WGSS Faculty

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Dara J. Silberstein

Associate Research Professor of WGSS

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests

  • U.S. women’s labor history with a focus on the effects of public policies and laws on women’s status.

Teaching Interests

  • A Legal History of Sexuality in the United States
  • Women and the Law
  • Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • Feminism and Activism
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Sean G. Massey

Associate Professor

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests

  • Sexuality and Gender
  • Anti-Homosexual Prejudice
  • Racial Bias in Education and Law Enforcement Contexts
  • Relationship Between Social Science and Social Change
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Affiliated Faculty

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Jeffner M. Allen

Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

Africana Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
  • Trans-Genre Writing
  • Feminist and Lesbian Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Diasporic Literatures
  • Water and Environmental Studies
  • Transdisciplinary Studies
  • Multi-Platform Works
  • 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy
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A. Serdar Atav, PhD

Professor

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Vulnerable populations
  • Opioid use and misuse
  • Medicaid
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Health applications of system dynamics modeling

Teaching Interests

  • Health policy
  • Global health
  • Research methods
  • Applied statistics
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Moulay Ali Bouanani

Lecturer

Africana Studies

Research Interests

  • Arabic Culture and Language
  • North African Studies
  • Popular Culture
  • Islamic Studies
  • Medieval Western Mediterranean Studies

Teaching Interests

  • Arabic Culture and Language
  • Islam in Africa and the Mediterranean
  • North African Youth Culture
  • M. Eastern and North African Literature
  • Orientalism
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Sharon A. Bryant, PhD

Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Decker College; Co-Director; Associate Director; Associate Professor, Master of Public Health (MPH) Program; Co-Principal Investigator; Director

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP); Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity (HTC); Public Health; Upward Bound Math-Science (UBMS); McNair Scholars Program

Research Interests

  • Health promotion and disease prevention behaviors of underrepresented populations
  • Intimate partner violence among college students

Teaching Interests

  • Health disparities and vulnerable populations
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Juanita Díaz-Cotto

Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Areas Studies Program; Professor, Sociology

Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program; Sociology

Research Interests

  • Criminal Justice/Penal Institutions
  • Gender/Sexuality
  • Latinas and Other People of Color in the U.S.
  • Latin American and Caribbean History
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Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz

Associate Professor

Sociology

Research Interests

  • U.S. Women’s History
  • Latinas/os in the U.S.
  • Puerto Rican Women’s History
  • Feminist Theories
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critique of Coloniality
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Matthew D. Johnson

Professor and Director of Clinical Training

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Changes in marriages and family functioning
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Psychological science impacting public policy

Teaching Interests

  • Intimate relationships
  • Research methods in psychology
  • Statistics and research design

Clinical Interests

  • Private practice
  • Clinical supervisor
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Sonja M. Kim

Director; Associate Professor, Department Chair

Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Korea and Comparative East Asia
  • Medicine
  • Health
  • Gender
  • Race and Class
  • Education and Welfare

Teaching Interests

  • Korean and East Asian History
  • Gender; Migration; Race; Nation and Empire
  • History of Medicine; Science and Technology
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Monika Mehta

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Globalization
  • Diaspora and Cultural Production
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • New Media & Film Studies
  • Theories of Nation-State
  • Contemporary Critical Theory
  • Feminist and Sexuality Studies
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Alexandra Moore

Director; Professor

Human Rights Institute; English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Research Interests

  • Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Critical Theory
  • Feminist Theory

Teaching Interests

  • Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
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Nkiru Nzegwu

SUNY Distinguished Prof; Nelson Mandela Visiting Prof, Rhodes Univ, South Africa, Prof Extraordinarius, Univ of South Africa

Africana Studies

Research Interests

  • Feminist philosophy
  • African philosophy
  • African women studies
  • African and African Diaspora art and aesthetics

Teaching Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence and Racism
  • Race, Philosophy & the Law
  • African Intellectual Traditions
  • African Art and Aesthetics
  • African Women and Feminism
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Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Associate Professor

English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Research Interests

  • Native American literatures, media, genres, and literacies
  • Race, Writing, Coloniality
  • Early American Studies
  • Comparative Ethnic Studies
  • Indigenous Feminisms
  • Decolonization
  • Archival Research

Teaching Interests

  • Native American Literature and Media
  • Early American Literature
  • Multiethnic American Literatures
  • Comparative Ethnic Studies: Race, Gender, Indigeneity, Migration
  • Colonialism, Imperialism, Decolonization
  • Latinx Literature
  • American Captivity Narratives
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Andrew Scholtz

Associate Professor/Chair

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Research Interests

  • The Passions 一 Especially Desire and Envy 一 in the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • The Social Psychology of Greek Rhetoric
  • Intersections of Ancient Greek & Roman Sexuality, Ideology, Politics and Literature
  • Literary Theory
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Pamela G. Smart

Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Programmatic Initiatives

Art History; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of Artworlds
  • Museums
  • Critical Aesthetics
  • Affective Modalities of Experience

Teaching Interests

  • Museum Studies
  • Aesthetic Theory
  • Artworlds
  • Materials and Materiality
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Dana E. Stewart

Associate Professor; Collegiate Professor of Mountainview

Romance Languages and Literatures; Residential Life

Research Interests

  • Poetry of the Sicilian School
  • Dolce Stil Nuovo
  • Dante
  • Petrarch
  • Boccaccio

Teaching Interests

  • ¶Ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ð’s Inferno
  • ¶Ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ð’s Divine Comedy
  • Love, science and magic in the Middle Ages
  • Literature of the Italian Renaissance
  • Reading Machiavelli
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Susan Strehle

Distinguished Service Professor; Director of Graduate Studies in English

English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Research Interests

  • American Literature
  • Women Writers
  • Contemporary Fiction American and Global
  • Nation in Literature
  • Diaspora Citizenship and Belonging
  • Postcolonial Theory and Literature
  • Feminism
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Lisa C. Tessman

Professor

Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Normative ethics
  • Metaethics
  • Moral psychology
  • Feminist ethics

Teaching Interests

  • Ethical theory
  • Moral value pluralism
  • Moral responsibility
  • Moral psychology
  • Feminist ethics
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Bridget Whearty

Associate Professor

English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
  • Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
  • 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
  • Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy

Teaching Interests

  • Medieval literature and culture
  • Manuscript studies and the history of the book
  • LGBTQ+ literature
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Leo Wilton

Professor

CCPA Human Development

Research Interests

  • Health disparities and inequities (HIV and AIDS prevention)
  • Black psychological development and mental health
  • Critical community-based participatory research
  • Mixed- and multi-methods research
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Mary Youssef

TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Research Interests

  • The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
  • Modern Arabic Literature
  • Arab Diasporic Literature
  • African Literature
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Migration Studies
  • Race Studies
  • Gender Studies

Teaching Interests

  • Modern Arabic Literature
  • Arab American and Diasporic Literature
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Translation Theory
  • The Arabic Language
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Lisa T. Yun

Associate Professor

English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Immigration and Migration
  • Humanities for Justice
  • Digital Storytelling
  • Digital Pathways to Community
  • Community Engagement
  • Afro Asian Connections
  • Asian American Literature and Culture
  • Asians of the Americas
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Melissa R. Zinkin

Professor

Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Kant
  • Philosophy of art
  • Social and political philosophy

Teaching Interests

  • Kant
  • Philosophy of the Enlightenment
  • Philosophy of art
  • Feminist philosophy
  • Markets, ethics and the law
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