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WGSS Faculty Affiliates

WGSS seeks to build a supportive interdisciplinary community among 色花堂 faculty whose research and/or teaching are concerned with women, gender and sexuality. We organize symposia, research presentations, pedagogy workshops and reading groups around the interests and expertise of our affiliated faculty.

WGSS offers a number of with funds raised by the Friends of Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies for which Faculty Affiliates receive first consideration. We recognize that the voluntary efforts of 色花堂 faculty on behalf of interdisciplinary programs like ours are an invaluable service to the university. Become a WGSS Faculty Affiliate today!


African American Studies

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Tara Green
ttgreen2@uh.edu 
Course: Harlem Renaissance

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Ameenah Shakir
ashakir2@central.uh.edu
Course: Black Women in the US

Architecture & Design 

Art and Art History 

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bdossett@uh.edu
Courses: 

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Szalman@uh.edu
Courses:

Biology and Biochemistry 

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dgraur@uh.edu
Course: 

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rpmeisel@uh.edu
Course: 

Communication 

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Beth Olson
bolson@uh.edu  

Course: Gender & Media

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jvardeman@uh.edu
Course: 

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Zhiwen Xiao
zxiao2@uh.edu 
Course: Health Campaigns

Comparative Cultural Studies 

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Marwa Ghazali
mghazali@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Ethnography

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kemcneal@uh.edu
Course: Sex & Culture

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dsen2@central.uh.edu
Course: Women and Work

Economics 

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cjuhn@uh.edu  

Courses: Economics of Gender; Economics of Education

English 

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Hosam Aboul-Ela
haboul-ela@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit

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Margot Gayle Backus
mbackus@uh.edu  

Courses: Gender & Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Culture; The British Women's Novel; Queer Closures: The Sexual Politics of Literary Form

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Ann Christensen
achrist@uh.edu
Courses: Family, Sex, & Households on the Shakespearean Stage; Gender & Performance in Shakespeare; Labor, Leisure, & Gender in Early Modern Drama

Ananda Ellis


avellis@central.uh.edu
Course: Women Writers

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Karen Fang
kfang@uh.edu
Course: Romantic Women Writers & Film Noir

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María Gonzalez
mgonzalez@uh.edu
Courses: Women in Literature; Women Writers; Feminist Theory; Feminist Criticism

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hcharrel@central.uh.edu
Courses: Queer Theory; Black Feminism Reimagined; Interracial Intimacies 

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amajumder@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit

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nshepley@uh.edu
Course: Gender & Writing

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kasingh@central.uh.edu
Courses: Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Literature

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msnediker@uh.edu
Course: Queer Literature

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Lorraine Stock
lstock@uh.edu 
Courses: Writing Medieval Women; Medieval Women in History, Text, & Film

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rjtejada@uh.edu
Course: The Latino American Photobook

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Lynn Voskuil
lvoskuil@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology

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Jennifer Wingard
jlwingard@uh.edu 
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology

Health and Human Performance 

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dpearson@uh.edu  

Course: Sport in Contemporary Society

Hispanic Studies 

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Mabel Cuesta
mcuesta@uh.edu
Courses: Spanish-Caribbean Women Writers Rewriting the Islands from the United States; Topics in Spanish-Amer Literature

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mesolino@uh.edu 
Course: Hispanic Authors; Feminist Theory

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gbventura@uh.edu
Course: U.S. Latino Literature

History

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Tshepo Masango Chéry
tmchery@central.uh.edu
Course: Love & African Revolution

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xcong@uh.edu
Courses: History of Women in Modern China; East & SE Asian Women in Historical & Cross-cultural Perspectives

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sfishman@uh.edu  

Courses: Work & Family Life in Modern Europe; Social History of Modern France & Germany

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Norah L.A. Gharala
nlgharala@uh.edu
Course: Colonial Mexico

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ghorne@uh.edu  

Course: Civil Rights Movement

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ghorne@uh.edu  

Course: Civil Rights Movement

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nmilanesio@uh.edu
Course: Women in Latin America

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lreed@uh.edu  

Course: African American Women in Slavery & Freedom

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tromero2@uh.edu  

Courses: Witchcraft in the Old & New World; Gender & Colonialism

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svaughn@uh.edu  

Course: Large portions of Medieval history courses deal with women's topics

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lrzarnow@uh.edu
Course: Issues in Feminist Research

Center for Mexican American & Latina/o Studies

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paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.

Modern and Classical Languages

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fdalessandro-behr@uh.edu  

Courses: Women in the Ancient World; Italian Renaissance

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cdue-hackney@uh.edu
Courses: Greek & Roman Mythology

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sfrieden@uh.edu  

Courses: German Women Film Directors; International Women Writers; New Woman in Literature

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mherna18@central.uh.edu
Course: Gender & Sexuality in World Film

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cmtamber@central.uh.edu
Courses: Female Divinities; Women in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

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Bhavya Tiwari
btiwari@uh.edu
Courses: World Cultures Through Literature & Arts; Cultures of India; & Indian Film: Bollywood & Beyond

Pharmacy

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Samina Salim
ssalim@uh.edu 
Course: Refugee Women’s Health

Physics 

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pinsky@uh.edu
Course:

Political Science 

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nchoi2@uh.edu
Courses: Multiculturalism in Theory & Practice

Social Work 

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jlatting@uh.edu  

Courses: Forming Alliances across Gender, Race, Class, Culture, & Other Differences

Sociology 

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kbaumle@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Society; Sociology of Sexuality

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txkarner@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Health; Seminar in Masculinity

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smkatz@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of Gender

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sskwan@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of the Body

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nmlanga@central.uh.edu 
Courses: Gender & Health Care in Africa

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slee3@uh.edu
Courses: African–American Family

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Maria Monserud
mamonser@central.uh.edu
Courses: Comparative Family Structures; Sociology of Health Care

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paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.