Carlos E Rodriguez-Diaz
Chair and Professor, Community Health Sciences
Specializations:
LGBTQ health
Intersectionality
Social Determinants of Health
Latinos
Course idea:
None specified
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Katharine Young
Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Law
Specializations:
Feminist legal theory
International human rights
LGBTQIA+ rights
Reproductive rights and reproductive justice
Women's rights
Comparative constitutionalism
Economic and social rights (rights to housing, health care, education, social security, water, sanitation, clean environment)
Critical race theory
Critical legal studies
Law and the Global South
Course idea:
Feminist legal theory - U.S. and international perspectives
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V Varun Chaudhry
Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Transgender studies
Queer of color critique
Black feminist theory
Institutionality
Nonprofits
Critical university studies
Course idea:
None specified
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Nicole Noll
Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard
Specializations:
Embodiment of gender and other culturally- and historically-situated social categories
Gender/sex-essentialist beliefs and their implications
Social psychology, especially automatic social cognition
Course idea:
I would be interested in co-developing a course on the embodiment of gender (and/or sexuality), contributing a social psychological perspective. I would also be open to building a course that examined intersectionality in the context of social science research.
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Madhavi Venkatesan
Assistant Teaching Professor, Economics, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Environment
Sustainability
Sustainable and Ecological Economics
Race, Gender, Poverty
SDGs
Resilience
Course idea:
Biological roots of economic systems: An evaluation of how biology and environment foster economic frameworks and an assessment of the rationale for differences in economic goals.
None specified
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Jennie C. Stephens
Professor, Sustainability & Science Policy, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Climate justice
Energy justice
Antiracism
Feminist leadership
Course idea:
None specified
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Karen Suyemoto
Professor, Psychology, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Psychological experiences and effects of racism
Psychological processes, experiences, and effects of resisting racism for people of color
Activism and psychology
Development and experiences of allies/accomplices
Solidarity and intersectionality
Anti-oppressive education
Course idea:
I would be interested in a course focused on activism/resistance, with particular attention to (a) interactions of the individual/group/structural levels and (b) solidarity and intersectionality, especially related to the dynamic of maintaining White supremacy through divide and conquer and resisting internalizing that dynamic.
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Heike Schotten
Associate Professor, Political Science, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Feminist theory
Queer theory (broadly construed, incl. queer history and queer of color politics/critique)
Trans studies
Critical theory (incl. biopolitics, settler colonial studies, empire studies)
Radical/left political theory
War on Terror
"terrorism"
Nietzsche studies
Israel/Palestine
Zionism
Academic freedom
Course idea:
The feminist sex wars; queer theory/trans studies [a course on the two fields' development, co-implication, intersections, contradictions, troublings, critiques]; lesbian feminism; a course on "radical criticism"/totalizing critique [feat., e.g., Afropessimism, anti-porn and TERF feminism]; a broad, interdisciplinary course on biopolitics; i'm sure there are others!
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Dana Miranda
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Africana Philosophy
Political Philosophy,
Existentialism
Psychosocial Studies
competency in Phenomenology, Philosophy of History, and Decolonial Studies. Generally, my work studies how historical and contemporary processes create structural arrangements that although normal, regularized, and relatively healthy to some are at the same time suboptimal and detrimental to others. This research aims to not only criticizes such “disordered” socio-political orders, but also aims to construct viable “counter-orders.”
Course idea:
I have an idea for a course entitled, "On Intimate Violence." This course will interrogate the ways in which intimacy is entwined with our conduct towards others. As human beings, we are involved in sexual, romantic and ethical relations with one another and such relations can either be pleasurable, ambiguous, or oftentimes violent. As such, students will be asked to examine the phenomenon of rape, practices that seek to eliminate the act, as well as ongoing philosophies that call on us to be ethical in our intimate relations. I would like for this course to be co-taught with someone from another discipline, perhaps working in feminist theory or sexuality, so that students could receive a full range of information. I also think it would be helpful to have two professors involved so that they could provide emotional support with these topics, while also adhering to Title IX policies and our duties as mandated reporters.
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Erin Seaton
Senior Lecturer, Educational Studies, Tufts University
Specializations:
School-Based Mental Health
Gender/Feminist Theory
Anti-Racist Teaching/Pedagogy
Child and Adolescent Development
Identity and Education
LGBTQ+
Qualitative Research Methods
Narrative and Writing
Course idea:
I would love to help facilitate a course that critically examined the intersection of mental health and intersectional identities. Likewise, I would be happy to participate in a series of workshops on reexamining and redesigning education.
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Jocelyn Viterna
Professor, Sociology, Harvard University
Specializations:
Sociology, Reproductive Justice
Reproductive Health
Gender and Politics
Criminalization of Sexuality and Reproduction
Implicit/Explicit Gender Bias in the Judicial System
Gender-based Violence
Gender and War
Latin America
Course idea:
None specified
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Paula Austin
Assistant Professor, African American Studies, Boston University
Specializations:
Black studies/US history
Black women's history
Urban history
Childhood studies/history
History of social sciences
Social movement history in the US
Course idea:
None specified
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Heidi Levitt
Professor, Psychology, UMASS Boston
Specializations:
LGBTQ+ gender and LGBTQ+ gender communities (e.g., trans, butch, femme, bear, leather, drag, families/houses)
Qualitative and mixed methods research
Feminist, critical, and constructivist epistemological perspectives to inquiry
Psychotherapeutic change and healing from stigma-related experiences
Course idea:
I would be interested in co-developing a course focused on LGBTQ+ gender identities and/or LGBTQ+ gender communities. The course could examine the practices and functions of genders using intersectional and social justice lenses, and engage multidisciplinary themes related to culture, sexuality, activism, physical aesthetics, gender theory, and identity.
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Chris A Barcelos
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UMass Boston
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Specializations:
Critical public health
Sexualities studies
Queer of color critique
Transgender studies
Youth
Course idea:
none specified
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Marilynn Johnson
Professor, History, Boston College
Specializations:
Modern U.S. urban, immigration, and social history
The American West
Course idea:
None specified
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Kristin Peterson
Assistant Professor, Communication, Boston College
Specializations:
Religion
Digital media
Feminist activism
Religious representation and the media
Course idea:
None specified
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Christa Kelleher
Director of Policy and Research, Lecturer, UMass Boston
Specializations:
Identifying, analyzing, and promoting public policies that improve the conditions of women’s lives
Advancing women’s public leadership
State and local policy development
Course idea:
Non specified
Kelleher oversees research on women’s public leadership and a range of public policy issues that affect women, with a particular focus on women’s reproductive and maternal health.
Christa Kelleher has been teaching in the Center’s Graduate Certificate Program for Gender, Leadership, and Public Policy (previously Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy) since 2002 and currently teaches the Internship course with colleague Elena Stone. She has previously taught courses in sociology, community health, public affairs, and public policy at Greater Boston area institutions including Pine Manor College, Brandeis University, and Tufts University.
Kelleher’s federally funded doctoral study examined the complex issues facing Boston and Toronto-based mothers during the early postpartum period to inform public policies related to this important women’s health issue.
Her background includes work on political campaigns, in the Massachusetts Legislature, and in not-for-profit advocacy organizations.
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Kareem Khubchandani
Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, Drama & Dance, Tufts University
Specializations:
Performance studies
Queer studies
South Asian studies
Course idea:
Non specified
Kareem Khubchandani (any pronouns) is Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), which received the 2019 CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies Fellowship award, the 2021 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno best book award, and the 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Award. Kareem is co-editor of Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press) and curator of www.criticalauntystudies.com. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and previously served as Embrey Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Christina Michaud
Senior Lecturer, Writing Program, Boston University
Master Lecturer, Writing
Specializations:
Literary analysis
Discourse analysis
Feminist intersectional parenting theory
Motherhood and breastfeeding
Sociolinguistics
Intersectionality and international students
Course idea:
Selfies (history of self-portraits in visual culture & literature, regulation of gender therein; visual cultures of the body; representation as a site of protest)
Christina Michaud has been a full-time instructor in the Writing Program since 2003. She teaches WR 097 and WR 098, the ESL writing classes mainly for first-year international students, as well as WR 100 and WR 150 sections on women’s studies. She has co-authored an ESL pronunciation textbook, a TESOL teacher-training book on goal-driven lesson planning, and numerous articles and presentations in the areas of TESOL, applied linguistics, and teacher training. Broadly, her research interests span composition and rhetoric, language and literacy, feminist literature, and gender studies.
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Ann Withorn
Professor, Social Policy Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Specializations:
Social policy
Poverty
Women and welfare
Course idea:
“Women/Welfare and the social state: Examining histories of intersections, conflicts and social meanings”