Faculty
The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Brandeis enjoys a distinctive international reputation as a pioneering program. Our core and associate faculty, drawn from 23 Brandeis departments and programs, includes some of the most renowned women’s, gender, and sexuality studies scholars in their fields.
Together, our faculty have received nearly every major national fellowship — including ACLS, Carnegie, Fulbright, Ford, Guggenheim, MacArthur, NEH, NSF, and Radcliffe awards, have collectively published dozens of important books and scores of articles, have received a significant percentage of the university’s teaching awards, and have held many offices in professional organizations.
Department Faculty
Expertise: Jewish history, women's, gender and sexuality studies
Expertise: Labor economics, economic demography, health economics, health and fertility in post-Socialist countries
Expertise: Nonprofit organizations and foundations, transgender and gender nonconforming communities of color, queer of color critique
Expertise: Asian American studies, transnational U.S. history, modern Korea, women’s history, gender and sexuality, oral history, critical mixed race studies
Expertise: Sociology of gender, class and race/ethnicity, families and kinship, historical sociology, community studies
Expertise: Social-cultural theory, anthropology of aging, gender and sexuality, person and self, medical anthropology, immigrant and transnational communities, understandings of mModernity, South Asia, South Asian Americans, U.S. cultural-historical practices of aging
Expertise: Black feminism, Black sexuality studies, performance theory, African American literary and visual cultures
Expertise: Postcolonial literature and theory, colonial studies, South Asian novel, Indian film, immigrant literature, women's, gender, and sexuality studies, South Asian studies
Core Faculty
Expertise: Modern and contemporary art and culture with emphasis on gender, hybridity, trauma and the immigrant experience, Palestinian and Israeli art, Frida Kahlo
Expertise: American politics, political behavior, political socialization, public opinion, women and politics, research methods
Expertise: Anti-discrimination law and policy (gender and race)
Expertise: Modern and contemporary art
Expertise: Religion, psychoanalytic theory, memory and trauma, anthropology of the body, commodification, East Asia, Japan
Expertise: Caribbean literatures in English, literary and sexual histories of the African diaspora, aovereignty and the postcolonial imagination
Expertise: Modern Hebrew literature, Israel studies, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, disability studies, film studies
Expertise: Gender, sexuality, transnational social movements, development, labor and labor movements, feminist theory, HIV/AIDS, ethnographic and interview methods, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Expertise: German as a foreign language, climate change and the humanities, fairy tales, Jewish-German dialogue, German women writers, German cinema, Age of Goethe, German drama
Lecturers and Fellows
Expertise: Intersection of feminist, social science, and public health theory, current practice in intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child abuse, animal abuse, and intellectual and developmental disabilities, supervising internships
Expertise: Culture theory, women's studies, gender studies, gender theory, nonheternormative sexualities, fandom and fan identity, agency and identity, medical anthropology, anthropology of the body, intentional communities, consciously created culture, folklore, magical practice
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Aamskapipikuni Blackfeet, A'aninin Gros VentreResearch focus: Dance Studies, Native American and Indigenous Dance, Gender, and Sexuality
Pronouns: she/her/they
Expertise: African American literature and visual culture, Black feminist theories, sexuality studies
Expertise: Art theory, Black girlhood study, critical art writing, pleasure and sexual politics
Faculty Emeritae
“The Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Brandeis has provided me with an enriching group of colleagues whose scholarship inspires me. My work is interdisciplinary at its core and WGS has been my academic home. This is a set of colleagues, students and staff who believe in the value of laughter, food and a welcoming environment for all.”
Professor Harleen Singh