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Lisa Maurizio

Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

Kirk D. Read

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

early modern French literature (1500-1700), early modern medicine and midwifery, femininity, French renaissance poetry, gender, intersexuality, literary analysis, masculinity, medical and anthropological readings of literature, sex and sexuality, women writers

Zhenzhen Lu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

chinese language pedagogy, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

Janice R. Levi

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

African History, Africana Studies, Ethnicity and Race Studies, Historical Transmission, Jewish History, memory studies, Migration Studies, Religious Studies

Mary T. Rice-DeFosse

Professor of French and Francophone Studies

19th century French literature, critical theory, cultural studies, Franco-American culture and identity, Franco-American history and literature, French feminist theory, French women writers of the 19th century, literature, literature as history, narrative, post-structuralist theory, race and ethnicity, representations of political and social change, women and gender studies

Rebecca Herzig

Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

Erica Rand

Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

Alison Melnick

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

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

Emily W. Kane

Professor of Sociology

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