Biography Dr. Alexandra Kralick is the Wittig Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Feminist Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her PhD in Anthropology in 2023 from the University of Pennsylvania and held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard University in feminist science studies. Bringing these trainings together, she interweaves feminist epistemologies and evolutionary biology …
Biography Rachel Kuo (she/her/hers) writes, teaches, and researches race, feminist politics, social movements, and digital technology. Her book Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2025) brings together archival research and ethnographic fieldwork to demonstrate how technologies enhance and foreclose possibilities for political organization across uneven racial and class difference. She works closely with community …
Biography Professor Lepowky’s areas of interest include Cultural anthropology, gender, historical anthropology, environmental anthropology, exchange, ritual, medical/nutritional, psychological anthropology, history of anthropology; Oceania, New Guinea, Native California, California and the American West. Gender-related Courses: GWS/ANTHRO 920: Anthropology of Gender GWS 420: Women in Cross-Societal Perspective
Biography Personal Website Curriculum Vitae Keisha Lindsay is an associate professor in the departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a recipient of the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Inclusive Excellence. Professor Lindsay’s research and teaching interests include black feminist theories, black masculinities, and gender-based politics in …
Biography Photo credit: Smoketree Photography Curriculum Vitae B.A. University of Texas; M.A., Ph.D. University of Washington. Welcome to my page! I am a political theorist and former midwife, and my work focuses on understanding how white supremacy, colonization, and gender-based oppression shape human reproductive life, health, and care—as well as theorizations and praxes of reproductive …
Biography Kong Pheng Pha is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator whose academic research, writing, and public scholarship explores the histories and politics of refugee migration, radical queer, feminist, and anti-racist social movements, activism, and community organizing, legacies of U.S. war and empire, minoritized student experiences in the modern university, and Asian American racial, gender, sexual, …
Biography Pronouns: she/they Kate Phelps has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. She has been teaching with the GWS department at UW–Madison since spring of 2017. She teaches body politics, feminist theory, fat studies, food politics, global health, and survey courses. Their central research interests include body politics, girlhood studies, digital sociology, …
Biography I am an interdisciplinary scholar of queer Indigenous history, literature, language, and art, with a focus on Anishinaabe and Métis Two-Spirit and trans studies. My current book project, tentatively titled Folks Like Us: Anishinaabe Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Histories of Survivance, tells the story of how three Anishinaabe individuals whose genders were considered “transgressive” …
Biography My research focuses on antiracist feminisms, decolonial perspectives, and participatory action research. My work has been published in the Michigan Journal for Community Service Learning, Curriculum Inquiry and Chicana/Latina Studies Journal, among others. I have also contributed to Society and Space, NACLA, The Abusable Past blog of the Radical History Review, Electric Marronage, Open Democracy, and Zora magazine. My current book manuscript entitled Circuits of Self-Determination: Mapping Solidarities and Radical Pedagogies in Puerto Rico focuses on the rhizomatic nature of the political …