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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Wan Tang

Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, Boston College

Specializations:

  • 19th-21st-century Spain

  • the Spanish Civil War

  • Contemporary Spanish literature and visual culture

  • The fantastic and Gothic fiction

  • Monster theory

  • Aging studies, television studies, critical race and migration studies

  • The Asian diaspora

Course idea:

None specified


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Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

Associate Professor, History, Boston College

Specializations:

  • Colonial Latin America

  • Early modern Spain

  • Colonial Central America

  • History of empire

  • Narrative and literature

Course idea:

  • Comparative Colonialism Criminality, Violence, Gender, and Legal Structures


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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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Amey Victoria Adkins Jones

Assistant Professor, Theology; African and African Diaspora Studies, Boston College

Specializations:

  • Mariology

  • Sexual Ethics

  • Race and Gender

  • Black Feminist/Womanist Theology

  • Religious Visual Culture

  • Human Trafficking

  • Prison Industrial Complex

Course idea:

Non specified

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones ("AVA") is Assistant Professor of Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. 

Her scholarship specializes in Mariology and womanist/black feminist thought. 


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