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Alexander-Floyd, Nikol

Black Women’s Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Economics, Jurisprudence, and Policy Studies, Gendered Institutions, Women’s Leadership Studies, Africana Studies, Race, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.


Balakrishnan, Radhika

Feminist Economics, Feminist Globalization Studies, Feminist Political Economy, Gender and Development, Human Rights, and Economic Policy.


Bernstein, Alison

Critical Ethnic Studies, Women’s History and Leadership Studies, Native American Women.


Brooks, Ethel

Visual cultures, Artistic practice, Representation, Productivity, Camps and Encampment, Digital media and Belonging; Critical Political Economy, Transnational Networks, Social Movements, Feminist Theory, Comparative and Historical Methods, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology; Romani Studies, Central American Studies, South Asian studies, Nationalism, Post-colonialism and Critical race theory.


Bunch, Charlotte

Feminist Globalization Studies, Feminist Policy Studies, Transnational Activism, Women’s Leadership Studies, Gender and Human Rights.


Busia, Abena

African American and African Diaspora Literature, Post-colonial Studies, Black Feminisms and Cultural Studies.


Carroll, Susan J.

Gendered Institutions, Women’s Leadership Studies, Women and Politics, Women’s Movements, Media Studies.


Chan-Malik, Sylvia

Critical Ethnic Studies, Transnational American Studies, Critical Muslim Studies, Asian American Literature and Culture, Third World Feminism, Islamic Feminism, Cultural Theory, Race and Religion.


Cohen, Ed

Historical and Theoretical Interrogations of Contemporary Questions, Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, Historiography, Ethnography, Biology, and Medicine.


Cooper, Brittney

Black Women’s Intellectual History, Black Feminist Thought, Hip Hop Feminisms, Hip Hop Studies, Race and Gender Representation in Popular Culture, Digital Feminisms, and New Media.


Davidson, Harriet

Feminist Literary Criticism, Women’s Leadership Studies, Feminist Theory.


Decena, Carlos Ulises

Critical Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Literary Criticism, Immigration and Diasporas, Queer Studies.


Feinberg, Melissa

Transnational Activism, Women's History, Eastern Europe, Political Culture, Emotions in Politics, History of Feminism.


Fuentes, Marisa

Black Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Labor, Immigration and Diaspora, Sexualities Studies, Women’s History, Caribbean Studies.


Gerson, Judith

Gendered Institutions, Immigration and Diasporas, Trauma, Collective Memory, Narrative Analysis.


Gossy, Mary S.

Feminist literary criticism, Narrative, Poetry, Feminist Theory, Feminist Pedagogies, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Comparative literature, Early Modern Spanish literature, Contemplative Studies (Contemplative literature), Contemplative Practices.


Hawkesworth, Mary

Feminist Globalization Studies, Gendered Institutions, Transnational Activism, Women and Politics, Feminist Theory.


Hewitt, Nancy A.

Black Women’s Studies, Gender and Labor, Immigration and Diasporas, Transnational Activism, Women’s History, Women and Politics.


Jones, Jennifer

Women’s History, Social and Cultural History of Eighteenth Century France.


Litt, Jacquelyn

Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women, Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework, Women of Katrina: Crossing Borders, Weaving Networks, and Taking Care, Inequality.


Mack, Phyllis

Women's History, History of religion, Early Modern European History.


Puar, Jasbir

Critical Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Globalization Studies, Immigration and Diasporas, Queer Studies, Sexualities Studies.


Regulska, Joanna

Feminist Geography (Women's agency, Transnational Political Activism, Women's Political Spaces), Forced Migration, European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Caucasus.


Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen

Feminist Economics, Feminist Globalization Studies, Development Economics, Nutrition and Food Policy.


Salime, Zakia

Race, Empire, the Political Economy of the "War on Terror", Development Policies, Islamic Societies and Movements, Middle East and U.S. Relations, Feminist Globalization Studies, Transnational Activism.


Schein, Louisa

Queer Theorizing, Popular Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Film/Media Studies, Masculinities, Documentary Videomaking, Media Activism, Chinese Studies, Political Economy, Feminist Globalization Studies, Transnationalism and Diaspora, Asian/American Studies, Health and Health Disparities.


Schuller, Kyla

Critical Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Literary Criticism, Feminist Science Studies, Gender and Environment Studies, Queer Studies, Sexualities Studies, Multiethnic U.S. Literature and Culture.


Smith, Bonnie

Cultural Hybridity in the Modern West, Gendering Disability, Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective, Europe in the Twentieth Century World, Women in World History.


Trigg, Mary

Gender and Labor, Motherhood Studies and Care Work, Women's History, Women's Leadership Studies, History of U.S. Feminism, Young Women.


White, Deborah Gray

African American and American Women’s History, Issues of Identity and the Intersection of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality.

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