Faculty Publications

Our dedication to research includes the Feminist Research Alliance Workshop, a work-in-progress series featuring UB faculty, the Signature Lecture series, conferences and symposia, writing and reading groups.

For more information on these initiatives, please visit our Events page.

To read more about how the Gender Institute supports research, visit our Grants & Opportunities page.

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Marla Segol

Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Marla Segol, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Students in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, has recently published "God’s Magical Womb: Pregnancy, Power, and the Feminized Divine in Jewish Ritual Texts" in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The article explores the ritual functions of medical and mythical embryologies in Jewish ritual texts from late antiquity to the present.

Marla is a Gender Institute Affiliate and was awarded a GI Faculty Fellowship in Fall 2022.

Meghana Joshi

Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Berghahn Books, 2023.

Irus Braverman

Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor of Geography

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Minnesota Press, 2023.

Carole Emberton

Associate Professor of History

Book Cover of To Walk About in Freedom.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.

Miriam Thaggert

Associate Professor & Associate Chair of English

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University of Illinois Press, 2022.

Victoria W. Wolcott

Professor, Department of History

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University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Jasmina Tumbas

Assistant Professor, Department of Global Gender & Sexuality Studies

Book Cover of Jasmina Tumbas book.
Manchester University Press, 2022.

Mishuana Goeman

Professor of Gender Studies, Chair of the Indigenous Studies

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NYU Press, 2021.

Despina Stratigakos

Professor, School of Architecture

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Princeton University Press, 2022.

Katja Praznik

Associate Professor, Arts Management Program

Book Cover of Katja Praznik book.
University of Toronto Press, 2021.