Department Directory
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Mary Jo Fox Ph.D. Professor and Research Social Scientist, American Indian Studies Email: foxm@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-4242 Office: Richard P. Harvill Building 224 Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox (Comanche; Ph.D., 1982, University of Arizona) (AIS)., an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation, is an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Arizona (UA), Tucson, Arizona. She is the former Director/ Chair of AIS and also served... |
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Alison Futrell Associate Professor Email: afutrell@arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-8428 Office: Cesar E Chavez Building, Room #419 My interests lie in the discourse, performance, and imagery of power in imperial Rome, with special interest in spectacle and gender. I have authored and edited and co-edited Blood in the Arena; ... |
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Francisco J. Galarte Ph.D. Assistant Professor Email: galarte@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-2167 Francisco J. Galarte is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona where he teaches courses in Chicanx/Latinx Studies and transgender studies. His most recent articles have appeared in publications including... |
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Adam M. Geary, PhD. Associate Professor (Career-track) Emeritus Email: ageary@email.arizona.edu Adam M. Geary is an anti-disciplinary scholar coming out of the History of Consciousness tradition of the University of California at Santa Cruz (Ph.D. 2004). His training is in critical theory, continental philosophy, and psychoanalysis, attentive to the persistence of the religious in the... |
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Maria D Glowacka Adjunct Lecturer, Gender & Women's Studies TEL: 621-5908 Office: GWS Building [more information] |
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Julieta Gomez [more information] |
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Reid Gómez Assistant Professor Email: reidgomez@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-4761 Office: GWS 114B Reid Gómez is a writer and scholar from San Francisco, California. Her research focus is quantum entanglements—slavery/colonization, Black/Indian, and storytelling/translation. Black and Indigenous studies, and the work of Leslie Marmon Silko, shape her epistemic and writing practice. She is... |
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Linda B. Green Ph.D. Professor, Anthropology Email: lbgreen@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6291 FAX: (520) 621-2088 Office: Richard P. Harvill Building Degrees Research Interests |
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Alison Greene Director of Adolescent Research and Services, SIROW Email: greene@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-295-9339 Alison Greene is a Research Social Scientist for the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), at the University of Arizona, working on education and health projects and community-based research. Alison moved from Philadelphia to Tucson and joined SIROW and the Women’s Studies Dept. in... |
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Katy Gross Program Coordinator Email: katygross@arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1112 Office: Douglas, 313 Katy Gross has a master’s degree in international relations. She previously worked at the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona as a Senior Program Manager, assisting with grant management for early childhood... |
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Jill Guernsey de Zapien Director, Border / Transborder and Binational Public Health Email: dezapien@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-7083 Office: Roy P. Drachman Hall Jill Guernsey de Zapien has been working on community-based public health interventions and research in Arizona and throughout the Southwest for more than 20 years. She has collaborated with others in establishing the first lay health educator or Promotora outreach program in Arizona, Health... |
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Faith S. Harden Associate Professor Email: fharden@arizona.edu Faith S. Harden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and affiliated faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Program in... |
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Leila Hudson Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture & Political Economy Email: lhudson@arizona.edu [more information] |
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Giramata I. PhD. Student Email: giramata@email.arizona.edu Giramata is a PhD student in Gender and Women Studies from Kigali, Rwanda. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Development Economics and Policy as well as Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies from DePauw University. Her research interests are gender based violence and intimate partner... |
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Joela Jacobs, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of German Studies Email: joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2300 Office: Learning Services Building 306 Joela Jacobs received her Ph.D. in Germanic studies from the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching bring together 19th-21st century German literature and film, animal studies, environmental humanities, Jewish studies, the history of sexuality, and the history of science. She has... |
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Kelsey Dayle John Assistant Professor Email: kdjohn@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7338 Office: HARV 218 Kelsey Dayle John (Diné) is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in American Indian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Her work is centered on animal relationalities, particularly horse/human relationships as ways of knowing, healing, and decolonizing education. Alongside her... |
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Kimberly Jones Vice Dean, Academic Affairs-College of Humanities Email: kjones@arizona.edu Dr. Kimberly Jones is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Humanities and a Professor of East Asian Studies. A sociolinguist who specializes in second language acquisition and teaching and in Japanese sociolinguistics, she is particularly interested in how the analysis of naturally... |
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John Paul (JP) Jones Dean, International Education; Professor, Geography/Regional Devel (Tenured); Professor, Public Health (Non-Tenure Eligible) Email: jpjones@arizona.edu Office: University Services Building, Room #322A John Paul “JP” Jones III (Ph.D. Ohio State University) is Dean of International Education at the University of Arizona. He is also Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment in the university’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Jones was appointed Dean of... |
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Alex Karaman PhD Candidate Email: akaraman@email.arizona.edu TEL: use email Office: GWS 105B Alex Karaman is originally from Los Angeles and moved to Long Beach for his undergraduate degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Political Science. Returning to school in Arizona, he has focused his fieldwork within Israel-Palestine on the development of Palestinian hip-hop culture... |
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Simin Karimi Ph.D. Professor, Department of Linguistics Email: karimi@U.ARIZONA.EDU TEL: (520) 621-5399 FAX: (520) 626-9014 Simin Karimi is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics. She has also appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, The Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, the joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology, the Department of Near Eastern Studies... |
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Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy Ph.D. Professor of Women's Studies and English Email: kennedye@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-6991 Office: Tyndall 109B Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University, England in 1972 based on her research about the Waunan of the Chocó province, Colombia. Kennedy was a founding member of Women's Studies at SUNY, Buffalo where she taught for twenty-eight years. She... |
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Marcia Klotz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Email: mklotz@email.arizona.edu Marcia Klotz is an assistant professor in English and Gender and Women's Studies who focuses primarily on contemporary literature, film and theory. Her teaching and research interests span a broad field, including: Marxism, queer theory and sexuality studies, Christianity and Judaism, genocide... |
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Cheryl Ann Knott Professor, School of Information (Tenured) Email: cherylknott@arizona.edu Office: Richard P. Harvill Building, Room #435C Cheryl Knott publishes in the area of information access broadly construed. Her book, Find the Information You Need! (Rowman... |
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Josephine Korchmaros Director, SIROW Email: jkorch@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3330 Dr. Korchmaros is Director of the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW). Since earning her doctoral degree in Social Psychology with a focus on quantitative research methods in 2003, Dr. Korchmaros has developed, implemented, evaluated, and provided training... |
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Mary Koss Ph.D. Regents’ Professor for Department of Health Promotion Sciences Email: mpk@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-3998 Office: Drachman 248A (PhD University of Minnesota, 1972) Mary Koss, PhD, is a Regents’ Professor. The title Regents’ Professor is the awarded by the Arizona Board of Regents and she is among three so honored in the Arizona Health Sciences Center. In her work on gender-based violence Dr. Koss served on the... |
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Barbara Kosta Ph.D. Professor and Department Head, German Studies Email: bkosta@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7389 Office: German Studies - LSB 322 Barbara Kosta received her Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film (Cornell UP, 1994), and co-editor of Writing Against Boundaries: Gender, Ethnicity and... |
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Elena L'Annunziata Monge Ph.D. Student Email: lannunziata@email.arizona.edu Elena is a first year Ph.D student whose research interests include postcolonial, Chicana, and U.S. Third World feminisms, immigration, social movements, food sovereignty and food justice. Previously Elena received her M.A. in an interdisciplinary program titled Environment and Community from... |
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Jamie Ann Lee Assistant Professor Email: jalee2@email.arizona.edu Jamie A. Lee is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society in the School of Information (Arizona’s iSchool) at the University of Arizona. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Digital Storytelling & Culture, Information Environments from Latino and Native... |
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Jenny J. Lee Ph.D. Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Practice Email: jennylee@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-0954 Office: 305 Education Building Jenny J. Lee, Professor Research Interests: Dr. Lee's research encompasses a range of key higher education issues that center on organizational cultures and the underlying influences as they relate to important patterns of organizational behaviors and change in... |
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Linda Lumsden Ph.D. Professor, Journalism Email: lumsden@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 243-0533 Office: Marshall 338 Assistant Professor (2006) Linda Lumsden is director of graduate studies at the School of Journalism. She... |
