Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Olivia Adams

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

K.L. Broad, Graduate Coordinator

• Social movements
• Sexualities
• Methodologies

Maddy Coy

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

Jillian Hernandez

• 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 [on sabbatical Fall 2024]

• 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

Joanna Neville, Undergraduate Coordinator

• Health and social determinants
• Gender and sport
• Families and reproduction

Hina Shaikh

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

Trysh Travis

• 20^th century US literary and cultural history
• Gender and popular culture/media studies
• Men and masculinities
• History of US feminism
• Dr. Travis is serving as an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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 [Acting Chair Fall 2024]

• 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