Christa Kelleher
Director of Policy and Research, Lecturer, UMass Boston
Specializations:
Identifying, analyzing, and promoting public policies that improve the conditions of women’s lives
Advancing women’s public leadership
State and local policy development
Course idea:
Non specified
Kelleher oversees research on women’s public leadership and a range of public policy issues that affect women, with a particular focus on women’s reproductive and maternal health.
Christa Kelleher has been teaching in the Center’s Graduate Certificate Program for Gender, Leadership, and Public Policy (previously Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy) since 2002 and currently teaches the Internship course with colleague Elena Stone. She has previously taught courses in sociology, community health, public affairs, and public policy at Greater Boston area institutions including Pine Manor College, Brandeis University, and Tufts University.
Kelleher’s federally funded doctoral study examined the complex issues facing Boston and Toronto-based mothers during the early postpartum period to inform public policies related to this important women’s health issue.
Her background includes work on political campaigns, in the Massachusetts Legislature, and in not-for-profit advocacy organizations.
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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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Sari Edelstein
Associate Professor, English, University Massachusetts Boston
Specializations:
Nineteenth-century American literature
Age studies
Women writers
Print culture studies
Course idea:
Aging and/or girlhood from an intersectional and interdisciplinary perspective
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Ann Withorn
Professor, Social Policy Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Specializations:
Social policy
Poverty
Women and welfare
Course idea:
“Women/Welfare and the social state: Examining histories of intersections, conflicts and social meanings”
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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.
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Brittany Charlton
Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
bcharlton@mail.harvard.edu
Specializations:
- Epidemiology
- LGBTQ health
Course idea:
None specified
Dr. Brittany Charlton is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology. She is also an Associate Epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Charlton's epidemiologic research primarily focuses on reproductive health. One area of her work examines the development and prevention of sexual orientation-related disparities with a focus on reproductive health topics such as HPV/cervical cancer, teen pregnancy, and family planning. A second area of her research investigates the health effects of using contraceptives. Previously, Dr. Charlton worked on Capitol Hill as well as for non-profit organizations including NARAL and the Center for Reproductive Rights. She completed a year of national service in AmeriCorps, during which she was based at New York’s LGBT Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. Dr. Charlton trained as a predoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Ob/Gyn Epidemiology Center and was a Visiting Scientist at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark. She completed the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sexual Orientation and Health Disparities Research at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Charlton holds a BA from The New School as well as an MSc and ScD from the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Sally Haslanger
Professor of Philosophy, MIT
shaslang@mit.edu
Specializations:
- Race
- Gender
- Epistemology
- Social ontology
Course idea:
None specified
Sally Haslanger is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. She has published on topics in metaphysics, epistemology and feminist theory, with a recent emphasis on accounts of the social construction of race and gender. In metaphysics, her work has focused on theories of substance, especially on the problem of persistence through change and on Aristotle's view that substances are composites of matter and form. Her work in feminist theory takes up issues in feminist epistemology and metaphysics, with a special interest in the distinction between natural and social kinds. She has co-edited Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (Cornell University Press, 2005) with Charlotte Witt, Theorizing Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 2005) with Elizabeth Hackett, and Persistence (MIT Press, 2006) with Roxanne Marie Kurtz. She regularly teaches courses cross-listed with Women's Studies. Before coming to MIT, she taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and the University of California-Irvine.