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:
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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Lisa Joffe
Lecturer, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Women's rights and religious law
Gender and multiculturalism
Family law
Course idea:
None specified
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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:
None specified
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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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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.