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Core Faculty

Olivia Adams

  • Chronic vulvovaginal pain
  • Patient experiences and the journey to diagnosis
  • Patient-provider interactions
  • Intersections of race, gender, and sexualities

K.L. Broad

  • Social movements
  • Sexualities
  • Methodologies

Hilary Coulson

  • History of women, crime, and violence
  • Interdisciplinary history
  • Race, class and gender
  • Connections to perceptions of criminality/punishment in US history

Maddy Coy

  • Violence against women
  • Sexual exploitation
  • Sexualized popular culture and pornography
  • Research and evaluation methods

Jillian Hernandez, Graduate Coordinator

  • Sexualities and race
  • Visual culture, art history, and performance studies
  • Critical girlhood studies
  • Ethnic studies, Latinx studies, and Black studies
  • Hip Hop, media, and cultural studies
  • Black and Latina feminisms

Bonnie Moradi, Chair

  • Prejudice, discrimination, objectification, and collective identity
  • Experiences of minority stressors such as heterosexism, racism, and sexism
  • Psychosocial functioning including health and workplace outcomes

OG Murrell

  • Qualitative methods
  • Photovoice, photography, and research participant media
  • Afro-Caribbean girlhood
  • Liminal space within the life course
  • Black, Caribbean, and transnational feminisms
  • Reproductive justice and sex work

Hina Shaikh

  • Alternative gendered/geographic imaginings of
    • Data
    • Archival fictions
    • Space/Place
  • Data feminism
  • Feminist/ethnic studies

Trysh Travis

Cinnamon Williams

  • Black feminisms
  • Histories of Black women’s labors
  • Gender and violence
  • Work and anti-work/post-work politics
  • Archival traces and failures

Alyssa Zucker, Associate Chair and Undergraduate Coordinator

  • Discrimination, health, and political behavior
  • Feminist identification and neoliberalism
  • Social structure, sexual violence, and sexual well-being

Emeritus Faculty

Angel Kwolek-Folland

  • Gender and business history
  • U.S. women’s history
  • History and sexuality
  • Gender and international rights

Constance Shehan

  • Feminist perspectives on families and intimate relationships
  • Gender as a social structural factor
  • Gender stratification in the US and globally
  • Gender-based inequalities in the work place and economy
  • Women’s work and health