Faculty

Myron M. Beasley

Associate Professor of American Studies

Brazil, critical ethnography, cultural studies, cultural studies, curating, curatorial studies, death, digital humanities, food and culture, Francophone, gender and race, Haiti, material culture, performance studies, performance studies, public humanities, visual culture

Ian Khara Ellasante

Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

Carolina González Valencia

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Meredith L. Greer

Professor of Mathematics

applied mathematics, mathematical biology, mathematical ecology, mathematical epidemiology

Rebecca Herzig

Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

American studies, gender and sexuality in STEM, history of higher education, interdisciplinary research methods, material culture, race and racism in STEM, science and technology studies, social history of technology, US social and cultural history

S. E. Houchins

Associate Professor of Africana

anglophone continental African and Caribbean and Canadian and some U.S. African American, anthropological analyses, critical race theory, exploring the political and cultural and social contexts of texts, indigenous Islamic and Christian religions in their African and Caribbean and American contexts, interpreting African literature by women, literatures of the African diaspora, religions of Africa and the African diaspora, theories of gender and sexualities as well as literary theories, work theorizing

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

Seulgie Lim

Assistant Professor of Politics

African feminisms, African politics, Gender and politics, Gender in Africa, Human Rights, International politics, International relations, Islam and Politics, Senegal

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

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