WGS Faculty
Women’s and Gender Studies at Brandeis enjoys a distinctive international reputation as a pioneering program. Our core and affiliate faculty, drawn from twenty-four Brandeis departments and programs, includes some of the most renowned women’s studies scholars in their fields. Together, they have received nearly every major national fellowship including MacArthur, Guggenheim, Radcliffe, NEH, NSF, Ford, and ACLS 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.
Faculty Listing by Name
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Faculty Listing by Department/Program
| Department/Program |
Faculty |
| African and Afro-American Studies |
Faith Smith |
| American Studies |
Joyce Antler, Shilpa Davé, Laura Goldin |
| Anthropology |
Elizabeth Ferry, Sarah Lamb, Ellen Schattschneider |
| Biology |
Judith Tsipis, Lawrence Wangh |
| Classical Studies |
Ann Koloski-Ostrow |
Comparative Literature
|
Dian Fox, Matthew Fraleigh, Jane Hale, Sue Lanser, James Mandrell, Robin Feuer Miller, Faith Smith |
Cultural Production
|
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Jane Hale, Thomas King, James Mandrell, Ellen Schattschneider, Nancy Scott, Harleen Singh, Faith Smith |
| Economics |
Nidhiya Menon |
English and American Literature
|
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Olga Broumas, Mary Campbell, Caren Irr, Thomas King, Susan Lanser, Paul Morrison, Faith Smith |
Film Studies
|
Matthew Fraleigh, Alice Kelikian, James Mandrell, Paul Morrison, Sabine von Mering |
| Fine Arts |
Nancy Scott |
| French and Francophone Studies |
Jane Hale |
| Germanic, Russian, & Asian Languages and Literature |
Matthew Fraleigh, Robin Feuer Miller, Harleen Singh, Sabine von Mering |
| The Heller School for Social Policy and Management |
Sarita Bhalotra, David Gil, Anita Hill*, Lorraine Klerman, Phyllis Mutschler, Kelley Ready |
| Hispanic Studies |
Dian Fox, James Mandrell, Marisol Negrón, Angela Pérez-Mejía |
| History |
Silvia Arrom, Jacqueline Jones, Jane Kamensky*, Alice Kelikian |
| Latin American and Latino Studies |
Silvia Arrom, Elizabeth Ferry, James Mandrell, Marisol Negrón, Angela Pérez-Mejía, Faith Smith, Eva Thorne |
| Near Eastern and Judaic Studies |
Marc Brettler, Bernadette Brooten*, Sylvia Barack Fishman, ChaeRan Freeze*, Ilana Szobel |
| Philosophy |
Marion Smiley |
| Politics |
Jill Greenlee, Jytte Klausen, Eva Thorne |
| Psychology |
Leslie Zebrowitz |
| Sociology |
Wendy Cadge, Gordon Fellman, Karen Hansen, Shulamit Reinharz, Sara Shostak |
| Theater Arts |
Susan Dibble, Adrianne Krstansky
|
| Women's and Gender Studies |
Claudia Castañeda, Deirdre Hunter |
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* on leave 2007-2008
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From 1968 to 1973, Pauli Murray taught in the American Studies Department at Brandeis, where she held the Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics. She offered the university's first courses in Women's Studies, African-American Studies, and Legal Studies. A leading civil rights and feminist activist, Murray was instrumental in achieving the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that banned sex and race discrimination and in creating the National Organization for Women.
Pauli Murray Fellowship Information
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