Affiliated Faculty

Catherine Allgor, Ph.D. Associate Professor (History)
Fields of Interest: Early America; political women, public history

Wendy Ashmore, Ph.D. Professor (Anthropology)
Fields of interests: Center on the social use and understanding of space.

Steven Axelrod, Ph.D. Professor (English)
Fields of Interest: 19th and 20th-Century American literature

Victoria Bomberry, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Ethnic Studies)
Fields of Interests: Interdisciplinary program were Literature and Anthropology.

Gregory W. Bredbeck, Ph.D. Associate Professor (English)
Field of Interests: English Renaissance Literature; Gender Theory and Cultural Materialism

Derek Burrill, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Dance)
Field of Interests: digital media and video games, particularly in relation to theories of the body and masculinity.

Scott L. Coltrane, Ph.D. Professor (Sociology)
Field of Interests: Gender equity and family functioning, with particular attention to the allocation of care work.

Jennifer Doyle, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (English)
Field of Interests: American Literature, Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Critical Theory

George E. Haggerty, Ph.D. Professor (English)
Field of Interests: Intersection of eighteenth-century and gay studies

Stephanie B. Hammer, Ph.D. Professor (Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages)
Field of Interests: European enlightenment; Romanticism; Genre

Andrew Jacobs, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Religious Studies)
Field of Interests: Early Christian History; Biblical Interpretation; Jewish-Christian "relations" in Antiquity; Gender and Cultural studies

Tracy Kahn Senior Museum Scientist

Jodi Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Ethnic Studies & Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages)
Field of Interests: Asian American literature and culture, post-colonial criticism, and cultural studies.

Anthea Kraut, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Dance)
Field of Interests: Cultural Studies, Dance Theory, History

Sang-Hee Lee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
Field of Interests: evolution of human morphological variation based on the fossil record and seeks to identify the causal mechanisms for the patterns observed in the human (and ancestral human) fossil record

Bronwyn Leebaw, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Political Science)
Field of Interests: International Politics; Human Rights; Political Theory; Feminist Theory

Margherita Long, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature)
Fields of Interest: Modern Japanese Literature and Film.

Julet McMullin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
Field of Interests: medical anthropology with an emphasis in health inequalities and the interaction between concepts of health and cultural identity.

Alfredo Mirande, Ph.D. Professor (Sociology)
Field of Interests:

Patricia A. Morton, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Art History)
Field of Interests: European and American Architectural History 1880-1980; Japanese domestic architecture; Architectural, urban, and Post-colonial theory.

Yolanda Moses, Ph.D. Professor (Anthropology)
Field of Interests: Broad question of what are the origins of social inequality in complex societies through comparative ethnographic and survey methods.

Margaret Nash, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Graduate School of Education)
Field of Interests: History of education and the history of curriculum

Vivian-lee Nyitray, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Religious Studies)
Fields of Interests: Confucian-Taoist interaction; Chinese Religions; Religious Biography; Feminist Studies in Religion

Thomas C Patterson, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor (Anthropology)
Fields of Interests: (1) the historical development of US anthropology, (2) race, class and gender; (3) critical analyses of current trends in social and culture theory; (4) political-economic, social and cultural changes associated with the processes of globalization; (5) investigations of how the realities of past societies are constituted and appropriated into the fabric of everyday life today; (6) historical development of anthropology and archaeology in context of nation-states.

Karen D Pyke, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Sociology)
Fields of Interests: Race, Gender, Family, Asian Americans, Power, Qualitative Methods.

Michelle Raheja, Assistant Professor (English)
Fields of Interests: Native American literature, with a special interest in autobiography and film and visual culture.

Lisa Raphals, Ph.D. Professor
Fields of Interests: comparative philosophy, religion, history of science, and gender, with other interests in poetics and science fiction and media studies.

Ellen R. Reese, Ph.D.  Associate Professor (Sociology)
Fields of Interests: Sociology of gender, political sociology (especially social movements and welfare state development), urban sociology, social inequalitites, and comparative and historical methods.

Michele R. Salzman, Ph.D. Professor (History)
Field of Interests: Religious and social history of Late Antiquity

Thomas F Scanlon, Ph.D. Professor (Hispanic Studies)
Field of Interests: 1) Greek and Latin Historical Writing; (2) Greek and Roman Athletics, Religion and Gender

Freya Schiwy,  Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Hispanic Studies)
Field of Interests:

Theda Shapiro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of French & Italian (Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages)
Fields of Interests: French and Italian; intellectual history and civilization; European women's history; arts and society

Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Dance)
Field of Interests: U.S. dance history, dance theory, narrative strategies in writing on dance, Native American dance studies, cross-cultural approaches to dance, "race" and representation in dance, and feminist and gender studies.

Priya Srinivasan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Dance)
Fields of Interests: Dance and Performance Theory, Asian Diaspora Studies.

Jan E. Stets, Ph.D. Professor (Sociology)
Fields of Interests: Social Psychology, Emotions, Gender, Family.

Anne Sutherland, Ph.D. Professor (Anthropology)
Field of Interests: understand how and why people create and maintain identity and culture.

Linda J. Tomko, Ph.D. Associate Professor (Dance)
Field of Interests: History, Dance Reconstruction.

Carole-Anne Tyler, Ph.D. Associate Professor (English)
Field of Interests: she explores issues of gender and dance in the early twentieth-century United States. Indiana University Press published her book in this area in 1999 -- Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920.

Jane Ward, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (Sociology)
Field of Interests: inequality, sexualities, social movements, critical theory.

Georgia Warnke, Ph.D. Professor (Philosophy)
Field of Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Contemporary German Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Ethics

Gary Watson, Ph.D. Professor
Field of Interest: Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Free Will and Moral Responsibility (including Virtue and Character)

Devra A. Weber, Ph.D. Professor (History)
Field of Interests: United States History, labor history, with an emphasis on Mexican women, Mexicano/Chicano workers immigration, oral history, US fronters and California.

Deborah Wong, Ph.D. Professor (Music)
Field of Interests: Thailand, Mainland Southeast Asian performance traditions, Ritual, Asian American performance, Performance studies, Cultural studies, Identity politics, Popular culture, Mass media.

Traise Yamamoto, Ph.D. Associate Professor (English)
Field of Interests: Asian American literary and cultural studies, poetry, race and gender theory, autobiography studies, and British and American Modernism.

Marlene Zuk, Ph.D.  Professor, (Biology)
Field of Interests: Behavioral ecology, the study of the evolution of behavior.