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

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

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

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

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Expertise: Nonprofit Organizations and Foundations, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Communities of Color, Queer of Color Critique

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Expertise: Asian American Studies, Transnational U.S. History, Modern Korea, Women’s History, Gender and Sexuality, Oral History, Critical Mixed Race Studies

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

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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

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Expertise: Cold War U.S., military history, business history, and the history of gender and sexuality

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

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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 in Other Departments

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Expertise: Modern and Contemporary Art and Culture with Emphasis on Gender, Hybridity, Trauma and the Immigrant Experience, Palestinian and Israeli Art, Frida Kahlo

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

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

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

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

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Expertise: Caribbean Literatures in English, Literary and Sexual Histories of the African Diaspora, Sovereignty and the Postcolonial Imagination

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Expertise: Modern Hebrew Literature, Israel Studies, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis, Trauma Studies, Disability Studies, Film Studies

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Expertise: Gender, Sexuality, Transnational Social Movements, Development, Labor and Labor Movements, Feminist Theory, HIV/AIDS, Ethnographic and Interview Methods, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

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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 Postdoctoral Fellows

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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

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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

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Aamskapipikuni Blackfeet, A'aninin Gros VentreResearch focus: Dance Studies, Native American and Indigenous Dance, Gender, and Sexuality
Faculty Emeritae






