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Elizabeth Gregory, Director, Taylor Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of English, egregory@uh.edu
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  Phone: 713.743.0932
  Email: egregory@uh.edu
  Office: 624 Agnes Arnold Hall
  
  Elizabeth Gregory, Taylor Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of English, directs the WGSS Program and the UH Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality. She writes on Marianne Moore’s poetry and women’s work and fertility.
  
  Her 2021 book, “Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-1970,” argues for the brilliance and populist panache of the poems of Moore’s late phase, long ignored by critics. “AOS” offers in-depth readings of these multi-layered poems and of Moore’s daring and innovative use of her late-life celebrity to activate long-held egalitarian principles. Cross-dressed as George Washington in cape and tricorne and writing about accessible topics like sports, TV, holidays, love, activism, mortality and celebrity, Moore reached a wide cross-section of Americans, engaging them in consideration of what democracy meant in their daily lives, around issues of gender/ race/ sexuality/ high-low dynamics/ immigration/ aging/ and more.
  
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Guillermo De Los Reyes, Associate Director LGBT Studies, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, jdelosreyes@uh.edu
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  Dr. Guillermo De Los Reyes is an Associate Professor of Latin American Cultures and Literatures and Director of Undergraduate Studies. He also serves as Associate Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and he is a Faculty-in-Residence since 2011. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (2004, 1999) and a M.A. and B.A. from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla (1997, 1994). Dr. De Los Reyes’ research interests are: Colonial Mesoamerica; gender, sexuality, and queer theory; Latin American cultural studies; secret and fraternal societies; and policy studies.
  
  Dr. De Los Reyes is the author of Herencias Secretas: Masonería, política y sociedad en México (2009: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) and is currently working on a book-length project entitled: “El pecado nefando:” Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Mexico.
  
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Rachel Afi Quinn, Associate Director, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Comparative Cultural Studies, raquinn@uh.edu
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  Rachel Afi Quinn received her Ph.D. from the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan in 2012. Her scholarship focuses on race, mixed race identities, gender, and sexuality in the African Diaspora and she employs tools of transnational feminist theory, including ethnography and visual culture in her research. Her first book, "Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo," is an interdisciplinary cultural studies project that explores the impact of neoliberal development and U.S. popular media on Dominican women's identities.
  
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Zelma L. Oyarvide Tuthill, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, zloyarvi@central.uh.edu
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  Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. She is also the director of Undergraduate Studies in the department of Sociology, and a joint faculty member with the Women, Gender and Sexuality program. She received her PhD. From Rice University in 2020.
  
  Her research examines how health inequality is reproduced across the intersections of race/ethnicity, nativity, gender identity and sexual orientation. As a health scholar her qualitative, quantitative and theoretical work examines various axis of wellbeing including health status, health behaviors and healthcare utilization among population groups. In order to more accurately capture processes of inequality among marginalized groups, her research agenda highlights how racism, sexism and heterosexism structure and reproduce poorer health outcomes and health environments.
  
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Zach Hough, Researcher, Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality, zwhough@cougarnet.uh.edu
Itzel Martinez, Researcher, Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality, iamarti6@central.uh.edu
Annamaria Milazzo, Research Asst. Professor, Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality, amilazzo@Central.UH.EDU
Hannah Barker, Senior Director of Advancement, hmbarker@central.uh.edu
Sue Schindler, Academic Advisor, bschindl@central.uh.edu
Leanne Prendergast, Graduate Office Assistant, wgss@uh.edu

Lecturers

FALL 2024 + Spring 2025:

Introduction to Women's Studies
- Anneliese Bustillo, M.A.
- Melissa DeRemer, M.A.
- Bridget Fernandes, Ph.D.
- Devan Ford-McCartney, Ph.D.
- Itzel Martinez, M.Ed.
- Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Ph.D.
- Brittany Slatton, Ph.D.
Introduction to LGBT Studies
- Trevor Boffone, Ph.D.
- Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Ph.D.
- Liam Stone, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliates

African American Studies

Tara Green
713.743.3237 | ttgreen2@uh.edu  
Course: Harlem Renaissance

Ameenah Shakir
713.743.2811 | ashakir2@central.uh.edu
Course: Black Women in the US

Communication

Beth Olson
713.743.2881 | bolson@uh.edu  
Courses: Gender and Media

Jennifer E. Vardeman
713.743.4294 | jvardeman@uh.edu

Zhiwen Xiao
713.743.2243 | zxiao2@uh.edu
Courses: Health Campaigns, etc.

Comparative Cultural Studies

Marwa Ghazali
mghazali@uh.edu

Dinah Hannaford
713-743-9623 | drhannaf@central.uh.edu

Keith McNeal
713.743.3802 | kemcneal@uh.edu

Susan Rasmussen
713.743.3787 | srasmussen@uh.edu 

Debarati Sen
713.743.3987 | dsen2@central.uh.edu

Economics

Chinhui Juhn
713.743.3823 | cjuhn@uh.edu  
Courses: Economics of Gender, Economics of Education

Education - Counselling Psychology

Nathan Smith
713.743.7648 | ngsmith@uh.edu

English

Hosam Aboul-Ela
713.743.3012 | haboul-ela@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit

Margot Gayle Backus
713.743.2970 | mbackus@uh.edu  
Courses: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Culture; The British Women's Novel; Queer Closures: The Sexual Politics of Literary Form

Ann Christensen
713.743.2964 | achrist@uh.edu 
Courses: Family, Sex, & Households on the Shakespearean Stage; Gender and Performance in Shakespeare; Labor, Leisure, & Gender in Early Modern Drama

Amanda Ellis
713.743.7413 | avellis@central.uh.edu  
Course: Women Writers

Karen Fang
713.743.2949 | kfang@uh.edu
 Courses: Romantic Women Writers and Film Noir

María Gonzalez
713.743.2938 | mgonzalez@uh.edu 
Courses: Women in Literature, Women Writers, Feminist Theory; Feminist Criticism

Elizabeth Gregory
713.743.0932 | egregory@uh.edu  
Courses: Feminist Theory, Gender & Work, Women Writers, Modern Motherhood; Moore Later

Haylee Harrell
hcharrel@central.uh.edu

Auritro Majumder
713.743.5873 | amajumder@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit

Nathan Shepley
713.743.1573 | nshepley@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Writing

Kavita Singh
kasingh@central.uh.edu
Courses: Caribbean Lit, Postcolonial Lit

Michael Snediker
713.743.3004 | msnediker@uh.edu

Lorraine Stock
713.743.2958 | lstock@uh.edu 
Courses: Writing Medieval Women; Medieval Women in History, Text, and Film

Roberto Tejada
713.743.5847 | rjtejada@uh.edu

Lynn Voskuil
713.743.2979 | lvoskuil@uh.edu 
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology

Jennifer Wingard
713.743.2975 | jlwingard@uh.edu 
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology

Health and Human Performance

Daphne Hernandez
713.743.9056 | dhernandez26@uh.edu

Demetrius Pearson
713.743.9849 | dpearson@uh.edu  
Courses: Sport in Contemporary Society

Hispanic Studies

Mabel Cuesta
mcuesta@uh.edu

Guillermo De Los Reyes
713.743.3716 | jdelosreyes@uh.edu 
Courses: Gender & Sexuality in Colonial Mexico; Gay/Lesbian Literature in Latin America

Maria Elena Soliño
713.743.3052 | mesolino@uh.edu 
Courses: Hispanic Authors and Feminist Theory

Gabriela Baeza Ventura
713.743.3259 | gbventura@uh.edu

History

Adela Cedillo
acedill6@central.uh.edu

Tshepo Masango Chéry
713.743.0507 | tmchery@central.uh.edu
Courses: Love & African Revolution

Xiaoping Cong
713.743.3096 | xcong@uh.edu  
Courses: History of Women in Modern China; East and SE Asian Women in Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives

Sarah Fishman
713.743.3098 | sfishman@uh.edu  
Courses: Work and Family Life in Modern Europe; Social History of Modern France and Germany

Norah L.A. Gharala
713.743.3943 | nlgharala@uh.edu

Gerald Horne
713.743.3114 | ghorne@uh.edu  
Courses: Civil Rights Movement

Kairn Klieman
713.743.0907 | kklieman@uh.edu

Natalia Milanesio
713-743-3113 | nmilanesio@uh.edu
Courses: Women in Latin America

Monica Perales
713.743.3103 | mperales3@uh.edu  
Courses: Chicana History, Mexican American Labor History, Identity and Resistance in US History

Linda Reed
713.743.3092 | lreed@uh.edu  
Courses: African American Women in Slavery and Freedom

Todd Romero
713.743.3112 | tromero2@uh.edu  
Courses: Witchcraft in the Old and New World, Gender and Colonialism

Sally Vaughn
713.743.3122 | svaughn@uh.edu  
Courses: Large portions of Medieval history courses deal with women's topics

Leandra Zarnow
713.743.3124 | lrzarnow@uh.edu
Courses: Issues in Feminist Research

Center for Mexican American & Latina/o Studies

Pamela Quiroz

713.743.3134 | paquiroz@ uh.edu

Modern and Classical Languages

Francesca D'Allesandro Behr
713.743.3043 | fdalessandro-behr@uh.edu  
Courses: Women in the Ancient World; Italian Renaissance

Casey Due Hackney
713.743.3240 | cdue-hackney@uh.edu 
Courses: Greek and Roman Mythology

Sandy Frieden
713.743.3051 | sfrieden@uh.edu  
Courses: German Women Film Directors; International Women Writers; New Woman in Literature

Marie Theresa Hernandez
713.743.3074 | mherna18@central.uh.edu
Course: Gender & Sexuality in World Film

Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
713.743.9341 | cmtamber@central.uh.edu
Courses: Female Divinities; Women in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Bhavya Tiwari
713.743.1737 | btiwari@uh.edu

Pharmacy

Samina Salim
713.743.1776 | ssalim@uh.edu
Refugee Women’s Health

Physics

Lawrence Pinsky
713.743.3552 | pinsky@uh.edu

Political Science

Naomi Choi
713.743.0413 | nchoi2@uh.edu
Courses: Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice

Jennifer Clark
713.743.3302 | jclark10@uh.edu

Nancy Sims
713.743.3895
Courses: Women in Politics

Social Work

Jean Kantambu Latting
713.743.809 | jlatting@uh.edu  
Courses: Forming Alliances across Gender, Race, Class, Culture, and Other Differences

Sociology

Amanda Baumle
713.743.3944 | kbaumle@uh.edu 
Courses: Gender & Society & Sociology of Sexuality

Tracy X. Karner
713.743.3961 | txkarner@uh.edu 
Courses: Gender and Health; Seminar in Masculinity

Sheila Katz
713.743.1918 | smkatz@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of Gender, etc.

Samantha Kwan
713.743.3948 | sskwan@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of the Body, etc.

Neema Langa
713.743.2811 | nmlanga@central.uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Health Care in Africa, etc.

Shayne Lee
713.743.3954 | slee3@uh.edu
Courses: African–American Family, etc.

Maria Monserud
713.743.3962 | mamonser@central.uh.edu
Courses: Comparative Family Structures, Sociology of Health Care, etc

Pamela A. Quiroz – Director of CMALS
713.743.3134 | paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class; etc.

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