Current Scholars

Pnina Abir-Am
Pnina Abir-Am
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Women scientists, RNA, gender bias

Becky Behar
Becky Behar
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Photography | Traditions and customs of Sephardic Jewish women

Michelle Bowlder
Michelle Bowdler
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Public health and higher educations fields on issues of addiction, violence prevention, mental health, sexual health, HIV education and prevention;  social justice issues related to rape and crimes of violence; writing and literature

Edith Chears
Edith Chears
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Organizational leadership and advancing women’s leadership

Marie Comuzzo
Marie Comuzzo
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Musicologist, environmental activist, musician, and multimedia artist

Donna Dodson
Donna Dodson
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Historical representations of Amazons and female heroes in myth and life

Susan Eisenberg
Susan Eisenberg
WSRC Scholar

Focus: On equal terms, women in construction, digital media project

Karen Frostig
Karen Frostig
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Public memory, genocide, art, social justice

Florence Graves
Florence Graves
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Investigative journalism

Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
WSRC Scholar

Focus: American eldercide: How it happened, how to prevent it the next time

K. Melchor Quick Hall
K. Melchor Quick Hall
WSRC Scholar

Focus: International Black feminism

Marla Jaksch
Marla Jaksch
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and art education

Marjan Kamali
Marjan Kamali
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Creative writing, culture, publishing

Latest: WSRC Scholar Marjan Kamali Publishes New Book

Dorothy Kim
Dorothy Kim
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Medieval literature, drama, digital humanities

Aditi Malik
Aditi Malik
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Political and gender-based violence; political parties; social movements and contentious politics; and ethnic and gender politics with regional specializations in Africa and South Asia

Marisol Negron
Marisol Negron
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Race, gender, class, and sexuality in the making and unmaking of national and diasporic imaginaries

Phoebe Schnitzer
Phoebe Schnitzer
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Pre-college sexual education curricula in the U.S.

C. Rose Smith
C. Rose Smith
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Visualizing the identities of Black and queer women through photography

Cassie Tanks
Cassie Tanks
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Archivist, digital humanist, historian

Heather Treseler
Heather Treseler
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Poem manuscripts, work on poet Elizabeth Bishop