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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 Fellowships and Grants 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

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Tara Green
ttgreen2@uh.edu 
Course: Harlem Renaissance

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

Architecture & Design 

Art and Art History 

Biology and Biochemistry 

Communication 

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Beth Olson
bolson@uh.edu  

Course: Gender & Media

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Zhiwen Xiao
zxiao2@uh.edu 
Course: Health Campaigns

Comparative Cultural Studies 

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Marwa Ghazali
mghazali@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Ethnography

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Keith McNeal
kemcneal@uh.edu
Course: Sex & Culture

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Debarati Sen
dsen2@central.uh.edu
Course: Women and Work

Economics 

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Chinhui Juhn
cjuhn@uh.edu  

Courses: Economics of Gender; Economics of Education

English 

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

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Margot Gayle Backus
mbackus@uh.edu  

Courses: Gender & Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Culture; The British Women's Novel; Queer Closures: The Sexual Politics of Literary Form

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

Ananda Ellis

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

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Karen Fang
kfang@uh.edu
Course: Romantic Women Writers & Film Noir

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

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Haylee Harrell
hcharrel@central.uh.edu
Courses: Queer Theory; Black Feminism Reimagined; Interracial Intimacies 

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Auritro Majumder
amajumder@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit

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Nathan Shepley
nshepley@uh.edu
Course: Gender & Writing

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Kavita Singh
kasingh@central.uh.edu
Courses: Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Literature

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Michael Snediker
msnediker@uh.edu
Course: Queer Literature

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

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

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

Health and Human Performance 

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Demetrius Pearson
dpearson@uh.edu  

Course: Sport in Contemporary Society

Hispanic Studies 

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Mabel Cuesta
mcuesta@uh.edu
Courses: Spanish-Caribbean Women Writers Rewriting the Islands from the United States; Topics in Spanish-Amer Literature

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Maria Elena Soliño
mesolino@uh.edu 
Course: Hispanic Authors; Feminist Theory

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Gabriela Baeza Ventura
gbventura@uh.edu
Course: U.S. Latino Literature

History

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Tshepo Masango Chéry
tmchery@central.uh.edu
Course: Love & African Revolution

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

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Sarah Fishman
sfishman@uh.edu  

Courses: Work & Family Life in Modern Europe; Social History of Modern France & Germany

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Norah L.A. Gharala
nlgharala@uh.edu
Course: Colonial Mexico

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Gerald Horne
ghorne@uh.edu  

Course: Civil Rights Movement

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Gerald Horne
ghorne@uh.edu  

Course: Civil Rights Movement

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Natalia Milanesio
nmilanesio@uh.edu
Course: Women in Latin America

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Linda Reed
lreed@uh.edu  

Course: African American Women in Slavery & Freedom

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Todd Romero
tromero2@uh.edu  

Courses: Witchcraft in the Old & New World; Gender & Colonialism

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Sally Vaughn
svaughn@uh.edu  

Course: Large portions of Medieval history courses deal with women's topics

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Leandra Zarnow
lrzarnow@uh.edu
Course: Issues in Feminist Research

Center for Mexican American & Latina/o Studies

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Pamela Anne Quiroz
paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.

Modern and Classical Languages

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Francesca D'Allesandro Behr
fdalessandro-behr@uh.edu  

Courses: Women in the Ancient World; Italian Renaissance

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Casey Due Hackney
cdue-hackney@uh.edu
Courses: Greek & Roman Mythology

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Sandy Frieden
sfrieden@uh.edu  

Courses: German Women Film Directors; International Women Writers; New Woman in Literature

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

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

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Bhavya Tiwari
btiwari@uh.edu
Courses: World Cultures Through Literature & Arts; Cultures of India; & Indian Film: Bollywood & Beyond

Pharmacy

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Samina Salim
ssalim@uh.edu 
Course: Refugee Women’s Health

Physics 

Political Science 

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Naomi Choi
nchoi2@uh.edu
Courses: Multiculturalism in Theory & Practice

Social Work 

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Jean Kantambu Latting
jlatting@uh.edu  

Courses: Forming Alliances across Gender, Race, Class, Culture, & Other Differences

Sociology 

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

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

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Sheila Katz
smkatz@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of Gender

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Samantha Kwan
sskwan@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of the Body

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

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Shayne Lee
slee3@uh.edu
Courses: African–American Family

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Maria Monserud
mamonser@central.uh.edu
Courses: Comparative Family Structures; Sociology of Health Care

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Pamela Anne Quiroz
paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.