Biography Dr. Hanan Al-Alawi is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies. She holds a dual-title PhD in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the Pennsylvania State University (2024). In her interdisciplinary research, she explores questions of bodies and power in modern Arabic, Persian, and diasporic Anglophone literature. She focuses …
Biography Photograph by Lola Flash for the 2019 Queer|Art Community Portrait Project. Anna Campbell is an artist, designer, and professor. Their sculptures, installations, and ephemera mine queer history and desire. Using material metaphors evoked through scaffold, found objects, and digitally fabricated forms, they construct immersive, exploded diagrams of archives for queer and feminist histories that …
Biography Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein A widely published artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the position of Professor of Visual Studies with a cross-appointment in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies. Casid pursues a research practice across writing, photography, and film that is dedicated to queer, crip, trans*feminist, and …
Biography Pronouns: she/her/hers Joint Appointment: Department of Psychology Affiliate of the Institute for Diversity Science Dr. Chadwick is a feminist social psychologist who uses diverse methods (surveys, interviews, experiments, national databases) and interdisciplinary approaches from Psychology, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Public Health to study gender, coercion, orgasm, sexual desire, and other aspects of sexuality. Her research …
Biography Personal Website I specialize in history of sexuality and gender with a focus on queer theory and trans*, queer and feminist social movements in the 20th century United States. My work is also animated by queer crip studies, critical race and indigeneity studies, graphic art and comics studies. Gender-related Courses: History 275: Topics in …
Biography Joint appointment: Folklore Program Office Hours: by appointment Garlough CV 35. July 2025 Christine Garlough is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women, and UW’s UNESCO Co-Chair of Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace. One of the founding members of the Ethics of Care Initiative …
Biography Ruth Goldstein, PhD is broadly interested in the gendered aspects of human and nonhuman health, a quickly heating planet and environmental racism. Her book: Life in Traffic: Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America’s Interoceanic Highway examines the socio-environmental consequences of transnational infrastructure projects and climate change along South America’s recently constructed longest latitudinal thoroughfare …
Biography Dr. Molly M. Henderson (she/her) studies the role of reproductive health and politics in shaping the environmental history of the late 20th century United States. She received her PhD in American Studies from George Washington University in the summer of 2025. Her writing has been published in Modern American History and was awarded the …
Biography Joint appointment: History Affiliate: Medical History and Bioethics Judith Houck has recently published Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (Chicago: 2024). This historical exploration highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical …