Feminist Studies

2011-12 General Catalog

315 Humanities 1
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Program Description | Course Descriptions


Faculty and Professional Interests

Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies and History
Feminist histories, feminist oral history and memoir; feminist pedagogy; African-American women's history; queer studies; feminist Jewish studies; feminist critical race studies

Anjali Arondekar, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
South Asian studies, colonial historiography; feminist theories; queer theory; critical race studies; 19th-century interdisciplinary studies

Neda Atanasoski, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
U.S. and Eastern European film and media; cultural studies and critical theory; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion

Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Philosophy
Science studies, poststructuralist theory, feminist theory, queer theory, 20th-Century continental philosophy, philosophy of science, and physics

Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies
Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture

Margaret M. Downes-Baskin, Research Associate in Feminist Studies
Presidential leadership styles, elections and the media, women's political and corporate leadership style, intergenerational relations

Marge Frantz, Emerita, Lecturer in American Studies and Feminist Studies

Lisbeth Haas, Chair, Feminist Studies, and Professor of History
U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Chicano and Native American history; visual culture in the colonial Americas; the U.S. West and California; historical memory, theory, and historical methodology

Akasha Hull, Emerita, Professor of Feminist Studies and Literature

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
Transnational feminisms; sexuality and migration, technology, and subjectivity; Latin American/Latino studies; border studies; Chicana/o studies; affect and globalization

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Angela Y. Davis, Emerita, Professor of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Feminism, African American studies, critical theory, popular music culture and social consciousness, philosophy of punishment (women's jails and prisons)

Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness
Renaissance studies, French and Italian language and literature, early modern studies, postcolonial theories and literature, contemporary feminist theories and politics, queer theory, U.S. popular culture

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Feminist Studies, and Film and Digital Media
Human-rights studies; intercultural and transborder feminism; cultural studies; Latina/o and Latin Amrican film and media arts  

Jody Greene, Associate Professor of Literature and Feminist Studies
Seventeenth- and 18th-century British and French literature and culture, pre- and early modern studies, early modern colonialisms, gay and lesbian cultural studies, gender studies, history of authorship, history of the book

Donna J. Haraway, Professor of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of science and technology, relation of life and human sciences, human-animal relations, and animal studies

Helene Moglen, Emerita, Professor of Literature
The English novel; feminist, critical, cultural, and psychoanalytic theory; gender and genre in social and psychological contexts

Affiliated Faculty

Gabriela Arredondo, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
U.S. social and cultural history; Chicana/o history; critical race and ethnicity theories; im/migration history; Latina/os in the U.S.; Chicana feminisms; "borderlands" studies, modern Mexico history

Lora Bartlett, Assistant Professor of Education
Educational policy and school reform, schools as workplaces for teachers, the conditions of teachers' commitment

Karen Bassi, Professor of Classics (Literature)
Greek and Latin literatures, Greek drama, Hellenistic poetics, feminist interpretation, literary and cultural theory, pre- and early modern studies, historiography

Caetlin Benson-Allott, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media
Distribution studies, technology and culture, film history and theory, new media studies; queer and feminist theory, horror

Julie Bettie, Associate Professor of Sociology
Cultural studies, feminist studies, race/ethnic studies, identity, popular culture, critical ethnography, visual ethnography

Heather Bullock, Professor of Psychology
Poverty and economic inequality, welfare policy, feminist psychology, discrimination

Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Professor Emerita of Literature
American visual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; gender and authorship; history, cultures, and representations of California, particularly the Central Coast

Nancy N. Chen, Professor of Anthropology
Medical anthropology, visual anthropology, urban anthropology, Asian American identity, mental health, food, China

Vilashini Cooppan, Associate Professor of Literature
Postcolonial studies, comparative and world literature, literatures of slavery and diaspora, globalization studies, cultural theory of race and ethnicity

E. G. Crichton, Associate Professor of Art
Intermedia, electronic arts, photography, installation

Faye J. Crosby, Professor of Psychology
Gender; social identity; and social justice, especially affirmative action

Teresa de Lauretis, Emerita, Professor of History of Consciousness
Semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, film theory, literary theory, queer studies

Dana Frank, Professor of History
U.S. social and economic history; women, labor, and working-class history; contemporary political economy

Mayanthi Fernando, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology of religion, secularism, Islam, multiculturalism/pluralism; colonial and post-colonial France, Europe

Pascale Gaitet, Emerita, Professor of Literature and Language Studies
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature, sociolinguistics, political history, Celine, Genet

Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Performance studies, ancient Mediterranean performance, Greek and Latin literatures, myth, reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts, film, feminist approaches to literature and performance

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Professor of Anthropology
Paleolithic and Neolithic Africa and Eurasia, colonial New Mexico, origins of food production, pastoralists, zooarchaeology, history of archaeology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology

Susan Gillman, Professor of American Literature
Nineteenth-century American literature and culture; theories of culture, race, and gender; world literature and cultural studies

Jennifer A. Gonzlez, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.

June Gordon, Professor of Education
Urban education of working-class and ethnic minority students in East Asia, Britain, and the U.S. and related issues in teacher education

Deborah Gould, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Political emotion; social movements and contentious politics; classic and contemporary social theory; sexualities; lesbian/gay/queer studies; feminist and queer theory

Shelly A. Grabe, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Cultural objectification of women and womens bodies as a pervasive global phenomenon played out in different ways across different cultures; how embodied oppression affects womens psychological well-being and empowerment

Herman Gray, Professor of Sociology
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory

Irene Gustafson, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media
Producing across the boundaries between "theory" and "practice," non-fiction, gender and queer studies, production design

Julie Guthman, Associate Professor of Community Studies
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of obesity, political ecology, race and food, critical human geography

Amelie Hastie, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media
Film theory and history, feminist film and television studies, Chinese cinemas, issues of authorship, interdisciplinary approaches

Margo Hendricks, Professor Emerita of Literature
Early modern English literature and culture; theories and discourses of race, gender, drama, and theory; women playwrights; pre- and early modern studies

Gail B. Hershatter, Professor of History
Modern Chinese social and cultural history; labor history; gender history; history of sexuality; feminist theory; history, memory, and nostalgia

Emily Honig, Professor of History
Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in modern Chinese history; comparative labor history; Chicana history, nationalism, and sexuality in the Third World; oral history

Jocelyn Hoy, Lecturer in Philosophy
Feminist philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy

Donna Hunter, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice, portraiture

Aida Hurtado, Professor of Psychology
Social identity, feminist theory, social psychology of education, survey methodology

Virginia Jansen, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Medieval visual culture, urbanism, and secular building; Gothic architecture; campus planning and architecture

Stacy Kamehiro, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Visual cultures of the Pacific, 19th-century Hawai'i, (inter)nationalism, culture contact; (post)colonialism

L. S. Kim, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media
Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian-American media production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and alternative media

Norma Klahn, Professor of Literature
Latin American literary and cultural studies (specialization: Mexico), Chicano/Latino literature and culture from a cross-border perspective, modernity/postmodernity, poetics and politics, genre theory (novel, poetry, autobiography), contemporary critical theories (i.e., border, ethnic, feminist, transnational/global)

Lori G. Kletzer, Professor of Economics
Employment and wage determination, impact of globalization on the domestic labor market, industrial relations, government labor market policies, higher education and the labor market

Campbell Leaper, Professor of Psychology
Social construction and socialization of gender in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; self-concept and social identity; language and social interaction; social relationships, gender bias in the schools and academic achievement; images of gender in the media; perceptions and consequences of sexism

Carolyn Martin Shaw, Professor Emerita of Anthropology
African societies, colonial discourse, social theory, anthropology of women, sexuality
Lourdes Martnez-Echazbal, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature
Latin American and Caribbean literatures; Afro-Latin American literatures, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora; critical race theory

Peter Limbrick, Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media
International cinemas; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; theories of globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality; queer theory

Jennie Lind McDade, Professor of Art
Drawing, painting

Megan Moodie, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
South Asian studies, feminist theory, reproductive and population politics, kinship, development, legal identities, tribal communities

Tanya Merchant, Assistant Professor of Music
Ethnomusicology, musics of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, music and gender, identity, nationalism, globalization, and the institutionalization of music

Leta E. Miller, Professor of Music
Renaissance and baroque music history and performance practices, 20th-century American music, modern and baroque flute, 16th-century chanson and madrigal, music and science, 18th- and 20th-century flute literature and performance styles, music of C.P.E. Bach and Lou Harrison

Margaret Morse, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary and science fiction

Marcia Ochoa, Assistant Professor of Community Studies
Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, multimedia production, Latin American studiesColombia and Venezuela, political philosophy, geography

Catherine Ramirez, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Chicana and U.S. Latino literature, culture, and history; gender studies and feminist theory; visual culture and style politics; cultural studies; popular and urban youth cultures; speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Chicanafuturism; science, technology, race, and gender; theories and methods of American studies

Jennifer E. Reardon, Associate Professor of Sociology
Issues of social identity as influenced by the new sciences of genetics and genomics; intersection of the sociology of science and knowledge and the sociology of race, gender, and class

B. Ruby Rich, Professor of Community Studies
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.

Cecilia Rivas, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Salvadoran transnationalism; media (Internet, newspapers); migration; globalization; race, ethnicity, and gender; bilingualism; consumption; El Salvador; Central America

Pamela Ann Roby, Emerita, Professor of Sociology
Sociology of learning, women and work, leadership and social change, sociology of emotions, feminist research, inequality and social policy

Lisa Rofel, Professor of Anthropology
Critical theory, anthropology of modernity, popular/public culture, gender and sexuality, cultures of capitalism, postcolonial feminist anthropology, China

Gabriela Sandoval, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Race and ethnic studies, Latina/o and Chicana/o studies, stratification, urban and political sociology, and voting behavior

Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics
Early modern and modern political theory, feminist theory, cultural history, race politics, postcolonial theory

Deanna Shemek, Professor of Literature
Italian literature and cultural history, Renaissance studies, early modern popular culture, narrative (early modern to contemporary), women's studies, literary theory

Mary W. Silver, Professor of Ocean Sciences
Biological oceanography, marine plankton, midwater ecology

Shelley Stamp, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Film history, theory, and criticism; silent cinema; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema

Elizabeth Stephens, Professor of Art
Intermedia, electronic art, sculpture, and performance art

Nancy Stoller, Emerita, Professor of Community Studies
Race and gender aspects of health, the AIDS epidemic, community organizing, sexualities, and medicine in prisons

Renee Tajima-Pea, Professor of Community Studies
Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media, and social change

Avril Thorne, Professor of Psychology
Identity development through personal memory telling, development of meaning in adolescents' self-defining memory narratives, family storytelling and the development of a sense of self, narrative co-construction of identity and intimacy

Nina K. Treadwell, Associate Professor of Music
Renaissance through early baroque music history and performance practices, early plucked-string instruments (theorbo, renaissance, and baroque guitar; renaissance lute), 16th- and 17th-century Italian theatrical music, gender studies, women and music, literary and critical theory

Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology
Culture and politics, feminist theory and gender in the U.S., social landscapes and tropical forest ethnoecologies, ethnicity, local power and relations to the state in Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.

Candace West, Professor of Sociology
Language and social interaction, sociology of gender, conversation analysis, microanalysis and medicine

Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Professor of History
British America, American revolution/early national U.S., U.S. religious history, early modern cultural and religious history, women/gender

Aaronette White, Associate Professor of Psychology
Adult feminist-identity development; personality correlates of feminist activism; feminist masculinities studies; feminist perspectives on peace and violence; narrative psychology and adult personality change; black feminist political psychology in the U.S. and abroad; critical psychology

Rob Wilson, Professor of Literature
Transnational and postcolonial literatures, especially as located in Asia/Pacific emergences as posited against American empire of globalization; cultural poetics of America; the sublime, Longinus to Hiroshima; mongrel poetics of experimental writing, especially poetry

Alice Yang, Associate Professor of History
Historical memory, Asian American history, gender history, race and ethnicity, 20th-century U.S., oral history

Patricia Zavella, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Relationship between women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital

Eileen Zurbriggen, Associate Professor of Psychology
Connections between power and sex, sexual aggression and abuse, sexual decision making. Motivation, especially power and affiliation-intimacy motives. Information processing models of social and personality psychology


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