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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Peng Yin
Assistant Professor of Ethics, Boston University
Specializations:
Religion and sexuality
Sexual ethics
Queer theology
Course idea:
Sexual ethics: a feminist-and-queer-centered attempt at thinking through contemporary conversations in sexual desire and pleasure, intimate violence, polyamory, sex work, pornography, as well as sex and technologies.
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Joanna Davidson
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Boston University
Specializations:
Anthropology
Ethnographic writing
West Africa
Gender
Marriage
Widowhood
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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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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Christopher Schmitt
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Boston University
Specializations:
Mechanistic and adaptive aspects of developmental variation in primates
Genetics and genomics
Behavioral ecology
Physiology
Morphometrics
Course idea:
Non specified
Dr. Christopher Schmitt is a biological anthropologist whose research explores mechanistic and adaptive aspects of developmental variation using techniques from behavioral ecology, physiology, morphometrics, and genomics.
Through intensive fieldwork across Africa and the Caribbean with the International Vervet Research Consortium, Dr. Schmitt has collected biological samples from over two thousand wild vervet monkeys. Current projects in his lab using this dataset include characterizing evolutionary patterns in the developmental morphometrics and physiology of various vervet populations, including the use of population and comparative genomic techniques. Dr. Schmitt also investigates the genomics of metabolic function and disorders during development in over 700 fully sequenced and pedigreed captive vervets at Wake Forest University. Work in his lab is ongoing to assess the phenotypic impact captive-identified obesity-related genes in his extensive wild sample, assessing variability in phenotype expression and population-specific selection based on local ecology and anthropogenic impacts. Field work for these projects is ongoing (UROP students are welcome to apply), and can be followed on social media at #BUvervets.
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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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April Hughes
Associate Professor, Chinese Buddhism, Boston University
Specializations:
Chinese Buddhism
Course idea:
Women rulers and how they legitimate themselves in different regions and times
April D. Hughes received her Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University in 2014. She completed M.A. degrees in East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research situates medieval Chinese religion within broader cultural and social contexts. She is especially interested in medieval Chinese Buddhist manuscripts and mural paintings discovered at Dunhuang (northwest China). Her current book project is entitled “Personifying the Buddha: Politics, Gender, and Religion in Medieval China.” Over and against the assumption that political authority was argued chiefly in Confucian terms, the book investigates the different symbol systems (Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist) that emperors employed to validate their reigns. Specifically, the book highlights the centrality of Buddhism to Chinese notions of kingship, since both emperors and rebels sometimes solidified claims to the imperial throne by declaring themselves Buddhas incarnate, descended to earth in order to rule and revive Buddhist Teachings.
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Alisa Bokulich
Professor, Philosophy of Science, Boston University
Specializations:
Philosophy of Science
Science, Technology & Values
Course idea:
Gender, Race, and Science
Alisa Bokulich received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame’s Program in History and Philosophy of Science. She is the director of the Center for Philosophy & History of Science at BU (since 2010), where she also organizes the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science.
Professor Bokulich is also an Associate Member of Harvard University’s History of Science Department. She has been the recipient of several grants from the National Science Foundation. She is currently working on a book on philosophical issues in the Earth Sciences.
Professor Bokulich’s teaching at Boston University includes courses in the philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; gender, race and science; and science, technology, and values.