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Lillian R. Nayder

Charles A. Dana Professor of English

Hathorn Hall, Room 311

lnayder@bates.edu | 207-786-6315

biography, Charles Dickens, Dickens studies, life writing, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Victorian authorship, Victorian fiction, Victorian gender studies, Wilkie Collins

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 213 | Pettengill Hall, Room 213

mplastas@bates.edu | 207-786-8313

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

Pettengill Hall, Room 269 | Pettengill Hall, Room 269

ekane@bates.edu | 207-786-6192

childhood studies, community-based research, gender and childhood, gender and parenting, gender and sexuality in the U.S., higher education and the public good, poverty and social policy, public sociology, publicly-engaged scholarship, race and class in the U.S., scholarship on community-engaged pedagogy, sociology of family, sociology of gender

Alison Melnick

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 207

amelnick@bates.edu | 207-786-6318

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history

Erica Rand

Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 215 | Pettengill Hall, Room 215

erand@bates.edu | 207-753-6960

anti-racism, culture- and theory-making in unexalted contexts, feminist/queer/trans sports and movement studies, pleasures, politics and practices of teaching, queer and trans migration studies, resources, sexualities, trans and queer studies, visual and popular culture studies, writing

Rebecca Herzig

Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 209

rherzig@bates.edu | 207-786-6335

digital cultures, gender and sexuality in STEM, higher education, interdisciplinary research methods, material culture, race and racism in STEM, science and technology studies, social studies of medicine, transnational feminisms, US social and cultural history

Seulgie Lim

Assistant Professor of Politics

Pettengill Hall, Room 176

slim@bates.edu | 207-786-6131

African feminisms, Gender and politics, Gender in Africa, Gender quotas, Human Rights, International politics, International relations, Islam and Politics, Senegal, Sub-Saharan African politics, Women's rights

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

Hedge Hall, Room 203 | Hedge Hall, Room 203

cbaker@bates.edu | 207-786-6308

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

Hanna S. McGaughey

Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Asian Studies

Roger Williams Hall, Room 208

hmcgaughey@bates.edu | 207-786-6287

gender studies, Japanese studies, Muromachi performing arts, Noh theater, perfomring arts, premodern studies, Zeami

Ian Khara Ellasante

Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Pettengill Hall, Room 211

iellasan@bates.edu | 207-786-6132

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, reproductive justice, Reproductive justice, Settler colonialism, transgender studies