Affiliated Faculty
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Affiliated Faculty
Kristin Anderson
Sociology. Gender and society, the family in society, domestic violence and the criminal justice system.
Dharitri Bhattacharjee
South Asian history, Indian Ocean world, empire, colonialism, decolonization
Bidisha Biswas
Political Science. Diaspora politics, international relations, ethnic and civic conflicts, terrorism.
Christina Byrne
Psychology. Interpersonal violence and psychological trauma.
Elizabeth Colen
English. Hybrid genres, experimental writing, ecopoetics, and literary collage.
Rita Daniels
Communication Studies. African womanism, women and gender studies, intersectionality, women organizing and organizations, decolonization, intergroup communication, and mixed research methods.
Shirin Deylami
Political Science. Feminist and queer theory; post-colonial and Islamic thought; and gender and Islam.
Nada Elia
Arab and Muslim American studies.
Mary Erickson
Communication Studies. Critical media studies, gender, film/TV/internet, media industries.
Carol Guess
English. Queer studies, creative writing.
Korry Harvey
Communications. Assistant Director of Forensics, masculinity studies.
Vicki Hsueh
Political Science. Feminist political theory, political participation and gender, post-colonialism, ethnicity, and race.
Mary Hunt
Public Health. Gender and sexual and reproductive health, particularly abortion.
JoeHahn
Director of LGBTQ+ Western and Interim Director of Multicultural Student Services. Queer & Afro futures, trans studies
Laura Laffrado
English. Early U.S. literature and culture, U.S. women's writing, women's autobiographical writing.
Jean Lee
Caribbean and Asian American literature, specializes in Indo-Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean feminism, black feminist theory and literature, queer Caribbean theory and literature, African American literature, and literary theory
Jen Lois
Sociology. Social psychology, emotions, gender, qualitative methods.
Kelly Magee
English. Creative writing, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered studies.
Lori Martindale
Honors and WGSS. Gender studies; film and media studies; philosophy and literature; feminist theory; writing about literature.
Carolyn Nielsen
Journalism. Intersectionality and representation in news narratives; interactions between journalists and new technologies with a particular focus on whose voices are amplified.
Nancy Pagh
English. Gender and Pacific Northwest regional studies, women and environments, women and space.
Tracey Pyscher
Secondary Education. Social and cultural experiences of children and youth with histories of DV; school, critical literacy and learning, and praxis.
Shurla Rogers-Thibou
WGSS. Introduction to Women Studies, women and globalization.
Ely Shipley
English.
Michael Slouber
Global Humanities and Religions. Early medieval religions of India, South Asia history and culture, religious studies, gender and sexuality studies.
Tamara Spira
Fairhaven/American Cultural Studies. Transnational, de-colonial, and critical race feminist theories and praxis; queer of color and transnational sexuality studies and feminist critiques of militarism, prisons, and empires.
Midori Takagi
Fairhaven College. Race, class and gender, comparative studies of women of color.
Kate Trueblood
English. Women and literature, creative writing.
Verónica N. Vélez
Education and Social Justice/Woodring and Fairhaven. Critical race theory and Latina/o critical theory in education, Chicana feminist epistemologies, politics of parent engagement in educational reform, particularly for Latina/o (im)migrant families, and participatory action and community-based models of research.
Theresa Warburton
English. Native and Indigenous literatures, nonfiction studies, queer studies, histories of feminism, anarchist studies, social movement history.
Cameron Whitley
Sociology.
Christopher Wise
International Studies. Colonization/Post colonization and expected gender roles.
Jane Wong
English. Creative writing, women of color in the literary arts, Asian American studies, digital humanities.
Greg Youmans
English. Film and media studies, documentary and experimental cinema, LGBTQ history and historiography, and queer and feminist theory.
Sarah Zarrow
History. Jewish women's history and culture, gender and sexuality in Judaism.
Sarah Zimmerman
History. Africa, colonialism, women and gender.
Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam
Global Humanities and Religions. History of the Middle East and North Africa specializing in women's and gender history.