Sasha Sabherwal
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies
s.sabherwal@northeastern.edu
Specializations:
South Asian Diaspora
Critical Ethnic Studies
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies
Racialization of Religion
Caste
Course idea:
None specified
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Yuri Doolan
Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yuri Doolan
Specializations:
Military prostitution
Sex work
Transpacific feminisms
"Comfort women"
US militarism in Asia
Camptown
International adoption
Race, empire, sexuality, migration, diaspora, and Asian American studies
Transnational Korean studies
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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Stacey Sloboda
Associate Professor, Art, Umass boston
Specializations:
18th Century Art
Architecture and Design History
Cross-cultural context and imperialism
Cultural geography
Women and art patronage
Course idea:
None specified
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Sarah Pinto
Professor, Anthropology, Tufts University
Specializations:
Medical anthropology
History of medicine
STS
Gender
Kinship
Body
Psychological Anthropology
South Asia
Course idea:
None specified
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Arianne Chernock
Professor, History, Boston College
Specializations:
Modern U.S. urban, immigration, and social history; the American West
Course idea:
None specified
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Rani Neutill
Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Specializations:
Asian American Literature and Film
WOC memoir
Creative nonfiction
Course idea:
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature and Film - This course examines works across a range of genres by Asian-American writers, focusing on the intersection of race, gender formation, and sexuality. We will put conceptions of feminism, queerness, and LGBT identity in conversations about ethnicity, citizenship, power, activism, art and politics, representation, race and resistance and collective as well as individual histories. As a class that focuses on film and literature, we will close read texts as a means to discuss the politics of representation, how a text can inform the world and vice versa. In this class, we will create a space of community forged by respect and the understanding that marginalized voices have been historically de-centered. We will focus on the diversity of Asian American stories and move away from generalized, romanticized, and essentialized notions of Asian American identities.
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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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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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Lerna Ekmekçioglu
Associate Professor, History, MIT
Specializations:
History of feminism
War
Women and Gender
Turkey, Armenia, and the Ottoman Empire
Minority-majority relations
Course idea:
Non specified
Lerna Ekmekcioglu is a historian of the modern Middle East and the Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program. She specializes in Turkish and Armenian lands in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her work focuses on minority-majority relations and the ways in which gendered analytical lenses help us better understand coexistence and conflict, including genocide and post-genocide. She is also interested in the history of non-Western feminisms, including Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, Jewish, and Greek women’s movements. She teaches courses on cultural pluralism, women and war, global revolutions, and women and gender in the Middle East and North Africa. Prof. Ekmekcioglu is the winner of the 2016 Levitan Teaching Award in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), which recognizes SHASS teachers “who make a profound difference in the educational experience of MIT undergraduate and graduate students.” Prof. Ekmekcioglu organizes the Bi-annual McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series on women in the developing world.