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:

Adelman, Robert

Robert Adelman

Associate 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

Avery, Dianne

Dianne Avery

Professor Emerita

School of Law

Email: lawavery@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

Professor

Anthropology

Email: anab@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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
Executive Committee member

Email: baizer@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Jenifer Barclay

Jenifer Barclay

Assistant Professor

Department of History

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:

Glenna Bett

Glenna Bett

Associate Professor

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JSMBS
Executive Committee member
Deputy Director, Gender Institute 2012-21

Email: bett@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Ling Bian

Ling Bian

Professor

Department of Geography

Email: lbian@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Mary Bisson

Mary Bisson

Professor, Emerita

Departments of Biological Sciences, Environmental and Sustainability

Email: bisson@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: Natural sciences

Barbara Bono

Barbara Bono

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

Hadar Borden

Hadar Borden

Program Director

Blackstone Launchpad

Email: hborden@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Irus Braverman

Irus Braverman

Professor

School of Law, Department of Geography

Email: irusb@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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:

Susan Cahn

Susan Cahn

Professor, Emerita

Department of History
Executive Committee member, 2018-2021

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:

Diane Christian

Diane Christian

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of English

Email: engdc@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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; Undergraduate Studies Coordinator

School of Social Work

Email: fmc8@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Anne Curtis

Anne B. Curtis

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.

Dennis E.N.Daniels

Dennis E.N. Daniels

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

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

Yige Dong

Yige Dong

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology

Email: yigedong@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:qualitative research methods, political economy

Rosemary Dziak

Rosemary Dziak

Professor

Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine
Executive Committee member
Co-Director, Gender Institute 2005-11

Email: rdziak@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Sarah Elder

Sarah Elder

Professor

Department of Media Study

Email: selder@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Carole Emberton

Carole Emberton

Associate Professor

Department of History

Email: emberton@buffalo.edu

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

Christian Flaugh

Christian Flaugh

Associate Professor

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Email: cflaugh@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Rebecca French

Rebecca French, JD, LL.M, PhD

Professor

School of Law

Email: rrfrench@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Jo Freudenheim

Jo Freudenheim

SUNY Distinguished Professor; Professor;

Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Email: jfreuden@buffalo.edu

Research Topics: health, quantitative research methods

Collie Fulford

Collie Fulford

Associate Professor;

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

Laura Garofalo

Laura Garofalo

Associate Professor

Department of Architecture

Email: lbg2@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Judith Goldman

Judith Goldman

Associate Professor; Director of Poetics Program

Department of English

Email: judithgo@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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

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:

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

Dan Hess

Dan Hess

Professor; Chair of Urban Planning

School of Architecture and Planning

Email: dbhess@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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

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

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

Professor; Vice Chair for Research

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

Wooksoo Kim

Wooksoo Kim

Associate Professor

School of Social Work

Email: wkim5@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Carolyn Korsmeyer

Professor, Emerita

Department of Philosophy

Email: ckors@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Shiu-Ming Kuo

Shiu-Ming Kuo

Associate Professor Emeritus

Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Email: smkuo@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Melinda Lemke

Melinda Lemke

Associate Professor,

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

Arabella Lyon

Arabella Lyon

Professor, Emerita

Department of English

Email: alyon@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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:

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

Andrea Markelz

Andrea Markelz

Professor

Department of Physics

Email: amarkelz@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Abigail Matthews

Abigail Matthews

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science

Email: aamatthe@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Ndubueze Mbah

Ndubueze Mbah

Associate Professor

Department of History

Email: ndubueze@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Theresa McCarthy

Theresa McCarthy

Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence

Department of Indigenous Studies

Email: tm59@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Martha T. McCluskey

Martha T. McCluskey

Professor, Emerita

School of Law

Email: mcclusk@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Patrick McDevitt

Patrick McDevitt

Associate Professor

Department of History

Email: mcdevitt@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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:

Tara Melish

Tara Melish

Professor, Director of the Buffalo Human Rights Center

School of Law

Email: tmelish@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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: nmorris@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

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:

Athena D. Mutua

Athena D. Mutua

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

School of Law

Email: admutua@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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

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

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Comparative Literature

Email: kn34@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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 Graduate Studies

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

Lora Park

Lora Park

Associate Professor

Psychology

Email: lorapark@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

ANDREA J. PITTS

Andrea J. Pitts

Associate Professor

Department of Comparative Literature

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.

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:

Christopher Proctor

Christopher Proctor

Assistant Professor

Department of Language and Instruction

Email: chrisp@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Katja Praznik

Katja Praznik

Associate Professor

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

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
Executive Committee member

Email: marembis@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee

Assistant Professor

Department of Media Study

Email: mrhee@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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, 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

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

Coordinator of Web Services and Library Promotion

University Libraries

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

Associate Professor

Deparment of Educational Leadership and Policy
Graduate School of Education
Executive Committee member

Email: mwsallee@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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:

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:

Kristin Stapleton

Kristin Stapleton

Professor

Department of History

Email: kstaple@buffalo.edu

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

Despina Stratigakos

Despina Stratigakos

Professor

Department of Architecture
Gender Institute Deputy Director 2011-2012

Email: despina@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Debra Street

Debra Street

Professor

Department of Sociology

Email: dastreet@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Beth Tauke

Beth Tauke 

Associate Professor

Department of Architecture

Email: tauke@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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:

Miriam Thaggert

Associate Professor

Department of English
Executive Committee member

Email: mthagger@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Gwynn Thomas

Gwynn Thomas

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

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, 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

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
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

Christine Varnado

Christine Varnado

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Gender Sexuality Studies

Email: cmvarnad@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Noelle M. St. Vil

Noelle M. St. Vil

Assistant Professor

School of Social Work

Email: noellest@buffalo.edu

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

Marion Werner

Marion Werner

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

Lillian Williams

Lillian Williams

Associate Professor

Deparment of Africana and American Studies
Executive Committee member

Email: lsw4@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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
Director 2011-2017

Email: kwinter2@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

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.

Alexandra Zirkle

Alexandra Zirkle

Assistant Professor

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

Professor, Director, Energy Systems Institute

Department of Electrical Engineering

Email: zirnheld@buffalo.edu

Research Topics:

Gene Zubovich

Gene Zubovich

Assistant Professor

Department of History

Email: genezubo@buffalo.edu

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