Faculty
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program 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.
Core Faculty

Expertise: Social-Cultural Theory, Anthropology of Aging, Gender and Sexuality, Person and Self, Medical Anthropology, Immigrant and Transnational communities, Understandings of Modernity, South Asia, South Asian Americans, US Cultural-Historical Practices of Aging

Expertise: Israeli and Palestinian Art, Frida Kahlo

Expertise: Labor Economics, Economic Demography, Health Economics, Health and Fertility in Post-Socialist Countries

Expertise: Sociology of Religion, Culture, Health and Medicine, Immigration, Sexuality, Research Methods, Buddhism, Chaplaincy

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: Jewish History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: American Politics, Political Behavior, Political Socialization, Public Opinion, Women and Politics, Research Methods

Expertise: Sociology of Gender, Class and Race/Ethnicity, Families and Kinship, Historical Sociology, Community Studies

Expertise: Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy (Gender and Race)

Expertise: Modern and Contemporary Art

Expertise: Black Feminism, Black Sexuality Studies, Performance Theory, African-American Literary and Visual Cultures

Expertise: Religion, Psychoanalytic Theory, Memory and Trauma, Anthropology of the Body, Commodification, East Asia, Japan

Expertise: Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Colonial Studies, South Asian Novel, Indian Film, Immigrant Literature, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, South Asian Studies

Expertise: Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory

Expertise: Caribbean Literatures in English, Literary and Sexual Histories of the African Diaspora, Sovereignty 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
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty

Expertise: Transgender Health, Healthcare Ethics, Feminist Ethics

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
Faculty Emeritae






