Faculty Affiliates
WGSS Faculty Affiliates
WGSS seeks to build a supportive interdisciplinary community among UH 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 UH faculty on behalf of interdisciplinary programs like ours are an invaluable service to the university. Become a WGSS Faculty Affiliate today!
African American Studies
ttgreen2@uh.edu
Course: Harlem Renaissance
ashakir2@central.uh.edu
Course: Black Women in the US
Architecture & Design
martar@uh.edu
Courses:
Art and Art History
bdossett@uh.edu
Courses:
Natilee Harren
noharren@central.uh.edu
Courses:
Sandra Zalman
Szalman@uh.edu
Courses:
Biology and Biochemistry
Dan Graur
dgraur@uh.edu
Course:
Richard Meisel
rpmeisel@uh.edu
Course:
Communication
bolson@uh.edu
Course: Gender & Media
Jennifer E. Vardeman
jvardeman@uh.edu
Course:
Comparative Cultural Studies
mghazali@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Ethnography
drhannaf@central.uh.edu
Course:
kemcneal@uh.edu
Course: Sex & Culture
Debarati Sen
dsen2@central.uh.edu
Course: Women and Work
Economics
cjuhn@uh.edu
Courses: Economics of Gender; Economics of Education
English
haboul-ela@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit
mbackus@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Culture; The British Women's Novel; Queer Closures: The Sexual Politics of Literary Form
achrist@uh.edu
Courses: Family, Sex, & Households on the Shakespearean Stage; Gender & Performance in Shakespeare; Labor, Leisure, & Gender in Early Modern Drama
Amanda Ellis
avellis@central.uh.edu
Course: Women Writers
kfang@uh.edu
Course: Romantic Women Writers & Film Noir
mgonzalez@uh.edu
Courses: Women in Literature; Women Writers; Feminist Theory; Feminist Criticism
Haylee Harrell
hcharrel@central.uh.edu
Courses: Queer Theory; Black Feminism Reimagined; Interracial Intimacies
amajumder@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit
nshepley@uh.edu
Course: Gender & Writing
kasingh@central.uh.edu
Courses: Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Literature
msnediker@uh.edu
Course: Queer Literature
lstock@uh.edu
Courses: Writing Medieval Women; Medieval Women in History, Text, & Film
rjtejada@uh.edu
Course: The Latino American Photobook
lvoskuil@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology
jlwingard@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology
Health and Human Performance
dpearson@uh.edu
Course: Sport in Contemporary Society
Hispanic Studies
mcuesta@uh.edu
Courses: Spanish-Caribbean Women Writers Rewriting the Islands from the United States; Topics in Spanish-Amer Literature
mesolino@uh.edu
Course: Hispanic Authors; Feminist Theory
gbventura@uh.edu
Course: U.S. Latino Literature
History
acedill6@central.uh.edu
Course:
tmchery@central.uh.edu
Course: Love & African Revolution
xcong@uh.edu
Courses: History of Women in Modern China; East & SE Asian Women in Historical & Cross-cultural Perspectives
sfishman@uh.edu
Courses: Work & Family Life in Modern Europe; Social History of Modern France & Germany
nlgharala@uh.edu
Course: Colonial Mexico
ghorne@uh.edu
Course: Civil Rights Movement
ghorne@uh.edu
Course: Civil Rights Movement
nmilanesio@uh.edu
Course: Women in Latin America
lreed@uh.edu
Course: African American Women in Slavery & Freedom
tromero2@uh.edu
Courses: Witchcraft in the Old & New World; Gender & Colonialism
svaughn@uh.edu
Course: Large portions of Medieval history courses deal with women's topics
lrzarnow@uh.edu
Course: Issues in Feminist Research
Center for Mexican American & Latina/o Studies
Pamela Anne Quiroz
paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.
Modern and Classical Languages
fdalessandro-behr@uh.edu
Courses: Women in the Ancient World; Italian Renaissance
cdue-hackney@uh.edu
Courses: Greek & Roman Mythology
sfrieden@uh.edu
Courses: German Women Film Directors; International Women Writers; New Woman in Literature
mherna18@central.uh.edu
Course: Gender & Sexuality in World Film
cmtamber@central.uh.edu
Courses: Female Divinities; Women in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
btiwari@uh.edu
Courses: World Cultures Through Literature & Arts; Cultures of India; & Indian Film: Bollywood & Beyond
Pharmacy
ssalim@uh.edu
Course: Refugee Women’s Health
Physics
pinsky@uh.edu
Course:
Political Science
nchoi2@uh.edu
Courses: Multiculturalism in Theory & Practice
jclark10@uh.edu
Course:
nlsims@central.uh.edu
Course:
Social Work
jlatting@uh.edu
Courses: Forming Alliances across Gender, Race, Class, Culture, & Other Differences
Sociology
txkarner@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Health; Seminar in Masculinity
smkatz@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of Gender
sskwan@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of the Body
Neema Langa
nmlanga@central.uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Health Care in Africa
slee3@uh.edu
Courses: African–American Family
mamonser@central.uh.edu
Courses: Comparative Family Structures; Sociology of Health Care
Pamela Anne Quiroz
paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.