Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Purnima Bose
pbose@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English
Purnima Bose (Associate Professor of English, Director of Cultural Studies Program, Adjunct Professor of History, Comparative Literature, American Studies, and Affiliated Professor of Gender Studies) is a post-colonal scholar, whose first book, Organizing Empire (Duke 2003), focused on British colonialism and the links between Irish and Indian feminists and nationalists in the first half of the twentieth century. Since then, she has become interested in globalization, the role of corporations in public life, and anti-globalization resistance. Her recent published essays treat the student anti-sweatshop movement, organizing efforts to alter textbook content by Indian Americans, and anti-globalization novels. A forthcoming anthology co-edited with Laura E. Lyons, Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation (IU Press 2010), profiles individual corporations to consider the human costs of business practices. These seemingly different projects are united by her attention to hegemonic structures, on the one hand, and activism, on the other. She is motivated to understand how people make sense of their worlds and how they become inspired to change their circumstances. While her formal training is in Comparative Literature, her scholarship tends to be an eclectic mix of history, cultural studies, social movement theory, and feminist analysis.
Dr. Claudia Breger
clbreger@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Germanic Studies,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Gender Studies and
Communication and Culture
Claudia Breger received her Ph.D. at Humboldt University Berlin. She recently published a book on imaginary configurations of royal power in modernity (Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach, 2004) and is now working on another book project that addresses intersections of performance and narrative in contemporary culture. More generally, her research and teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st century literature, film and culture, with a particular emphasis on (the interrelations of) gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race, as well as literary, media, and cultural theory.
Dr. Maria Bucur-Deckard
mbucur@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and History
Maria Bucur, John W. Hill Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1996), works on gender and cultural history of Eastern Europe. Her courses include Gender and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective, Eastern Europe 1918-Present, Survival and Resistance under Communism, Film and History in Eastern Europe, and Memory and Nationalism in Modern Europe. She recently published: “An Archipelago of Stories: Gender History in Eastern Europe,” part of the forum Revisiting Joan Scott’s Gender as a Category of Analysis. American Historical Review, December 2008, 1375-1389,” and “Gender and Citizenship. Difference and Power in the Modern State. A Review Essay,” in Journal of Women’s History vol. 20, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 160-170. Her book, Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania, is forthcoming in 2009 from Indiana University Press. Other publications include "Between the Mother of the Wounded and the Virgin of Jiu: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War," Journal of Women's History (Summer 2000), Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania (Pittsburgh University Press, 2002) and Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present (Purdue University Press, 2001).
Beth A. Buggenhagen
babuggen@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Beth Buggenhagen has conducted fieldwork in Dakar and Tuba, Senegal, and in the North American cities of Chicago and New York City. Her current research interests include the politics of social production and value, material culture, visuality, gender, Islam, and globalization. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, Prophets and Profits: Gender and Islam in Global Senegal, which analyzes the multilayered connections of prophets and profits in the Senegalese postcolony to understand debates over women’s ritual and religious practices, family law and religious authority in an era of economic volatility. The book considers how traders of the Murid Sufi order create long term value through carefully crafted financial strategies including building global trade networks at the intersection of so called formal and informal economies, religious offerings and the circulation of heirloom cloth, a form of women’s wealth and worth.
In New York City her research has considered the predicament of Senegalese Muslim traders who deal in grey market goods (designer purses, CDs and DVDs). Her work has considered the political dimensions of official and unofficial economies to address topics that are gaining attention within and beyond academia such as Islam, civil liberties, immigration reform, debates over new media technologies, unregulated economic networks and the U.S. led global War on Terror. Her interest in the relationship between official and unofficial economies and material and visual culture has led her to her next research project, Visualizing the Senegalese Postcolony: Practicing Photography in the Urban Economy. This project takes up the problematic of what social relations produce and are reproduced through visuality (and concealment). The project will be based on archival and field research in Dakar and New York City on the production and circulation of portraiture in the Senegalese postcolony.
Lynn Duggan
lduggan@indiana.edu
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Professor Duggan’s research deals with comparative economic systems, East and West German family policy, comparative social policy, women in building trades, and working conditions in retail employment. She has published in Comparative Economic Studies, Feminist Economics, and the National Women's Studies Association Journal and is a co-editor of The Women, Gender, and Development Reader. Her PhD is from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1993, economics). She regularly teaches Class, Race, Gender, and Work; and Labor and the Economy.
Mary A. Favret
favretm@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of English
I work primarily in the area of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, and more recently American and transatlantic literature of this period. I’ve published extensively on questions of gender and genre, including a book, Romantic Correspondence: Women , Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Cambridge UP 1993) which takes up the radical political potential of the letter form in eh age of revolution. My essays on Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft have appeared in many venues, including Janeites:Austen’s Disciples and Audiences, the Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft and the recent Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen.
In recent years I’ve been interested primarily in the intersection of war and the everyday: how war becomes an everyday phenomena and how modernity has learned to live in and with wartime. This work, which takes seriously the mediation of distant, global warfare for those on the home front, has resulted in a number of essays –“Everyday War” (English Literary History), “War in the Air” (Modern Language Quarterly), “Still Winter Falls” (PMLA) as well as a forthcoming book, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (Princeton UP, Dec. 2009).I continue to write and teach about women writers, and about issues that derive from a training in feminist criticism: the difficulties raised by certain concepts of time and history, knowledge and feeling, violence, power and disabilities.
Dr. Jennifer Fleissner
jfleissn@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English
Jennifer Fleissner focuses her research on American literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the turn of the century. Her current projects include "Novel Appetites: Eating and Meaning in Modernizing America," which looks at eating as a means of self-formation and boundary crossing in various writers from this transitional era (such as James, Chesnutt, Cahan, and Yezierska), and "Maladies of the Will," a more temporally sprawling endeavor that asks about the pathologies and uncertainties that result from modernity's dual conceptualization of persons as wholly self-willing and as unprecedentedly determined by internal and external forces. She also has an ongoing interest in women as emblems of modernity (a major theme of her first book, Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism [U. of Chicago Press 2004]) and has a couple of pieces coming out on this subject as well. "The Biological Clock: Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood," to appear in American Literature, is part of an ongoing investigation into figures of technologized women in the modern era.
Dr. Wendy Gamber
wgamber@indiana.edu
Professor of Gender Studies
and History
Professor Gamber is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of American History and a former Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department. Her research interests center on relationships between gender, labor, culture, and economy in the nineteenth-century United States. She is the author of The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 1997) and is at work on The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Dr. Mary L. Gray
mlg@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
and Communication and Culture
Professor Gray's research areas include theory and ethnography of queer genders & sexualities; new media & cultural identity production; youth & public culture; the pedagogy of research ethics; sociology of scientific knowledge and practice as it relates to gender and sexuality. You can visit her web site by clicking here.
Dr. Susan Gubar
gubar@indiana.edu
Distinguished Professor
A Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, Susan Gubar is the co-author with Sandra M. Gilbert of The Madwoman in the Attic and its three-volume sequel No Man's Land. Besides co-editing the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, she has published a number of books including Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture, Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century, and Poetry after Auschwitz. In 2005 Professor Gubar provided an introduction and notes for the first annotated edition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own to appear in the United States. In 2006, her Rooms of Our Own was published by the University of Illinois Press. In 2007, Gilbert and Gubar brought out a third edition of the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women as well as a Norton reader entitled Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism. W. W. Norton published Susan Gubar’s cultural biography of Judas, the twelfth apostle, in 2009.
Scott Herring
Assistant Professor
phone 812-855-4137
Ph.D. in English, 2004, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A. in English, 1999, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.A. in English, 1998, University of Alabama at Birmingham, summa cum laude
B.A. in History, 1998, University of Alabama at Birmingham, summa cum laude
I specialize in twentieth-century U.S. literatures (particularly
American modernisms), queer theory, cultural studies, and critical
regional/rural studies. With Prof. Jennifer Fleissner, I co-direct the
American Research Colloquium. While I spend the majority of my time
figuring out sexual and social modernity, much of my current efforts
also hover around the intricacies of U.S. urbanism and urbanities. My
first book, Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the
Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History (University of Chicago Press, 2007),
tracked how modern artists and writers tweaked the standard formulas of "city mysteries" or "slumming" literatures in order to undermine the
genre's promise of subcultural revelation. Here I brought together an
assortment of twentieth-century literatures to explore how each refused
the modern will to sexual knowledge regarding emergent U.S.
underworlds. My new project, Another Country: The Cultural Politics of
Queer Anti-Urbanism (New York University Press, forthcoming) tackles a
complementary metropolitan narrative-the rural-to-urban flight to the
city. It charts how U.S.-based artists use what I term "rural
stylistics" in order to fashion critiques against lesbian and gay metro
norms. The arguments presented in these two book projects have appeared
into a number of articles on queer regionality, metronormativity and
visual culture, Willa Cather, Frank O'Hara, and intra-national
modernism. Likewise, they have informed some recent editorial work on "Reconceiving Regional Modernisms" as well as a new critical edition of
Ralph Werther's 1918 sexological memoir, Autobiography of an Androgyne.
Dr. Patricia Ingham
pingham@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English
Professor Ingham's research areas include Medieval Cultural Studies; Arthurian Romance; Chaucer; Postcolonial Studies; Psychoanalytic Theory; Gender and Sexuality; and Medievalism. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995. She has written the following books: Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Co-editor, Postcolonial Moves Medieval Through Modern (NY: Palgrave Press, 2003).
Dr. Stephanie C. Kane
stkane@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Criminal Justice
Professor Kane has carried out ethnographic research on indigenous rain forest peoples in Central America; on the social context of HIV risk related to drug use, sexuality, and crime; and most recently, on the use of life writing in cross-cultural criminal justice. She has been a faculty member at IU since 1993. She has received grant and fellowship support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fullbright, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Organization of American Studies. Kane’s current research project deals with studying three different port cities in Argentina and Brazil. Her goal is to understand how different people, institutions and laws interplay in the management of urban water front.
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Dr. Ellen Ketterson
ketterso@indiana.edu
Professor of Gender Studies and Biology
Professor Ketterson's research focuses on population, behavioral, and physiological ecology, avian biology, hormones and behavior. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Public Heath Service. She has taught at IU since 1977. She has been honored with awards from the American Ornithologists' Union and the Wilson Ornithological Society, and, most recently she was named Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer at IUB. Her numerous publications have appeared in Animal Behaviour, Ethology, Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, and American Naturalist, among others.
Karma Lochrie
klochrie@indiana.edu
Ruth N. Halls Professor of English and Chair of Gender Studies
Courses: G350 – Queer Theory
Research: Before coming to Indiana University in 1999, Professor Lochrie taught at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Loyola University Chicago.
Professor Lochrie’s research is concerned with genders and sexualities in the premodern past, particularly in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but she has also straddles modernity in her teaching and conference talks. Her published books include Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (1991), Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (1999), and Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t (2005). She also co-edited Constructing Medieval Sexuality (1997). She is currently working on a contribution to a contracted volume, The Premodern Lesbian. In addition, she is writing a book on the idea of utopianism before Thomas More, a project which will end with a discussion of Lee Edelman’s recent controversial book, No Future (2004). She received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for this project in 2008-09.
Dr. Alyce Miller
almiller@indiana.edu
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Alyce Miller is the author of three books of fiction (The Nature of Longing, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, Stopping for Green Lights (Anchor Doubleday, and Water, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize for Fiction), and has published more than 150 poems, essays, and articles in literary journals. She also is an attorney with a special interest in animal rights law. Both her writing and teaching are inflected by concerns relating to gender, sexual orientation, and race, how these categories shape and define individual lives, and the role law plays. In addition to creative writing, she teaches both graduate and undergraduate literature classes, including Women’s Literature. Special topics courses include Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Detective Novel, The Literary and Legal Animal, Animals and Ethics, Literature and Critical Race Studies, and Narrative and Law.
Dr. Marissa J. Moorman
moorman@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and History
Professor Moorman's research interests include: popular culture, gender and nation; transnational feminism; gender and sexuality in African history.
Dr. Amrita Myers
apmyers@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of History
Originally from Canada, I am a historian of the black female experience in the United States and my main interests are race, gender, freedom and citizenship and the ways in which these constructs intersect with one another in the lives of black women, particularly in the antebellum South.
My manuscript-in-progress, "Negotiating Women: Black Women and the Politics of Freedom in Charleston, South Carolina, 1790-1860," analyzes the tactics that enslaved women in Charleston utilized to first acquire and then define, shape and defend their freedom while continuing to live in a slave state, including their use of both the state's legislative and judicial systems. Examining freedom from the perspective of those invested with the least formal power in the antebellum era, my work restores black women to their rightful place as economic actors and political agents in the Old South.
Visit her faculty webpage here.
Dr. M. Jeanne Peterson, Emeritus
petersom@indiana.edu
Founding Emeritus Professor of Gender Studies and History
Professor Peterson's scholarly books and articles interrogate historical constructions of British masculinities and femininities; Victorian medicine, public health, disease, and prostitution; and gender, the family, sexuality, and paid work in the nineteenth century. Professor Peterson has been a faculty member of IU since 1971, primarily in the History Department, joining the Department of Gender Studies in 1996. She is currently engaged in two different research projects: one focusing on patterns of masculinity and class in Britain, and another examining gender issues in 19th century medical theory and practice. Professor Peterson is Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography, and has secured grant and fellowship support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Sarah D. Phillips
sadphill@Indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Sarah D. Phillips (Ph.D. University of Illinois) was appointed in 2003. Her gender-focused courses include Postsocialist Gender Formations and Advanced Seminar in Medical Anthropology. She also teaches courses such as Culture, Health and Illness; Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe; and Chernobyl. She recently published Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation (Indiana University Press, 2008). Other publications include “Will the Market Set Them Free? Women, NGOs, and Social Enterprise in Ukraine,” Human Organization (2005) and “Civil Society and Healing: Theorizing Women’s Social Activism in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” Ethnos (2005). She is currently working on a book on disability and citizenship in Ukraine, entitled Mobile Citizens: Living Disability after Socialism.
Dr. Jean C. Robinson
robinso@indiana.edu
Professor of Gender Studies and Political Science
Professor Robinson was Coordinator and then Director of Women's Studies at IU from 1977-1982, and again in 1991-92. She was Dean for Women's Affairs from 1998-2003. Her research is cross-national, focusing on comparing the politics of reproductive policies, as well as on feminist movements and gendered public policy. Professor Robinson is a founding member of RNGS (Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State), and has contributed to Comparative State Feminism (1995) and Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the Democratic State (2001). Professor Robinson was co-editor of Women and Social Policy: From Local to Global (NWSA Journal, 2001) and has also published in numerous volumes and journals. She has a forthcoming book on Gender and Post-Communism. Her newest project analyzes equality discourse in the US, especially debates over the Equal Rights Amendment and same-sex marriage. She also is starting work on a comparative study of sexuality policies in Poland, France, China, and the US. She has received two NSF grants as well as funding from other major federal agencies. Professor Robinson is recipient of the Indiana University President's Award for Distinguished Teaching (1996) and of five other teaching awards. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science. Professor Robinson teaches courses on Chinese politics, feminist political thought, gender and the state, cross-cultural studies of gender, and family and politics.
Dr. Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
ryancm@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Italian
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz is an associate professor of Italian whose research comprises work in two different fields, that of women and gender representations in contemporary Italian literature and film and that of foreign language pedagogy and second language studies. Her first book, Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini (University of Toronto, 2007) examines the representation of women in the cinema of Pasolini. She has taught courses on Female Voices in 20th century Italy, Women in Italian Literature and Film, and Italian Popular Culture, as well as Italian language and pedagogy courses.
Dr. Micol Seigel
mseigel@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor
African American and African Diaspora Studies and American Studies
Micol Seigel (Ph. D. NYU American Studies) is
Assistant Professor of African American and African
Diaspora Studies and American Studies.
She is interested in cultural politics, nationalism,
transnational method, state discipline and surveillance,
and race in the Americas, particularly in the U.S. and Brazil.
Her gender studies interests focus on intersections among gender,
sexuality, race, nation, and other categories of identity
and the relationship of queer theory to postcolonial studies.
Her work can be found in the Hispanic American Historical Review,
the Radical History Review, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies,
the Revista Brasileira de História, the Black Music Research Journal
and in her book, Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in the Americas
(Duke University Press, 2009).
Dr. Susan Seizer
sseizer@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies
and Communication & Culture
Professor Seizer's research and teaching interests include: Humor in Use, Stigma & Subjectivity, South Asia through Performance, Queer Ethnographic Narrative, and Disability Studies. Her recent book, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama artists in South India (Duke University Press 2005), focuses on the lives of Tamil popular theater artists onstage and off. Prior to beginning her academic career, Professor Seizer was a performer of dance, theater, and circus. Many of her scholarly interests follow threads she first explored as a performer: improvisation; the way comedy can be used to do just about anything; and the particular exhilaration many women find in transgressing normative gender roles through public performance. Professor Seizer has published in journals as diverse as Public Culture, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Transition, Heresies, and Indian Folklife. You can visit her website at
http://www.stigmasofthetamilstage.com
Beate Sissenich
bsisseni@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies
Beate Sissenich (PhD, Cornell) has taught at Indiana University since 2003. She is interested in how rules and knowledge travel across "borders" and why they often fail to do so even when evidence would suggest best practices worthy of pursuing. Her courses cover public policy and comparative politics of advanced industrialized countries (specifically Europe), social movements, transnational activism, and reproductive health. Her first book, Building States without Society (Lexington, 2007), deals with the transfer of European Union social policy to Poland and Hungary and documents the limits of EU influence on new member states and the simultaneous marginalization of societal actors in Europe's newest democracies. In her current project on "The Politics of Childbirth," she investigates why maternal health policies diverge among advanced industrialized democracies and how law and culture shape obstetric practices, often at the expense of women and children.
Dr. Margaret "Peg" Sutton
msutton@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Education
Professor Sutton's activities in the School of Education include teaching foundations courses in the teacher preparation programs as well as instructing graduate students in international/comparative education and in policy studies. She studies and researches education and cultural change both outside and inside the U.S., with research and publications on educational policy formation in international assistance agencies; gender and education in the Third World; comparative multicultural policies; the sources and forms of global awareness among children and youth in the U.S.; and on citizenship and education around the world.
Dr. Kirsten Sword
ksword@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and History
Professor Sword's current book project is Wives not Slaves: Dependence, Authority and Justice in Early America. Her research examines the legal and social connections between marriage, slavery and servitude, and documents the process by which ordinary people developed new ideas about justice within households and in American society at large during the long eighteenth-century. She teaches Marriage and the American Nation http://www.indiana.edu/~marriage, Women, Feminism and History, the U.S. history survey and other topical and methods courses in early American and American women's history. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002.
Dr. Shane Vogel
shvogel@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of English
Shane Vogel received his Ph.D in Performance Studies from New York University in 2004. He is the author of The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance (The University of Chicago Press, 2009). Other publications have appeared in GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Criticism, South Central Review, and Camera Obscura. He regularly teaches courses on performance studies, queer theory, dramatic literature, and cultural studies.
Dr. Susan Hoffman Williams
shwillia@indiana.edu
Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law and Gender Studies
Before joining the Law faculty at IU in 1993, Professor Williams taught at the Cornell University School of Law and served as Judicial Clerk to Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit. Her many articles address such subjects as epistemology, feminist theory, free speech, and civil society. She has wide experience in judicial education, especially in the area of feminist legal theory. Her current research brings together issues in political theory, epistemology, and feminist jurisprudence. Professor Williams teaches courses on Feminist Jurisprudence, HIV and the Law, and Gender Equality in Comparative Perspective. In her recent book -- Truth, Autonomy, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment -- Professor Williams addresses the impact of feminist critiques of truth and autonomy on the theoretical foundations of freedom of expression. She is currently studying the ways in which constitutional systems in different countries conceptualize gender equality and the legal mechanisms they use to promote it.
Dr. William L. Yarber
yarber@indiana.edu
Lecturer in Gender Studies and
Sr. Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Being an IU faculty member since 1984, Professor Yarber's research interests include HIV/STD risk behaviors, adolescent sexual behavior, sexuality education, and condom use behaviors. He has published over 85 articles and four school HIV/STD curriculum including the nation's first school HIV curriculum. Professor Yarber has received over $2.5 million in extramural funding for his research and HIV prevention work. Professor Yarber has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Graduate Student Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (2002) and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award (2002). He has also held positions of national and international leadership, including Chair of the Board of Directors of the Sexuality Information and Education Council (SIECUS), President of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, President of the Friends of The Kinsey Institute, and Consultant for the World Health Organization and Center for Diseases Control (CDC).
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Purnima Bose
Claudia Breger
Maria Bucur-Deckard
Beth Buggenhagen
Lynn Duggan
Mary A. Favret
Jennifer Fleissner
Wendy Gamber
Mary L. Gray
Susan Gubar
Scott Herring
Patricia Ingham
Stephanie Kane
Ellen Ketterson
Karma Lochrie
Alyce Miller
Marissa J. Moorman
Amrita Myers
M. Jeanne Peterson
Sarah Phillips
Jean C. Robinson
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
Micol Seigel
Susan Seizer
Beate Sissenich
Margaret Peg Sutton
Kirsten Sword
Shane Vogel
Susan H. Williams
William L. Yarber
Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Purnima Bose
pbose@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English
Purnima Bose (Associate Professor of English, Director of Cultural Studies Program, Adjunct Professor of History, Comparative Literature, American Studies, and Affiliated Professor of Gender Studies) is a post-colonal scholar, whose first book, Organizing Empire (Duke 2003), focused on British colonialism and the links between Irish and Indian feminists and nationalists in the first half of the twentieth century. Since then, she has become interested in globalization, the role of corporations in public life, and anti-globalization resistance. Her recent published essays treat the student anti-sweatshop movement, organizing efforts to alter textbook content by Indian Americans, and anti-globalization novels. A forthcoming anthology co-edited with Laura E. Lyons, Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation (IU Press 2010), profiles individual corporations to consider the human costs of business practices. These seemingly different projects are united by her attention to hegemonic structures, on the one hand, and activism, on the other. She is motivated to understand how people make sense of their worlds and how they become inspired to change their circumstances. While her formal training is in Comparative Literature, her scholarship tends to be an eclectic mix of history, cultural studies, social movement theory, and feminist analysis.
Dr. Claudia Breger
clbreger@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Germanic Studies,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Gender Studies and
Communication and Culture
Claudia Breger received her Ph.D. at Humboldt University Berlin. She recently published a book on imaginary configurations of royal power in modernity (Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach, 2004) and is now working on another book project that addresses intersections of performance and narrative in contemporary culture. More generally, her research and teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st century literature, film and culture, with a particular emphasis on (the interrelations of) gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race, as well as literary, media, and cultural theory.
Dr. Maria Bucur-Deckard
mbucur@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and History
Maria Bucur, John W. Hill Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1996), works on gender and cultural history of Eastern Europe. Her courses include Gender and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective, Eastern Europe 1918-Present, Survival and Resistance under Communism, Film and History in Eastern Europe, and Memory and Nationalism in Modern Europe. She recently published: “An Archipelago of Stories: Gender History in Eastern Europe,” part of the forum Revisiting Joan Scott’s Gender as a Category of Analysis. American Historical Review, December 2008, 1375-1389,” and “Gender and Citizenship. Difference and Power in the Modern State. A Review Essay,” in Journal of Women’s History vol. 20, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 160-170. Her book, Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania, is forthcoming in 2009 from Indiana University Press. Other publications include "Between the Mother of the Wounded and the Virgin of Jiu: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War," Journal of Women's History (Summer 2000), Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania (Pittsburgh University Press, 2002) and Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present (Purdue University Press, 2001).
Beth A. Buggenhagen
babuggen@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Beth Buggenhagen has conducted fieldwork in Dakar and Tuba, Senegal, and in the North American cities of Chicago and New York City. Her current research interests include the politics of social production and value, material culture, visuality, gender, Islam, and globalization. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, Prophets and Profits: Gender and Islam in Global Senegal, which analyzes the multilayered connections of prophets and profits in the Senegalese postcolony to understand debates over women’s ritual and religious practices, family law and religious authority in an era of economic volatility. The book considers how traders of the Murid Sufi order create long term value through carefully crafted financial strategies including building global trade networks at the intersection of so called formal and informal economies, religious offerings and the circulation of heirloom cloth, a form of women’s wealth and worth.
In New York City her research has considered the predicament of Senegalese Muslim traders who deal in grey market goods (designer purses, CDs and DVDs). Her work has considered the political dimensions of official and unofficial economies to address topics that are gaining attention within and beyond academia such as Islam, civil liberties, immigration reform, debates over new media technologies, unregulated economic networks and the U.S. led global War on Terror. Her interest in the relationship between official and unofficial economies and material and visual culture has led her to her next research project, Visualizing the Senegalese Postcolony: Practicing Photography in the Urban Economy. This project takes up the problematic of what social relations produce and are reproduced through visuality (and concealment). The project will be based on archival and field research in Dakar and New York City on the production and circulation of portraiture in the Senegalese postcolony.
Lynn Duggan
lduggan@indiana.edu
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Professor Duggan’s research deals with comparative economic systems, East and West German family policy, comparative social policy, women in building trades, and working conditions in retail employment. She has published in Comparative Economic Studies, Feminist Economics, and the National Women's Studies Association Journal and is a co-editor of The Women, Gender, and Development Reader. Her PhD is from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1993, economics). She regularly teaches Class, Race, Gender, and Work; and Labor and the Economy.
Mary A. Favret
favretm@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of English
I work primarily in the area of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, and more recently American and transatlantic literature of this period. I’ve published extensively on questions of gender and genre, including a book, Romantic Correspondence: Women , Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Cambridge UP 1993) which takes up the radical political potential of the letter form in eh age of revolution. My essays on Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft have appeared in many venues, including Janeites:Austen’s Disciples and Audiences, the Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft and the recent Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen.
In recent years I’ve been interested primarily in the intersection of war and the everyday: how war becomes an everyday phenomena and how modernity has learned to live in and with wartime. This work, which takes seriously the mediation of distant, global warfare for those on the home front, has resulted in a number of essays –“Everyday War” (English Literary History), “War in the Air” (Modern Language Quarterly), “Still Winter Falls” (PMLA) as well as a forthcoming book, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime (Princeton UP, Dec. 2009).I continue to write and teach about women writers, and about issues that derive from a training in feminist criticism: the difficulties raised by certain concepts of time and history, knowledge and feeling, violence, power and disabilities.
Dr. Jennifer Fleissner
jfleissn@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English
Jennifer Fleissner focuses her research on American literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the turn of the century. Her current projects include "Novel Appetites: Eating and Meaning in Modernizing America," which looks at eating as a means of self-formation and boundary crossing in various writers from this transitional era (such as James, Chesnutt, Cahan, and Yezierska), and "Maladies of the Will," a more temporally sprawling endeavor that asks about the pathologies and uncertainties that result from modernity's dual conceptualization of persons as wholly self-willing and as unprecedentedly determined by internal and external forces. She also has an ongoing interest in women as emblems of modernity (a major theme of her first book, Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism [U. of Chicago Press 2004]) and has a couple of pieces coming out on this subject as well. "The Biological Clock: Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood," to appear in American Literature, is part of an ongoing investigation into figures of technologized women in the modern era.
Dr. Wendy Gamber
wgamber@indiana.edu
Professor of Gender Studies
and History
Professor Gamber is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of American History and a former Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department. Her research interests center on relationships between gender, labor, culture, and economy in the nineteenth-century United States. She is the author of The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 1997) and is at work on The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Dr. Mary L. Gray
mlg@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
and Communication and Culture
Professor Gray's research areas include theory and ethnography of queer genders & sexualities; new media & cultural identity production; youth & public culture; the pedagogy of research ethics; sociology of scientific knowledge and practice as it relates to gender and sexuality. You can visit her web site by clicking here.
Dr. Susan Gubar
gubar@indiana.edu
Distinguished Professor
A Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, Susan Gubar is the co-author with Sandra M. Gilbert of The Madwoman in the Attic and its three-volume sequel No Man's Land. Besides co-editing the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, she has published a number of books including Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture, Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century, and Poetry after Auschwitz. In 2005 Professor Gubar provided an introduction and notes for the first annotated edition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own to appear in the United States. In 2006, her Rooms of Our Own was published by the University of Illinois Press. In 2007, Gilbert and Gubar brought out a third edition of the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women as well as a Norton reader entitled Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism. W. W. Norton published Susan Gubar’s cultural biography of Judas, the twelfth apostle, in 2009.
Scott Herring
Assistant Professor
phone 812-855-4137
Ph.D. in English, 2004, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A. in English, 1999, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.A. in English, 1998, University of Alabama at Birmingham, summa cum laude
B.A. in History, 1998, University of Alabama at Birmingham, summa cum laude
I specialize in twentieth-century U.S. literatures (particularly
American modernisms), queer theory, cultural studies, and critical
regional/rural studies. With Prof. Jennifer Fleissner, I co-direct the
American Research Colloquium. While I spend the majority of my time
figuring out sexual and social modernity, much of my current efforts
also hover around the intricacies of U.S. urbanism and urbanities. My
first book, Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the
Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History (University of Chicago Press, 2007),
tracked how modern artists and writers tweaked the standard formulas of "city mysteries" or "slumming" literatures in order to undermine the
genre's promise of subcultural revelation. Here I brought together an
assortment of twentieth-century literatures to explore how each refused
the modern will to sexual knowledge regarding emergent U.S.
underworlds. My new project, Another Country: The Cultural Politics of
Queer Anti-Urbanism (New York University Press, forthcoming) tackles a
complementary metropolitan narrative-the rural-to-urban flight to the
city. It charts how U.S.-based artists use what I term "rural
stylistics" in order to fashion critiques against lesbian and gay metro
norms. The arguments presented in these two book projects have appeared
into a number of articles on queer regionality, metronormativity and
visual culture, Willa Cather, Frank O'Hara, and intra-national
modernism. Likewise, they have informed some recent editorial work on "Reconceiving Regional Modernisms" as well as a new critical edition of
Ralph Werther's 1918 sexological memoir, Autobiography of an Androgyne.
Dr. Patricia Ingham
pingham@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English
Professor Ingham's research areas include Medieval Cultural Studies; Arthurian Romance; Chaucer; Postcolonial Studies; Psychoanalytic Theory; Gender and Sexuality; and Medievalism. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995. She has written the following books: Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Co-editor, Postcolonial Moves Medieval Through Modern (NY: Palgrave Press, 2003).
Dr. Stephanie C. Kane
stkane@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Criminal Justice
Professor Kane has carried out ethnographic research on indigenous rain forest peoples in Central America; on the social context of HIV risk related to drug use, sexuality, and crime; and most recently, on the use of life writing in cross-cultural criminal justice. She has been a faculty member at IU since 1993. She has received grant and fellowship support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fullbright, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Organization of American Studies. Kane’s current research project deals with studying three different port cities in Argentina and Brazil. Her goal is to understand how different people, institutions and laws interplay in the management of urban water front.
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Dr. Ellen Ketterson
ketterso@indiana.edu
Professor of Gender Studies and Biology
Professor Ketterson's research focuses on population, behavioral, and physiological ecology, avian biology, hormones and behavior. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Public Heath Service. She has taught at IU since 1977. She has been honored with awards from the American Ornithologists' Union and the Wilson Ornithological Society, and, most recently she was named Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer at IUB. Her numerous publications have appeared in Animal Behaviour, Ethology, Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, and American Naturalist, among others.
Karma Lochrie
klochrie@indiana.edu
Ruth N. Halls Professor of English and Chair of Gender Studies
Courses: G350 – Queer Theory
Research: Before coming to Indiana University in 1999, Professor Lochrie taught at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Loyola University Chicago.
Professor Lochrie’s research is concerned with genders and sexualities in the premodern past, particularly in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but she has also straddles modernity in her teaching and conference talks. Her published books include Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (1991), Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (1999), and Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t (2005). She also co-edited Constructing Medieval Sexuality (1997). She is currently working on a contribution to a contracted volume, The Premodern Lesbian. In addition, she is writing a book on the idea of utopianism before Thomas More, a project which will end with a discussion of Lee Edelman’s recent controversial book, No Future (2004). She received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for this project in 2008-09.
Dr. Alyce Miller
almiller@indiana.edu
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Alyce Miller is the author of three books of fiction (The Nature of Longing, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, Stopping for Green Lights (Anchor Doubleday, and Water, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize for Fiction), and has published more than 150 poems, essays, and articles in literary journals. She also is an attorney with a special interest in animal rights law. Both her writing and teaching are inflected by concerns relating to gender, sexual orientation, and race, how these categories shape and define individual lives, and the role law plays. In addition to creative writing, she teaches both graduate and undergraduate literature classes, including Women’s Literature. Special topics courses include Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Detective Novel, The Literary and Legal Animal, Animals and Ethics, Literature and Critical Race Studies, and Narrative and Law.
Dr. Marissa J. Moorman
moorman@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and History
Professor Moorman's research interests include: popular culture, gender and nation; transnational feminism; gender and sexuality in African history.
Dr. Amrita Myers
apmyers@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of History
Originally from Canada, I am a historian of the black female experience in the United States and my main interests are race, gender, freedom and citizenship and the ways in which these constructs intersect with one another in the lives of black women, particularly in the antebellum South.
My manuscript-in-progress, "Negotiating Women: Black Women and the Politics of Freedom in Charleston, South Carolina, 1790-1860," analyzes the tactics that enslaved women in Charleston utilized to first acquire and then define, shape and defend their freedom while continuing to live in a slave state, including their use of both the state's legislative and judicial systems. Examining freedom from the perspective of those invested with the least formal power in the antebellum era, my work restores black women to their rightful place as economic actors and political agents in the Old South.
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Dr. M. Jeanne Peterson, Emeritus
petersom@indiana.edu
Founding Emeritus Professor of Gender Studies and History
Professor Peterson's scholarly books and articles interrogate historical constructions of British masculinities and femininities; Victorian medicine, public health, disease, and prostitution; and gender, the family, sexuality, and paid work in the nineteenth century. Professor Peterson has been a faculty member of IU since 1971, primarily in the History Department, joining the Department of Gender Studies in 1996. She is currently engaged in two different research projects: one focusing on patterns of masculinity and class in Britain, and another examining gender issues in 19th century medical theory and practice. Professor Peterson is Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography, and has secured grant and fellowship support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Sarah D. Phillips
sadphill@Indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Sarah D. Phillips (Ph.D. University of Illinois) was appointed in 2003. Her gender-focused courses include Postsocialist Gender Formations and Advanced Seminar in Medical Anthropology. She also teaches courses such as Culture, Health and Illness; Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe; and Chernobyl. She recently published Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation (Indiana University Press, 2008). Other publications include “Will the Market Set Them Free? Women, NGOs, and Social Enterprise in Ukraine,” Human Organization (2005) and “Civil Society and Healing: Theorizing Women’s Social Activism in Post-Soviet Ukraine,” Ethnos (2005). She is currently working on a book on disability and citizenship in Ukraine, entitled Mobile Citizens: Living Disability after Socialism.
Dr. Jean C. Robinson
robinso@indiana.edu
Professor of Gender Studies and Political Science
Professor Robinson was Coordinator and then Director of Women's Studies at IU from 1977-1982, and again in 1991-92. She was Dean for Women's Affairs from 1998-2003. Her research is cross-national, focusing on comparing the politics of reproductive policies, as well as on feminist movements and gendered public policy. Professor Robinson is a founding member of RNGS (Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State), and has contributed to Comparative State Feminism (1995) and Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the Democratic State (2001). Professor Robinson was co-editor of Women and Social Policy: From Local to Global (NWSA Journal, 2001) and has also published in numerous volumes and journals. She has a forthcoming book on Gender and Post-Communism. Her newest project analyzes equality discourse in the US, especially debates over the Equal Rights Amendment and same-sex marriage. She also is starting work on a comparative study of sexuality policies in Poland, France, China, and the US. She has received two NSF grants as well as funding from other major federal agencies. Professor Robinson is recipient of the Indiana University President's Award for Distinguished Teaching (1996) and of five other teaching awards. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science. Professor Robinson teaches courses on Chinese politics, feminist political thought, gender and the state, cross-cultural studies of gender, and family and politics.
Dr. Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
ryancm@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Italian
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz is an associate professor of Italian whose research comprises work in two different fields, that of women and gender representations in contemporary Italian literature and film and that of foreign language pedagogy and second language studies. Her first book, Sex, the Self, and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini (University of Toronto, 2007) examines the representation of women in the cinema of Pasolini. She has taught courses on Female Voices in 20th century Italy, Women in Italian Literature and Film, and Italian Popular Culture, as well as Italian language and pedagogy courses.
Dr. Micol Seigel
mseigel@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor
African American and African Diaspora Studies and American Studies
Micol Seigel (Ph. D. NYU American Studies) is Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and American Studies. She is interested in cultural politics, nationalism, transnational method, state discipline and surveillance, and race in the Americas, particularly in the U.S. and Brazil. Her gender studies interests focus on intersections among gender, sexuality, race, nation, and other categories of identity and the relationship of queer theory to postcolonial studies. Her work can be found in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Radical History Review, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, the Revista Brasileira de História, the Black Music Research Journal and in her book, Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2009).
Dr. Susan Seizer
sseizer@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies
and Communication & Culture
Professor Seizer's research and teaching interests include: Humor in Use, Stigma & Subjectivity, South Asia through Performance, Queer Ethnographic Narrative, and Disability Studies. Her recent book, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama artists in South India (Duke University Press 2005), focuses on the lives of Tamil popular theater artists onstage and off. Prior to beginning her academic career, Professor Seizer was a performer of dance, theater, and circus. Many of her scholarly interests follow threads she first explored as a performer: improvisation; the way comedy can be used to do just about anything; and the particular exhilaration many women find in transgressing normative gender roles through public performance. Professor Seizer has published in journals as diverse as Public Culture, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Transition, Heresies, and Indian Folklife. You can visit her website at
http://www.stigmasofthetamilstage.com
Beate Sissenich
bsisseni@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies
Beate Sissenich (PhD, Cornell) has taught at Indiana University since 2003. She is interested in how rules and knowledge travel across "borders" and why they often fail to do so even when evidence would suggest best practices worthy of pursuing. Her courses cover public policy and comparative politics of advanced industrialized countries (specifically Europe), social movements, transnational activism, and reproductive health. Her first book, Building States without Society (Lexington, 2007), deals with the transfer of European Union social policy to Poland and Hungary and documents the limits of EU influence on new member states and the simultaneous marginalization of societal actors in Europe's newest democracies. In her current project on "The Politics of Childbirth," she investigates why maternal health policies diverge among advanced industrialized democracies and how law and culture shape obstetric practices, often at the expense of women and children.
Dr. Margaret "Peg" Sutton
msutton@indiana.edu
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Education
Professor Sutton's activities in the School of Education include teaching foundations courses in the teacher preparation programs as well as instructing graduate students in international/comparative education and in policy studies. She studies and researches education and cultural change both outside and inside the U.S., with research and publications on educational policy formation in international assistance agencies; gender and education in the Third World; comparative multicultural policies; the sources and forms of global awareness among children and youth in the U.S.; and on citizenship and education around the world.
Dr. Kirsten Sword
ksword@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and History
Professor Sword's current book project is Wives not Slaves: Dependence, Authority and Justice in Early America. Her research examines the legal and social connections between marriage, slavery and servitude, and documents the process by which ordinary people developed new ideas about justice within households and in American society at large during the long eighteenth-century. She teaches Marriage and the American Nation http://www.indiana.edu/~marriage, Women, Feminism and History, the U.S. history survey and other topical and methods courses in early American and American women's history. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002.
Dr. Shane Vogel
shvogel@indiana.edu
Assistant Professor of English
Shane Vogel received his Ph.D in Performance Studies from New York University in 2004. He is the author of The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance (The University of Chicago Press, 2009). Other publications have appeared in GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Criticism, South Central Review, and Camera Obscura. He regularly teaches courses on performance studies, queer theory, dramatic literature, and cultural studies.
Dr. Susan Hoffman Williams
shwillia@indiana.edu
Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law and Gender Studies
Before joining the Law faculty at IU in 1993, Professor Williams taught at the Cornell University School of Law and served as Judicial Clerk to Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit. Her many articles address such subjects as epistemology, feminist theory, free speech, and civil society. She has wide experience in judicial education, especially in the area of feminist legal theory. Her current research brings together issues in political theory, epistemology, and feminist jurisprudence. Professor Williams teaches courses on Feminist Jurisprudence, HIV and the Law, and Gender Equality in Comparative Perspective. In her recent book -- Truth, Autonomy, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment -- Professor Williams addresses the impact of feminist critiques of truth and autonomy on the theoretical foundations of freedom of expression. She is currently studying the ways in which constitutional systems in different countries conceptualize gender equality and the legal mechanisms they use to promote it.
Dr. William L. Yarber
yarber@indiana.edu
Lecturer in Gender Studies and
Sr. Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Being an IU faculty member since 1984, Professor Yarber's research interests include HIV/STD risk behaviors, adolescent sexual behavior, sexuality education, and condom use behaviors. He has published over 85 articles and four school HIV/STD curriculum including the nation's first school HIV curriculum. Professor Yarber has received over $2.5 million in extramural funding for his research and HIV prevention work. Professor Yarber has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Graduate Student Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (2002) and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award (2002). He has also held positions of national and international leadership, including Chair of the Board of Directors of the Sexuality Information and Education Council (SIECUS), President of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, President of the Friends of The Kinsey Institute, and Consultant for the World Health Organization and Center for Diseases Control (CDC).
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