Feminist, Gender,& Sexuality Studies: Affiliated Faculty

People: Affiliated Faculty

Additional members of the Cornell faculty regularly teach FGSS courses; advise graduate students pursuing research in gender studies, feminism, and/or queer studies, and contribute to the ongoing vitality of the program in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.

Anthropology

David Holmberg, Professor, Anthropology and Asian Studies
Anthropology of women and gender; cultural anthropology; religion and society; spirit possession, curing, witchcraft and women; ethnology of South Asia, Himalayas and Tibet

Nerissa Russell, Associate Professor
Neolithic of Southeast Europe and the Near East

P. Steve Sangren, Professor
Gender in Chinese culture; myth and ritual

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Associate Professor (also Latino Studies)
Sociocultural anthropology; anthropology of language; ethnoracial identity; institutional culture; Spanish speaking Caribbean, United States

Architecture, Art, and Planning

Jean Locey, Professor of Art
Photography

Mildred Warner, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning
Community and economic development; social and economic policy

Mary Woods, Professor of Architecture
History of architecture and urbanism, and their intersection of the history of photography and film

Asian Studies

Naoki Sakai, Professor
Translation studies; nationalism; 19th- and 20th-century comparative thought; visual and aural/oral signifying practices; ideographic characters and phoneticism; literary theory; cultural theory

Communication

Linda Van Buskirk, Senior Lecturer
English literature; gender studies; especially as informed by Giddens' theory of structuration; all forms of written expression

Design & Environmental Analysis

Jan Jennings, Professor
American architectural and social history

Development Sociology

Linda Williams, Associate Professor
Population and development; household decision making; gender; family/life-course; Southeast Asia

English

Laura Brown, J.W. Anderson Professor of English
Restoration and 18th-century English literature, especially matters of generic history, ideology, and form; feminist criticism; Marxist criticism, cultural critique

Cynthia Chase, Professor
Romanticism, theory, psychoanalysis; romantic and modern poetry; women's literature; 18th- and 19th-century novel

Barbara Correll, Associate Professor, English
Renaissance cultural texts; gender, post-structualist theory; film; cultural studies; lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies

Laura Donaldson, Professor
American Indian literature and culture; American Indian women; postcolonial studies; gender, race and law; religion and literature

Tim Murray, Professor
English and French Renaissance studies; theatre and performance; film and video; psychoanalysis; aesthetics; cultural studies; lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies

Sandra Siegel, Professor
Victorian conventions and controversies; history of sexuality; Irish studies; modern poetry and poetics

Sunn Shelley Wong, Associate Professor
Asian American, African American, and ethnic literatures; Asian Canadian literature; cultural studies

German Studies

Leslie Adelson, Professor
Postcolonial theory and German Studies; Jewish Studies; Turkish-German literature; migrant and minority discourses; feminist theory and women's literature; literary theory and cultural history

Government

Susan Buck-Morss, Professor
Critical theory; continental philosophy; visual studies; Islamism as political discourse; theories of globalization

Matthew Evangelista, Professor
The relationship between gender, nationalism, and war; ethical and legal issues in international affairs; transnational relations; separatist movements

Isaac Kramnick, R.J. Schwartz Professor of Government
Women in social theory; Anglo-American political thought 18th century to the present

Anna Marie Smith, Professor
Theoretical approaches to the regulation of sexuality; feminist legal theory; feminist theory; critical race theory; ideology and discourse analysis; social theories of identity and power relations; Marxist and post-Marxist theory

History

Edward Baptist, Associate Professor
U.S. political and 19th-century American history

Derek Chang, Assistant Professor
Asian American, African American, and U.S. immigration history; American religion; nationalism

Sandra Greene, Professor
Gender and ethnicity in pre-colonial West Africa

Paul Hyams, Professor; Director, Medieval Studies
History; medieval Europe

Tamara Loos, Associate Professor, History
Southeast Asia; Thailand; gender; legal studies; sexuality; internet travel and identity

Mary Roldan, Associate Professor
Relationship between gender; politics and violence in Latin America

Margaret Washington, Professor
African American culture; gender; American South

History of Art

Judith Bernstock, Associate Professor
Visual culture and social thoery; critical theory and continental theory (including Russia); political economy and the politics of identity

Claudia Lazzaro, Professor
Italian Renaissance art, architecture and gardens; early modern prints; issues of gender and cultural identity; uses of the past in both Renaissance and Fascist Italy

Laura Meixner, Associate Professor
19th-century European and American art; French-American cross-cultural studies; reception theory; social history of art

Human Development

Ritch Savin-Williams, Professor
Developmental processes among sexual minorities, especially differential developmental trajectories; identity development; relations with family; gender nonconformity

Industrial and Labor Relations

Rosemary Batt, Alice H. Cook Professor of Women and Work
Labor markets; work and employment; work and family relations

Francine Blau, Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics
Economics of gender; economics of discrimination; wage inequality; immigration

Robert Hutchens, Professor of Labor Economics
Impact of welfare programs on female-headed families

Quinetta Roberson, Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies
Organizational justice; diversity and inclusion

Pamela Tolbert, Professor of Organizational Behavior
Organizations; gender and families; education; institutional structure and politics

Johnson School of Management

Robert Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management
Female-male wage differentials

Near Eastern Studies

Kim Haines-Eitzen, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies
Women's studies; ancient and women's history; biblical studies; early Judaism; intersection of gender, text transmission and literacy in early Christianity

Philosophy

Michele Moody-Adams, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life
Feminism and philosophy; moral and political philosophy; ethical theory

Neelam Sethi, Lecturer
History of the physical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries; gender and science; science, colonialism, and nationalism

Policy Analysis and Management

Josephine Allen, Associate Professor
Social welfare policy; empowerment; family support

Jennifer Gerner, Professor
Female labor force supply and fertility; economic implications of legislation; affirmative action; family formation and dissolution

Andrea Parrot, Professor
Women's health issues including sexual assault, infertility, and teenage pregnancy; alternative medicine; medical ethics

Romance Studies

Anne Berger, Professor of French Literature
The Enlightenment; modern poetry and poetics; psychoanalytic theory; deconstruction; feminist criticism; the politics of language; the cultural politics of the Maghreb

Tracy McNulty, Associate Professor of French Literature
20th-century French literature and comparative modernism; contemporary philosophy and critical thought; psychoanalytic theory

Marilyn Migiel, Professor of Italian Literature
Italian literature and culture (especially 1200-1600); feminist criticism; critical pedagogy

Marie-Claire Vallois, Associate Professor of French Literature
18th century and the Age of the Revolution; critical interests in semiotics and narratology; history and ideology; French and Francophone theories and practices of feminism

Science and Technology Studies

Margaret Rossiter, Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science
19th- and 20th-century American science, especially agricultural sciences and women in science

Theatre, Film & Dance

Sabine Haenni, Assistant Professor
American cinema; silent film; mass culture; cinema in the context of other media; theories of race and ethnicity; immigrant cultures; urban studies

Nick Salvato, Assistant Professor, Theatre
World theatre history; modern drama and theatre; twentieth-century aesthetics and culture; American modernism; queer performance theory and practice; the history of melodrama