Faculty, Staff, and Students
Faculty, Staff & Students
Anima Adjepong
Assoc Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3302 French Hall
Beth S. Ash
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ashley M Currier
Professor, Department Head of , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3428E French Hall
Ashley Currier is a sociologist who studies lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizing in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, and South Africa.
Chandra Nirmala Frank
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3322 French Hall
Lisa M Hogeland
Associate Professor, English and WGSS, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
214D ARTSCI
Amy C Lind
Taft Research Center Director & Faculty Chair / Mary Ellen Heintz Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
1100 EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Dr. Lind's areas of scholarship and teaching include urban studies, global political economy, development and postcolonial studies, Global South/transnational social movements, feminist and queer theory, and studies of neoliberal governance. A qualitative researcher with great interest in people's stories of survival and resistance, she has lived, worked and conducted research in Latin America for over four years, including in Euador, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela. She is the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador (Penn State University Press, 2005), and editor of four volumes, including Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (Routledge, 2010) and Feminist (Im)mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Ashgate Publishing, 2013, co-edited with Anne Sisson Runyan, Patricia McDermott and Marianne Marchand). Her new book, Constituting the Left Turn: Resignifying Nation, Economy and Family in Postneoliberal Ecuador (with Christine Keating), addresses the cultural, economic, and affective politics of Ecuador's postneoliberal Citizen Revolution. She has held distinguished visiting professor positions in Ecuador, Bolivia and Switzerland and has delivered over fifty invited lectures at institutions around the world.
See her UC Taft Research Center Foreign Correspondent interview here.
Therese Migraine-George
Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5261 CLIFTCT
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Associate Professor in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3314 French Hall
Born and raised in Colombia, South America, Dr. Sanmiguel-Valderrama practiced law in Colombia for five years before migrating to Canada in her late 20s. Dr. Sanmiguel-Valderrama earned her LLM in international human rights law at the University of Ottawa, where she also worked at the Human Rights Research and Education Center co-directing a women's project with CEMUJER in El Salvador (Central America) funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). In 2004, she graduated with her Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, where she was also affiliated to CERLAC, The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University.
On the basis of extensive fieldwork in Colombia, her research and publications examine the contradictions between neoliberal international trade and military aid on the one hand, and respect for individual and collective human rights –in particular labor, environmental, and equality rights for women and racial minorities—on the other hand. These relationships and contradictions are examined through case studies where both trade and human rights laws and practices are in operation: first, the Colombian export-led flower industry. Her upcoming book (2012) is provisionally titled “No Roses Without Thorns: Trade, Militarization, and Human Rights in the Production and Export of Colombian Flowers” (click here to see book prospectus). Second, though the case of NAFTA and undocumented migration of Mexican and Central American into the USA.
Dr. Sanmiguel -Valderrama have published various articles in prestigious international academic journals presenting her research findings on the interrelationship between globalization, international trade, militarism, social reproduction, and human rights from multidisciplinary and transnational anti-racist feminist approaches. Her research have been supported by competitive grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, and the University of Cincinnati Research Council. Professor's Sanmiguel-Valderrama current areas of research and teaching are family-work conflict under globalization, the relationships between military aid, trade, and human rights in Colombia, feminist mothering, women, gender and law, international women's rights, and women's labor rights.
Giao Q. Tran
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3408 French Hall
Valerie A. Weinstein
Professor & Graduate Program Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3314 French Hall
Educator Faculty
Carolyn J Peterson
Undergraduate Director, Educator Instructor, A&S Women's Studies
3316 French Hall
Adjunct Faculty
Yvonne Fulbright
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
French Hall
Melanie Rose Nipper
Instructor - Adjunct, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
French East
Tristan Nichole Vaught
Instructor - Adjunct, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
French East
Erin Mary Winchester
Instructor - Adj, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
French East
Affiliate Faculty
Vanessa Allen-Brown
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
638J Teachers College
Lora L Anderson
Area Director for Rhetoric & Professional Writing, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
350I ARTSCI
My research focuses on the phenomenology of the lived body and issues of identity and agency in the rhetoric of health and medicine, particularly in chronic illness and end-of-life practices.
My book, Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in Diabetes Rhetoric, was published by The Ohio State University Press in 2017, and I’ve been published in journals that include Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. I am also the co-editor of the journal Programmatic Perspectives.
I teach classes in creating accessible contact, science and health writing, and editing.
Omotayo O Banjo
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Van Wormer Hall
Barbara A Bardes
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Jan L. Bending
Professor Emerita, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Amy L. Bernard
Associate Professor
Health Promotion And Education,
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
460F Teachers College
Danielle Bessett
Professor (PhD, New York University), Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
1022 Crosley Tower
Bessett's current research projects examine patient experiences of abortion care and disparities in contraceptive access, prenatal care, and infant mortality. Bessett co-leads OPEN, the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, which conducts rigorous, interdisciplinary research to assess the reproductive health and well-being of Ohioans in the context of federal and state laws, regulations, and policies. Her research has also been supported by the National Science Foundation, among other funders, and has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Women's Health Issues. Bessett's monograph on women's pregnancy experiences, Pregnant with Possibilities: Constructing Normality in Stratified Reproduction, is under contract with New York University Press, and her co-edited volume, Ohio Under Covid, is forthcoming with University of Michigan Press.
Bessett is a past board member of the academic Society of Family Planning, where she led the Junior Fellows Committee, and recently concluded her term as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Sociological Association's Medical Sociology section. She received the 2004 Dr. Mary P. Dole Medical Fellowship from the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association; the 2007 Rose Laub Coser Best Dissertation Proposal in Family or Gender Studies from the Eastern Sociological Society; the Cincinnati Women’s Political Caucus’s 2017 Outstanding Achievement Award; the 2021 Society of Family Planning's Mentor Award; and UC's 2021 Faculty Excellence Award from Office of the Provost and Office of Research. She is most proud of her student-initiated honors, including the 2012 “Professor Funnybone” award for funniest Sociology professor and the 2017 UC Women's Center Woman of the Year award for mentoring.
When Bessett is not working, you may find her hiking, knitting, traveling, reading, and/or spending time with friends. An ice cream aficionado, Bessett enthusiastically dances to 80's music and tries to prevent her three mischievous cats from burning through all of their nine lives.
Danielle Bessett CV
RJ Boutelle
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
110G ARTSCI
Steven B. Bowman
Professor Emeritus, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Megan G Boyd
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CLIFTCT
John David Brolley
Instructor-Educator; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
245B ARTSCI
Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Crosley Tower
Shelina Louise Brown
Assistant Professor of American Music, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Emery Hall
A Canadian national raised in Kyoto, Japan, Shelina is bilingual in Japanese, and holds a master’s degree in Comparative Literature specializing in modern Japanese literature. Shelina's master’s thesis examined the history of early Japanese popular song and the genre of enka music. She also researches contemporary Japanese popular music genres such as Vocaloid pop.
Shelina has presented papers at annual meetings including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Experience Music Project.
A long-time participant in underground and independent music scenes in Los Angeles, Shelina continues to be active as a performer and recording artist.
Sandra L. Browning
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
650E Teachers College
Aaron Christopher Bryant
Rufus King Professor of Constitutional Law, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
426 COLLAW
Professor Bryant’s numerous published articles and essays reach a wide range of issues of contemporary constitutional importance, including the separation of powers, judicial review, and the roles of the various branches of the national government in constitutional interpretation. He is a recognized expert on the scope and exercise of national legislative power and the respect that Congressional action is owed from the federal judiciary, with leading articles on the subject published in the Cornell Law Review, George Washington Law Review, BYU Law Review, Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, and William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. Professor Bryant’s research in federalism and unenumerated rights include a co-authored book, “Powers Reserved for the People and the States”: A History of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments (Greenwood Press 2006), as well as articles in the Georgia Law Review and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, to name only a few. He authored thirteen essays on landmark constitutional cases for the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States(Macmillan 2008), and is a frequent speaker on the Constitution, the Congress, and the federal courts at symposiums, conferences, and public programs.
Professor Bryant is a member of the America Society for Legal History and the Federalist Society and also serves as faculty advisor to the College’s Federalist Society chapter.
Professor Bryant previously was a law professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he taught in the areas of federal courts, legislative process and statutory interpretation, criminal law, and conflicts.
Before beginning his academic career, Professor Bryant served as Assistant Senate Legal Counsel in the U.S. Senate Office of Legal Counsel and as an associate at Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C. After earning his JD, Professor Bryant clerked for the Hon. James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Frederic Joseph Cadora
Professor and Director, Arabic Studies and Certificate in Arabic Language and Culture Department of Romance Languages and Literatures - 0377 Director, Middle Eastern Studies and Certificate , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Old Chemistry Building
Jenny Ann Caplan
Assoc Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
French Hall
Steve L Carlton-Ford
Professor (PhD, University of Minnesota), Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
1009 Crosley Tower
Steve Carlton-Ford CV
Erynn Masi de Casanova
Professor of Sociology & Head of the Sociology Department, (PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center) , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
1017 Crosley Tower
Erynn Masi de Casanova CV
Katherine Castiello Jones
Undergraduate Program Director (PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Sociology , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
1003 Crosley Tower
In addition to their research, they been writing table-top and live-action role-playing games (larps) for over a decade. Dr. Castiello Jones' games have been featured at festivals such as Indiecade and BlackBox Copenhagen, and she was an invited guest at The Smoke festival in London in 2020.
Beatriz Celaya Carrillo
Ph.D., Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
717C Old Chemistry Building
She has published a book, Sexualidad femenina en la novela y cultura española, 1900-1936 (2006), and she is currently working on representations of race, gender and social status in Spanish renaissance. She has also published a book chapter, and several academic articles in journals such as Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Arenal, Modern Language Notes, Romance Quarterly, Dieciocho, Ámbitos feministas, Afro-Hispanic Review, or eHumanista.
Carla Jeanne Cesare, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Art History, Affilliate of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
136 BA ANNEX
Vittoria Daiello
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
6431B Aronoff Center
Dr. Daiello’s expertise encompasses art and design educator pedagogy and professional development for K-12 teachers, university professors, and community arts leaders. Daiello's arts-based research and applied compassion studies are a catalyst for her teaching which emphasizes development of inclusive dialogues and compassionate classroom communities. The Art of Words course, pioneered by Daiello in 2013, employs arts-based writing as a method of artistic inquiry and mode of reflective practice that support students’ development of tools for communicating their creative research. Daiello's research and creative practice are entwined with her teaching, en ongoing project, Accumulation of Uncertainties, is a pedagogical research endeavor that uses iterative, cumulative, and dialogic forms of writing and artmaking to reveal subtle structures of affective labor within educators’ and students’ shared learning experiences.
A 2019-2020 UC Transdisciplinary Research Leadership Scholar, Daiello's teaching, research, and mentoring extend across disciplines, including collaborations through the Narrative Medicine Network (NMN), a group of UC and community interdisciplinary scholars, writers, artists, educators, physicians, and activists whose individual or overlapping research seeks to promote equity, inclusivity, and healing in education, health institutions, public spaces, and communities through narrative, storytelling, and the arts.
Daiello's writing appears in peer-reviewed publications, including the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Visual Arts Research Journal, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, and Creative Approaches to Research Journal. She also co-authored, with Dr. Candace Jesse Stout, "Arts-Based Writing: The Performance of Our Lives" in the Handbook of Arts-Based Research (P. Leavy, Ed.). Daiello’s research papers and collaborative projects are also featured in cross-disciplinary national and international meetings, including the proceedings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), the National Art Education Association (NAEA), International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR); Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE), 1st Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research, the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), and the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media Conference (CUMULUS).
Honors and Awards include DAAP Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2011; DAAP Professor of the Year, 2019; and The Ohio State University’s Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award, 2016.
Sharon G Dean
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Laura D. Dudley Jenkins
Professor of Political Science, Faculty Affiliate WGSS and Asian Studies , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CLIFTCT
Her book Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India (Penn Press 2019) won the Hubert Morken Best Book Prize from the Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). A study of mass conversions to Christianity, Buddhism, and Judaism and ongoing efforts to prevent conversions, Jenkins reveals how "religious freedom" arguments and laws have actually undermined the religious freedom of women, lower castes, and religious minorities.
Jenkins' book Identity and Identification in India: Defining the Disadvantaged (Routledge, 2003, 2009) examines competing demands for affirmative action on the basis of caste, religion, class, and gender and the ways the government identifies recipients through the courts, census, and official certificates. Her research as a Fulbright New Century Scholar in South Africa and India resulted in Affirmative Action Matters: Creating Opportunities for Students Around the World, co-edited with Michele S. Moses (Routledge 2014).
In her articles, she analyzes religious freedom and conversion, competing minorities’ claims for affirmative action, colonial and contemporary government anthropology, the role of social science in anti-discrimination law, reserved legislative seats for women, and the role of culture and the arts in sustainable development.
Jenkins' book chapters examine anti-Muslim political communication in the US and India, religious family laws, mass religious conversion as protest, comparative affirmative action, minority rights, historically Dalit colleges, anxious secularism, women and development, regulation of religion, and methodological diversity in political science.
In addition to two Fulbrights, Dr. Jenkins has received fellowships from the Dartmouth Humanities Center and the United States Institute of Peace.
Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Hubert Morken Best Book Award
APSA Religion and Politics Section
Affirmative action matters: Creating opportunities for students around the world. (with Michele S. Moses). New York: Routledge, 2014.
Identity and Identification in India: Defining the Disadvantaged. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon 2003, reissued in paperback by Routledge 2009.
Anjali Nichole Dutt
Assoc Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
4130C EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Jenn Dye
Asst Dean, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
320 COLLAW
With a Ph.D. in political science, J.D., and graduate certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Dye's earlier research focused on marginalized communities, access to resources, and the resulting relationship to political power and structures. Her more recent research focuses on race and gender and how these impact identity, agency, and political power, looking at systems and structures within soceity. Dr. Dye has taught the following courses: Introduction to American Politics, International Relations, Introduction to Women's Studies, Women and Politics, International Human Rights, Criminal Justice Policy and Legislative Advocacy, and Political and Legal Processes.
Wendy R. Eisner
Professor , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Leslie Elrod
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Muhammad U. Faruque
Inayat & Ishrat Malik Assistant Professor and Taft Center Fellow (AY 23-24), Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
728C Old Chemistry Building
His book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) won the prestigious Iran's 31st World Book Award. The book addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical literatures, including modern philosophy and neuroscience. He is the author of three books and over fifty academic articles, which have appeared (or are forthcoming) in numerous prestigious, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes such as Philosophy East and West, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (Cambridge), Sophia, Journal of Sufi Studies (Brill), Religious Studies (Cambridge), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Ethics, and Ancient Philosophy. He has delivered lectures in many North American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern universities. He gives public lectures on a wide range of topics such as climate change, spirituality, meditation, AI, Islamic psychology, and Islam and the West. He is also a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious Templeton Foundation Global Philosophy of Religion grant and the Title IV Grant, U.S. Dept. of Education.
While his past research has explored modern and premodern conceptions of selfhood and identity and their bearing on ethics, religion, and culture, his current project investigates whether or not Sufi philosophy and practice—as articulated in the School of Ibn ʿArabī—support and foster an active engagement toward the planet's well-being and an ecologically viable way of life and vision. He is also at work on a book on AI and the ethical challenges of information technology. His edited volumes include From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic (Routledge, 2023) and A Cultural History of South Asian Literature, Volume 3: The Early Modern Age (1400-1700) (co-edited with S. Nair).
His interests and expertise encompass self and subjectivity, environmental humanities, religion and climate change, cross-cultural philosophy, Sufism, Perso-Arabic mystical literature, Islamic philosophy and ethics, history and philosophy of science, Islamic Psychology, and Graeco-Arabica. He teaches courses on climate change, environmental humanities, religion and mysticism, philosophy, as well as on selfhood and identity.
In his personal life, he loves gardening (plant life fascinates him), spending time in nature, traveling, cooking, photography, and watching movies. He also has a passion for classical Indian (raag) and Persian music, and for art, music, and poetry in general.
He is affiliated with the departments of Philosophy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, and the Religious Studies Certificate program.
CV: https://muhammadfaruque.com/curriculum-vitae/
Website: https://muhammadfaruque.com/
Bonnie Fisher
Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dr. Fisher received her Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 1988. After serving three years on the faculty of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Ohio State University, she joined the faculty at UC in 1991. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Professor Fisher was a Visiting Scholar in the Division of Prevention and Community Research at Yale University School of Medicine, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Violence Against Women at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Fisher was the principal investigator for four federally funded research projects involving the victimization of college students, the sexual victimization of college women, violence against college women, and campus-level responses to a report of sexual assault. She is currently the co-PI on NIJ- and NIH-sponsored research grants. Her research interests include issues concerning the sexual violence against women, repeat victimization, fear of crime, the measurement of victimization, injury detection of rape victims, and the court’s use of digital images in the prosecution of rape cases. She has published in Criminology, Justice Quarterly, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Research in Crime and Delinquency, Violence and Victims, Crime and Delinquency, and American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Professor Fisher is the co-editor of the Security Journal and the Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention.
In 2012, she was awarded the George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Creative and/or Scholarly Works, the University of Cincinnati’s highest award for distinguished research.
Angela Christine Fitzpatrick
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Chandra Nirmala Frank
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3322 French Hall
Elizabeth B. Frierson
Associate Professor , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
340A ARTSCI
Jan Marie Fritz
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
6213 DAA Addition
Jennifer Glaser
Associate Professor and Head of Department, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
248 ARTSCI
Michael R Gott
Professor of French & Department Head (RALL) and Professor of Film & Media Studies (SCFMS), Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5273 CLIFTCT
I teach graduate seminars and undergrad gourses on global screen media, travel and identity in cinema and comic books, francophone culture and cultural studies, migration and identity, cinéma-monde, road movies and mobility in cinema, and global screen industry networks andplatforms.
I am an affiliate faculty member in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the director of programming for UC's Niehoff Center for Film & Media Studies.
Jenny D Grubbs
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Kathryn J Gutzwiller
Professor, emerita, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Blegen Library
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience | Co-Director and Scholar-in-Residence, Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry | Director, Medicine, Health, and Society Program | Executive Director, UC LEAF | Affiliated Facu, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Most recently, Valerie has received research fellowships from the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Texas-Medical Branch, the Center for Mind, Brain, and Cognitive Evolution at Ruhr-University Bochum, and the Institute for Philosophy/School of Advanced Study at the University of London. She received a bachelor’s degree with a double major in philosophy and political science from the University of California, Berkeley, a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Houston, and an interdisciplinary PhD in cognitive science and philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.
Janine C Hartman
Professor of History,, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5259 CLIFTCT
History
Dept Romance Languages and Literatures
College of Arts & Sciences
717D Old Chem Bldg
Ph 556-1596
My field is the history of ideas. Current research interests are Catulle Mendés,Parnassian poet and his role as witness to the Franco-Prussian war, the Commune insurrection and fall of Paris in 1871, as refracted through "ruin studies." Additional fields include witchcraft, ritual in early modern society and symbolic sovereignty in French colonial history..
Affliiate: History,Judaic Studies, Women & Gender Studies
Tamar Heller
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
110B ARTSCI
Todd Herzog
Professor in the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies and the Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies. Director of the Niehoff Center for Film and Media Studies and the Digital Media Collaborative., Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
4256 CLIFTCT
Caitlin Hines
Assistant Professor (she/her/hers) Affiliate Faculty in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
599B Blegen Library
CV: https://classics.uc.edu/cv/Hines_CV_1_9_23.pdf
Miki Hirayama
Assoc Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
4214 CLIFTCT
Her research focuses on Japanese art criticism of the early twentieth century. Her recent publications include “Inner Beauty: Kishida Ryūsei (1891-1929)’s Theory of Realism.” Edited by Minh Nguyen. New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics: Philosophy, Politics, Culture, Literature, and the Arts. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2017, “Ishii Hakutei and the Journal Hōsun.” Edited by Chris Uhlenbeck, Amy Riegle Newland, and Maureen de Vries. Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900-1960. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2015, “‘Fictionalized Truth’: Realism as the Vehicle for War Painting” in Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960 (2012), “From Art without Borders to Art for the Nation: Japanist (Nihonshugi) Painting by Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyōkai during the 1930s” in Monumenta Nipponica (2010), and Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century (co-editor, 2005).
She has delivered papers at venues such as the College Art Association conference, Association for Asian Studies conference, and Asian Studies Conference Japan. Hirayama's service to the field included serving as an anonymous reviewer for Art Bulletin and Ars Orientalis.
Emily Houh
Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts | Co-director, Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
420 COLLAW
Prior to joining the faculty at UC Law, Professor Houh was an assistant professor of law (2000-2003) at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. A graduate of Brown University, Professor Houh earned her JD from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a founding member and article editor of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. After law school, Professor Houh served as law clerk to the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, and then as a staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and later as a commercial litigation associate at Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, PLC, in Detroit.
Much of Professor Houh’s past and current scholarship focuses on the interplay between contract law, critical race theory, and socioeconomic (in)equality. Additionally, her recent research with UC Law colleague Prof. Kristin Kalsem looks at how participatory action research methods can be used to engage in critical race/feminist praxis, by exploring the raced and gendered nature of the “fringe economy.”
Joanna Seung Ah Huh
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
ARTSCI
Her current project, Damaging Intimacy: Reimagining Communities in Shakespeare and Marlowe, explores the portrayal, in Renaissance texts as well as in early modern and current political theory, of how radical risk-taking and vulnerability can form the basis for community. Damaging Intimacy works to disrupt the narrative that as the subject becomes more modern, the subject becomes more bounded and then joins a community in order to protect those bounds. As an alternative, she envisions communities that are dependent on selves willing to embrace experiences, both costly and pleasurable, offered by unprotected existence. At a juncture consumed with security, protection, and boundaries, her work rethinks radical ways of being and belonging that reimagines new visions of how to ethically share life with others.
C. Jeff Jacobson Jr
Professor, University of Cincinnati, Department of Anthropology, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
466 Braunstein Hall
Melissa Jacquart
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CLIFTCT
Please visit my website for more information on my research and teaching: melissajacquart.com
Nancy A Jennings
Professor, Interim School Director, and Director of the Children's Education and Entertainment Research (CHEER) Lab;, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
4230 CLIFTCT
Cassandra L Jones
Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3623 French Hall
Kristin Kalsem
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law | Co-director, Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
417 COLLAW
Professor Kalsem writes in the areas of women's legal history and the cultural study of law and received the 2012 Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award for her book In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature. She also writes about issues of gender, race, and class in the contexts of bankruptcy reform and consumer protection. Her scholarship has been published in such journals as the Harvard Women's Law Journal, the Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies, the UCLA Women's Law Journal, and The Michigan Journal of Race and Law.
Professor Kalsem has presented papers at national and international conferences, including meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Association of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. She has served as chair of the American Association of Law School's Section of Law and the Humanities and currently sits on the Executive Board of the Section.
Prior to joining the UC faculty, Professor Kalsem taught at the University of Iowa's College of Law and Department of English while completing her doctoral studies. Her interdisciplinary scholarship on 19th-century women and the law was supported by numerous fellowships and grants, including a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Grant and an American Fellowship from the Association of University Women.
Professor Kalsem practiced law in Chicago with the law firm Sidley & Austin before entering academia.
Elizabeth Lanphier
Assistant Professor of Clinical-Affiliate, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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In addition to her published scholarship in peer reviewed journals and book volumes, Elizabeth has written for a variety of outlets including the Hastings Bioethics Forum and Ms. Magazine. Her research has also been featured in "The ethical questions raised by COVID-19 vaccines: 5 essential reads" and "50 years after Roe, many ethics questions shape the abortion debate" in The Conversation as well as "What is Trauma Informed Care?" in Health, and "We're All Second Guessing Ourselves" in The Atlantic. She was quoted in TIME Magazine for the article "How Do You Even Calculate Covid-19 Risk Anymore?" and was an expert cited in "Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster's COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education" in Protean Magazine.
Elizabeth currently chairs the Committee on Accessibility and Inclusion for the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and is an elected Board Member of the Bioethics Network of Ohio. From 2021-2024 she was a co-chair of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.
Theresa Leininger-Miller
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
6489B Aronoff Center
Annulla Linders
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
1001 Crosley Tower
Annulla Linders CV
Michael Evan Loadenthal
Asst Professor - Research, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5119 CLIFTCT
Johanna W Looye
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
6207 DAA Addition
Sharrell D Luckett
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
50A ARTSCI
John A. Lynch
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
4263 CLIFTCT
S. Elizabeth (Betsy) E. Malloy
Andrew Katsanis Professor of Law, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
540 COLLAW
Professor Malloy’s scholarship focuses on disability law and health law. She has written on a variety of topics including end-of-life treatment, the impact of physician restrictive covenants on the delivery of health care, and the intersection of the Family Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. She has been published in a number of law reviews, including the Boston College Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, the Georgia Law Review. She has also contributed several book chapters to a textbook detailing the changes in health care under the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act.
Before entering academe, Professor Malloy practiced law as a litigation associate with Covington and Burling in Washington, DC. She also served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Eugene A. Wright of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Malloy earned her bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and her law degree from the Duke University School of Law where she was Notes Editor of the Duke Law Journal and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
Bradford Clayton Mank
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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He was named the James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law in 2001 in recognition of his scholarly and teaching accomplishments. Professor Mank’s has also been honored with the 2004 Harold C. Schott Award and in 2001 with the Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence. He was also awarded the Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence in 2016.
Before joining the College of Law faculty in 1991, Professor Mank served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut. He also was an associate with the Hartford, Conn., law firm of Murtha, Cullina, Righter and Pinney, where his emphasis was environmental law.
Professor Mank received his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale University where he served as the Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he clerked for Justice David M. Shea of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
Wanda McCarthy
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
253 CC West Woods Acad Cntr
Laura R. Micciche
Area Director of Rhetoric and Composition, Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
225C ARTSCI
Janet Moore
Professor of Law, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
406 COLLAW
Professor Moore co-convened the Indigent Defense Research Association, a national organization of practitioners, researchers and policy makers who use data to improve public defense. She has served or is serving as an invited expert for the American Bar Association’s Indigent Defense Advisory Group, the Indigent Defense Commissions of Michigan and Texas, the National Center for State Courts, and the Steering and Amicus Committees of the National Association for Public Defense. Professor Moore’s scholarship also led to her roles co-chairing a national task force on discovery reform, drafting a model criminal discovery reform bill, and serving as an advisor during the drafting and passage of the Michael Morton Act, which reformed criminal discovery procedures in Texas.
Awards include the 2018 University of Cincinnati Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2018 University of Cincinnati College of Law Faculty Excellence Award, two University of Cincinnati College of Law Goldman Prizes for Teaching Excellence (2012 and 2015), and a Junior Scholar Paper Competition Award sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Grants include a University of Cincinnati Research Council award to support an investigation into quality communication in the public defense setting, and an Ohio Transformation Fund award to undertake community-based participatory research on redefining and pursuing true public safety.
Maria Paz Moreno
Professor of Spanish, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5263 CLIFTCT
As a poet, she has published ten books of poetry and has been included in several anthologies, among them Poetisas Españolas 1976-2001 (Ed. Torremozas, 2003), El poder del cuerpo (Ed. Castalia, 2009), and Nueva poesía alicantina (2000-2005) (IGA, 2016). Her anthology From the Other Shore/ De la otra orilla was published in 2018 by Valparaíso Editors. Her most recent books include Amiga del monstruo (Ed. Renacimiento, 2020) and the bilingual edition of The Belly of an Iguana/ El vientre de las iguanas (Valparaíso Eds., 2021), translated by Jennifer Rathbun.
Prof. Moreno is a recipient of the George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Creative and/or Scholarly Works (2019), and the Distinguished Research Professor Award (2023).
Kristi Ann Nelson
Professor Emeritus, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Erica Nichols
Asst Professor - Visiting, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Erica Nichols is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati and Faculty Affiliate in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. Her research focuses on the intersection of metaphysics and ethics, most notably in questions of Personal Identity, with a recent focus on issues in Dissociative Identity Disorder, answering questions on whether an alternate personality counts as a separate moral person with their own sets of rights and what rights those personalities would have, if so. She also has research interests in general philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and applied ethics. Prior to joining UC, Erica was a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University.
EDUCATION:
B.A. Purdue University Northwest. Hammond, Indiana. 2015 (Philosophy)
M.A. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio. 2020 (Applied Philosophy)
Ph.D. Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio. 2022 (Applied Philosophy)
PUBLICATIONS:
(Dissertation) Multiple Personhood in Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Lives and Deaths of Invisible People.
COURSES TAUGHT:
(UC) PHIL 1089: Sex and Death
(UC) PHIL 1003: Introduction to Ethics
(BGSU) Philosophy of Death and Dying
(BGSU) Introduction to Logic
(BGSU) Introduction to Philosophy
(BGSU) Introduction to Ethics
(BGSU) Contemporary Moral Issues
Rachael Diane Nolan
Associate Professor Educator, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
G06 Kettering Lab Complex
Vesna Dominika Novak
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
833 Rhodes Hall
Tanja U Nusser
Professor of German Studies & Director of Graduate Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
4250 CLIFTCT
She is author of a book on the German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger (2001) and one on artificial reproductions in literature and film (2011). She is co-editor of the book series Szenen / Schnittstellen (Fink Verlag, Germany) and co-edited volumes on the Berlin Republic. Reflections on / of German Unification (1990-2015) (2019), Kathrin Röggla (2017), Catastrophe and Catharsis: Perspective on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond (2015), Engineering Life. Narrationen vom Menschen in Biomedizin, Kultur und Literatur (2008), Askese. Geschlecht und Geschichte der Selbstdisziplinierung (2005), Rasterfahndungen. Darstellungstechniken – Normierungsverfahren – Wahrnehmungskonstitution (2003), Techniken der Reproduktion. Medien – Leben – Diskurse (2002) and Krankheit und Geschlecht: Diskursive Affären zwischen Literatur und Medizin (2002).
Maura O’Connor
Associate Professor, Department Head, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
360B ARTSCI
My current book project reflects an ongoing curiosity about cultures of finance capitalism. It attempts to write a cultural history of risk and speculation by assessing how capital moved across all kinds of borders and boundaries around the 'stock-jobbing globe' during the nineteenth century. Titled "Risking the World: The London Stock Exchange and the British Financial Empire, 1801-1910," it tells the story of the world of international finance, the culture of risk capital, and the gendered politics of speculating and investing in the British Empire from the Napoleonic Wars when the financial center shifted from Amsterdam to London to the aftermath of the South African War when London's financial supremacy was seriously challenged.
I have another book in the making, this one, a collection of essays. "Desire in the Archive," is about grief, the body, intimacy and desire, characters in nineteenth century novels and the metaphorical arc of time's passage in coming to terms with loss. Part memoir and part historian’s meditation, this book attempts to use the tools of our trade and the particular idioms of history to analyze houses with their shifting perspectives in place and time; the evidence of (personal) experience and to explore, at the same time, the ways in which memories and emotions become embodied in representations and material culture as well as embedded in the landscape.
Erna Olafson
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dr. Olafson received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and a Psy.D. from California Graduate School of Family Psychology.
Don OMeara
Academic Administrator III, Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Carmella Scorcia Pacheco
Asst Professor - Visiting, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CLIFTCT
Teaching:
Dr. Scorcia Pacheco is interested in literary, vernacular, social, and environmental justice initiatives for underrepresented communities. She co-directed the pilot program Biocultural Diversity and Social Justice in Ecuador (2013) and taught in the Conexiones summer immersion program in Granada, Nicaragua (2012) with the University of New Mexico. She has extensive teaching and supervising experience in the Spanish as a Heritage Language Programs at the University of Arizona and the University of New Mexico.
At the University of Arizona, she was the Interim Director for the Spanish department's International Internship (SPAN 493) and collaborated with La Universidad de La Rioja, Spain (2021). This virtual exchange program worked towards the United Nations "Envision 2030" Sustainable Development Initiative. Specifically, it focused on Immigration in relation to the UN's sustainable development goal, "Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions."
Currently, Dr. Scorcia Pacheco is teaching Latin American Film and Spanish Conversation and Composition. Cross-listed between the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, she will also be teaching the graduate seminar: "Tracing the Feminine Narrative Voice: Trans-Atlantic and Hemispheric Perspectives" and the undergraduate course, "Mexican World Cultures" (Spring 2024).
Shailaja D Paik
Taft Distinguished Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Asian Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Courses Developed and Taught
- Gender, Sexuality, and Society
- Caste and Race
- Global Racisms
- Women in South Asia
- Gender and Empire
- World History
- Ambedkar and Gandhi
- South Asian Civilizations
- The Making of Modern India
- Indian Nationalism and Anti-colonialism
- Film and Empire
- Caste, Gender, and Nation
- Caste and Identity in India
- India on Film
Leland S. Person
Professor of English , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Rhonda Pettit
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
220M BA PROGRESS
Angela Potochnik
Department Head; Professor; Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5215 CLIFTCT
Visit Potochnik's website.
Susan H. Prince
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
599B Blegen Library
Carla C Purdy
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Daisy Quarm
Professor Emerita, Sociology, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Cheli M Reutter
Associate Professor, Educator, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
110-H ARTSCI
Stephanie N Sadre-Orafai
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Co-Director of the Critical Visions Certificate Program, Taft Professor of Social Justice 2023–26, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
448 Braunstein Hall
Affiliate Facuty, Film and Media Studies
Affiliate Faculty, The Cincinnati Project
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the production of difference and types among expert communities in the United States. Her ethnographic work examines media and cultural producers, emerging forms of expertise, the intersection of race, language, and visual practices in aesthetic industries, and forms of evidence and the body. She studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (BA, 2000) and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at New York University in 2010, when she also joined the faculty at UC. She co-edited Visual Anthropology Review, the journal of the Society for Visual Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association from 2018–2021.
Her essays on casting, model development, and fashion reality television have appeared in several edited volumes (PDFs). She is currently working on her first book, tentatively titled Real People, Real Models: Casting Race and Fashion in 21st Century America, which examines the history of casting in the New York fashion industry, the rise of non-professional or "real people" models, and how modeling and casting agents produce models' bodies as forms of media, creating new articulations of mediation, visibility, and difference in the process. Building on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in the New York fashion industry, the book explores the political implications of how these new articulations are refracted through idioms of beauty, desirability, and justice.
She is also working on a comparative project, Type by Design, that explores the overlapping concerns of inanimate (typefaces) and animate (models) type production in the commercial font and high fashion modeling industries in New York City. In both sites, there are tensions between visibility and invisibility, legibility and aesthetic nuance, and the management of lay and expert visions in producing culturally recognizable types and individual faces. Joining together ethnographic and archival research, she examines the mutually vivifying and dehumanizing dimensions of type production and what their professional practices can reveal about underlying changes in cultural ideas of “difference” and how they are visually encoded across time, technologies, and markets. This project extends her earlier comparative work on fashion and policing, where she examined the temporal dimensions of mug shots alongside casting photographs, and the spatial dimensions of street scouting and stop-and-frisk practices.
She co-directs the Critical Visions Certificate, a joint effort between faculty in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and College of Arts and Sciences, which she established with Jordan Tate in 2011. The program is aimed at teaching students how to effectively combine critical theory and social analysis with art, media, and design practice. She co-edits CVSN, the experimental publication of student work from the program. Themes have included "space" (2013), "the future" (2015), "color" (2016), "surface" (2018), "identity" (2020), "land/water" (2022), and "subject/object" (2023).
Gila Safran Naveh
Professor, Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair, Judaic Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
BOOKS
Professor Safran-Naveh is author of a pivotal study on parables entitled Biblical Parables and Their Modern Recreations: from Apples of Gold in Silver Settings to Imperial Messages (2000) which was nominated for the 2001 National Jewish Book Award in the scholarly division.
She has co-edited a comprehensive volume in linguistic studies entitled The Formal Complexity of Natural Language (1987).
Presently, she is working on a book-length manuscript entitled Unpacking the Heart with Words: Women Survivors of the Holocaust Writing and Healing. This work investigates problems in memory, writing, healing, and women's unique experience in the Holocaust.
Professor Safran Naveh has also completed a book of poetry entitled Another Door: A Woman's Inquisitions and is preparing it for press.
Professor Safran-Naveh has published book chapters (in Semiotics, Jewish Literary Studies, Film and Cultural Studies) and numerous scholarly articles and book reviews. She lectures nationally and internationally and serves on national and international committees promoting human rights and the advancement of women.
Professor Safran Naveh has organized and brought to Cincinnati two International Conferences of Semiotic Society of America (in 1988 and in 2010). Among her most popular courses are Literature of the Holocaust, Jewish/Women's Humor, Freud and Judaism, Jews in Film, American Jewish Fiction, and Salon Culture. For her outstanding teaching, Professor Safran Naveh was awarded the University A. B. Dolly Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996), the Edith Alexander Award for Outstanding Teaching (2000), and the prestigious George C. Barbour Award (2006). In 2010, she was elected Fellow of the Academy for Teaching and Learning. The recipient of numerous research and travel grants, Professor Safran-Naveh was awarded the prestigious Skirball Fellowship in Hebrew and Judaica, at the Oxford Center for Postgraduate Jewish Studies (1997). She is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Center and serves on the board of several scholarly journals. Since 2010, Professor Safran Naveh spearheaded the launching of the Center for Jewish Cultures and Ideas, transformed Judaic Studies into a full-fledged Taft Department, and created a Joint UC- HUC Graduate Program in Judaic Studies, which is housed in the Judaic Studies Department. Presently, in addition to her regular duties, Professor Safran Naveh serves on the boards of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and the Rockwern Academy.
Rebecca Sanders
School of Public & International Affairs , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5112 CLIFTCT
I am an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. I previously completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Toronto and received my M.A. and B.A. from McGill University.
My research agenda addresses pressing global challenges at the intersection of international human rights, international security, and public health. I am especially interested in how societies grapple with rights tradeoffs in real and perceived emergencies and the dynamics of rights advancement and retrenchment.
My book, Plausible Legality: Legal Culture and Political Imperative in the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2018), and related journal articles examine the capacity of international human rights and humanitarian law to constrain controversial state security practices such as torture, indefinite detention, targeted killing, and mass surveillance. Further ongoing research examines the consequences of authoritarian populism for international legal norms as well as uneven state responses to the rapid proliferation of far-right political violence and terrorism.
My next major project is focused on backlash against international women's rights and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights at the United Nations and across comparative national cases. Transnationally coordinated attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and conservative efforts to revive biologically deterministic understandings of gender roles and identities threaten to erode rights protections and reverse efforts to achieve gender equity. My concern for women’s rights also animates my participation in a community-engaged feminist research initiative with the Cities for CEDAW movement, which aims to promote international human rights norms through local politics.
Alongside this work, I have received National Science Foundation funding for a large study of public perceptions of civil rights and public health tradeoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This project examines similarities and differences between tradeoffs in the post-9/11 counterterrorism context and the current pandemic crisis and analyzes the dynamics of threat construction and blame attribution. Additional research investigates the opportunistic securitization of health and implications for migration and asylum policy around the world.
Simone Nicole Savannah
Asst Professor - Visiting (F6), Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Her work has been published in Apogee, The Fem, Powder Keg, GlitterMob, Shade Journal, BreakBeat Poets, and several other journals and anthologies. She earned her M.Ed and B.A. from Ohio University. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas.
Simone is also a certified personal trainer.
Amy Elizabeth Schlag
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ronna Schneider
Professor of Law, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professor Schneider is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is also an affiliated faculty member of University of Cincinnati’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Professor Schneider has been actively involved in the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Education, having served as its Chairperson and as a member of its Executive Committee.
Robin Selzer
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
120.17 University Pavilion
Find me at www.RobinSelzer.com
Darla Fulton Slagh
Asst Professor - Adj Ann, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CC West Woods Acad Cntr
Sarah M Stitzlein
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
610F Teachers College
I am a Professor of Education and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. As a philosopher of education, I use political philosophy to uncover problems in education, analyze educational policy, and envision better alternatives. I am especially interested in issues of political agency, educating for democracy, and equity in schools. I consider how to best educate citizens, with special attention to addressing current struggles in democracy related to matters of truth, political dissent, polarization, populism, and political hope.
I am Co-Editor of the journal, Democracy & Education and President of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society. I am a scholar of American Pragmatism and previously served as President of the John Dewey Society.
I have received the the University of Cincinnati Jack Twyman Award for Service Learning, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and Golden Apple awards. At my previous university, I earned the University of New Hampshire Outstanding Professor award. I am also the recipient of the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Development Fellowship.
Joseph Takougang
Professor, Department Head, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3428C French Hall
Tracy L. Teslow
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
310D ARTSCI
Her current research project examines the role of racial science and scientists in adoption in the United States. In the 20th century child welfare workers and organizations routinely applied notions of race, derived from racial science, to children, foster families, and adoptive families. Concern with “matching” wayward children with “appropriate” families led social service workers to seek out anthropologists for their expertise. In examining the role of racial science in American adoption, my study will explore how the quotidian conceptual and methodological pragmatism of applied anthropology intersects with and often reinforced deeper philosophical, normative commitments. Matching Families: Race and Science in American Adoption asks why and how ideas about race persist in science, and what work they have done and continue to do in society. What kinds of scientific—and more importantly, social—problems has this tool been used to solve? Placing racial anthropology in a broader historical and cultural framework will enable us to better understand the historically specific roles of science, race, and biological essentialization in American society by focusing on its application in the realm of child adoption practices.
She received her B.A. in journalism from the University of Minnesota, and her M.A. in history and Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Chicago.
Ryan R Thoreson
Asst Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Ryan Thoreson’s scholarship focuses on contemporary social movements and spans constitutional law, criminal law, tort law, and comparative and international law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, and Journal of Human Rights.
Previously, Thoreson taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and was a Clinical Lecturer and Cover-Lowenstein Fellow at Yale Law School. Prior to entering academia, he was a researcher at Human Rights Watch and clerked on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Thoreson received his J.D. from Yale, where he was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. A Rhodes scholar, he also holds a D.Phil. in Anthropology from Oxford and an A.B. magna cum laude in Government and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality from Harvard University.
Alexander John Thurston
Assoc Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5133 CLIFTCT
Evan Torner
Associate Professor of German Studies and Film / Media Studies; Undergraduate Director of German Studies; Director, UC Game Lab, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
4253 CLIFTCT
Jay Twomey
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
101A ARTSCI
Nicasio Urbina
Professor of Latin American Literature., Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Patricia Valladares-Ruiz
Professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature and film., Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
5262 CLIFTCT
She is the author of Narrativas del descalabro: La novela venezolana en tiempos de revolución (Tamesis, 2018), Sexualidades disidentes en la narrativa cubana contemporánea (Tamesis, 2012), the editor of Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities (Cincinnati Romance Review, 2011), and the coeditor of El tránsito vacilante: Miradas sobre la cultura venezolana contemporánea (Rodopi, 2013). Professor Valladares-Ruiz has also published book chapters and articles on Latin American and Caribbean literature and cinema in scholarly journals such as Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, MLN: Modern Language Notes, Revista Iberoamericana, Romance Quarterly, Hispania, La Torre, Neophilologus, Monographic Review, Inti, eHumanista: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies, Cuadernos de literatura, and Letras Femeninas.
Research and Teaching Interests: Latin American and Caribbean literature, film, and popular culture; Neo-slave narratives; geographical imagination in early colonial Spanish America; cultural politics & aesthetics.
Theoretical interests: Cultural Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).
www.patriciavalladares.com
Lisa M Vaughn
Field Service Professor-Affiliate, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Childrens Hospital Bldg R
Lisa M. Vaughn, Ph.D.
Professor, Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
MLC 2008, 3333 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039
lisa.vaughn@cchmc.org
phone: 513-636-9424
fax: 513-636-7967
www.cincinnatichildrens.org
View Vitae: Lisa M. Vaughn.pdf
Joint Appointment, University of Cincinnati College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services--Educational Studies
Office: Teachers College 610T
Education: formally trained as a social psychologist, counselor, and medical educator
Ph.D. in Social Psychology (Highest degree from University of Cincinnati 1997)
Current Appointment: Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UCCOM/Cincinnati Children’s; Joint appointment with UC College of Education, Educational Studies
Research Framework (how I think about research/prevention/intervention): community psychology, community-engaged research, public health, and community-based participatory research (partnership approach to research with equitable representation, co-design)
Methodologies: qualitative and participatory research methodologies (e.g., Photovoice, large group level participatory assessments, concept mapping, social network analysis)
Content--Broadly: sociocultural issues affecting the health and well-being of families focusing on immigrant and minority populations in the U.S.; social determinants of health including education; community-academic partnerships with low-resource schools
Content—Specifically: parental health attributions for childhood health and illness; social and cultural deter
Michele E Vialet
Professor of French and Francophone Literatures, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
I teach and do research in French and Francophone studies, especially French Classicism (comic novels; Classical theater; the Moralists; the power of laughter) and 20th- 21st century colonial and post-colonial literatures, cultures and films (Maghreb, Rwanda, exile and immigration, racism, and the representation of Africa in pictures and films). On 17th-century literature, I am the author of various articles and book chapters as well as a monograph on Le roman bourgeois (1666), an iconoclastic novel by Antoine Furetière, Triomphe de l'iconoclaste: “Le roman bourgeois” et les lois de cohérence romanesque. In Francophone studies, I have published articles on contemporary women writers, co-edited a volume on Assia Djebar, Assia Djebar: écrivaine entre deux rives (2011), and most recently a volume on Julia Kristeva, Kristeva in Process: The Fertility of Thought (both available online at www.cromrev.com).
I also enjoy teaching introduction to literary analysis, intermediate and advanced linguistic and cultural literacy. I have coauthored two intermediate and advanced college books: Bravo! [1989] (Cengage, 8th rev. ed. 2015) and À vous d’écrire: atelier de francais (McGraw-Hill, 1996).
Sarah W Whitton
Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
3215 CLIFTCT
Rina Williams
Associate Dean for Social Sciences; Professor of Political Science; Affiliate Faculty, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Asian Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
155A ARTSCI
Anjuliet Woodruffe
Post Doc Fellow, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
EDWARDS 1 Edwards Center
Ladan Zarabadi
Asst Professor - Adj, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CC West Woods Acad Cntr
Emeriti Faculty
Amy A. Elder
Professor Emerita, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Michelle A Gibson
Professor Emerita, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Deborah T. Meem
Professor of WGSS, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Staff
Nicole Marie Kaffenberger
Program Manager, A&S Women's Studies
3428D French Hall
Graduate Students
Laura Diaz Perez
Instructor - Adj Ann, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Old Chemistry Building
Morgan-Allison Renea Moore
Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Patrick Enson Mwanjawala
Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Felicia Nadel
Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Felicia has worked as a WGSS, LGBTQ+ Studies, Judaic Studies, and Art History Teaching Practicum, a queer Jewish feminist theory Research Assistant to Dr. Marla Brettschneider, a WGSS Mentor, a Safe Zones Facilitator, and a WGSS Outreach Intern.
Areas of Specialization/Research:
Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Jewish Feminisms, Diaspora Studies, Critical Race Theory, Artistic Expression of Feminsisms, Literary Art as Feminism, Post-Colonial Theory
Notable Accomplishments/Publications:
· Accredited Queer Jewish Feminist Theory research/writing for Dr. Marla Brettschneider in two of her feminist academic publications: LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, and a feminist theory book still within the publishing process (2016, 2017)
· Poem “Herbs and Spices” published in Lunation: A Good Fat Anthology of 114 Women Poets, a feminist literary anthology (2019)
· Poem “I want a girlfriend who” published on artist platform One Collect Mediums (2019) & poetry platform Poetica (2020)
· Poems “because I would recommend counting backwards” (2019) & “winter she sang” (2020) featured on the artist platform The Wicked Collective
· Poem “heavy” featured on arts & humanities website Untwine Me (2020)
· Creator of queer feminist literary blog Violet Futch (2018-present) paired with the poetry podcast Violet Futch (April 2020-present)
· Featured reader/speaker at a number of literary events such as Feminist Oasis, Prescott Park Arts Festival, and Beat Night of Book & Bar Portsmouth
Marie-Rose Tshite Botshila
Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
As an independent consultant and engaged volunteer on youth and women participation issues for different local and international organizations in the DRC, she has been involved with the NDI NEW Politics Program, a program that aims to train young women involved in politics within the 4 countries of the Mano River Region (Western Africa).
She has also been involved in the training and coaching of women and young women since 2014 on subjects such as leadership, elections and civic responsibility, public speaking, and the rights of women and girls to education. From August 2020 to now, she has been organizing a campaign to stop the spate of kidnappings of women that have taken place recently in Kinshasa with other women organizations. Marie-Rose Tshite, is also a volunteer interviewer for the VOKAL ICON-NECT, a project that captures the leadership journeys of African women.
During her free time, Mrs. Tshite works with many young people from the public speaker club call “Club Paul Panda”, the network of Congolese youth for peace and the community service day to create a new generation of young leaders. Tshite earned an Honors Degree in African Politics and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from University of South Africa.
Biographie – Marie Rose TSHITE BOTSHILA