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Gayatri Gopinath
Associate Professor; Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Major Interests: Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Feminist Theory
 
Carolyn L. Dinshaw
Professor
Major Interests: Medieval literature and culture; feminist studies; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies; history of sexuality; theories of history and historiography; mysticism; theories and experiences of temporality
 
Lisa Duggan
Professor
Major Interests: Modern U.S. cultural, social, and political history; history of gender and sexuality; lesbian and gay studies.
 
Judith Stacey
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Major Interests: Gender; family; sexuality; feminist and queer theory; ethnography.
 

Affiliated Faculty


Thomas A Abercrombie
Associate Professor; Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Major Interests: Cultural history/historical anthropology; colonized societies; postcolonial situations; nationalism; ethnohistory of social movements, gender and sexuality in the Hispanic world; Andes, Spain.
 
Emily Apter
Professor
Major Interests: 19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literatures; Francophone studies; cultural studies; critical theory.
 
Jo Dixon
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions
Major Interests: Law and society; human rights; gender and law; legal profession; criminology; criminal courts; violence; Central Europe.
 
Khaled Fahmy
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Social and cultural history of modern Egypt.
 
Yael S. Feldman
Professor
Major Interests: Hebrew and Comparative Literature: Bible to Modern; literary theory; gender and cultural studies; psychoanalytic criticism.
 
Elaine Freedgood
Professor
Major Interests: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel
 
Kathleen Gerson
Professor
 
Faye Ginsburg
Professor; Director, Graduate Program in Culture and Media; Director, Center for Media, Culture & History; Co-Director, Center for Religion and Media
Major Interests: Social anthropology; ethnographic film; indigenous media; social movements in the United States; gender and reproduction.
 
Linda Gordon
Professor
Major Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. social, political, and social policy history; women and gender; family; U.S. Southwest.
 
David F Greenberg
Professor
Major Interests: Criminology; sociology of law; mathematical modeling; ancient civilizations; deviance; human sexuality; sociology of science; evolutionary psychology; statistical methods in the social sciences.
 
Lynne Haney
Professor; Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Major Interests: Gender studies/feminist theory; political sociology; European studies; the welfare state; ethnographic methods.
 
Phillip Brian Harper
Professor; Chair, Department of English
Major Interests: Modern and contemporary U.S. literary and cultural studies; African-American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies
 
Christine Harrington
Professor
Major Interests: Public Law and Law & Society
 
Martha Hodes
Professor
Major Interests: I have several projects in progress: a short book about race in world history for Oxford University Press; research on the uses and meanings of narratives about human skin color in the United States, with attention to transnational racial systems; and a history of the New York City race riot of 1900, in which I explore this event in ever-widening geographical arenas, from the streetcorner on which a black laborer and a white policeman clashed on an August night during an intense heatwave, to the effects of the ensuing violence upon the neighborhood, the city, the North, the nation, and beyond.
 
Barbara Krauthamer
Assistant Professor
 
Darline Levy
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Intellectual/cultural history; early modern Europe; Enlightenment.
 
Emily Martin
Professor
Major Interests: Anthropology of science and medicine, gender, cultures of the mind, emotion and rationality, history of psychiatry and psychology, US culture and society.
 
Elizabeth McHenry
Associate Professor
Major Interests: African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book
 
Sylvia Molloy
Other
Major Interests: comparative American literature, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, autobiography, fin-de-siècle literatures.
 
José E Muñoz
Associate Professor; Chair
Major Interests: Latino studies; queer theory; critical race theory; global mass cultures; performance art; film and video.
 
Mary Nolan
Professor
Major Interests: Europe and America in the Twentieth Century, Cold War, Modern German history; European women's history.
 
Ann Pellegrini
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Queer theory; religion and sexuality; psychoanalysis and culture; religion, performance, and community formation; cultures of childhood; feminist and queer performance; confessional culture; religion and secularism; Jewish cultural studies.
 
Mary Poovey
Professor
Major Interests: Victorian Literature and Culture, Economic history of Great Britain and History of Financial Institutions
 
Rayna Rapp
Professor
Major Interests: Gender, reproduction, health and culture, science and technology, United States and Europe.
 
Susan C. Rogers
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Major Interests: Sociocultural anthropology; French society and culture; rural development; tourism; Europeanist ethnography and history.
 
Martha Dana Rust
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Medieval literature and culture; technologies of writing; gender studies; literary representations of illness and disease.
 
Bambi B. Schieffelin
Professor
Major Interests: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, literacy, language socialization, childhood, missionization, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean.
 
Carol R. Sternhell
Associate Professor; Director of Global Initiatives
Major Interests: feminism, motherhood, cultural politics, media studies, literature.
 
Daniel J Walkowitz
Professor; Director of College Honors, College of Arts & Science; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Major Interests: U.S. Social and Cultural History, with particular interest in Labor and Urban History
 
Marilyn Young
Professor
Major Interests: U.S. foreign relations; U.S.-East Asian relations; Third World women and gender.
 
Angela Zito
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Cultural history/historical anthropology; critical theories of religion; religions of China; religion and media; history and anthropology of embodiment; performance and subjectivity.
 

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