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/Women's leadership and Navigating Bias in the Workplace

Donna Dodson
Donna Dodson
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Sculpture, Amazons, Goddesses, Witches and Heroines in myth and life

Susan Eisenberg
Susan Eisenberg
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Occupational exclusion/inclusion, women in construction, labor poetry/digital media

Karen Frostig
Karen Frostig
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Public memory, genocide, art, social justice

Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
WSRC Scholar

Focus: American Eldercide; Empathy and Activism in an Ageist Era: essayist and anti-ageist, anti-ableist activist

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

Focus: transnational Black feminism, food sovereignty, reparations, and prison abolition

Marjan Kamali
Marjan Kamali
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Creative writing, culture, publishing

Dorothy Kim
Dorothy Kim
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Medieval literature, drama, digital humanities

Aditi Malik
Aditi Malik
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Political violence, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), social movements and contentious politics, African politics, South Asian politics, mixed and multi-method research, small-N cross-regional comparisons

Marisol Negrón
Marisol Negrón
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Race, gender, class, and sexuality in the making and unmaking of national and diasporic Puerto Rican and Nuyorican imaginaries; expressive culture and commodification; copyright; Latinx Studies and heritage language instruction; Latinx student success 

headshot of Carmel Ohman
Carmel Ohman
WSRC Scholar

Focus: African American Literature and Visual Culture, Black Feminist Theories, Sexuality Studies, Media and Communication

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

Heather Treseler
Heather Treseler
WSRC Scholar

Focus: creative writing, literary journalism, American poetry since 1945