
Associate Professor & Chair of WGSS
PhD, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
Research interests: feminist and queer theory; transnational American studies;
LGBT/queer activism; travel, tourism, and mobility studies; cultural studies of
militarization.
Suzanne Staub
Adjunct
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Joanna Wuest
Assistant Professor
PhD, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, conservatism, critical and queer
theory, law and political economy, science and technology studies
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