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Kemi Adeyemi

Associate Professor

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

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

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

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

Priti Ramamurthy

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

priti@uw.edu

Office Hours: 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

ccreddy@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

PDL A313

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

Amanda Lock Swarr

Chair & Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

aswarr@uw.edu

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

Sasha Su-Ling Welland

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

swelland@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter 2026 | W 12-1:30pm (sign-up in Resources & Related Links below)

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

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

Emeriti Faculty

Angela Ginorio

Associate Professor Emerita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

ginorio@uw.edu

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

jhoward@uw.edu

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

Nancy J. Kenney

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

nkenney@uw.edu

Bioethics, Biotechnology, Motherhood, Psychology, Reproduction, Women

Luana Ross

Associate Professor Emerita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

luana@uw.edu

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

sjyee@uw.edu

PDL B110 P

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