Affiliated Faculty and Staff

The affiliated faculty and staff listed below are engaged with the Women’s and Gender Studies through research, teaching and/or service at DePaul University. Click on their names for their email addresses.

• Anne Clark Bartlett, Ph.D.
  Dept. of English; Director of the MA program in English
  Areas of Interest: Medieval Women Writers, Medieval Women in Politics, Medieval Mysticism, Feminist Theory and Pedagogy

• Alec Brownlow, Ph.D.
  Geography Department
  Areas of Interest: Gender and the Environment; Gender and Urban Space; Gender, Violence and Policing; Gender and Gentrification

• Leah E. Bryant, Ph.D.
  Communication Department, Assistant Professor
  Areas of Interest: Challenging/Problematic Relational Communication, Family Communication, Gender Communication, Instructional Communication

• Rebecca Cameron, Ph.D.
  Department of English, Assistant Professor
  Areas of Interest: Women Playwrights; 20th-century British Women Writers; Gender and Performance; early-20th-century British Feminism and the Suffrage Movement

• Gary Cestaro, Ph.D.
  Department of Modern Languages/Italian Section Head, Director LGTBQ Studies
  Areas of Interest: Italian Language, Literature and Culture; Medieval and Renaissance literature; LGBTQ Studies and Queer Theory; Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Constructions of Same-sex Desire; Gay Male Subjectivity

• Tina Chanter, Ph.D.
  Department of Philosophy
  Areas of Interest: Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Film, Contemporary Continental Philosophy

• Ada Cheng, Ph.D.
  Department of Sociology
  Areas of Interest: International Migration, Globalization Gender, Work, Feminist Theory, Ethnography

• Jessica Choplin, Ph.D.
  Department of Psychology, Assistant Professor
  Areas of Interest: Quantity Judgments and Decision Making, Body Image (Fatness, Skin Color), Dietary Decision Making, the Single Digits 1 through 9 Excluding 5

• Jennifer Conary, Ph.D.
  Department of English
  Areas of interest: 18th and 19th-century British Women Writers, The Discourse of Gender in Victorian Literature and Culture, Feminist Literary Theory, The Domestic Novel, and Representations of Gender in Popular Culture 

• Sylvia Escarcega, Ph.D.
  Department of Anthropology
  Areas of Interest: Gender Dynamics Among Indigenous Intellectuals and Activists, Empowerment of Indigenous Migrant Women in International Struggles for Rights, Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity

• Thomas Foster, Ph.D.
  Department of History
  Areas of Interest: Early America; U.S. Women’s and Gender History; American Revolution; History of Sexuality; U.S. Social and Cultural History

• Camilla Fojas, Ph.D.
  Department of Latin American and Latino(a) Studies
  Areas of Interest: Cultural, Film and Media Studies of the Americas Within a Comparative Postcolonial Frame that Includes: Latin America, the Caribbean, the U.S., Hawai’i, and the Philippines; Comparative Literature and Culture; Comparative Urban and Community Research; Comparative Literature Studies and Aztlán

• Frida Kerner Furman, Ph.D.
  Religious Studies
  Areas of Interest: Women in Religion, Feminist Ethics, Representations of the Body

• Nila Ginger Hofman, Ph.D.
  Department of Anthropology
  Areas of Interest: Roma Women and Jewish Ethnohistory in Croatia; Community-based Action Research; Hidden Urban Populations, Including Drug Using Women and Undocumented Immigrants in Chicago; Feminist Research Ethics

• Joanna Gardner-Huggett, Ph.D.
  Department of Art and Art History
  Areas of Interest: The Intersection Between Feminism and Arts Activism

• Roberta Garner, Ph.D.
  Department of Sociology, Department Chair
  Areas of Interest: Theories of Gender and Society

• Dustin Goltz, Ph.D.
  College of Communication
  Areas of Interest: Gender Communication and Performance, Queer Theory, Representations of  Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture, Homonormativity and Heteronormativity, LGBTQ Social Movements, Queer Activism, and Critical-Cultural Studies

• Kathryn Grant
  Department of Psychology
  Areas of Interest: Gender Differences in Depression

• Gary Harper, Ph.D.
  Department of Psychology
  Areas of Interest: Community-based HIV Prevention, Adolescent Sexuality, LGBT Adolescents, Community-university Partnerships, Adolescents Living with HIV

• Paul B. Jaskot, Ph.D.
  Department of Art and Art History, Department Chair
  Areas of Interest: Politics, Oppression and Resistance in Modern Art and Architecture, Representations of Women and Race in 19th-20th Century Euroamerican Art, Women Architects, Gendered Spaces

• Paula Kagan, Ph.D., R.N.
  Department of Nursing
  Areas of Interest: Women’s Health, Health Policy, Epidemiology (particularly HIV/AIDS and FGM), Analysis of Health Care Delivery (historical and current) and the Concept of Feeling Listened To; Qualitative Research Methodologies Particularly Phenomenology

• Laura Kina, M.F.A.
  Department of Art and Art History
  Areas of Interest: Art, Asian American Studies

• Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Ph.D.
  Department of Philosophy
  Areas of Interest: Critical Race Feminism, Gender Theory, Feminist Ethics, Feminist Peace Studies, Feminism and Knowledge (Methodology & Epistemology)

• Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ph.D.
  Department of Art and Art History
  Areas of Interest: Images of Women in Japanese Art; Sponsorship of Art by Women in Japan, 16-18th centuries; Women in Buddhism in Asia; Art and Visual Cultures of Asia.

• Allison McCracken, Ph.D.
  Program in American Studies
  Areas of Interest: Gender and Media, History of Sexuality, Queer Politics

• Paula McQuade, Ph.D.
  Department of English
  Areas of Interest: Gender and Religion in Early Modern England

• Kalyani Devaki Menon, Ph.D.
  Department of Religious Studies
  Areas of Interest: Religion, Violence, Gender, South Asia

• Patricia Monaghan, Ph.D.
  Interdisciplinary Writing in the School for New Learning
  Areas of Interest: Mythology, Women’s Spirituality, Irish Studies, Poetry

• Julie E. Moody-Freeman, Ph.D.
  African and Black Diaspora Studies Program
  Areas of Interest: Feminist Theory, Women Writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, Caribbean Narratives and Criticism, The Rhetoric of Colonialism and Postcolonialism

• Heidi J. Nast, Ph.D.
  International Studies Program
  Areas of Interest: Colonialism, Sexuality and the Construction of Race, Women and the State, U.S. and West Africa

• Francesca Royster, Ph.D.
  Department of English
  Areas of Interest: Shakespeare Studies, Black Feminist Theories, Film and Popular Culture, Gender and Performance, Cultural Studies

• Inca Rumold, Ph.D.
  Department of Modern Languages
  Areas of Interest: Women in German Expressionism, Women in the Classical Latin American Novel

• Karen Scott, Ph.D.
  Department of History; Director, Catholic Studies Program
  Areas of Interest: Medieval and Renaissance European Women’s History, St. Catherine of Siena Women’s Mysticism of Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy

• Rachel Seher, Ph.D.
  Political Science
  Areas of Interest: Political Theory, Women and Politics, Political Resistance Among Marginalized Groups, Gender, Identity, and Power, The Politics of Education, Adolescent Females and Identity Formation in Schools 

• Barbara Lynn Speicher
  School of Communication
  Areas of Interest: Language and Power, Race, Gender, and Multiculturalism as it relates to language and communication, Media Representations.

• Naomi Steinberg, Ph.D.
  Religious Studies
  Areas of Interest: Women in the Bible; Family Roles in Antiquity

• Alice Stuhlmacher, Ph.D.
  Psychology Department
  Areas of Interest: Research on Gender Issues in the Workplace, Industrial/Organizational Psychology

• Jacqueline Taylor, Ph.D.
  Dean, School of Communication
  Areas of Interest: Performance Studies, Autobiography, Women’s Autobiography, Gender and Communication, Gay and Lesbian Families

• Lourdes Torres, Ph.D.
  Department of Latin American and Latino(a) Studies
  Areas of Interest: Latinos(as) in the U.S., Spanish in the U.S., Gay and Lesbian Latino(a) Literature

• Laura S. Washington
  Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor
  Areas of Interest: Media Issues, Journalistic Ethics and Investigative Reporting, Reporting on Race, Ethnicity and Gender, African-American Affairs, Politics, Diversity, Race and Racism Social Justice

• Joy S. Whitman, Ph.D.
  School of Education, Human Services and Counseling
  Areas of Interest: LGB Counseling and Issues of identity management, Member of the Education and Training Committee for GLSEN Chicago, Board Trustee for the Association for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues in Counseling

• Barbara Willard, Ph.D.
  School of Communication
  Areas of Interest: Environmental Communication, Gender Communication, Representations of Gender in Popular Culture, Women’s Movement, Ideological Criticism, Social Movement Rhetoric, and Critical-Cultural Studies

• Midge Wilson, Ph.D.
  Psychology Department
  Areas of Interest: Culturally Relevant Aspects of Appearance (e.g., body size, skin color, hair, etc), Gender Differences in Humor, Feminist Humor