Elizabeth Anderson (Philosophy/Women’s Studies/Law) Social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of the social sciences; Feminist epistemology and feminist philosophy of science; Commodification of women (prostitution, surrogate motherhood, emotional labor, marriage contracts); Feminist research in economics, biology, psychology, sociology; "Political Correctness" controversies and the construction of academic knowledge; Genetic explanations of group differences and the construction of race, class, and gender.

Naomi Andre (Music/Women’s Studies) Women in opera, with an emphasis on character and vocal type in the nineteenth-century Italian opera; Development of principal roles for women’s lower voices and how they interact with high sopranos.

Renee Anspach (Sociology/Women’s Studies) Women and health issues;  Biomedical ethics; Health professions.

Toni Antonucci (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Attachment, social support, and social relationships over the life span; Adult interpersonal relationships, three-generational intra-family relationships, mother- infant attachment relationships, cross-national social relationshipstudies among different countries, psychosocial factors influencing health and well-being.

Jill Becker (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Sex differences in brain and behavior; Neurochemical and behavioral approaches to study hormonal modulation of brain function and sexual behavior; Neural plasticity and development; Development of sex differences; Brain tissue transplantation.

Ruth Behar (Anthropology/Women’s Studies) Mexican and Cuban women’s life stories; Latina writing; Traditions of women’s ethnographic writings; Feminist ethnography; Theories of autobiography.

Betty Bell (English/Women's Studies) Native American literature; Women's fiction; Nineteenth century American literature.

Carol Boyd (Nursing/Women’s Studies) Women, gender and substance use/abuse, specifically in the use of substance abuse data to make policy recommendations, including criminal justice policy, welfare policy, and collegiate policy.

Celeste Brusati (History of Art/Women’s Studies) Netherlandish art and visual culture; Gendered imagery and ideologies of visual arts, 1400-1700; Gender and technologies of vision, 1400-1700.

Kathleen Canning (History/Women's Studies) History of women and gender in modern Europe; Gender and labor; History of the body; Theory: Citizenship, class and gender; History of the welfare state and social policy.

Deborah Carr (Sociology/Women’s Studies; Research Scientist, ISR) Social and psychological correlates of health and well-being over the life course with an emphasis on cohort differences in men’s and women’s experiences; Psychological consequences of career goal attainment; Linkages between widowhood and survivor well-being; Cohort differences in the long-term psychological consequences of work-family strategies and sacrifices; Linkage between family roles and self-employment; Longitudinal study of midlife men and women exploring how men and women evaluate their past successes and failures in their work and family lives.

Sueann Caufield (History/Women’s Studies) Latin America, gender and Brazil.

Rosario Ceballo (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Poverty and community violence; Resilience to stressful life events; Infertility among African American women; Latino’s use of mental health services.

David Cohen (History/Women’s Studies) History and anthropology; Methodology of oral history; African political culture; Pre-colonial Eastern and Central Africa; History of South Africa; 20^th century Africa; African history through the close reading of novels from Africa, the study of the Third World, the Production of History, the Politics and Sociology of Research and Scholarship, and the Politics of Culture in South Africa.

Elizabeth Cole (Afroamerican and African Studies/Women's Studies) Social class and race as social identities; the relationship between identity and political ideology and action, particularly among women; Middle-class Black women's experiences of class mobility.

Lilia Cortina (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Sexual harassment in organizations, with an emphasis on Latina victims, coping, social support networks, psychopathological outcomes, and mediators/moderators of negative outcomes; Incivility, bias and discrimination in the workplace; Gender bias in the courts; Violence against women across cultures.

Maria Cotera (American Culture/Women’s Studies) Interdisciplinary, focuses on American modernism, anthropology and gendered narratives by early 20^th century native intellectuals, Latina, Native American, and African American women, contemporary writing by women of color.

Jennifer Crocker (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Social stigma, self- esteem and self-concept, stereotyping and prejudice.

Libby Douvan (Psychology/Women's Studies) Negotiating the early years of marriage; A longitudinal study of two co-cultures; Women's friendships; Negotiating close relationships; Social change and social activism.

Jacqueline Eccles (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Focus on the longitudinal study of the development and socialization of the following types of psychological influences on motivation, activity choice and involvement: self-perceptions of competence, task values and interests, life goals, self-schema, motivational orientation and mental health. Dr. Eccles is particularly interested in the role schools, families, neighborhoods, and ethnicity play in ontogeny of these belief and motivational systems.

Geoff Eley (History/Women’s Studies) German history of the 19^th and 20^th centuries; the German Right between Bismarck and the 1920’s; Sonderweg in German history; Europe since 1945, nationalism, cultural studies and historiography.

Julie Ellison (English/Women's Studies) Public scholarship and public cultural work crossing campus-community boundaries; Eighteenth-and nineteenth century British and American literature and culture, with an emphasis on print culture, gender, race, poetry, and emotion.

Barbara Frederickson (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Emotions, especially positive emotions, emotion regulation and memory for emotions; Psychology of women, especially self-objectification and its emotional, cognitive and behavioral consequences.

Susan Gelman (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Cognitive development; Language acquisition; Categorization; Naïve theories; Causal reason- ing; Relationships between language and thought.

Anne Ruggles Gere (English/Women’s Studies) Women’s socially situated literary practices that carry out projects of cultural work in American society. Self-fashioning of female teachers, beginning in the 19^th century. Most recent book, Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women’s Clubs, 1880-1920.

Fatma Muge Gocek (Sociology/Women’s Studies) Social change, sociological theory; Women and Islam; Sociology of education and religion.

Dena Goodman (History/Women’s Studies) Cultural history of 18^th century France, the intersection of consumption, writing and gender in the development of a Material Culture of epistolary practice in 18^th century France.

Sandra Graham-Bermann (Psychology/Women's Studies) The effects of how violence against women impacts children's mental health and their understanding of gender and family.

Sandra Gunning (English/Women's Studies) Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; African American literature; American women writers; Travel writing; Autobiography.

Patricia Gurin (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Intergroup relations; Social identity; Political psychology.

Nesha Haniff (CAAS/Women’s Studies) Race and women of color; Gender and reproductive health; Methodology/pedagogy; HIV/AIDS prevention.

Jane Hassinger (Social Work/Business Administration/Women’s Studies) Feminism and clinical practice; Feminist practice; Violence and trauma; Organizations and gender; Work/workplace and gender.

Anne Herrmann (English/Women’s Studies) Feminist and queer theory; Gender and modernism/postmodernism; Autobiographical discourses; Visual materials, including film and photography.

June Howard (English/American Culture/Women’s Studies) Late 19^th and early 20^th century literature and culture in the United States; American Studies; Women’s Studies; disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies, History of the academic institution; Cultural and social theory; Science fiction.

Joel Howell (History/Women’s Studies/Medical School/School of Public Health) Medical practices, including the belief that science and technology are useful tools for health care; Influence of gender on the patient, the caregiver, and their interactions. His research is focused on an attempt to understand how and why medical practice in the United States and England has come to be dominated by the belief that science and technology are useful tools for health care. Many of the types of science and technology that we now use, especially imaging technologies such as the X-ray machine, create images that have been read in ways that reflect the gender of both the object of study and the reader of that study. In addition, many aspects of medical practice are molded by the gender of not only the patient, but also the caregiver, and this research attempts to understand those interactions as well.

Nadine Hubbs (Music/Women’s Studies) Gender and queer studies in popular art and music; Gender and sexuality in musical semiotics and culture. She has written on the pop star Morrissey in Genders (1996) and on musical modernism’s queer codes in GLQ (2000), and is the author of the classical music and opera entry in analyses of Radiohead in Expression in Pop-Rock Music (Garland: 2000) and of Gloria Gaynor’s "I Will Survive" in Disco’s Distinctions (California: forthcoming). Current work is a book entitled Composing Oneself: Gay Modernists and American Musical Identity.

Nancy Rose Hunt (History/Women’s Studies) History of gender, colonial domesticity, missionary medicine, and reproductive health policy and practice in sub-Saharan Africa; Colonial infertility campaigns in central Africa; Racial theories and eclampsia in Africa and the U.S. South; the history of comics in Congo-Zaire.

Kali Israel (History/Women's Studies) 19^th and 20^th century British history; 19^th century British culture narratives;    Victorian gender systems; Modern Britain; Women's history; Modern Europe; Cultural studies.

Carol Jacobsen (School of Art/Women's Studies) Feminist art and politics; Women's human and civil rights in jail, prisons, and the criminal justice system; Clemency for women prisoners; Prostitutes' rights; Censorship.

Timothy Johnson (Medical School/Women's Studies) Preconception and prenatal care; Fetal assessment; Fetal behavior; Primary care for obstetrics and gynecology.

Carol Karlsen (History/Women's Studies) Early American social and cultural history; American women's history; Native American history; Visual culture; History of the witch figure in America from the late 17^th century to the present; The "civilization" concept and it’s meaning for gender relations in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Deborah Keller-Cohen (Linguistics/Women’s Studies) The study of gender, discourse analysis, and literacy. She is exploring how individual and gender-related differences affect how people tell their life stories. Historical research on literacy concerned with gender issues – specifically, how did colonial America use literacy to differentiate men and women.

Jayati Lal (Sociology/Women’s Studies) Research interests are approaches to third world development, modernity, post-coloniality, and globalization; feminist theories; feminist research methodologies and epistemologies; class and gender transformations among Indian women factory workers in Delhi’s garment and television industries; gendered meanings of labor, class, and work; gender and development; gender and globalization, political economy of work and development; as well as in labor and feminist movements. Currently completing work on a book length manuscript on the cultural politics of modernity in postcolonial India, examined through the lens of gender and labor differences.

Ann Larimore (Residential College/Women’s Studies) Women in indigenous and traditional societies, especially women farm operators in the Global South/Third World/ "developing" economies; Category theory especially concerning the construct- ion, maintenance, and dismantling of those category sets used to construct and maintain hierarchies of inequality through the use of gender, skin color, ethnic, class, location, sexual identity, ableness, size, age, and faith aspects of individual and group identities.

Emily Lawsin (American Culture/Women’s Studies) Filipina/o American history, literature, and communities; Asian American Studies. Asian Pacific American women, oral history, creative writing, spoken word, and performance poetry. Secondary interests: Pinay pedagogy, online education, race, gender, and class in U.S. media.

Joanne Leonard (Art & Design/American Culture/Women’s Studies) Photography and collage pieces, fine arts, feminist criticism and cultural analysis.

Edith Lewis (Social Work/Women’s Studies) Empowering practice with women of color; Culturally competent feminist practice; Multicultural pedagogy; Ghanaian social work practices.

Karin Martin (Sociology/Women's Studies) Gender and the body; Sexuality; Children/adolescents.

Jacqueline Mattis (Psychology/Women's Studies) Role of religion andspirituality in the lives of African American people.

Jonathan Metzel (Psychiatry/Women’s Studies) Interactions of medicine and culture; Cross-cultural awareness; Cultural relevance of medicine and psychiatry; Race, gender and power relationships in discourse of psychiatric medication through fiction, media and psychotropic ads.

Laurie A. Morgan (Sociology/Women’s Studies/Research Scientist, SRC) Gender and work, work and family, and professional careers, specifically differences in career outcomes for male and female engineers, male and female MBAs, and male and female physicians.

Regina Morantz-Sanchez (History/Women’s Studies) History of sexuality; History of women physicians in United States; Women’s history and family history; Social construction of disease and of the female body;  Women doctors and how they relate to modern science and adjustments; Jewish women and family acculturation.

Shirley Neuman (English/Women's Studies) Autobiography; Canadian literature; Representations of women in culture.

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Depression; Emotion regulation; Gender differences in psychopathology.

Anita Norich (English/Women's Studies) Yiddish, Jewish, Holocaust and American literature; Gender and ethnicity; Victorian novel.

Denise Park (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Human memory and aging with a particular interest in working memory and nonverbal memory; Neuroimaging of age deficits in memory; Social cognition and aging; Cross-cultural differences in cognitive aging; Medical information processing; Priming and subliminal stereotypes of aging.

Martin Pernick (History/Women’s Studies) History of health, disease, and healing professions in America, including: Health education films; Definitions of disease, disability and death; Eugenics; Ethics and value issues.

Adela Pinch (English/Women's Studies) Women writers in English literature; Feminist literary criticism; Gender and cultural studies; English culture 1660-1860. Literary theory; literature and philosophy; Social history; Romanticism.

Johanna (Yopie) Prins (English/Women's Studies) Victorian poetry; History and theory of lyric; Nineteenth-century women poets; Classical traditions in English literature; Comparative literature; Feminist criticism and gender studies; Ancient Greek literature; Dutch literature.

Beth Glover Reed (Social Work/Women’s Studies) Inter-relationship of feminist theory and multicultural feminist practice across professions; Feminist pedagogy; Ethnic, gender and race issues in social systems; Abuse, violence, aggression and problems with alcohol and other drugs.

Jennifer Robertson (Anthropology/Women's Studies) Sexual and gender ambivalence and ambiguity; Cultural strategies of Japanese colonialism; Making popular culture(s); Votive objects and paintings; Eugenics and "blood" ideology; Japan; Asia.

Sonya Rose (History/Sociology/Women’s Studies) Gender and social policy; War and national identity; Gender and citizenship; The intersection of race, class and gender in political and social  discourse; Race and empire in British History

Hannah Rosen (American Culture/Women’s Studies) The nexus of race and gender in 19^th century U.S. social and cultural history, with an emphasis on the South; Feminist theory; Histories of sexual violence; Comparative slavery and emancipation; Discourses of citizenship.

Carolyn M. Sampselle (School of Nursing/Women’s Studies) Birth-related risk of urinary incontinece, Behavioral intervention to prevent urinary incontinence;  women's bodily experience at birth.   Feminist theory and nursing practice.

Arlene Saxonhouse (Political Science/Women’s Studies) Ancient Greek political thought; Women in the history of political thought; Democratic theory.

Denise Sekaquaptewa (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Stereotyping and prejudice from an information processing perspective; Investigating the effects of solo status on performance.

Patricia Simons (History of Art/Women’s Studies) Ocular politics, the cultural and historical exercise of spectatorship and the visual formation of gendered and erotic identities, including tensions in the construction of patriarchal masculinity.

Sidonie Smith (English/Women’s Studies) Cultural studies of identities; Autobiography studies; Contemporary women’s narratives; Memory and gender; Travel narratives; Postcolonial and feminist theories.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (History/Women’s Studies) The intersectionality of race, gender, and class in American history; Feminist theory/cultural issues; Lesbians in American history; Sexual transgressions; Engendering the political state/subject; Sex, health and medicine in Victorian society.

Pamela J. Smock (Sociology/Population Studies/Women’s Studies) Family demography, social stratification and gender; Gender inequality, changing family patterns and their reciprocal implications; Economic consequences of divorce and marriage for women and men;  Issues of nonresident fatherhood, child support, unmarried cohabitation, and racial and ethnic differences in family patterns.

Scott Spector (History/Women’s Studies) Relationship between ideology and culture in German-speaking Europe; Violence associated with gendered and sexualized other in turn-of-the-century Austria and Germany; Modern European narratives of society, history, or civilization with gender or sexuality at their center.

Domna Stanton (Romance Languages/Women’s Studies) The body and sexuality; Early modern feminist cultural studies; French women writers; Autobiography and life narrative; International human/women’s rights.

Abigail Stewart (Psychology/Women’s Studies) Adult personality development; Psychology of women; Psychological responses to individual and social change; Motivation.

Ann Stoler (Anthropology/History/Women’s Studies) Gendered constructions of racial categories; Cultural history and historical ethnography; Colonial cultures; Cultural politics of Southeast Asia; Gendered perspectives on colonial cultures and the racial politics of exclusion; Sexual politics of European identities on colonial Southeast Asia.

Gaylyn Studlar (Film and Video Studies/English/Women’s Studies) Feminist film theory; Cinematic spectatorship; Gender, race and  ethnicity, especially in the context of Orientalist representations in film; Masculinity in film; Representation of masculinity in film and its connections to other cultural products, especially in the silent film era; Film representations of dance, in relation to gender, ethnicity and sexuality; Textual and extra-textual cinematic construction of "femininity" in relation to the consumption of fashion (especially in the 1910s through the 1950s).

Hitomi Tonomura (History/Women's Studies) History of Japan's pre-modern society and cultures; Women, gender and sexuality in Japanese culture; 13th century aristocratic women's "confession"; Masculinity as it relates to the practice of "Seppuuku" (disembowelment). Family structures, inheritance patterns, Women’s participation in political processes, birth-giving practices and their interpretations, attitudes toward sexual violence, women and war, and representations of gendered sexualities in Japan’s creation myths, folk tales, and memoirs.

Valerie Traub (English/Women's Studies) Early modern cultural studies; Renaissance drama; Gender studies and the history of sexuality; Early modern anatomy and cartography; Feminist theory.

Martha Vicinus (English/Women's Studies) Victorian women; Victorian studies; Sexuality; British imperialism; Victorian popular culture; Nineteenth century theatre; Lesbian history; Feminism, 1780-1940.

Christina Whitman (Law/Women’s Studies) Constitutional remedies,with a special focus on the obligations of government units for the violation of constitutional rights; Feminist legal theory.

Elizabeth Wingrove (Political Science/Women’s Studies) Feminist theory; Early modern, modern and contemporary political theory; Contemporary social theory; Gender and sexuality.

Michael Wintroub (History/Women’s Studies) Early modern European history; Ritual, social change, popular and court culture, alterity, rhetoric, humanism, collecting, material culture, history of science, intellectual history, history of anthropology, and historiography.

Patricia Yaeger (English/Women's Studies) The author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1920-1990, and Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing. She has edited or co-edited "The Geography of Identity," "Nationalisms and Sexualities," and "Reconfiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy." She is currently working on "trash and ethnicity" in American literature and on "consuming trauma." Southern literature. Feminist theory.