Affiliates

Affiliates of the Gender Institute are faculty and professional staff from across the university who conduct and support research and education on women and gender.  Affiliates contribute ideas and advice to help shape the institute's programs and priorities, and they also serve on many of the institute's committees.
If you would like to become an Affiliate, please contact our office at:
ub-irewg@buffalo.edu

To find collaborators for your research or course interests, please type a keyword in the search box below.

Ablow, Rachel

Rachel Ablow

Professor, Director of Humanities

Department of English

Email: rablow@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture

Adelman, Robert

Robert Adelman

Professor, Chair

Department of Sociology

Email: adelman4@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Community-based research, ethnicity, immigration, race

Kafuli Agbemenu

Kafuli Agbemenu

Assistant Professor

School of Nursing

Email: agbemenu@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: community-based research, ethnicity, health, immigration, mixed methods research, nursing, qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, reproductive health

Al-Jewair, Thikriat

Thikriat Al-Jewair

Director, Advanced Education Program in Orthodontics/ Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Department of Orthodontics School of Dental Medicine

Email: thikriat@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Community Dentistry; Orthodontics

Avery, Dianne

Dianne Avery

Professor Emerita

School of Law

Email: lawavery@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Labor Law, Women and the Law

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Professor

Anthropology

Email: anab@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: New materialisms, transformational politics; critical race and indigenous theories; queer theory; decolonial methodologies; social and environmental justice

Sarah Baillie

Sarah Baillie

Program Director

Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE), SEAS

Email: sbaillie@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: activism; art; carceral state/ prisons; community-based research; digital studies; disability; ethnicity; immigration; law; LGBTQ; mixed methods research; race; sexual harassment/gender harassment

Joan Baizer

Joan Baizer

Professor

Department of Physiology
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Email: baizer@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Comparative Neuroanatomy; Immunohistochemistry; Histology

Annahita Ball

Annahita Ball

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: annahita@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Family engagement in schools; Cross-sector collaboration; Health equity; Educational equity; Community-based research

Jenifer Barclay

Jenifer Barclay

Assistant Professor;Department of History

Associate Director; Center for Disability Studies

Email: barclay7@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: African American History; History of Slavery and Emancipation; Medicine, Disability, and Science; 19th century United States History; Gender and Sexuality

Irina Benedyk

Irina Benedyk

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Email: birina@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Intermodal Transportation Development; Northern Sea Route for Maritime Intermodal Transportation; Modeling Competitive Behavior of Intermodal Investors; Driver Cognition and Human Factors in Transportation Trust; CAV Road Design

Amanda Benzin

Amanda Benzin

Assistant Director of The Baldy Center; & Instructor, Department of Theatre and Dance

Email: ambenzin@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Performance; Choreography; Somatics; women and gender studies; and pedagogy

Sarah L. Berga

Sarah L. Berga

Professor and Chair

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JSMBS

Email: slberga@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Infertility; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Reproductive Endocrinology

Glenna Bett

Glenna Bett

Associate Professor; Vice Chair for Research

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JSMBS

Email: bett@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Biomedical Imaging; Cardiac pharmacology; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics

Ling Bian

Ling Bian

Professor

Department of Geography

Email: lbian@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Individual-based epidemiological modeling; Inter-operable environmental models; Geographic image retrieval

Mary Bisson

Mary Bisson

Professor, Emerita

Departments of Biological Sciences, Environmental and Sustainability

Email: bisson@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Plant biology:responses to environmental stress

Barbara Bono

Barbara Bono

Associate Professor, Emerita

Department of English

Email: bbono@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: activism, community-based research, humanities, qualitative research methods, sexuality

Hadar Borden

Hadar Borden

Program Director

Blackstone Launchpad

Email: hborden@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Michael Boucai

Michael Boucai

Professor

School of Law

Email: mboucai@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Gender, Sexuality & Law; Family Law; Constitutional Law; Criminal Law; Legal History

Carrie Tirado Bramen

Carrie Tirado Bramen

Professor

Department of English

Email: bramen@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Nineteenth-century American literature; U.S. Latinx literature; the transatlantic 19c; cultural history; feminist and gender studies; critical race studies; and intellectual history

Irus Braverman

Irus Braverman

Professor; William J. Magavern Faculty Scholar

School of Law, Department of Geography

Email: irusb@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Animal Studies, Nature and Conservation Biology, Law and Geography, Law and Genetics, Legal Ethnography, Law and Society, Science and Technology Studies

Gale R. Burstein

Gale R. Burstein, MD, MPH, FAAP

Commissioner, Erie County Department of Health, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Email: gburstein@upa.chob.edu

Research Topics: Adolescent Medicine; Adolescent Medicine - Pediatrics; General Pediatrics; Pediatrics

Susan Cahn

Susan Cahn

Professor, Emerita

Department of History

Email: cahn@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: 20th century United States History; Gender and Sexuality; Medicine, Disability and Science; Social and Cultural History; LGBTQ History

David R. Castillo

David R. Castillo

Professor

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Email: dc63@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Early Modern and Baroque Studies; Spanish Golden Age; Fantasy and Horror; Cultural criticism

Nicole E. Cieri-Hutcherson

Nicole E. Cieri-Hutcherson

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmacy Practice

Email: necieri@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Reproductive Health, Contraception, Menopause; Women’s Health; Sickle Cell Disease, Internal Medicine

Diane Christian

Diane Christian

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of English

Email: engdc@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Blake; the Bible; mythology; documentary film

Deborah Chung

Deborah Chung

Professor

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Email: ddlchung@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Materials science; materials engineering; structural materials; electronics; energy

Meredith Conti

Meredith Conti

Associate Professor

Department of Theatre & Dance

Email: maconti@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:activism, art, humanities, medicine, race, theatre and performance studies

Kristina Costanzo-Metcalfe

Kristina Costanzo- Metcalfe

Assistant Dean/Chief Business Officer

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: kc72@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Filomena Critelli

Filomena Critelli

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

School of Social Work

Email: fmc8@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: gender-based violence in domestic and global contexts; global migration; human rights of women, children, and migrants; intersection of trauma and human rights; global social work and social welfare

Anne Curtis

Anne B. Curtis

SUNY Distinguished Professor;

Department of Medicine; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Email: abcurtis@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: sex disparities in access to cardiac arrhythmia care, sex differences in arrhythmias, and gender equity issues in professional careers in medicine and cardiology.

Dennis E.N.Daniels

Dennis E.N. Daniels

Assistant Clinical Professor; Director, MPH Concentration in Health Services Administration

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Email: ded5@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:theory-based, primary level and harm reduction intervention program design and evaluation; active learning-based pedagogy, and a focus on population health issues, health education, and social equity

Luis R. De Jesús Báez

Luis R. De Jesús Báez

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Email: djesus@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Inorganic and solid-state materials synthesis; electrochemical synthesis; layered materials; strained materials; high-entropy alloys; energy-storage devices

Alissa Ujie Diamond

Alissa Ujie Diamond

Assistant Professor

Department of Urban and Regional Planning; School of Architecture and Planning

Email: ad97@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Racial capitalism, Urban history, Urban planning, Environmental and social justice.

Yige Dong

Yige Dong

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

Email: yigedong@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:qualitative research methods, political economy

Hope M Dunbar

Hope M Dunbar

University Archivist

University Libraries

Email: hdunbar@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Archives; cultural heritage; community-based research; library science; information practices

Rosemary Dziak

Rosemary Dziak

Professor

Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine

Email: rdziak@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Sarah Elder

Sarah Elder

Professor

Department of Media Study

Email: selder@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Ethnographic films; Native Americans; Eskimos

Carole Emberton

Carole Emberton

Professor

Department of History

Email: emberton@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Slavery, Emancipation, Race, Civil War, African-Americans

Marina Oktapodas Feiler

Marina Oktapodas Feiler

Assistant Professor

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Email: marinaok@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Pediatric environmental epidemiology; the impact on immune dysfunction; endocrine disruption; respiratory disease; vaccine response; allergy; and breastfeeding success.

Lucinda M. Finley

Lucinda M. Finley

Frank G. Raichle Professor of Trial and Appellate Advocacy; Director of Appellate Advocacy

School of Law

Email: finleylu@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Tort Law and Gender Issues; Feminist Legal Theory; Reproductive Rights; Equal Protection Law and Equality Theory; First Amendment and Limits on Protest Activity

Christian Flaugh

Christian Flaugh

Associate Professor

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Email: cflaugh@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Francophone, Africana, and Caribbean studies; decolonizations and globalities; disability studies; gender studies; performance studies

Rebecca French

Rebecca French, JD, LL.M, PhD

Professor

School of Law

Email: rrfrench@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Anthropology of Law, Buddhism and Law, Comparative Law, Law and Religion, Property Law

Jo Freudenheim

Jo Freudenheim

SUNY Distinguished Professor; Professor;

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Email: jfreuden@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: health, quantitative research methods

Collie Fulford

Collie Fulford

Associate Professor; Director of the Academic and Professional Writing Program

Department of English

Email: cjfulfor@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: writing studies, lifespan writing, adult students, institutional ethnography, writing program administration, scholarship of teaching and learning

Joseph Gardella

Joseph Gardella

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Department of Chemistry

Email: gardella@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: activism, community-based research, natural sciences, quantitative research methods

Judith Goldman

Judith Goldman

Associate Professor; Director of Poetics Program

Department of English

Email: judithgo@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Contemporary North American and British poetry and poetics, sound studies, ecocriticism and ecopoetics, biopolitics, media studies, 18th-century literature and philosophy (Scottish Enlightenment)

Mishuana Goeman

Mishuana Goeman

Professor and Chair

Department of Indigenous Studies

Email: mishuana@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Indigenous Literature, American Studies, community-based research, cultural geography, Native-American and Indigenous Studies, ethnicity and race, Visual Studies

Robert Granfield

Robert Granfield

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Professor of Sociology

Email: rgranfie@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Law and Society; Sociology of Drugs and Addiction; Crime, Deviance and Social Control; Law and Urban Justice; Occupations and Professions

Emily Grijalva

Emily Grijalva

Associate Professor,

Organization and Human Resources, School of Management

Email: ejgrijal@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Leadership; Narcissism; Gender

Donald Grinde

Donald Grinde

Professor, Emeritus

Department of Africana and American Studies

Email: dgrinde@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Native American Studies; Haudenosaunee/Iroquois history; Native American thought; U.S. Indian Policy since 1871; Environmental Studies and Native Americans; American Indian activism in the U.S.

Akua Gyamerah

Akua Gyamerah

Assistant Professor

Community Health and Health Behavior School of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: akuagyam@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: HIV prevention and care; health disparities among sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) populations; intersectional stigma and discrimination; sexual and gender minority stress and mental health; gender-based violence and substance use

Walter N. Hakala

Walter N. Hakala

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies

Departments of English

Email: walterha@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: digital studies, ethnicity, humanities, LGBTQ, sexuality, transgender

Graham Hammill

Graham Hammill

Professor; Vice Provost for Graduate Education; Dean of the Graduate School

Department of English

Email: ghammill@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Early Modern British Literature

Erin Hatton

Erin Hatton

Professor;

Department of Sociology

Email: eehatton@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Work and Labor Markets; Labor and Labor Movements: Law and Social Policy; Race, Gender, Class and Inequality

Amy Hequembourg

Amy Hequembourg

Associate Professor

School of Nursing

Email: ahequemb@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Health disparities among sexual and gender minoritized populations; Lifetime sexual victimization among sexual minorities; Same-sex intimate partner violence; LGBTQ+ adolescent health and related risk and protective factors; LGBT cultural competency among health care providers

Dan Hess

Dan Hess

Professor of Urban Planning

School of Architecture and Planning

Email: dbhess@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Interactions between housing, transportation, land use, and other public concerns; changes in gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ population

David Herzberg

David Herzberg

Professor

Department of History

Email: herzberg@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: 20th century United States History; Gender and Sexuality; Medicine, Disability and Science; Social and Cultural History

Stacy Hubbard

Stacy Hubbard

Associate Professor

Department of English

Email: sch1@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture; poetry and poetics; transatlantic modernism; feminist studies and women's literature; visual studies

Joyce Hwang

Joyce Hwang, AIA

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Architecture

Email: jh96@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: activism, art, humanities, mixed methods research

Megan M. Iantosca

Megan M. Iantosca

Associate Professor

Department of Educational Leadership and Policy

Email: mmhollan@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Access and Equity; Achievement; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Urban Education; Sociology of Education

Ebehitale Imobhio

Ebehitale Imobhio

Assistant Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement

Email: ebehital@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Kenneth Joseph

Kenneth Joseph

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: kjoseph@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:computational social science, natural language processing, social simulation

Meghana Joshi

Meghana Joshi

Teaching Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology

Email: meghanaj@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: gendered reproduction; childlessness; singlehood; loneliness; Germany

Heidi Julien

Professor

Department of Information Science

Email: heidijul@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Information Science, Library Science, Information behavior, Information practices; Information literacy, Digital literacy, Misinformation, Information Literacy, Qualitative Research Methods, Research Design, Research Methods

Linda Kahn

Linda Kahn

Research Professor,

Primary Care Research Institute

Email: lskahn@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Applied medical anthropology, community-based health services research, social determinants of health, substance use and women, interface between justice system and healthcare.

Anyango Kamina

Anyango Kamina

Assistant Dean, Student Development and Academic Enhancement; Director, Natural Sciences Interdisciplinary Masters Program, Office of Research and Graduate Education

Email: dorothya@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Robert Keefe

Robert Keefe

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: rhkeefe@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:health disparities; health access; and health care outcomes

Myung Mi Kim

Myung Mi Kim

Professor; James H. McNulty Chair of English

Department of English

Email: mmkim@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:20th-century American poetry and poetics, the "objectivists," post-war innovative practices by women poets, translingual/transcultural poetics

LaGarrett King

LaGarrett King

Director, Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education

Associate Professor Learning and Instruction

Email: lagarret@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Diversity; Social Studies Education; History of Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Social Justice

Wooksoo Kim

Wooksoo Kim

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: wkim5@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Immigrants and refugees; adjustment and integration; community-based research

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Professor, Emerita

Department of Philosophy

Email: ckors@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Aesthetics; Emotion Theory; Philosophy and Sense Experience; Feminism.

Jessica S. Kruger

Jessica S. Kruger

Director, Teaching Innovation and Excellence; Clinical Associate Professor

Department of Community Health and Health Behavior

Email: jskruger@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Consumption and addictive behaviors; health behavior decision-making; pedagogy in Public Health.

Shiu-Ming Kuo

Shiu-Ming Kuo

Associate Professor Emeritus

Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Email: smkuo@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Phytoestrogen (isoflavone) and health; Nutrition and immune response; Vitamin C transport and function; Membrane protein trafficking.

Katheryne T. Leigh-Osroosh

Katheryne T. Leigh-Osroosh

Assistant Professor

COUNSELING, SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Email: kosroosh@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Access and Equity; Cultural Competence and Humility; Diversity; Clinical and Career Counseling; Equity and Poverty; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Cultural Competence; Multicultural Competence; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; School and Community Partnerships; Mental Health; Social Justice

Melinda Lemke

Melinda Lemke

Associate Professor, Director of Educational Leadership and Policy for Equity Minor

Department of Educational Leadership and Policy

Email: malemke@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: displacement, educational policy, feminist policy analysis, gender violence/prevention, health equity, politics of education, qualitative research methods

Kelsey Lewis

Kelsey Lewis

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: klewis23@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Gender, bodies, biology, and health, particularly in the realm of feminist biology; binary sex vs. feminist paradigms in science and medicine

Nicole Lowman

Nicole Lowman

Assistant Professor of Teaching

Department of Engineering Education

Email: nllowman@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Race; gender; and sexuality; community-engaged research; and queer of color critique

Vincent J. Lynch

Vincent J. Lynch

Associate Professor

Department of Biological Sciences

Email: vjlynch@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology; Evolutionary Biology.

Arabella Lyon

Arabella Lyon

Professor, Emerita

Department of English

Email: alyon@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Rhetorical theory; comparative rhetoric; human rights representation

Ruth Mack

Ruth Mack

Associate Professor

Department of English

Email: ruthmack@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:eighteenth-century British literature; historiography; history of literary criticism

Sam Magavern

Sam Magavern

Adjunct Instructor; School of Law

Senior Policy Fellow, Partnership for the Public Good

Email: sam@ppgbuffalo.org

Research Topics:

Martha Malamud

Martha Malamud

Professor Emerita

Department of Classics

Email: malamud@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Imperial Latin literature; Roman epic; late antique literature; reception of classical literature

Carine Mardorossian

Carine Mardorossian

Professor

Department of English: Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: cmardoro@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: World literature; postcolonial and Caribbean studies; ecocriticism; feminist theory

Christine Marie

Christine Marie

Assistant Teaching Professor

Department of Media Study

Email: cmarie@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Live Animation; Stereoscopy; Cinematic Shadow Theater; Contemporary Puppetry; Emerging Media; Virtual Reality

Andrea Markelz

Andrea Markelz

Professor

Department of Physics

Email: amarkelz@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Terahertz optical techniques (Free electron laser, MGL, THz time domain spectroscopy, THz microscopy); protein dynamicscharacterization; FTIR and UV/Vis characterization of proteins and semiconductors; semiconductor and materials processing; molecular dynamics simulations.

Dori R. Marshall

Dori R. Marshall


Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry, JSMBS

Email: orm@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry

Abigail Matthews

Abigail Matthews

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science

Email: aamatthe@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Public law; judicial politics;constitutional law; state politics;gender and inequality;quantitative methods

Ndubueze Mbah

Ndubueze Mbah

Associate Professor

Department of History

Email: ndubueze@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: African History; The Atlantic World; History of Slavery and Emancipation; Gender and Sexuality; Social and Cultural History

Kelly Hayes McAlonie

Kelly Hayes McAlonie

Director

Facilities, Campus Planning

Email: kmhayesm@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Theresa McCarthy

Theresa McCarthy

Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence; Director of Indigenous Studies

Department of Indigenous Studies

Email: tm59@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Haudenosaunee citizenship/clans, Haudenosaunee/Six Nations land rights and sovereignty; Haudenosaunee languages and intellectual traditions; Haudenosaunee women; the historiography of anthropological research on the Iroquois; Haudenosaunee temporalities; queer Haudenosaunee studies; linguistic research methodologies; and community-based/applied research.

Melissa R. McCartney

Melissa R. McCartney

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Email: mrm10@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Curriculum development; assessment design, quantitative methods; qualitative methods; mixed-methods

Martha T. McCluskey

Martha T. McCluskey

Professor, Emerita

School of Law

Email: mcclusk@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Economics and inequality in law

Patrick McDevitt

Patrick McDevitt

Associate Professor; Academic Director, University Honors College

Department of History

Email: mcdevitt@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Modern Europe; Modern Ireland; Modern Britain; Imperialism and colonialism; Social and cultural history, including fashion and sport

Cody Mejeur

Cody Mejeur

Assistant Professor of Game Studies

Department of Media Study

Email: codymeje@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: activism, community-based research, digital studies, humanities, LGBTQ, qualitative research methods, race, sexuality, transgender, game studies

Christopher Mele

Christopher Mele

Professor

Department of Sociology

Email: cmele@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Urban Sociology; Sociology of Race and Ethnicity; Urban Governance; Community Studies

Tara Melish

Tara Melish

Professor, Director of the Buffalo Human Rights Center

School of Law

Email: tmelish@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Public International Law; International Human Rights Law, Economic; Social and Cultural Rights; Comparative Constitutional Law; Comparative Adjudication Standards

Christina Milletti

Christina Milletti

Associate Professor,

Department of English

Email: milletti@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Creative Writing, Fiction; Experimental Fictions/Narratives, Contemporary American Fiction, Transatlantic Novel, Gender & the Novel, Women’s Experimental Fiction.

Nicole Morris Johnson

Nicole Morris Johnson

Assistant Professor

Department of English

Email: nmmorris@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: activism, art, community-based research, ethnicity, humanities, qualitative research methods, race

Pauline Mendola

Pauline Mendola

Professor and Chair

Epidemiology and Environmental Health School of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: pmendola@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: health; medicine; quantitative research methods; reproductive health

Pablo Mitchell

Pablo Mitchell

Thomas B. Lockwood Professor of Latinx History

Department of History

Email: pablomit@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Exploring through the use of yearbooks; university archives; and government documents the history of Latina/os in U.S. higher education at the turn of the twentieth century.

Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell

College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professor

Department of History

Email: robinmit@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: The African Diaspora in France and the United States; European History; late 18th and early 19th Century Paris; Race and Gender; Popular Culture; Representations; Sexuality and Colonialism; Women’s History

Kathleen Murphy

Manager of Network Operations

Network And Classroom Services

Email: kbrown@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Nadine (Shaanta) Murshid

Nadine (Shaanta) Murshid

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: nadinemu@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Microfinance; domestic violence; genocide; political violence; trauma; social movements

Athena D. Mutua

Athena D. Mutua

Professor, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar

School of Law

Email: admutua@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Business Associations; Civil Rights Law; Constitutional Law; Critical Race and Feminist Legal Theory; Law and Political Economy

Yunju Nam

Yunju Nam

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: yunjunam@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: community-based research, immigration, mixed methods research, policy, qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, race

Fernanda Negrete

Fernanda Negrete

Associate Professor; Director Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Email: fnegrete@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: women’s experimental art and writing, sexuality, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, emancipatory practices, environmental art.

Kate Nelischer

Kate Nelischer

Assistant Professor

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Email: knelischer@gmail.com

Research Topics: participatory planning, public-private partnerships, smart cities

Ekaterina (Katia) Noyes

Ekaterina (Katia) Noyes

Associate Dean for Translational and Team Sciences; Professor and Director, Department of Surgery

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Email: enoyes@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Health outcomes and quality of care assessment; economic evaluation of healthcare programs; comparative effectiveness research; multidisciplinary team science and stakeholder engagement; implementation science, and regional care delivery in surgical oncology.

H. Lorraine Oak

H. Lorraine Oak

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geography;

Associate Dean for Research Administration, CAS

Email: loak@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Judith Olin

Judith Olin

Assistant Clinical Professor, Director, Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic

Law School

Email: judyolin@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Elizabeth Otto

Elizabeth Otto

Professor, Director of Humanities Institute

Department of Global Gender Sexuality Studies

Email: eotto@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: art, humanities, LGBTQ, sexuality, transgender

Tia Palermo

Tia Palermo

Associate Professor

Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Email: tiapaler@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: health, mixed methods research, policy, quantitative research methods, race, sexual harassment/gender harrassment

Elisabeth Paquette

Elisabeth Paquette

Associate Professor

Department of Comparative Literature

Email: epaquett@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Continental Philosophy (esp. French Marxism); Feminist Theory; Decolonial Theory; Social and Political Philosophy

Lora Park

Lora Park

Associate Professor

Psychology

Email: lorapark@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: The self; self-esteem; contingencies of self-worth; motivation; interpersonal processes

ANDREA J. PITTS

Andrea J. Pitts

Associate Professor

Department of Comparative Literature

Email: apitts@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: U.S Latinx Studies; critical philosophy of race, women of color feminisms, disability justice, critical prison studies, radical health activism, trans studies.

Kathleen Parks Marsh

Kathleen Parks Marsh

Research Scientist

Department of Psychology

Email: kparks@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: emerging adult and women’s substance use/abuse, sexual assault, preventive interventions

Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities

Department of Comparative Literature

Email: epziarek@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Feminist political theory; modernism; continental philosophy; ethics; and critical theory

Loren Pilcher

Loren Pilcher

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: lpilcher@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Documentary and nonfiction film and archives; images of gender, sexuality, and race; 20th c. institutional film-making in the US and American South; US history and culture; southern studies; feminist and queer theory.

Christopher Proctor

Christopher Proctor

Assistant Professor ; Program Director, Computer Science Teacher Preparation

Department of Language and Instruction

Email: chrisp@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Computer Science Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Information Science; Access and Equity; Assessment; Curriculum and Instruction; Digital Media and Learning; Design Experiments; Literacy; Educational technology; Race, Inequality, and Education; Learning Design; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context

Katja Praznik

Katja Praznik

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Media Study

Email: katjapra@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: cultural labor, cultural policy, political economy of art, autonomy of art, Yugoslav socialism, socialist political economy, marxists feminism, invisible labor, social reproduction

Rawal, Sujata

Sujata Rawal

Assistant Dean and Director of Facilities Planning and Management, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Email: srawal@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Deborah Reed-Danahay

Deborah Reed-Danahay

Professor; Jean Monnet Chair

Department of Anthropology

Email: der5@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Migration and Mobility; Brexit; Social Space and Emplacement; Rural and Urban Anthropology; Social Theory (esp. Pierre Bourdieu); Ethnographic Narrative and Autoethnography; Education and Youth; Vietnamese Diaspora (U.S.); Europe (including the European Union), France, England

Michael Rembis

Michael Rembis

Associate Professor

Department of History
Director, Center for Disability Studies

Email: marembis@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: 19th century United States History; 20th century United States History; Intellectual History; History of Medicine, Disability and Science; Social and Cultural History; History of Discipline

Kate Rittenhouse-Olson

Kate Rittenhouse-Olson

Professor, Emeritus

Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Email: krolson@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Sarah A. Robert

Sarah A. Robert

Associate Professor

Department of Learning & Instruction

Email: sarah@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Gender and Policy/Politics of Education; School Food Politics; Teachers’ Work; Textbooks; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods

Maria Rodriguez

Maria Rodriguez

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work

Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: myr2@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Mixed-methods, Algorithmic decision making, US Social policy, mis/disinformation, urban planning

Pam Rose

Pam Rose

Communicative Disorders and Sciences Liaison and Special Projects Librarian; Consumer Health Information Specialist

Health Sciences at Abbott Library

Email: pmrose@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: community-based research, health, medicine, nursing, Consumer Health, Human animal interface, Zoonotic Disease, Environmental Studies

Ghazlaa Saleem

Ghazala Saleem

Assistant Professor

Rehabilitation Science

Email: ghazalas@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: mechanism of motor control and application of neuromodulation in youth after brain injury, identification of brain injury and its effects in survivors of intimate partner violence

Margaret Sallee

Margaret Sallee

Professor

Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
Graduate School of Education

Email: mwsallee@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Gender Studies; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Leadership; Higher Education; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods

Matilde Sanchez-Pena

Matilde Sanchez-Pena

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Email: matildes@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Cultures of care and wellbeing in education; institutional diversity; equity and inclusion; gendered organizations; change in complex systems; social responsibility; data science

Daniela Sandler

Daniela Sandler

Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence ; Associate Professor

Department of Architecture

Email: daniela@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Urban and architectural history; grassroots urban activism; memory in the built environment; spatial justice.

Elizabeth Scarlettt

Elizabeth Scarlett

Professor

Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

Email: scarlett@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film; Romanticism; Realism; Avant garde movements; Feminism

Claire S. Schen

Claire S. Schen

Associate Professor

Department of History

Email: cschen@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Early Modern European History; The Atlantic World; Intellectual History; History of Religion; Social and Cultural History; Transnational History

Randy Schiff

Randy Schiff

Associate Professor,

Department of English

Email: rpschiff@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: late-Medieval literature and culture, Middle English alliterative verse, nationalism and empire, ecocriticism, literary history, Arthurian literature, Old French, biopolitics

David Schmid

David Schmid

Associate Professor

Department of English

Email: schmid@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: carceral state / prisons, humanities, Culture, popular culture, celebrity, film, literature, genre fiction

Erik Seeman

Erik Seeman

Professor; Chair

Department of History

Email: seeman@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: History of colonial North America: religion, death, women, American Indians, African Americans

Marla Segol

Marla Segol

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Global Gender Sexuality Studies

Email: marlaseg@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: humanities, medicine, sexuality, Religion, Magic, and Mysticism

Roh-Yu Shen

Roh-Yu Shen

Professor

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Email: rshen@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:health, medicine, natural sciences

Satpal Singh

Satpal Singh

Professor

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Email: singhs@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Korydon Smith

Korydon Smith

Professor, Chair

Department of Architecture

Email: khsmith@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Mickey Sperlich

Mickey Sperlich

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: msperlic@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Trauma and trauma-informed approaches; mental health; sexual and reproductive health; interventions; infant mental health; health disparities; gun violence

Kristin Stapleton

Kristin Stapleton

Professor and Chair

Department of History

Email: kstaple@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: carceral state/ prisons, ethnicity, humanities, immigration, law, qualitative research methods, race, urban studies

Corrie Stone-Johnson

Corrie Stone-Johnson

Professor

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY

Email: corriest@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Curriculum and Instruction; Administration/Management; Global Issues; Educator Preparation; Leadership; Leadership Training; Organizational Change; Urban Education; School and District Reform

Despina Stratigakos

Despina Stratigakos

Professor

Department of Architecture

Email: despina@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Debra Street

Debra Street

Professor

Department of Sociology

Email: dastreet@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Health and Income Security; Long-term Care; Families, Aging and the Life Course; Comparative Public Policies/Welfare State; Mixed-methods Research Design

Beth Tauke

Beth Tauke 

Associate Professor

Department of Architecture

Email: tauke@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Design education and inclusive design

Jennifer Temple

Jennifer Temple

Associate Professor; Director of the Nutrition and Health Research Laboratory; Graduate Program Director

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: jltemple@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Caffeine use among adolescents; exercise and nutrition interactions; factors that influence ingestive behavior and the development of obesity in humans.

Miriam Thaggert

Professor ; Associate Chair

Department of English

Email: mthagger@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: African American Literature and Culture; Gender & Sexuality Studies; African American Modernism; Photography and Visual Culture; Travel and Mobility Studies; Mystery and Detective Fiction.

Gwynn Thomas

Gwynn Thomas

Associate Professor

Chair, Department of Global Gender Sexuality Studies

Email: gmthomas@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Activism;Latin America; women’s political participation and leadership; gender and politics; transnational feminism; comparative women’s movements; feminist theory; citizenship and state development

Mary Nell Trautner

Mary Nell Trautner

Associate Professor;

Department of Sociology

Email: trautner@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: carceral state / prisons, law, qualitative research methods, sexual harassment/gender harrassment, sexuality

Tumbas, Jasmina

Jasmina Tumbas

Associate Professor

Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: jasminat@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Feminist histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art; art and activism; politics of contemporary visual culture; socialist film; gender and sexuality in Eastern Europe after WWII (with an emphasis on former Yugoslavia); contemporary activist art practices by ethnic Roma in the Balkan region

Susan Udin

Susan Udin

Professor, Emerita

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Email: susan.udin@gmail.com

Research Topics:

Paola Ugolini

Paola Ugolini

Associate Professor

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Email: ugolini@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:Humanities;Renaissance culture; women, gender, masculinity in early modern Italy; history of sexuality; selfhood and individuality; questions of truth and falsehood

Stephanie Vander Wel

Stephanie Vander Wel

Associate Professor, Department of Music

Director, Library Committee

Email: slv5@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Historical Musicology

Margarita Vargas

Margarita Vargas

Associate Professor

Romance Languages and Literatures; Global Gender Sexuality Studies

Email: mvargas@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: gender, humanities, performance, Mexican film, qualitative research methods, women, Spanish American theatre

Christine Varnado

Christine Varnado

Associate Professor ; Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Global Gender Sexuality Studies

Email: cmvarnad@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Early modern English literature; drama; Shakespeare; queer theory; psychoanalysis; literary theory; affect studies; history of sexuality

Noelle M. St. Vil

Noelle M. St. Vil

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: noellest@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: interpersonal violence; black male-female relationships; man-sharing

Barbara Wejnert

Barbara Wejnert

Professor

Department of Environment and Sustainability

Email: bwejnert@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Gender-balance sustainable development; Democracy

Marion Werner

Marion Werner

Professor; Director of Graduate Studies, Co-Director, Center for Trade, Environment and Development

Department of Geography

Email: wernerm@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Global supply chains; International trade; Labor; Agri-food systems; Gender; Uneven development

Lillian Williams

Lillian Williams

Associate Professor

Department of Africana and American Studies

Email: lsw4@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Institutions; Ethnicity; Biography; Women’s history

Gail Willsky

Gail Willsky

Associate Professor, Emerita

Department of Biochemistry

Email: gwillsky@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Kari Winter

Kari Winter

Professor

Departments of American Studies and Global Gender Sexuality Studies

Email: kwinter2@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: American literature and history from the 18th century to the present; transatlantic slavery and resistance; women’s literature; Africans in early New England; genre studies (e.g., the novel, auto/biographies); food, gardening, film, television

Victoria W. Wolcott

Victoria W. Wolcott

Professor

Department of History

Email: vwwolcot@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: activism, carceral state/prisons, humanities, race

Jinting Wu

Jinting Wu

Associate Professor

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY

Email: jintingw@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: anthropology of education, international and comparative education, gender and disability in special education, rural minority education, immigrant youth and families.

Seval Yildirim

Seval Yildirim

Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence

Office of Inclusive Excellence

Email: sevalyil@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Law and religion; law and gender; secularism and comparative law

Alexandra Zirkle

Alexandra Zirkle

Assistant Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Jewish Thought

Email: azirkle@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Modern Jewish thought, scriptural hermeneutics as political speech, nineteenth-century Germany, theories of sacrifice, Jewish-Christian relations

Jennifer Zirnheld

Jennifer Zirnheld

Maxwell Technologies Inc. Professor ; Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Email: zirnheld@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Insulation coordination; energy systems; mobility platforms; nano-dielectrics

Gene Zubovich

Gene Zubovich

Associate Professor

Department of History

Email: genezubo@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: 20th Century United States History, Human Rights, Religion, the Culture Wars