Affiliate Faculty

Specializes in the feminist philosophy of religion, feminist aesthetics, feminist cultural studies/critical theory, women and world religions.

Specializes in race, gender and state sponsored violence in the global and US/Mexico borderlands, racialized masculinity studies and intimacy violence and homophobia, women of color theories of subject formation, epistemelogies and social justice activism, and the criminalization of Chican@ and youth of color.

Research interests include Italian media with special emphasis on television, cinema, and alternative new media; Mediterranean studies and the representation of Mediterranean cities; migration, gender, and identity politics in Western Europe

Specializes in gendered organizational forms, such as bureaucracy, counter- and post-bureaucracy, or participatory, democratic, and collectivist systems of governance; the evolution of collective occupational and professional identities, particularly as constituted by gender, race, sexuality, and other relations of ‘difference’; masculinities and aviation; qualitative methods, especially ethnographic approaches to the culture-organization relationship

Specializes in Native American and Indigenous religions in diaspora, healing historical trauma, Indigenous feminisms, settler colonialisms, and decolonization.

Research interests include sex and gender in classical and modern Chinese accounts of the otherworldly; Chinese film comedy; the work of Hong Kong writer Li Bihua (Lilian Lee); translation

Specializes in gender and critical theory, Hinduism, especially medieval, Tantra, science and religion

Specializes in gender, diversity, and the field of computing; evaluation methodology; and the social construction of gender roles.

Specializes in discourses of gender, race, and class in children’s and youth’s opportunities to build positive and sustained relationships with schooling and school literacies

Specializes in English Renaissance literature, including Renaissance women writers and women in early modern culture; feminist literary theory; the history of science; theories of epistemology and knowledge-making.

Specializes in Asian American women and leadership.

Specializes in issues of identity and agency for women in Buddhism and minorities in China as well as more broadly in hagiographic literature and modernist writings by Tibetan Buddhists

Research areas include the intersections of Gender, Environment and Development; Participatory politics, governance, and empowerment processes among Maasai women in Tanzania and Kenya; Feminist Studies of Science and the politics of knowledge.

Specializes in modern German and French literature, contemporary art and literature, translation, critical theory, history and theory of the avant-garde.

Research interests include the intersection of gender and class in contemporary urban Indonesia. She has written on middle-class femininity, domesticity and manners, and is currently researching debates about pious Islamic fashions.

Specializes in social and political philosophy (especially social justice and human rights), philosophy of law, feminist philosophy, feminist applied ethics, and global justice from a transnational feminist perspective.

Specializes in gender, sexuality and identity formation within the nation-building projects of the Mexican post-revolutionary period 1920-1940; gender issues and cross-cultural communication in the International/Hispanic workplace.

Specializes in social movements, radicalism, the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American masculinity

Specializes in gender representation/social coding in movement practices and dance traditions (both domestically and internationally)

Areas of expertise include gender and sexual diversity in schools, LGBTQ youth, bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, queer theory, law, Policy, safe schools, teacher identity, action research, and qualitative methodologies.

Specializes in Hispanic women’s literature, feminist literary and cultural theories, gender and crime fiction, gender and ethics, contemporary Peninsular women’s narrative fiction

Examines the equality of educational opportunity, focusing on issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation and policies such as affirmative action. Studies the relationships between social and educational contexts for students who are often marginalized and underrepresented within current systems and structures.

Dr. Nyeck is a multidisciplinary Associate Professor in Africana/Gender Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Trained in political economy of development at the University of California Los Angeles with specialization in International Relations and Comparative Politics, Dr. Nyeck has pursued two research streams to date. The first stream is centered on the political economy of development, governance, and global public procurement reform with an interest in social justice, race...

Studies women’s participation in sustainable development through applied theatre. Through theory and practice she explore ways that women can empower their voices through theatre. She also focuses on mothering activism and performance.

Studies the intersection of media, politics, culture and society; media representations of gender, race and class; communication and media history; critical theory

Explores Russian/Soviet literature and film in connection with economic history, affect theory, energy science, and LGBTQ studies.

Specializes in African women’s studies, African American women’s studies, Caribbean women’s studies, African American women’s social, political, and cultural movements, black feminist theory, womanist theory, critical race theory, critical social theory, radical politics, black popular culture studies, black popular music studies

Specializes in Gender representation in Western American literature, public memory of western American places, Native American literature and Indigenous feminisms, dialogic literary criticism and the practice of intergroup dialogue.

Specializes in historical research on the intersection of criminal justice and gender, especially intimate-partner violence, in the United States; comparative work on Australia and England; reform of substantive criminal law from a feminist perspective.

Specializes in queering the perception/reception/conception of the female body within concert dance, film, television, and other popular culture venues.

Specializes in the intersection of gender and fantasy literature in 19th and 20th century Italian literature and culture, 19th century Italian women writers/journalists and the creation of the Italian national identity, good manners manuals and the codification of Italian women behavior in the 19th and 20th century, and the history of Italian feminism

Specialties include creative writing (fiction); contemporary experimental novel; and feminist and queer theory.

Research focuses on cultural and intellectual history, and literature in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Examines topics such as gender, gender discourse, court culture, queenship, notions of power, politics, religion, and translation.

Specializes in British modernist and postcolonial literature in terms of gender and colonialization; queerness and empire

Specialities include political ecology in Tibetan areas of China; environmentalism; pastoralism; gendered and racialized cultural politics and political economy of development and environment

Specializes in gender, women, and family in early modern Japan (c. 1590-1868); adoption in Japan; international adoption