Faculty Affiliates
WGSS Faculty Affiliates
WGSS seeks to build a supportive interdisciplinary community among UH faculty whose research and/or teaching are concerned with women, gender and sexuality. We organize symposia, research presentations, pedagogy workshops and reading groups around the interests and expertise of our affiliated faculty.
WGSS offers a number of with funds raised by the Friends of Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies for which Faculty Affiliates receive first consideration. We recognize that the voluntary efforts of UH faculty on behalf of interdisciplinary programs like ours are an invaluable service to the university. Become a WGSS Faculty Affiliate today!
African American Studies
Tara Green
ttgreen2@uh.edu
Course: Harlem Renaissance
Ameenah Shakir
ashakir2@central.uh.edu
Course: Black Women in the US
Architecture & Design
Marta Rodriguez
martar@uh.edu
Courses:
Art and Art History
bdossett@uh.edu
Courses:
noharren@central.uh.edu
Courses:
Sandra Zalman
Szalman@uh.edu
Courses:
Biology and Biochemistry
Dan Graur
dgraur@uh.edu
Course:
Richard Meisel
rpmeisel@uh.edu
Course:
Communication
Beth Olson
bolson@uh.edu 鈥�
Course: Gender & Media
Jennifer E. Vardeman
jvardeman@uh.edu
Course:
Comparative Cultural Studies
Marwa Ghazali
mghazali@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Ethnography
kemcneal@uh.edu
Course: Sex & Culture
Debarati Sen
dsen2@central.uh.edu
Course: Women and Work
Economics
cjuhn@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Economics of Gender; Economics of Education
English
Hosam Aboul-Ela
haboul-ela@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit
Margot Gayle Backus
mbackus@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Gender & Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Culture; The British Women's Novel;
Queer Closures: The Sexual Politics of Literary Form
achrist@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Family, Sex, & Households on the Shakespearean Stage; Gender & Performance
in Shakespeare; Labor, Leisure, & Gender in Early Modern Drama
Amanda Ellis
avellis@central.uh.edu
Course: Women Writers
Karen Fang
kfang@uh.edu
Course: Romantic Women Writers & Film Noir
Mar铆a Gonzalez
mgonzalez@uh.edu
Courses: Women in Literature; Women Writers; Feminist Theory; Feminist Criticism
Haylee Harrell
hcharrel@central.uh.edu
Courses: Queer Theory; Black Feminism Reimagined; Interracial Intimacies
amajumder@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit
nshepley@uh.edu
Course: Gender & Writing
kasingh@central.uh.edu
Courses: Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Literature
msnediker@uh.edu
Course: Queer Literature
Lorraine Stock
lstock@uh.edu
Courses: Writing Medieval Women; Medieval Women in History, Text, & Film
rjtejada@uh.edu
Course: The Latino American Photobook
Lynn Voskuil
lvoskuil@uh.edu 鈥�
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology
Jennifer Wingard
jlwingard@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology
Health and Human Performance
dpearson@uh.edu 鈥�
Course: Sport in Contemporary Society
Hispanic Studies
Mabel Cuesta
mcuesta@uh.edu
Courses: Spanish-Caribbean Women Writers Rewriting the Islands from the United States;
Topics in Spanish-Amer Literature
mesolino@uh.edu
Course: Hispanic Authors; Feminist Theory
gbventura@uh.edu
Course: U.S. Latino Literature
History
Adela Cedillo
acedill6@central.uh.edu
Course:
Tshepo Masango Ch茅ry
tmchery@central.uh.edu
Course: Love & African Revolution
xcong@uh.edu
Courses: History of Women in Modern China; East & SE Asian Women in Historical &
Cross-cultural Perspectives
sfishman@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Work & Family Life in Modern Europe; Social History of Modern France & Germany
Norah L.A. Gharala
nlgharala@uh.edu
Course: Colonial Mexico
ghorne@uh.edu 鈥�
Course: Civil Rights Movement
ghorne@uh.edu 鈥�
Course: Civil Rights Movement
nmilanesio@uh.edu
Course: Women in Latin America
lreed@uh.edu 鈥�
Course: African American Women in Slavery & Freedom
tromero2@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Witchcraft in the Old & New World; Gender & Colonialism
svaughn@uh.edu 鈥�
Course: Large portions of Medieval history courses deal with women's topics
lrzarnow@uh.edu
Course: Issues in Feminist Research
Center for Mexican American & Latina/o Studies
Pamela Anne Quiroz
paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.
Modern and Classical Languages
fdalessandro-behr@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Women in the Ancient World; Italian Renaissance
cdue-hackney@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Greek & Roman Mythology
sfrieden@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: German Women Film Directors; International Women Writers; New Woman in Literature
mherna18@central.uh.edu
Course: Gender & Sexuality in World Film
cmtamber@central.uh.edu
Courses: Female Divinities; Women in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Bhavya Tiwari
btiwari@uh.edu
Courses: World Cultures Through Literature & Arts; Cultures of India; & Indian Film:
Bollywood & Beyond
Pharmacy
Samina Salim
ssalim@uh.edu
Course: Refugee Women鈥檚 Health
Physics
pinsky@uh.edu
Course:
Political Science
nchoi2@uh.edu
Courses: Multiculturalism in Theory & Practice
Jennifer Clark
jclark10@uh.edu
Course:
nlsims@central.uh.edu
Course:
Social Work
jlatting@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Forming Alliances across Gender, Race, Class, Culture, & Other Differences
Sociology
txkarner@uh.edu 鈥�
Courses: Gender & Health; Seminar in Masculinity
smkatz@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of Gender
sskwan@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of the Body
Neema Langa
nmlanga@central.uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Health Care in Africa
slee3@uh.edu
Courses: African鈥揂merican Family
Maria Monserud
mamonser@central.uh.edu
Courses: Comparative Family Structures; Sociology of Health Care
Pamela Anne Quiroz
paquiroz@central.uh.edu
Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class etc.