Micah Goodrich
Assistant Professor, English
mjgood@bu.edu
Specializations:
Trans studies
Queer studies
Premodern literature
Medieval literature
History of the body
Ideas of nature
Course idea:
None specified
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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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Tesla Cariani
Lecturer of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Specializations:
Critical media studies
Literary studies
Queer theory
Trans and two spirit studies
Postcolonial studies
Affect theory
Popular culture
Course idea:
None specified
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Kristen Ethier
Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Law
Specializations:
Reproductive justice
Sexual and reproductive health equity among transition aged, expectant, and parenting youth in foster care, LGBTQ+ people of color living with HIV
Course idea:
None specified
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Emily Fairchild
Lecturer on Sociology and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard
Specializations:
Micro-processes that sustain and challenge understanding of gender
Interplay among levels of analysis: institutional, interactional, individual especially as related to gendered rituals (ex: weddings), sports, and higher education
Course idea:
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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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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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K.J. Rawson
Associate Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Digital humanities
Rhetoric
LGBTQ+ and Feminist Studies
Archives
Course idea:
None specified
K.J. Rawson is founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning online repository of trans-related historical materials, and he is the co-chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ linked data vocabulary.
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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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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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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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Sabra Katz-Wise
Research Scientist, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital and Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
sabra.katz-wise@childrens.harvard.edu
Specializations:
LGBTQ health inequities
Sexual orientation and gender identity development and fluidity
Psychosocial functioning of families with transgender and/or nonbinary youth
Course idea:
None specified
Dr. Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor in Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also Adjunct Faculty at The Fenway Institute. She is Director of the Harvard SOGIE (Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression) Health Equity Research Collaborative, and she is a Senior Faculty Advisor for the Boston Children’s Office of Health Equity and Inclusion. Dr. Katz-Wise’s research uses community-engaged mixed methods to investigate sexual orientation and gender identity development and fluidity, health inequities related to sexual orientation and gender identity in adolescents and young adults, and psychosocial functioning in families with transgender and nonbinary youth. Her work has been funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Boston Children’s Aerosmith Endowment Fund and is widely published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to research, Dr. Katz-Wise is involved with advocacy efforts to improve the workplace climate, patient care, and learning environment for LGBTQ+ individuals, including her role on the Queer Leadership Council for the Boston Children’s Rainbow Alliance and member of the Boston Children’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Council.
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Shameka Powell
Assistant Professor of Education, Tufts University
Shameka.Powell@tufts.edu
Specializations:
Sociology of education
Race theory
Educational Equity
Social Context of Schooling
Course idea:
None specified
Shameka N. Powell is an Associate Professor of Educational Studies and affiliated with the Master of Arts in Teaching program in the Department of Education. Dr. Powell's research focuses on equality of educational opportunity and the intersections of race, class, gender in school spaces. Specifically, they interrogate how institutional agents create, exacerbate, and alleviate stratification patterns within schools. Additionally, Dr. Powell examines critical literacy approaches teachers and students employ within classrooms. They situate their research within Critical Race Theory and Queer of Color Theories.