Dara J. Silberstein
Associate Research Professor of WGSS
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- U.S. women’s labor history with a focus on the effects of public policies and laws on women’s status.
Teaching Interests
- A Legal History of Sexuality in the United States
- Women and the Law
- Introduction to Women’s Studies
- Feminism and Activism
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Sean G. Massey
Associate Professor
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Sexuality and Gender
- Anti-Homosexual Prejudice
- Racial Bias in Education and Law Enforcement Contexts
- Relationship Between Social Science and Social Change
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Affiliated Faculty
Jeffner M. Allen
Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Africana Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
- Trans-Genre Writing
- Feminist and Lesbian Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Diasporic Literatures
- Water and Environmental Studies
- Transdisciplinary Studies
- Multi-Platform Works
- 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy
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A. Serdar Atav, PhD
Professor
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- Vulnerable populations
- Opioid use and misuse
- Medicaid
- Affordable Care Act
- Health applications of system dynamics modeling
Teaching Interests
- Health policy
- Global health
- Research methods
- Applied statistics
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Moulay Ali Bouanani
Lecturer
Africana Studies
Research Interests
- Arabic Culture and Language
- North African Studies
- Popular Culture
- Islamic Studies
- Medieval Western Mediterranean Studies
Teaching Interests
- Arabic Culture and Language
- Islam in Africa and the Mediterranean
- North African Youth Culture
- M. Eastern and North African Literature
- Orientalism
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Sharon A. Bryant, PhD
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Decker College; Co-Director; Associate Director; Associate Professor, Master of Public Health (MPH) Program; Co-Principal Investigator; Director
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP); Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity (HTC); Public Health; Upward Bound Math-Science (UBMS); McNair Scholars Program
Research Interests
- Health promotion and disease prevention behaviors of underrepresented populations
- Intimate partner violence among college students
Teaching Interests
- Health disparities and vulnerable populations
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Elisa Camiscioli
Professor
History
Research Interests
- Modern France
- Immigration
- Gender History
- Sexual Labor
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Juanita DÃaz-Cotto
Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Areas Studies Program; Professor, Sociology
Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program; Sociology
Research Interests
- Criminal Justice/Penal Institutions
- Gender/Sexuality
- Latinas and Other People of Color in the U.S.
- Latin American and Caribbean History
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Deborah A. Elliston
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Feminist Anthropology
- Sexuality Studies
- Queer Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
- Nationalism
- Modernity
- Oceania/Pacific
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Carmen A. Ferradás
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Anthropology and Development
- Political Ecology
- Consumption
- Urban Anthropology
- Borders
- Globalization
- Latin America
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Thomas Glave
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Fiction
- Caribbean and African American Literature
- Queer/ LGBT Literature
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Praseeda Gopinath
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Masculinity and Gender Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Twentieth Century British Literature
- South Asia Studies
- Cultural Studies
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Melissa Hardesty
Associate Professor and Director of the BSW Program
CCPA Social Work
Research Interests
- Gender
- Child welfare
- Parenting
- Kinship
- Ethnography
- Epistemology
- Emotional/affective labor
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Lisa L. Hrehor, PhD
Director of Health and Wellness Studies/Clinical Instructor
Health and Wellness Studies
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Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz
Associate Professor
Sociology
Research Interests
- U.S. Women’s History
- Latinas/os in the U.S.
- Puerto Rican Women’s History
- Feminist Theories
- Cultural Studies
- Critique of Coloniality
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Matthew D. Johnson
Professor and Director of Clinical Training
Psychology
Research Interests
- Changes in marriages and family functioning
- Intimate partner violence
- Psychological science impacting public policy
Teaching Interests
- Intimate relationships
- Research methods in psychology
- Statistics and research design
Clinical Interests
- Private practice
- Clinical supervisor
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Sonja M. Kim
Director; Associate Professor, Department Chair
Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Korea and Comparative East Asia
- Medicine
- Health
- Gender
- Race and Class
- Education and Welfare
Teaching Interests
- Korean and East Asian History
- Gender; Migration; Race; Nation and Empire
- History of Medicine; Science and Technology
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Wendy Martinek
Professor
Political Science
Research Interests
- American Politics
- Judicial Politics
- State Politics
- Public Policy
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Monika Mehta
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Globalization
- Diaspora and Cultural Production
- Postcolonial Literature
- New Media & Film Studies
- Theories of Nation-State
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Feminist and Sexuality Studies
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Ann M. Merriwether
Instructor
Psychology
Research Interests
- Sexual Socialization
- Reproductive Health Attitudes
- Body Image Development
- Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making
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Alexandra Moore
Director; Professor
Human Rights Institute; English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Theory
Teaching Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
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Nkiru Nzegwu
SUNY Distinguished Prof; Nelson Mandela Visiting Prof, Rhodes Univ, South Africa, Prof Extraordinarius, Univ of South Africa
Africana Studies
Research Interests
- Feminist philosophy
- African philosophy
- African women studies
- African and African Diaspora art and aesthetics
Teaching Interests
- Artificial Intelligence and Racism
- Race, Philosophy & the Law
- African Intellectual Traditions
- African Art and Aesthetics
- African Women and Feminism
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Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Native American literatures, media,
genres, and literacies
- Race, Writing, Coloniality
- Early American Studies
- Comparative Ethnic Studies
- Indigenous Feminisms
- Decolonization
- Archival Research
Teaching Interests
- Native American Literature and Media
- Early American Literature
- Multiethnic American Literatures
- Comparative Ethnic Studies: Race, Gender, Indigeneity, Migration
- Colonialism, Imperialism, Decolonization
- Latinx Literature
- American Captivity Narratives
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Andrew Scholtz
Associate Professor/Chair
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- The Passions 一 Especially Desire and Envy 一 in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- The Social Psychology of Greek Rhetoric
- Intersections of Ancient Greek & Roman Sexuality, Ideology, Politics and Literature
- Literary Theory
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Pamela G. Smart
Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Programmatic Initiatives
Art History; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Anthropology of Artworlds
- Museums
- Critical Aesthetics
- Affective Modalities of Experience
Teaching Interests
- Museum Studies
- Aesthetic Theory
- Artworlds
- Materials and Materiality
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Diane Miller Sommerville
Professor
History
Research Interests
- 19th-century U.S.
- The American South
- U.S. Women's History
- Civil War & Reconstruction
- History of Sexuality
- African-American History
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Kathleen A. Sterling
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Lithic Analysis
- Feminism and Gender
- Communities of Practice
- Sociopolitics of Archaeology
- Ethics of Archaeology
- Prehistoric Europe
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Dana E. Stewart
Associate Professor; Collegiate Professor of Mountainview
Romance Languages and Literatures; Residential Life
Research Interests
- Poetry of the Sicilian School
- Dolce Stil Nuovo
- Dante
- Petrarch
- Boccaccio
Teaching Interests
- ¶Ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ð’s Inferno
- ¶Ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ð’s Divine Comedy
- Love, science and magic in the Middle Ages
- Literature of the Italian Renaissance
- Reading Machiavelli
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Susan Strehle
Distinguished Service Professor; Director of Graduate Studies in English
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- American Literature
- Women Writers
- Contemporary Fiction American and Global
- Nation in Literature
- Diaspora Citizenship and Belonging
- Postcolonial Theory and Literature
- Feminism
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Lisa C. Tessman
Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests
- Normative ethics
- Metaethics
- Moral psychology
- Feminist ethics
Teaching Interests
- Ethical theory
- Moral value pluralism
- Moral responsibility
- Moral psychology
- Feminist ethics
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Bridget Whearty
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
- Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
- 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
- Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy
Teaching Interests
- Medieval literature and culture
- Manuscript studies and the history of the book
- LGBTQ+ literature
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Leigh Ann Wheeler
Professor
History
Research Interests
- Modern U.S. women
- Sexuality
- Social movements
- Civil liberties
- Civil rights
- Life Stories
Teaching Interests
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Leo Wilton
Professor
CCPA Human Development
Research Interests
- Health disparities and inequities (HIV and AIDS prevention)
- Black psychological development and mental health
- Critical community-based participatory research
- Mixed- and multi-methods research
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Mary Youssef
TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
- Modern Arabic Literature
- Arab Diasporic Literature
- African Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Migration Studies
- Race Studies
- Gender Studies
Teaching Interests
- Modern Arabic Literature
- Arab American and Diasporic Literature
- Postcolonial Theory
- Translation Theory
- The Arabic Language
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Lisa T. Yun
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Immigration and Migration
- Humanities for Justice
- Digital Storytelling
- Digital Pathways to Community
- Community Engagement
- Afro Asian Connections
- Asian American Literature and Culture
- Asians of the Americas
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Melissa R. Zinkin
Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests
- Kant
- Philosophy of art
- Social and political philosophy
Teaching Interests
- Kant
- Philosophy of the Enlightenment
- Philosophy of art
- Feminist philosophy
- Markets, ethics and the law
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