The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies has two full-time faculty members at its core. In addition, more than 30 faculty members from other departments, divisions, and programs participate by offering courses, serving on the Steering Committee, advising students, supervising honors projects and internships.
WGSS Core Faculty
- Sonita Sarker
- Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Chair) and English
- Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; "minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
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- On leave Spring 2023
- Myrl Beam
- Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Queer and trans social movements, critical race theory, affect, political economy, oral history, and feminist and queer theory
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WGSS Core Faculty Spring 2023
- Sachiko Dorsey
- Senior Instructor, NTT, Japanese
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- 651-696-6857
- Frenchy Lunning
- Visiting Faculty, WGSS
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WGSS Steering Committee
- Myrl Beam
- Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Queer and trans social movements, critical race theory, affect, political economy, oral history, and feminist and queer theory
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- Erika Busse-Cardenas
- Associate Professor, Sociology
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- On leave Spring 2023
- Alicia Muñoz
- Associate Professor and Chair, Spanish and Portuguese
- Contemporary Latin American narrative, popular culture, gender studies, border studies, and U.S. Latino/a literature.
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- On leave Spring 2023
- Sonita Sarker
- Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Chair) and English
- Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; "minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
- [email protected]
- On leave Spring 2023
- Morgan Sleeper
- Assistant Professor, Linguistics
- Music and language, Patagonian Welsh, and language in Japanese popular media, along with language contact, code-switching, and revitalization.
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- Jaine Strauss
- Professor, Psychology
- Clinical, Community, and Health Psychology
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- Satoko Suzuki
- DeWitt Wallace Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Japanese language and linguistics.
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- WGSS Interim Chair Spring 2023
WGSS Cross-Listing Faculty
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- Samuel Asarnow
- Assistant Professor, Philosophy
- Ethics, Action Theory, Metaethics
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- 651-696-6246
- Beth Cleary
- Associate Professor, Theater and Dance
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- 651-696-6281
- Paul Dosh
- Associate Professor and Chair, Political Science
- Comparative politics, Latin American politics, urban social movements
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- 651-696-6776
- Susanna Drake
- Professor, Religious Studies
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- 651-696-6544
- Rachel Gold
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction writing: especially young adult and middlegrade; LGBTQ+ Literature, comic book literature, game narratives
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- Duchess Harris
- Professor, American Studies
- Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
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- 651-696-6478
- Joanna Inglot
- Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor, Art History
- Focuses on modern and contemporary art, particularly in Europe and the United States
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- 651-696-6657
- Liz Jansen
- Assistant Professor, Biology
- Neuroscience and human reproductive biology
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- 651-696-6247
- James W. Laine
- Arnold H. Lowe Professor, Religious Studies
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- 651-696-6789
- Brian Lush
- Associate Professor and Chair, Classical Mediterranean and Middle East
- Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures, Greek Drama
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- 651-696-6820
- Victoria Malawey
- Associate Professor, Music
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- 651-696-6182
- Joan Ostrove
- Professor, Psychology
- Psychology and Social Structure
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- 651-696-6775
- Jessica Pearson-Patel
- Assistant Professor, History
- History, Modern Europe, Public Health, Decolonization
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- 651-696-6665
- Jenna Rice Rahaim
- Visiting Assistant Professor, International Studies
- Charity, Humanitarianism, and Gifts; Empathy and Obligation; Migration and Refugees; National and Sectarian Sentiment; Genealogy and Kinship; Postcolonial and feminist literatures; the Middle East and Islamic World
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- 651-696-6847
- Khaldoun Samman
- Professor, Sociology
- Focuses on world historical-comparative and urban sociology, globalization, sociology of religion, and modes of identities in the Middle East
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- 651-696-6845
- Beth Severy-Hoven
- Professor, Classical Mediterranean and Middle East
- Roman History, Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Italy, Roman Archaeology
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- 651-696-6721
- Dianna Shandy
- Professor, Anthropology
- Socio-cultural anthropology, gender, migration and refugees, political conflict, research methods, Africa, Europe, North America
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- 651-696-6439
- Satoko Suzuki
- DeWitt Wallace Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
- Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30-3:00 p.m., Thursday 3:00-4:30 p.m.
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- WGSS Interim Chair Spring 2023
- Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
- Professor and Chair, Theater and Dance
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- 651-696-6928
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