Core Faculty and Staff


Director


Don Kulick
Professor of Anthropology
don.kulick@nyu.edu


Faculty

Carolyn Dinshaw
Professor of English, Gender and Sexuality Studies
carolyn.dinshaw@nyu.edu

Lisa Duggan

Professor of American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
lisa.duggan@nyu.edu


Judith Stacey
Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sociology
judith.stacey@nyu.edu



Staff

Noeva Wong
SCA Undergraduate Program Coordinator

noeva.wong@nyu.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Thomas Abercrombie (Anthropology) Anthropology of history; history and ethnography, colonial era to present; ritual, politics, and performance; postcolonial studies; nationalism and race; gender and sexuality; Andes, Spain

Emily Apter (French; Comparative Literature) 19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literatures; Francophone studies; cultural studies; critical theory 

Christopher Clark (German) 20th- and 21st-century German literature, film and performance; gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial and minority literatures

Jo Dixon (Sociology; Law and Society) Sociology of law; criminology; deviance; complex organizations; gender; quantitative methods 

Khaled Fahmy (Middle Eastern Studies) Modern Middle Eastern history; 19th-century Egypt, especially women, medicine, and prostitution

Yael Feldman (Hebrew and Judaic Studies) Modern Hebrew and comparative literature; gender theory; feminist and psychoanalytical criticism; Bible as literature

Elaine Freedgood (English) Victorian literature and culture; history of the novel; critical theory, especially of gender and sexuality

Kathleen Gerson (Sociology) Gender; work-family linkages; life course development; qualitative research 

Carol Gillligan (University Professor; School of Education; School of Law) Psychology and literature and gender studies

Faye Ginsburg (Anthropology; The Center for Media, Culture and History) Social anthropology; ethnographic film; gender and reproduction; indigenous media; social movements in the United States

Linda Gordon (History) Social policy debates on gender and family issues; birth control; child sexual abuse; domestic violence; welfare history 

David Greenberg (Sociology) Crime; law; deviance and social control; gay studies; evolutionary psychology

Lynne Haney (Sociology) Feminist theory; comparative welfare states; inequality and poverty; globalization; East/Central European Studies

Phillip Brian Harper (English; American Studies) Modern literature; African-American literature; lesbian and gay studies; American Studies

Christine Harrington (Politics; Law and Society) American politics; public law; politics of dispute processing with a focus on contemporary court reform 

Martha Hodes (History) 19th-century American history; history of sexuality 

Barbara Krauthamer (History) 19th-century African-American history; African-American/Native American relations; Slavery; Race and Gender studies

Don Kulick (Anthropology) Language and sexuality; transgender studies; prostitution; heteronormativity; queer theory

Darline G. Levy (History) French Revolution; women's history 

Emily Martin (Anthropology, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge) Cultural anthropology; anthropology of science and health; gender studies; ethnography of U.S.

Elizabeth McHenry (English) African American literature, culture, and intellectual history; 19th- and 20th-century American literature; comparative women's narratives

Sylvia Molloy (Spanish and Portuguese) 19th- and 20th-century Latin American Studies; feminist studies; sexuality studies

José Esteban Muñoz (Performance Studies) Latina/o queer theory; critical race theory; global mass cultures; performance art, film, and video

Mary Nolan (History) Modern European social history; Germany; women's history

Ann Pellegrini (Religious Studies; Performance Studies) Religion and sexuality; queer theory; feminist theory; psychoanalysis and culture; relition, performance, and community formation; confessional culture; Jewish cultural studies

Mary Poovey (English; Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge)18th-century fiction; feminist theory; 18th-century British literature and culture

Rayna Rapp (Anthropology) Anthropology of gender; new reproductive technologies; genetics and gender

Susan Carol Rogers (Anthropology) Social anthropology; rural French society and culture; agricultural development; applied anthropology; France and the United States 

Martha Rust (English) Medieval literature and manuscript culture; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies; illness and disease in literature

Bambi B. Schieffelin (Anthropology) Linguistic anthropology; discourse analysis; language and gender; language socialization; language ideology; language and the legal process; Papua New Guinea and the Caribbean 

Ella Shohat (Art and Public Policy; Middle Eastern Studies) Cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational and multicultural feminist studies

Carol Sternhell (Journalism) Women's studies; feminism; sexual politics; pornography; social construction of sexuality 

Chris Straayer (Cinema Studies) Lesbian and gay studies; cinema studies 

J. Keith Vincent (East Asian Studies; Comparative Literature) Modern Japanese literature; psychoanalytic theory; queer theory; writing and subjectivity

Robert Vorlicky (Drama) U.S. drama and performance; theatre history and theory; gender studies

Daniel J. Walkowitz (Metropolitan Studies) American social and labor history; women and work; gender and twentieth-century American culture

Marilyn Young (History) American foreign policy; feminism; Far East 

Angela Zito (Anthropology; Religious Studies) East Asian religions; gender distinction in different cultural milieux