Faculty Members
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Stephanie Troutman Robbins Department Head Email: troutmans@arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-2167 Office: 110B Dr. Stephanie Troutman Robbins (she/her) is a Black feminist scholar, mother and first-generation college student. She is the Department Head of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona and she is Associate Professor of Emerging Literacies in Rhetoric... |
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Wanda Alarcón Assistant Professor Email: walarcon@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-7338 Office: 206 B I am an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in Chicana literature, music, and decolonial feminist thought. I received my Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from UC Berkeley and was a Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for... |
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Michelle Berry Assistant Professor (Career Track) Email: mkberry@email.arizona.edu I am an historian (PhD, University of Arizona, 2005) whose primary intellectual interests include feminist pedagogy (teaching), ecofeminism, political ecology, environmental and labor history, and sports studies. In each of these, I am interested in understanding how power is constructed around... |
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Derrais Carter Assistant Professor Email: derraiscarter@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-7884 Office: GWS 212B Derrais (sounds like Paris) Carter is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist. His scholarly and creative work plays in the vibrant realms of Black Critical Theory, Black Queer Studies, and Black Popular Culture, Narrative Theory, and Cultural History. Carter has just published... |
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Jennifer Croissant Associate Professor Email: jlc@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-0079 FAX: 520-621-1533 Office: 206 GWS, 925 N. Tyndall Jen Croissant (PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Science & Technology Studies, 1994) is interested in the sociology of science and technology, particularly feminist science studies. Graduate Teaching includes ‘Science & Social Theory,’ ‘Technology & Social Theory,’ and the core... |
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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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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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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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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... |
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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... |
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William Paul Simmons Ph.D. Professor of GWS and Director, Human Rights Practice Program Email: williamsimmons@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-3311 Office: Social Science 135A William Paul Simmons is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Director of the online Human Rights Practice graduate program at the University of Arizona. His research is highly interdisciplinary; using theoretical, legal, and... |
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Sandra Soto Ph.D. Associate Professor Email: sotos@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-9150 Office: Tyndall 212A Sandra K. Soto is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, and affiliate faculty of English, the Latin American Studies, Mexican American Studies and Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Arizona. She is the former editor of Feminist Formations, and an Associate... |
