People - All

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Name

Field of Interest

Zakiya Adair

GWSS Alumni '10 - Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies; Program Co-Director, International Studies, The College of New Jersey

African American History, Black Internationalism, Transnational Women's Cultural History

Kemi Adeyemi

Associate Professor

kadeyemi@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B110 C

African American, Black Studies, Dance, Ethnography, Performance Studies, Performance Theory, Queer Studies, Queer Studies, Visual Arts

Accepting new graduate students

Alka Arora

GWSS Alumni '08 - Associate Professor, Women's Spirituality, California Institute of Integral Studies

Animal Ethics, Buddhism, Multicultural Feminist Theory, Spiritual Activism

Dinka Benitez Piraino

Graduate Student

dbenitez@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment only

Critical Pedagogy, Feminist Theory, Human Rights, Law and Political Thought, Philosophy

Amy Bhatt

GWSS Alumni '11 - Writer and Researcher, The Brohatt Group

Effects of Migration on Gender and Families, Social Reproduction, South Asian Community Formation

Brianna Blaser

GWSS Alumni '08 - Counselor/Coordinator, DO-IT Center, University of Washington

Women in Science

Jeanette Bushnell

GWSS Alumni '09 - Part-time Lecturer, University of Washington Honors Program; Co-founder, N.D.N. Players Research Group

Renee Byrd

GWSS Alumni '13 - Associate Professor, Department of English, Cal Poly Humboldt

Mass Imprisonment, Neoliberal Political Rationalities, Prisoner Re-Entry, Race

Rebecca Castner

GWSS Alumni '12 - Freelance Speaker and Human Rights Activist

Calla Chancellor

GWSS Alumni '11 - Instructional Consultant, University of Washington

Digital Humanities, Teaching and Critical Pedagogies

Vivyne Chen

Graduate Student

ychen301@uw.edu

Ballroom culture, Chinese, Dance, Ethnography, Fashion, Globalization, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Women of Color

Christina Yuen Zi Chung

GWSS Alumni '24 - Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon

Art, Art History, Culture, Decolonial, East Asian, Feminism, Gender, Sinophone studies, Transnational, Visual Arts, Visual Culture

Kavita Dattani

Assistant Professor

kdattani@uw.edu

B110 S

Data, Digital Platforms, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Gender, Global Studies, Indian, Political Economy, South Asian, Urban Studies, Women of Color

Monica De La Torre

GWSS Alumni '16 - Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University

Chicana/o, Media Studies, Radio and Sound Studies

Sara Diaz

GWSS Alumni '12 - Associate Professor & Department Chair, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University

diazs@gonzaga.edu

Feminism, Feminism and Science, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Women, Women and the Environment

Yasmine Gomez

Graduate Student

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B111

Chicana/o, Decolonial, Immigration, Indigenous, Latino/a Studies, Literature, Surveillance and Privacy, Tejana, Transnational, Violence and Trauma

Martha Gonzalez

GWSS Alumni '13 - Associate Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies, Scripps College

mgonzale@scrippscollege.edu

Chicana/o, Feminism, Latino/a Studies, Performance Studies, Transnational

Michelle Habell-Pallán

Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Adjunct Professor, School of Music and Department of Communication

mhabellp@uw.edu

PDL B110 T

Activism, Archives, Chicana/o, Digital Humanities, Latino/a Studies, New Media, Performance Studies, Popular Music, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Technofeminism, Women of Color

Alyssa Hellrung

GWSS Alumni '09 - Associate, Infosys

ahellrun@uw.edu

Gender & Sports

Mae C. Henderson

GWSS Alumni '06

Sean Jarvis

GWSS Alumni '20

sjarvis2@uw.edu

Bioethics, Historiography, Law and Political Thought, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Ramon Johnson

Graduate Student

Office Hours: Mondays 11am-1pm

B111

African American, Archives, Gender, Masculinity, Music, Photography, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Sociology, Transgender Studies, Violence and Trauma

Adrian Kane-Galbraith

Academic Counselor

gwssadvs@uw.edu / (206) 543-6902

Office Hours: Email gwssadvs@uw.edu with questions or reserve an appointment time via Google Calendar (see advising page)

PDL B110 K

Kanupriya Kanupriya

Graduate Student

Ethnography, Gender, Queer Studies, Sexuality, South Asian, Visual Anthropology, Visual Culture, Women of Color

Cricket Keating

Associate Professor

ckeating@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B110 R

Critical Pedagogy, Decolonial politics, Latin American, Political Theory, Queer politics, South Asian, Transnational Feminisms

Saad Khan

Graduate Student

saakh494@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Allen Research Commons

Archives, Development, Ethnography, Human Rights, Masculinity, Political Economy, Pornography, Queer Studies, Sexuality

alma khasawnih

GWSS Alumni '18 - Associate Professor, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The College of New Jersey

Arab Feminisms, Arab Spring, Arab World, Egypt, Feminist Theory, Politics of Representation, Postcolonial, Public Art, Queer Studies, Social Change, Transnational, Urban Studies, Visual Culture

Young Kim

Financial Analyst

Nina Kim Hanson

GWSS Alumni '13 - Public Speaker, Let Love Lead; Board Member, Lake Stevens School District

Bobbi Kindred

GWSS Alumni '24 - Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas, San Antonio

ciegreen@uw.edu

African American, Black Geographies, Critical Addiction Studies, Drama, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, Folklore and Mythology, Oral History, Performance Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies

Jan Kinney

GWSS Alumni '10 - Retired

Academic Excellence

Kristina Knoll Niemi

GWSS Alumni '12 - Accessibility and Policy Analyst, California Department of Social Services

Civil Rights Laws

Michelle Kritz Morado

GWSS Alumni '23 - Assistant Professor in History, Seattle Central College

Michelle.Morado@seattlecolleges.edu

Archives, Chicana/o, Class, History, Motherhood, Oral History, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Women of Color

Wei-Wei Lee

Administrative Assistant Floater

Kristy Leissle

GWSS Alumni '08 - Co-Founder, Cocoapreneurship Institute of Ghana; Educational Consultant Cacao Latitudes, Cocoa Masterclass

Politics Economics and Cultures of the Global Chocolate Industry

Angelica Macklin

GWSS Alumni '24 - Creative Director, UW Cultivate Learning

amacklin@uw.edu

Communication, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Production, Culture, Digital Humanities, Film/Cinema, Film/Media Production, Media Studies, Oral History, Politics of Representation, Social Change, Transnational Feminisms, Visual Culture

Marielle Marcaida

Graduate Student

marcaida@uw.edu

TA Office: Padelford B-111

Activism, Community, Feminist Theory, Grassroots, Motherhood, Philippine and Filipino American, Political Science, Southeast Asian

Serena Maurer

GWSS Alumni '06 - Consultant, Compassionate Social Justice Consulting

Michelle L. McGowan

GWSS Alumni '08 - Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics, UC Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ethical Legal and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics, Reproductive Technologies

Tylir McKenzie

GWSS Alumni '19 - Faculty, Psychology, Highline College

Critical Pedagogy, Education, Feminist Pedagogy, Gender, Identity and self disclosure, Intersectional Educational Approaches, Online Learning, Online pedagogy, Popular Culture, Psychology, Scholarship of teaching and learning, Sexuality, Writing Pedagogy

Whitney Miller

Administrative Assistant

wmmiller@uw.edu / (206) 543-6900

PDL B110

Akanksha Misra

GWSS Alum '20 - Associate Professor in Gender & Women's Studies, SUNY, Plattsburgh

Education, Gender, Indian, Sexuality, Turkish

Dipika Nath

GWSS Alumni '08 - Faculty at UWC Dilijan College

Logan O'Laughlin

GWSS Alumni '18 - UX Researcher, CDW

Animal Studies, Critical Race Theory, Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Feminist Commodity Chains, Feminist Theory, Food, Political Economy, Posthumanism, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Reproduction, Science and Technology, Transgender Studies

Nastasia Paul-Gera

Graduate Student

nastasia@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays from 10:30-11:30 am in PDL B111 and by appointment

Adivasi Studies, Critical Tourism Studies, Decolonial, Environmental History, Ethnography, Feminism, Labor Studies, Multispecies Studies, Political Economy, Postcolonial, South Asian

Amy Peloff

GWSS Alumni '11 - Administrative Director, League of Women Voters of Washington

Feminism, Women

Shelley Pryde

Graduate Student

Office Hours: Mondays 12 noon- 1pm, or by appointment

PDL B111

African, Decolonial, Feminist Pedagogy, Global South, Media Studies, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Visual Culture

Priti Ramamurthy

Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Adjunct Professor, American Ethnic Studies

Office Hours: T 1:00-2:00 pm and by appointment

PDL B110 E

Agrarian Transitions, Anthropology, Consumption and Commodity Cultures, Culture, Ethnography, Oral History, Political Economy, Reproduction, Transnational, Women of Color

Chandan Reddy

Associate Professor

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL A313

Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Global Studies, Globalization Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality

Royalti Richardson

Graduate Student

Black Sexuality, Erotic Sovereignty, Gossip, Labor, Pro-Pornography Feminism, Surveillance

Nicole Robert

GWSS Alumni '16 - Director of Visitor Experience, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Museum Studies/Museology

Noralis Rodriguez-Coss

GWSS Alumni '16 - Assistant Professor, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University

Activism, Body, Decolonial, Feminism, Gender, Island Studies, Performance Studies, Public Protests, Violence and Trauma

fabian romero

GWSS Alumni '23 - Assistant Professor in Indigenous Knowledge, Ohio State University

American Indian/Native American, Collaboration, Digital Arts, Feminism, Indigenous, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Latino/a Studies, Performance Studies, Politics of Representation, Public Scholarship, Queer Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality Studies

Karen Rosenberg

GWSS Alumni '08 - Graduate Writing Specialist, McMaster University

Writing Pedagogy

Jaye Sablan

GWSS Alumni '12 - Assistant Director of Core Programs, UW Graduate School

Indigenous Feminism, Native Pacific Cultural Studies, Transnational Genders and Sexulaities

Jey Saung

GWSS Alumni '25 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Washington University

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B111

Kinship Studies, Literature, Queer Studies, Reproduction, Reproductive Technologies, Science and Technology, science fiction, Transgender Studies

Julie Severson

GWSS Alumni '09 - Director, Office of Research Misconduct Proceedings, University of Washington

Amanda Lock Swarr

Chair & Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B110

African, Decolonial, Feminist Theory, Gender, Medicine, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Transgender Studies, Transnational

Accepting new graduate students

Keila Taylor

Graduate Student

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B111

Activism, African American, Feminist Theory, Social Change, Violence and Trauma, Women of Color

Yiyu Tian

GWSS Alumni '19 - Software Engineer, Confluent

Anthropology, Biopolitics, Body, Chinese, East Asian, Labor, Migration, Performance Studies, Political Economy, Reproduction, Science and Technology

Catalina Velasquez

Graduate Student

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B111

Critical Refugee Studies, Decolonial Studies, Feminist Methods and Methodologies, Feminist Pedagogy, Latin American, Law and Political Thought, Political Economy, Transgender Studies, Transnational and Indigenous Feminisms

Stephanie Yingyi Wang

GWSS Alumni '22 - Assistant Professor in Gender & Sexuality Studies, St. Lawrence University

stephaniewang54@gmail.com

Activism, Anthropology, China Studies, Ethnography, Feminism, Political Economy, Queer Studies, Reproduction, Social Change, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Transnational

Steph Welch

HR Manager

Sasha Su-Ling Welland

Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Adjunct Professor, Anthropology

swelland@uw.edu

Office Hours: Spring 2026 | By appointment

PDL B110 J

Art, Asian American, Chinese, Ecocriticism, Ethnography, Public Scholarship, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Transnational, Visual Culture, Women of Color

Accepting new graduate students

Jiwoon Yu-Lee

GWSS Alumni '18 - Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Syracuse University

Activism, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, Janitorial work, Labor, Oral History, Political Economy, Social division of labor, Social Justice, South Korea, Transnational

Regina Yung Lee

Teaching Professor

rylee001@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL B110 D

Bioethics, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, East Asian, fan studies, Feminist Theory, Francophone, New Media, Science and Technology, speculative fiction, Theory/Criticism, Transnational

Liz Zeng

Graduate Student

PDL B111

China Studies, fan studies, New Media, Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Transnational Feminisms

Ziyi "Anna" Zhao

GWSS Alumni '25

zhaox355@uw.edu

Biopolitics, China Studies, Feminist Theory, Motherhood, Reproduction, Transnational, Transnational Feminisms

Shuxuan Zhou

GWSS Alumni '17 - Policy Analyst, Seattle Office of Labor Standards

Chinese, Feminism, Gender, Labor, Women

Emeriti Faculty

Angela Ginorio

Associate Professor Emerita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Access to Education, Education, Feminist Science Studies, Science and Technology, Social Justice, Violence and Trauma, Violence and Victimization, Women of Color, Women of Color in Academia

Judith A. Howard

Professor Emerita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Family, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Social Psychology

Nancy J. Kenney

Associate Professor Emerita of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor Emerita of Psychology

Bioethics, Biotechnology, Motherhood, Psychology, Reproduction, Women

Luana Ross

Associate Professor Emerita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

American, American Indian/Native American, Crime and Criminality, Crime and Deviance, Documentary, Feminism, Film/Cinema, Indigenous, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Prisonization, Settler Colonialism, Social Change, Visual Sociology

Shirley J. Yee

Professor Emerita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-12:30 & By appt.

PDL B110 P

African American, History, Race and Ethnicity, Social Change, Urban Studies, Women, Women of Color