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Our Affiliate Faculty

Name Title & Research Interests
Aqdas Aftab
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Assistant Professor of English
PhD, University of Maryland
Research Interests: Trans of Color Theory; Decolonial Thought; Transnational, Migration, and Diaspora Studies; Black and Dalit Solidarities; Black Feminisms; Critical Race Theory; Queer of Color Critique; Cultural Studies
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Savina Balasubramanian Professor of Sociology
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Gender, Sexuality, & Reproduction; Science, Technology, Health & Medicine; Political & Historical Sociology; Global & Transnational Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; Law & Society; Sociology of Social Knowledge; Asia & Asian America
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Suzanne Bost
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Professor of English
PhD, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: American literature; Latina/o studies; feminist theory; cultural studies
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Susana Cavallo Professor, Spanish Language and Literature
PhD, The University of Chicago
Research Interests: 20th Century Peninsular Poetry, 20th Century Hispanic Prose, Latin American Poetry, Hispanic Women's Writing, Feminist Theory and Criticism, Translation
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Michael Dentato Associate Dean for Research
Co-director, Center for Field Innovation, Research, Strategy, and Training (C-FIRST)
Professor of Social Work

PhD, Loyola University Chicago
Research Interests: health and health disparities among sexual minority populations, impact of macro practice, interprofessional education, effective non-profit leadership and service provision for vulnerable communities
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Anne Figert Professor of Sociology
PhD, Indiana University
Research Interests: health, medicine, sociology of science, and gender
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Timothy J. Gilfoyle Professor of History
PhD, Columbia University
Research Interests: American urban and social history
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Anne Grauer Professor of Anthropology
PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Research Interests: human populations in medieval England, human populations derived from 19th centuries cemeteries in the US
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Marcia Hermansen Professor and Director of Islamic World Studies Program
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Islamic studies, theory and method in the study of religion, comparative religion, South Asian and Middle East studies, mysticism, women and gender, religion in America, critical theory, youth cultures, Islamic theology, interfaith dialogue
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Suzanne Kaufmann Associate Professor of History
PhD, Rutgers University
Research Interests: modern European social and cultural history, modern France, history of religion and popular culture, gender/women's history
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Jacqueline Long Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences
PhD, Columbia University
Research Interests: Late Antique history & literature; Roman history & literature; women and gender in the Classical world
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Harveen Mann Professor of English
Advisor, Pre-Law (Juniors and Seniors)
PhD, Purdue University
Research Interests: postcolonial studies; South Asian studies; third world feminism
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Michelle Nickerson Professor of History
PhD, Yale University
Research Interests: U.S. Women’s and Gender History, 20th Century Political and Urban History, American Conservatism
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Tracy Pintchman Director, International Studies Program
Professor of Theology
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Hinduism, goddess traditions, Hindu women's rituals
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Abha Rai
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Associate Director, Center for Immigrant and Refugee Accompaniment
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Gender-based violence (dating, domestic and intimate partner violence, intimate partner stalking) in diverse populations, immigration issues/stress, culturally responsive research, international/global social work, survey development and instrument design
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Shweta Singh
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Associate Professor of Social Work
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests: South East Asian women and the effect of experiences with racism, schooling and girls identity formation, constructing measures of women’s status, culture, policy, and law for women, use of social communication as a social work intervention strategy
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Frederick Staidum Associate Professor of English
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: African American Studies; Black Study and the Black Radical Tradition; Critical Race Theory; Black Queer and Trans Feminisms; Geography and Spatiality; Temporality; History of Coloniality and Modernity; History of Slavery, Liberty, and the "Afterlives of Slavery;" Racial Liberalism/the Racial Contract; Philosophies of Progress; Art and Visual Culture
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Loretta Stalans Director, Psychology of Crime and Justice Minor
Professor of Criminal Justice

PhD, University of Illinois Chicago
Research Interests: domestic violence, sexual violence, criminal justice research methods, program evaluation, statistics, criminal laws and courts, restorative and retributive justice, and communication and conflict resolution
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Aana Vigen Professor of Ethics
PhD, Union Theological Seminary
Research Interests: quality of, and access to, healthcare along with racial-ethnic and socio-economic disparities in healthcare
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Paula Wisotzki Professor of Fine Arts
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art, American Modernism, Women Artists and Feminist Art History, Strategies of Museum Display and Artifact Interpretation
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Professor Emerita  
Marilyn Dunn Associate Professor of Fine Arts & Art History
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Italian Renaissance, Baroque, issues of gender and art
Susan Hirsch Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan
Research Interests: American Labor, Urban and Gender History
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Suzanne Gossett Professor of English
PhD, Princeton University
Susan Grossman Emeritus Professor of Social Work
PhD, University of Chicago
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Marta Lundy Professor of Social Work
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: women in families and family violence, domestic violence, adult survivors of childhood abuse and non-offending parents in childhood sexual
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Kathleen Maas Weigert Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests: Education for justice and peace; nonviolence; homelessness; the Catholic social tradition
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Susan Mezey Professor of Political Science
PhD, Syracuse University
Research Interests: Constitutional law, judicial process, judicial-legislative relations, administrative law, women and law and children's rights
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Prue Moylan Professor of History
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Modern British History
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Bren Ortega Murphy Former Internship Coordinator, WSGS
Professor, School of Communication and WSGS
PhD, Northwestern University
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Memorial Scholarship Information
Susan Ross Professor of Theology
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: feminist theology and ethics; theological anthropology
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Jasmine Tata Professor of Business
PhD, Syracuse Univeristy
Research Interests: Organizational justice, Team Dynamics, Gender and Diversity, International aspects of organizations
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Julie K. Ward Professor of Philosophy
PhD, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: ancient philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, feminism
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Judith Wittner Professor of Sociology
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Families, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Popular Culture, Social Theory
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Talmadge Wright Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: Homelessness, Social Inequality, Critical Social, Cultural Theory, Social-Physical Space, Gender, Mass Media and Popular Culture
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Name Title & Research Interests
Aqdas Aftab
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Assistant Professor of English
PhD, University of Maryland
Research Interests: Trans of Color Theory; Decolonial Thought; Transnational, Migration, and Diaspora Studies; Black and Dalit Solidarities; Black Feminisms; Critical Race Theory; Queer of Color Critique; Cultural Studies
View Faculty Profile
Savina Balasubramanian Professor of Sociology
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Gender, Sexuality, & Reproduction; Science, Technology, Health & Medicine; Political & Historical Sociology; Global & Transnational Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; Law & Society; Sociology of Social Knowledge; Asia & Asian America
View Faculty Profile
Suzanne Bost
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Professor of English
PhD, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: American literature; Latina/o studies; feminist theory; cultural studies
View Faculty Profile
Susana Cavallo Professor, Spanish Language and Literature
PhD, The University of Chicago
Research Interests: 20th Century Peninsular Poetry, 20th Century Hispanic Prose, Latin American Poetry, Hispanic Women's Writing, Feminist Theory and Criticism, Translation
View Faculty Profile
Michael Dentato Associate Dean for Research
Co-director, Center for Field Innovation, Research, Strategy, and Training (C-FIRST)
Professor of Social Work

PhD, Loyola University Chicago
Research Interests: health and health disparities among sexual minority populations, impact of macro practice, interprofessional education, effective non-profit leadership and service provision for vulnerable communities
View Faculty Profile
Anne Figert Professor of Sociology
PhD, Indiana University
Research Interests: health, medicine, sociology of science, and gender
View Faculty Profile
Timothy J. Gilfoyle Professor of History
PhD, Columbia University
Research Interests: American urban and social history
View Faculty Profile
Anne Grauer Professor of Anthropology
PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Research Interests: human populations in medieval England, human populations derived from 19th centuries cemeteries in the US
View Faculty Profile
Marcia Hermansen Professor and Director of Islamic World Studies Program
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Islamic studies, theory and method in the study of religion, comparative religion, South Asian and Middle East studies, mysticism, women and gender, religion in America, critical theory, youth cultures, Islamic theology, interfaith dialogue
View Faculty Profile
Suzanne Kaufmann Associate Professor of History
PhD, Rutgers University
Research Interests: modern European social and cultural history, modern France, history of religion and popular culture, gender/women's history
View Faculty Profile
Jacqueline Long Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences
PhD, Columbia University
Research Interests: Late Antique history & literature; Roman history & literature; women and gender in the Classical world
View Faculty Profile
Harveen Mann Professor of English
Advisor, Pre-Law (Juniors and Seniors)
PhD, Purdue University
Research Interests: postcolonial studies; South Asian studies; third world feminism
View Faculty Profile (English Dept.)
View Faculty Profile
 (Career Services)
Michelle Nickerson Professor of History
PhD, Yale University
Research Interests: U.S. Women’s and Gender History, 20th Century Political and Urban History, American Conservatism
View Faculty Profile
Tracy Pintchman Director, International Studies Program
Professor of Theology
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Hinduism, goddess traditions, Hindu women's rituals
View Faculty Profile
Abha Rai
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Associate Director, Center for Immigrant and Refugee Accompaniment
PhD, University of Georgia
Research Interests: Gender-based violence (dating, domestic and intimate partner violence, intimate partner stalking) in diverse populations, immigration issues/stress, culturally responsive research, international/global social work, survey development and instrument design
View Faculty Profile
Shweta Singh
WSGS Affiliate Faculty Feature
Associate Professor of Social Work
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Interests: South East Asian women and the effect of experiences with racism, schooling and girls identity formation, constructing measures of women’s status, culture, policy, and law for women, use of social communication as a social work intervention strategy
View Faculty Profile
Frederick Staidum Associate Professor of English
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: African American Studies; Black Study and the Black Radical Tradition; Critical Race Theory; Black Queer and Trans Feminisms; Geography and Spatiality; Temporality; History of Coloniality and Modernity; History of Slavery, Liberty, and the "Afterlives of Slavery;" Racial Liberalism/the Racial Contract; Philosophies of Progress; Art and Visual Culture
View Faculty Profile
Loretta Stalans Director, Psychology of Crime and Justice Minor
Professor of Criminal Justice

PhD, University of Illinois Chicago
Research Interests: domestic violence, sexual violence, criminal justice research methods, program evaluation, statistics, criminal laws and courts, restorative and retributive justice, and communication and conflict resolution
View Faculty Profile
Aana Vigen Professor of Ethics
PhD, Union Theological Seminary
Research Interests: quality of, and access to, healthcare along with racial-ethnic and socio-economic disparities in healthcare
View Faculty Profile
Paula Wisotzki Professor of Fine Arts
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art, American Modernism, Women Artists and Feminist Art History, Strategies of Museum Display and Artifact Interpretation
View Faculty Profile
Professor Emerita  
Marilyn Dunn Associate Professor of Fine Arts & Art History
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Italian Renaissance, Baroque, issues of gender and art
Susan Hirsch Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan
Research Interests: American Labor, Urban and Gender History
View Faculty Profile
Suzanne Gossett Professor of English
PhD, Princeton University
Susan Grossman Emeritus Professor of Social Work
PhD, University of Chicago
View Faculty Profile
Marta Lundy Professor of Social Work
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: women in families and family violence, domestic violence, adult survivors of childhood abuse and non-offending parents in childhood sexual
View Faculty Profile
Kathleen Maas Weigert Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of Notre Dame
Research Interests: Education for justice and peace; nonviolence; homelessness; the Catholic social tradition
View Faculty Profile 
Susan Mezey Professor of Political Science
PhD, Syracuse University
Research Interests: Constitutional law, judicial process, judicial-legislative relations, administrative law, women and law and children's rights
View Faculty Profile
Prue Moylan Professor of History
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Modern British History
View Faculty Profile
Bren Ortega Murphy Former Internship Coordinator, WSGS
Professor, School of Communication and WSGS
PhD, Northwestern University
View In Memoriam
Memorial Scholarship Information
Susan Ross Professor of Theology
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests: feminist theology and ethics; theological anthropology
View Faculty Profile
Jasmine Tata Professor of Business
PhD, Syracuse Univeristy
Research Interests: Organizational justice, Team Dynamics, Gender and Diversity, International aspects of organizations
View Faculty Profile
Julie K. Ward Professor of Philosophy
PhD, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: ancient philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, feminism
View Faculty Profile
Judith Wittner Professor of Sociology
PhD, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Families, Gender, Qualitative Methods, Popular Culture, Social Theory
View Faculty Profile
View In Memorium
Talmadge Wright Professor of Sociology
PhD, University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: Homelessness, Social Inequality, Critical Social, Cultural Theory, Social-Physical Space, Gender, Mass Media and Popular Culture
View Faculty Profile