Program Coordinator and Staff
Patricia White
Centennial Chair
Director, Aydelotte Foundation
Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Film & Media Studies
Contact
Links
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Cheryl Sharp
Administrative Coordinator
Interdisciplinary Programs
Contact
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Deb Sloman
Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Assistant, Temporary, College Art Collection
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
Contact
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Program Committee
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Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
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Links
Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
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Farha Ghannam
Eugene M. Lang Research Professor of Anthropology
Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology
Contact
Links
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Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Associate Professor
Department Chair, Modern Languages & Literatures
Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Comparative Literature
Contact
Links
Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Francophone Literature of the Maghreb and the Mashreq; Comics and Graphic Novels in the Arab World; Local Publishing Markets in North Africa; (Neo)colonial representations; Representations of Islam in France.
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Ryan Ku
Visiting Assistant Professor
English Literature
Contact
Links
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Dahlia Li
Visiting Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Contact
Links
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Luciano Martinez
Associate Professor
Arts and Humanities
Spanish
Contact
Links
Interests: Latin American literatures and cultures; higher education administration; literary theory; second language pedagogy; LGBTQ+ studies
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Affiliated Faculty
Sa'ed Atshan ’06
Associate Professor
Department Chair, Peace & Conflict Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Sociology & Anthropology
Contact
Links
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Jamal Batts
Assistant Professor
Black Studies
Contact
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Giovanna Di Chiro
Professor of Environmental Studies and Coordinator of Environmental Justice
Coordinator of Environmental Justice and Climate Resiliency Program
Environmental Studies
Contact
Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro teaches and researches the intersections of environmental science and policy, with a focus on social and economic disparities and human rights.
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Tamsin Lorraine
Professor
Philosophy
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Links
Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory
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Maya Nadkarni
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology
Contact
Links
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Joseph Nelson
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator, Black Studies
Educational Studies
Black Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Contact
Links
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Sangina Patnaik
Associate Professor
English Literature
Contact
Links
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Marshall Smith
Assistant Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies
Black Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Contact
Interests: Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, African Diaspora Studies, Visual and Material Cultures, Critical Theory, Black Geographies, Africana Philosophy, and Queer Studies.
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