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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Shoniqua Roach
Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Black Feminist Theory
Black Studies
Queer and Sexuality Studies
Performance Studies
Racial Capitalism
Course idea:
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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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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Colin Brown
Assistant Teaching Professor, Political Science, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Political Representation
Representation in Legislatures
Citizenship and Naturalization
Immigrant Integration and Incorporation
Social Science Pedagogy
Course idea:
Citizenship, Migration, Gender, and Representation: Who Runs for Office?
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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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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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Alecia McGregor
Assistant Professor, Community Health, Tufts University
Specializations:
Health inequities
Health care outcomes
Maternal health
Urban health policies
Course idea:
Non specified
Alecia McGregor earned her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University in 2014, where she received a certificate in Latin American Studies and was a National Institute of Mental Health trainee. From 2014 to 2016 she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. At Princeton, she helped launch an initiative on Race, Inequality and Health Policy in the United States.
Dr. McGregor's research focuses on health inequalities and the political determinants of health. She has done work on HIV/AIDS disparities, religion and public opinion, mental health and substance abuse policy, and urban health policies; and her research draws on multiple approaches including quantitative, qualitative, comparative, and survey analyses. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed the politics of health care provision in both the United States and Brazil. Currently, she is researching the drivers and consequences of hospital closures in the U.S., and the politics of drug treatment policy in the U.S. and Brazil. Outside of work, she enjoys bicycling, tennis, and anything outdoors.
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Sarah Sobieraj
Associate Professor, Sociology, Tufts
Specializations:
Digital abuse and harassment
Media, politics, and culture in the U.S.
Social movements
Course idea:
Non specified
Sarah Sobieraj is an award-winning teacher and researcher with expertise in media, politics, and culture. She is the author of The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility (Oxford University Press 2014) with Jeff Berry, and Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism (NYU 2011). Her most recent journal articles can be found in PS: Political Science & Politics, Poetics, Political Communication, Social Problems, Sociological Theory, Sociological Inquiry, and The Sociological Quarterly. Her work has also been featured in venues such as The New York Times, Politico, CNN, PBS, The American Prospect, National Review, Pacific Standard, and Salon. Professor Sobieraj directs the Digital Sexism Project, investigating the impact of gender-based attacks against women online on political discourse. In her free time she enjoys reading, listening to storytelling podcasts, and talking politics.
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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”
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Kathrin Zippel
Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Gender
Work and Organizations
Gender Equity Politics
Science
Course idea:
None specified
Kathrin Zippel has published on gender politics in the workplace, public and social policy, social movements, welfare states, and globalization in the United States and Europe. Her book, The Politics of Sexual Harassment in the United States, the European Union and Germany, (Cambridge University Press) won several awards.
Her current research explores gender and global transformations of science and education. In her book, Women in Global Science: Advancing Careers Through International Collaboration (Stanford University Press), she argues that global science is the new frontier for women, providing both opportunities and challenges as gender shapes the dynamics and practices of international research. She directs a NSF- funded interdisciplinary network analysis to study the diffusion of ideas on gender equity interventions among U.S. Universities.
Zippel is a co-chair of the Social Exclusion and Inclusion Seminar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Harvard University and was a residential fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. She served as co-PI of Northeastern’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant. She held a Humboldt Research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich; was a guest at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the WZB Social Science Research Center in Berlin, and the European University Institute in Florence. Zippel received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a post-doc at the European Union Center of New York at Columbia University.