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.
Email: rablow@buffalo.edu
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Email: adelman4@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Community-based research, ethnicity, immigration, race
Email: agbemenu@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: community-based research, ethnicity, health, immigration, mixed methods research, nursing, qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, reproductive health
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
Professor
Department of Physiology
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Executive Committee member
Email: baizer@buffalo.edu
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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
Email: birina@buffalo.edu
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Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JSMBS
Executive Committee member
Deputy Director, Gender Institute 2012-21
Email: bett@buffalo.edu
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Email: bisson@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Natural sciences
Associate Professor, Emerita
Department of English
Executive Committee member
Co-Director, Gender Institute 2003-06
Email: bbono@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: activism, community-based research, humanities, qualitative research methods, sexuality
Email: irusb@buffalo.edu
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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
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Email: cahn@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: 20th century United States History; Gender and Sexuality; Medicine, Disability and Science; Social and Cultural History; LGBTQ History
Email: dc63@buffalo.edu
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Email: engdc@buffalo.edu
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Email: maconti@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:activism, art, humanities, medicine, race, theatre and performance studies
Assistant Dean/Chief Business Officer
School of Public Health and Health Professions
Email: kc72@buffalo.edu
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Email: fmc8@buffalo.edu
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SUNY Distinguished Professor;
Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair
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.
Assistant Clinical Professor
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
Email: djesus@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Inorganic and solid-state materials synthesis; electrochemical synthesis; layered materials; strained materials; high-entropy alloys; energy-storage devices
Email: yigedong@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:qualitative research methods, political economy
Professor
Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine
Executive Committee member
Co-Director, Gender Institute 2005-11
Email: rdziak@buffalo.edu
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Email: emberton@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:Slavery, Emancipation, Race, Civil War, African-Americans
Email: cflaugh@buffalo.edu
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SUNY Distinguished Professor; Professor;
Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Email: jfreuden@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: health, quantitative research methods
Email: cjfulfor@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: writing studies, lifespan writing, adult students, institutional ethnography, writing program administration, scholarship of teaching and learning
Email: gardella@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: activism, community-based research, natural sciences, quantitative research methods
Email: lbg2@buffalo.edu
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Email: judithgo@buffalo.edu
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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
Email: ejgrijal@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Leadership; Narcissism; Gender
Email: dgrinde@buffalo.edu
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Email: walterha@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: digital studies, ethnicity, humanities, LGBTQ, sexuality, transgender
Professor; Vice Provost for Graduate Education; Dean of the Graduate School
Department of English
Email: ghammill@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Early Modern British Literature
Email: eehatton@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Work and Labor Markets; Labor and Labor Movements: Law and Social Policy; Race, Gender, Class and Inequality
Email: dbhess@buffalo.edu
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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
Email: jh96@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: activism, art, humanities, mixed methods research
Email: kjoseph@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:computational social science, natural language processing, social simulation
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
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.
Assistant Dean, Student Development and Academic Enhancement; Director, Natural Sciences Interdisciplinary Masters Program, Office of Research and Graduate Education
Email: dorothya@buffalo.edu
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Email: rhkeefe@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:health disparities; health access; and health care outcomes
Email: mmkim@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:20th-century American poetry and poetics, the "objectivists," post-war innovative practices by women poets, translingual/transcultural poetics
Email: ckors@buffalo.edu
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Email: smkuo@buffalo.edu
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Email: malemke@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: displacement, educational policy, feminist policy analysis, gender violence/prevention, health equity, politics of education, qualitative research methods
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
Email: ruthmack@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:eighteenth-century British literature; historiography; history of literary criticism
Adjunct Instructor; School of Law
Senior Policy Fellow, Partnership for the Public Good
Email: sam@ppgbuffalo.org
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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
Email: aamatthe@buffalo.edu
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Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence
Department of Indigenous Studies
Email: tm59@buffalo.edu
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Email: mcdevitt@buffalo.edu
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Email: codymeje@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: activism, community-based research, digital studies, humanities, LGBTQ, qualitative research methods, race, sexuality, transgender, game studies
Email: tmelish@buffalo.edu
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Email: milletti@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:Creative Writing, Fiction; Experimental Fictions/Narratives, Contemporary American Fiction, Transatlantic Novel, Gender & the Novel, Women’s Experimental Fiction.
Email: nmorris@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: activism, art, community-based research, ethnicity, humanities, qualitative research methods, race
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
Email: kbrown@buffalo.edu
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Email: nadinemu@buffalo.edu
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Email: admutua@buffalo.edu
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Email: yunjunam@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: community-based research, immigration, mixed methods research, policy, qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, race
Email: fnegrete@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: women’s experimental art and writing, sexuality, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, emancipatory practices, environmental art.
Email: knelischer@gmail.com
Research Topics: participatory planning, public-private partnerships, smart cities
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Comparative Literature
Email: kn34@buffalo.edu
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geography;
Associate Dean for Research Administration, CAS;
Email: loak@buffalo.edu
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Assistant Clinical Professor, Director, Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic
Law School
Email: judyolin@buffalo.edu
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Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Global Gender Sexuality Studies
Email: eotto@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: art, humanities, LGBTQ, sexuality, transgender
Email: tiapaler@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: health, mixed methods research, policy, quantitative research methods, race, sexual harassment/gender harrassment
Email: apitts5@uncc.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.
Email: kparks@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: emerging adult and women’s substance use/abuse, sexual assault, preventive interventions
Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities
Department of Comparative Literature
Email: epziarek@buffalo.edu
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Email: chrisp@buffalo.edu
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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
Assistant Dean and Director of Facilities Planning and Management, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Email: srawal@buffalo.edu
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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
Associate Professor
Department of History
Director, Center for Disability Studies
Executive Committee member
Email: marembis@buffalo.edu
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Email: mrhee@buffalo.edu
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Professor, Emeritus
Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Email: krolson@buffalo.edu
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Associate Professor, Director of Social Studies Education Program
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
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
Email: pmrose@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: community-based research, health, medicine, nursing, Consumer Health, Human animal interface, Zoonotic Disease, Environmental Studies
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
Associate Professor
Deparment of Educational Leadership and Policy
Graduate School of Education
Executive Committee member
Email: mwsallee@buffalo.edu
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Email: scarlett@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Modern and Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film; Romanticism; Realism; Avant garde movements; Feminism
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
Email: schmid@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: carceral state / prisons, humanities, Culture, popular culture, celebrity, film, literature, genre fiction
Email: seeman@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: History of colonial North America: religion, death, women, American Indians, African Americans
Email: marlaseg@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: humanities, medicine, sexuality, Religion, Magic, and Mysticism
Email: rshen@buffalo.edu
Research Topics:health, medicine, natural sciences
Email: singhs@buffalo.edu
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Email: khsmith@buffalo.edu
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Email: kstaple@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: carceral state/ prisons, ethnicity, humanities, immigration, law, qualitative research methods, race, urban studies
Email: despina@buffalo.edu
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Associate Professor; Director of the Nutrition and Health Research Laboratory; Graduate Program Director
School of Public Health and Health Professions
Email: jltemple@buffalo.edu
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Email: mthagger@buffalo.edu
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Associate Professor
Chair, Deparment of Global Gender Sexuality Studies
Executive Committee member
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
Email: trautner@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: carceral state / prisons, law, qualitative research methods, sexual harassment/gender harrassment, sexuality
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
Email: susan.udin@gmail.com
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Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
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
Email: slv5@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Historical Musicology
Associate Professor
Romance Languages and Literatures; Global Gender Sexuality Studies
Executive Committee member
Co-Director 2006-2009
Email: mvargas@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: gender, humanities, performance, mexican film, qualitative research methods, women, spanish american theatre
Email: cmvarnad@buffalo.edu
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Email: noellest@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: interpersonal violence; black male-female relationships; man-sharing
Associate 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
Associate Professor
Deparment of Africana and American Studies
Executive Committee member
Email: lsw4@buffalo.edu
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Email: gwillsky@buffalo.edu
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Professor
Departments of American Studies and Global Gender Sexuality Studies
Director 2011-2017
Email: kwinter2@buffalo.edu
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Email: vwwolcot@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: activism, carceral state/prisons, humanities, race
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.
Email: azirkle@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: Modern Jewish thought, scriptural hermeneutics as political speech, nineteenth-century Germany, theories of sacrifice, Jewish-Christian relations
Professor, Director, Energy Systems Institute
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email: zirnheld@buffalo.edu
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Email: genezubo@buffalo.edu
Research Topics: 20th Century United States History, Human Rights, Religion, the Culture Wars