Faculty and Staff

Research Interests: Political Economy; International Development; Labor; Gender; Social Welfare; Comparative-Historical Methods

Interests: Critical philosophy of race; critical disability studies; phenomenology

Interests: Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Disability Studies, Caribbean Studies

Interests: Gender, bodies, biology, and health, particularly in the realm of feminist biology; binary sex vs. feminist paradigms in science and medicine

Interests: World literature; postcolonial and Caribbean studies; ecocriticism; feminist theory

Interests: African History; The Atlantic World; History of Slavery and Emancipation; Gender and Sexuality; Social and Cultural History

Interests: European and US-American art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present; issues of gender, history, and theory; and the history of photography, film, and media culture

Interests: Feminist Philosophy; Decolonial Theory; Social and Political Philosophy

Interests: Research interests: Documentary and nonfiction film and archives; images of gender, sexuality, and race; 20th c. institutional film-making in the US and American South; US history and culture; southern studies; feminist and queer theory.

Interests: Indigenous studies; queer and trans studies; Native American literature; nineteenth-century US literary studies; speculative fiction; feminist, critical race, postcolonial, and political theory; histories of race and empire.

Interests: Kabbalah; Jewish magic; the history of the body in religion

Interests: Transnational disability studies or Southern disability studies; mad studies; critical prison studies or carceral studies; medical humanities; medicalization of race and poverty; history of social justice in the helping professions; intersections of immigration, criminalization, and mental health systems

Interests: Latin America; women’s political participation and leadership; gender and politics; transnational feminism; comparative women’s movements; feminist theory; citizenship and state development

Interests: Queer Theory; Biopower; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Feminist Theory; Food Studies; Nineteenth Century United States; History of Race; Pedagogy; Taste and Aesthetics; History of the Senses

Interests: Feminist histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art; art and activism; politics of contemporary visual culture; socialist film; gender and sexuality in Eastern Europe after WWII (with an emphasis on former Yugoslavia); contemporary activist art practices by ethnic Roma in the Balkan region

Interests: Early modern Italian literature, culture and conduct manuals; Satire; Chivalric poems; Gender studies

Interests: Vocality and the embodied performances of gender, class and region in country music

Interests: Early modern English literature; drama; Shakespeare; queer theory; psychoanalysis; literary theory; affect studies; history of sexuality

Interests: Global supply chains; International trade; Labor; Agri-food systems; Gender; Uneven development

Interests: American literature and history from the 18th century to the present; transatlantic slavery and resistance; women’s literature; Africans in early New England; genre studies (e.g., the novel, auto/biographies); food, gardening, film, television

Interests: African American History; Women's History; Social Movement History