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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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:

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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:

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Lisa Joffe

Lecturer, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis

Specializations:

  • Women's rights and religious law

  • Gender and multiculturalism

  • Family law

Course idea:

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Brian Horton

Assistant Profressor, Anthropology, Brandeis

Specializations:

  • queer anthropology;

  • queer of color critique/queer theory;

  • popular culture;

  • race;

  • digital anthropology;

  • virtual subjectivities;

  • social media;

  • South Asia

Course idea:

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Sara Shostak

Associate Professor, Sociology, Brandeis University

Specializations:

  • Sociology of health and illness

  • Science and technology studies

  • Environmental health and justice

  • Food studies

  • Qualitative research methods

Course idea:

None specified

I'm a medical sociologist, committed to understanding the social production of health and illness across diverse contexts. My research focuses on how a wide variety of actors – scientists and farmers, health policy makers and city planners, people living with illness and people working to help their communities heal from trauma – perceive and experience the material conditions that shape health inequities in the United States.


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Siri Suh

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Brandeis University

Specializations:

  • Reproduction

  • Global health, medicine, post-colonial and feminist STS

  • Population and development studies

  • Ethnography

  • Africa

Course idea:

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David Sherman

Associate Professor, English, Brandeis University

Specializations:

  • Global modernism

  • Elegy and the politics of commemoration

  • Public sphere theory

  • Comedy

  • Literature in the criminal justice system

  • Literature and philosophy

Course idea:

  • Death and Feminism. A course on feminist and queer mortuary politics, including attention to literature, visual art, performance, and other expressive practices as sites of cultural intervention in the lives of the dead.


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