Biography Dr. Sami Schalk is a full professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UW–Madison. Her research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. Dr. Schalk’s books, Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2018) and Black Disability Politics (2022) are both published free open access by Duke University Press with …
Biography Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (she/her) is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care and reproductive freedom. Dr. Senderowicz is also part of a Feminist …
Biography Nicholas L. Syrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the History Department. He holds an AB in Women’s and Gender Studies from Columbia University and a PhD in American Culture and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. Prior …
Biography Jesse Waggoner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and English at UW–Madison. Waggoner’s research and teaching interests span U.S. literature and culture, feminist disability studies, queer and trans studies, health activisms, and African American studies. Their first book, Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability …
Biography Pronouns: she/her/hers Curriculum Vitae Joint Appointment: Psychology My interdisciplinary research program focuses on risk factors and outcomes of sexual violence. One line of research has examined population prevalence and correlates of sexual violence perpetration and victimization rates in adolescent, adult, college, military, and treatment-seeking samples. A second area of research has explicated biopsychosocial pathways …
Biography Kelly Marie Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Gender & Women’s Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She studies the organizational features of abortion and reproductive healthcare with an emphasis on low status workers. She has published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Contraception, Mobilization, and …