Jennie C. Stephens
Professor, Sustainability & Science Policy, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Climate justice
Energy justice
Antiracism
Feminist leadership
Course idea:
None specified
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Timothy Oleksiak
Assistant Professor, English, UMass Boston
Specializations:
Rhetoric and composition teacher-scholar with a specialization in listening as a rhetorical act, composition pedagogy, and queer feminist rhetoric.
Course idea:
A feminist rhetoric and composition studies course. The course functions as an introduction to feminist approaches to rhetoric.
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Bilge Erten
Assistant Professor, Economics, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Development and international economics, with a particular focus on empirical research
Gender, health, and education
Course idea:
None specified
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Karen Suyemoto
Professor, Psychology, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Psychological experiences and effects of racism
Psychological processes, experiences, and effects of resisting racism for people of color
Activism and psychology
Development and experiences of allies/accomplices
Solidarity and intersectionality
Anti-oppressive education
Course idea:
I would be interested in a course focused on activism/resistance, with particular attention to (a) interactions of the individual/group/structural levels and (b) solidarity and intersectionality, especially related to the dynamic of maintaining White supremacy through divide and conquer and resisting internalizing that dynamic.
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Francesca Inglese
Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, Northeastern University
Specializations:
African-Diasporic music and dance
Critical race studies
Ethnographic method and ethics
Cultural politics
Postcolonialism
Course idea:
None specified
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Heike Schotten
Associate Professor, Political Science, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Feminist theory
Queer theory (broadly construed, incl. queer history and queer of color politics/critique)
Trans studies
Critical theory (incl. biopolitics, settler colonial studies, empire studies)
Radical/left political theory
War on Terror
"terrorism"
Nietzsche studies
Israel/Palestine
Zionism
Academic freedom
Course idea:
The feminist sex wars; queer theory/trans studies [a course on the two fields' development, co-implication, intersections, contradictions, troublings, critiques]; lesbian feminism; a course on "radical criticism"/totalizing critique [feat., e.g., Afropessimism, anti-porn and TERF feminism]; a broad, interdisciplinary course on biopolitics; i'm sure there are others!
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Colin Brown
Assistant Teaching Professor, Political Science, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Political Representation
Representation in Legislatures
Citizenship and Naturalization
Immigrant Integration and Incorporation
Social Science Pedagogy
Course idea:
Citizenship, Migration, Gender, and Representation: Who Runs for Office?
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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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K.J. Rawson
Associate Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Digital humanities
Rhetoric
LGBTQ+ and Feminist Studies
Archives
Course idea:
None specified
K.J. Rawson is founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning online repository of trans-related historical materials, and he is the co-chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ linked data vocabulary.
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Stacey Sloboda
Associate Professor, Art, Umass boston
Specializations:
18th Century Art
Architecture and Design History
Cross-cultural context and imperialism
Cultural geography
Women and art patronage
Course idea:
None specified
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Hillary Chute
Distinguished Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Visual culture and feminisms
Comics and graphic narratives
Contemporary literature
Course idea:
None specified
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Dana Miranda
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Umass Boston
Specializations:
Africana Philosophy
Political Philosophy,
Existentialism
Psychosocial Studies
competency in Phenomenology, Philosophy of History, and Decolonial Studies. Generally, my work studies how historical and contemporary processes create structural arrangements that although normal, regularized, and relatively healthy to some are at the same time suboptimal and detrimental to others. This research aims to not only criticizes such “disordered” socio-political orders, but also aims to construct viable “counter-orders.”
Course idea:
I have an idea for a course entitled, "On Intimate Violence." This course will interrogate the ways in which intimacy is entwined with our conduct towards others. As human beings, we are involved in sexual, romantic and ethical relations with one another and such relations can either be pleasurable, ambiguous, or oftentimes violent. As such, students will be asked to examine the phenomenon of rape, practices that seek to eliminate the act, as well as ongoing philosophies that call on us to be ethical in our intimate relations. I would like for this course to be co-taught with someone from another discipline, perhaps working in feminist theory or sexuality, so that students could receive a full range of information. I also think it would be helpful to have two professors involved so that they could provide emotional support with these topics, while also adhering to Title IX policies and our duties as mandated reporters.
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Denise Khor
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies & Visual Studies and Associate Director, Asian American Studies
Specializations:
Film and Media History
Early Cinema
Nontheatrical Exhibition
Photography and Visual Culture
Asian American and Critical Ethnic Studies
Course idea:
None specified
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Erin Seaton
Senior Lecturer, Educational Studies, Tufts University
Specializations:
School-Based Mental Health
Gender/Feminist Theory
Anti-Racist Teaching/Pedagogy
Child and Adolescent Development
Identity and Education
LGBTQ+
Qualitative Research Methods
Narrative and Writing
Course idea:
I would love to help facilitate a course that critically examined the intersection of mental health and intersectional identities. Likewise, I would be happy to participate in a series of workshops on reexamining and redesigning education.
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Hilary Binda
Senior Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts University
Specializations:
Carceral Studies
Queer/Feminist Studies
Course idea:
None specified
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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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Sarah Pinto
Professor, Anthropology, Tufts University
Specializations:
Medical anthropology
History of medicine
STS
Gender
Kinship
Body
Psychological Anthropology
South Asia
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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Rani Neutill
Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Specializations:
Asian American Literature and Film
WOC memoir
Creative nonfiction
Course idea:
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature and Film - This course examines works across a range of genres by Asian-American writers, focusing on the intersection of race, gender formation, and sexuality. We will put conceptions of feminism, queerness, and LGBT identity in conversations about ethnicity, citizenship, power, activism, art and politics, representation, race and resistance and collective as well as individual histories. As a class that focuses on film and literature, we will close read texts as a means to discuss the politics of representation, how a text can inform the world and vice versa. In this class, we will create a space of community forged by respect and the understanding that marginalized voices have been historically de-centered. We will focus on the diversity of Asian American stories and move away from generalized, romanticized, and essentialized notions of Asian American identities.