Department Directory
 |
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... |
 |
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... |
 |
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... |
 |
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... |
 |
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... |
 |
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... |
 |
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... |
 |
Geta LeSeur Ph.D. Professor, English, Emerita Email: getal@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 Office: Modern Languages 445 [more information] |
 |
Adela C. Licona Ph.D. Associate Professor, English Email: aclicona@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-0777 Office: Modern Languages 460 Affiliations / Service National Women's Studies Association |
 |
Eithne Luibheid Ph.D. Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Email: eithne@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-2746 Office: Tyndall 109 Eithne Luibhéid is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from Berkeley, and her research focuses on the connections among queer lives, racialization processes, state immigration controls, and citizenship. She served as the Director of the Institute for... |
 |
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... |
 |
Eileen Luna-Firebaugh Ph.D. Associate Professor, American Indian Studies, Retired Email: eluna@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2262 Office: Harvill 214 Area of Interest: |
 |
Patricia MacCorquodale Ph.D. Professor and Dean Emerita, Honors College Email: pmac@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-2848 Office: GWS 108 Patricia MacCorquodale is the author of many essays including "Women in the Law: Tokens or Partners?" (Gender & Society 1993), and of Changing our Minds: Feminist Transformations of Knowledge (State University of NY Press, 1988, with Aiken, Anderson,... |
 |
Sallie A. Marston Ph.D. Professor, School of Geography and Development Email: marston@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3903 Office: Richard P. Harvill Building Ph.D. 1986, Geography, University of Colorado |
 |
Shoshana Mayden [more information] |
 |
Leerom Medovoi Ph.D. Professor, Department of English Email: medovoi@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-3287 Office: 445 Modern Languages Bldg Lee Medovoi is a Professor of English at the University of Arizona. A graduate of the Ph.D. program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, he was the founding director of the Portland Center for Public Humanities and is currently a member of the PMLA editorial board. He is... |
 |
Lindsay Montgomery Assistant Professor Email: lmmontgomery@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5109 Lindsay M. Montgomery is an Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona who teaches and writes about colonialism, indigenous ontologies, nomadism, resistance, and resiliency. She investigates the material practices of mobile indigenous communities, including... |
 |
Maha Nassar Associate Professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Email: mtnassar@email.arizona.edu Maha Nassar is an Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in Arab cultural and intellectual history with a focus on Palestinians. Her book, which received a 2018 Palestine Book Award, is titled Brothers... |
 |
Gloria Negrete-Lopez Ph.D Student Email: gnegretelopez@email.arizona.edu Gloria Negrete-Lopez is a Doctoral Candidate in Gender and Women’s Studies with a Minor in Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her developing dissertation focuses on the role of abolitionist cultural work in disrupting narratives of (im)migrant criminality. Her research... |
 |
Z Nicolazzo Associate Professor Email: znicolaz@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-4686 Dr. Z Nicolazzo is an Associate Professor of Trans* Studies in Education at the Center for the Study of Higher Education and a member of the Trans* Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. in Student Affairs in Higher Education at Miami... |
 |
Leslye Obiora J.S.D. Professor of Law, Law Email: obiora@law.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1881 FAX: 520-621-9140 Office: College of Law Building Courses Taught: Education Admitted to Practice... |
 |
Juan Ochoa Ph.D. Candidate Email: ochoaj1@email.arizona.edu Office: Gender & Women's Studies Juan Ochoa's dissertation, "Desiring Chicanismo: Gay Chicano Art and the Intersecion of Race and Sexuality" explores gay Chicano/Latino men's subject formation through cultural production. His dissertation interprets the art objects of 3 gay Chicano/Latino artists (photographer Christopher... |
|
|
Justin Ostrowski Email: jostrowski@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
 |
Anna O’Leary Ph.D. Department Head/ Mexican American Studies Email: olearya@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-8134 Office: Cesar E Chavez Building Dr. Anna Ochoa O’Leary received her Doctorate Degree in Anthropology from the University of Arizona, where she specialized in applied anthropology. She is a 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholar and is currently an associate professor at the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of... |
 |
Emma Pérez Research Social Scientist and Professor Email: emmaperez@email.arizona.edu Office: 108B Dr. Emma Perez earned a PH.D. in history from UCLA and taught in the Department of History at the University of Texas, El Paso from 1990 to 2003, where she also functioned as Chair. From 2003 to 2017, she taught in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, also serving... |
 |
Erika Perez Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of History Email: erikaperez@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-8648 FAX: 520-621-2422 Office: Chavez 326 In 2018, I published my first book on interethnic godparenting, sexuality and marriage in early Southern California. My study shows how people wielded and responded to colonial power in their everyday intimate encounters. My book traverses the Spanish, Mexican and early American periods from... |
 |
V. Spike Peterson Ph.D. Professor, School of Government and Public Policy Email: spikep@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-7600 Office: SOCIAL SCIENCES Bio or Research Areas: |
 |
Jadwiga Pieper Mooney Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of History Email: jadwiga@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-5486 Office: GWS 110 In my research and teaching, I focus on Latin America, Gender, and Comparative/Global and World History. I am especially interested in human rights, women's rights, gender equity, and notions of inclusion and exclusion in the making of modern nations. My first book, The Politics of Motherhood:... |
|
|
Ivy L. Pike Ph.D. Associate Professor, Anthropology Email: ilpike@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-2099 FAX: (520) 621-2088 Office: Emil W. Haury Building Associate Professor of Anthropology My research blends the impacts of inequality on health with the acknowledgement that human biology is shaped by our evolutionary heritage. I am interested in blending evolution and embodiment - what evolutionary mechanisms allow us to track our social... |
 |
Eric Plemons Associate Professor of Anthropology Email: eplemons@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3102 Office: Haury 315 I am a medical anthropologist focused on surgical practice and the production, circulation and application of expert knowledge on gendered bodies. My first book, The Look of a Woman (2017, Duke University Press), examines facial feminization surgery, a series of bone and soft... |
