Faculty Members
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Susan H Aiken Ph.D. Professor for Department of English, Emerita Email: sha@email.arizona.edu Susan Hardy Aiken (Ph.D., Duke University, 1971), University Distinguished Professor of English, teaches and writes in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature and culture, women and literature, gender theory, and poetry. One of the founding members of the... |
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Ana M Alonso Ph.D. Associate Professor, Anthropology Emerita Email: alonso@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-2305 Office: Emil W. Haury Anth. Bldg. Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1988 |
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Beth Alpert Nakhai Associate Professor Email: bnakhai@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-5762 Office: Marshall 422 Beth Alpert Nakhai is an associate professor in the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies and an affiliated member of the School of Anthropology. She teaches courses on archaeology, Hebrew Bible, Near Eastern history and women in ancient Israel. She received her M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School... |
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Rosi Andrade Ph.D. Research Professor Email: rosia@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-5908 FAX: (520) 621-1533 Office: 203B Rosi Andrade, Ph.D. is a Research Professor with the Southwest Institute of Research on Women (SIROW) in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona, and holds a Ph.D. in Reading with a minor in Chicana Literature. Dr. Andrade is interested in the social, cultural... |
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Diane Austin Ph.D. Associate Research Anthropologist, Director of School of Anthropology Email: daustin@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520)626-3879 Office: Emil W. Haury Anth. Bldg. 316 (Ph.D. UMich 1994) Research Interests |
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Adele Barker Ph.D. Professor, Russian/Slavic Studies, Emerita Email: adeleb@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3608 Office: LEARNING SVC BL [more information] |
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Connie J. A. Beck Ph.D. Associate Professor, The Psychology, Policy and Law Program Email: beck@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-4965 FAX: (520) 621-9306 Office: Department of Psychology Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1999 Dr. Beck's work focuses on how the legal system creates or exacerbates psychological distress, and how it can be adjusted or restructured to minimize that distress. She considers both the effects on legal professionals of working in legal settings and... |
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Laura Berry Ph.D. Associate Professor, English Email: berry@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6901 Office: Modern Languages 445 PhD, University of California-Berkely, 1987 Director of the English Honors Program. Nineteenth-century British literature, the English novel. [more information] |
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Anne Betteridge Ph.D. Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Email: anneb@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5450 Office: Louise Foucar Marshall Bldg
An anthropologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Anne H. Betteridge is Director of the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a faculty member in the UA Department of Near Eastern Studies. She served as Executive Director of the Middle East Studies Association... |
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Katia da Costa Bezerra Ph.D. Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Email: kbezerra@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-0786 Office: Modern Languages Dr. Katia da Costa Bezerra has published essays on Contemporary Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African literature. She is also concerned with the rescue of a literary production published by mineiras born in the XIX century.Her theoretical approaches include questions on gender, sexuality,... |
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Stephanie Brown Email: stephbrown@email.arizona.edu Office: Modern Languages 344 Steph Brown has been a lecturer in the Department of English since 2014 and became GWS affiliate faculty in 2016. Her research interests include Anglophone modernism, mass cultural movements in the British Empire during the early twentieth century, literature of decolonization and the end of... |
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Stephanie Buechler Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor (continuing status) Email: buechler@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-5314 FAX: 520-621-2889 Office: Harvill Building Ph.D. 2001 Department of Sociology, Binghamton University Research My research interests surround gender, livelihoods and socially and... |
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Julia Clancy-Smith Ph.D. Regents Professor Email: juliac@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-8421 Office: Social Sciences 221 I. EDUCATION/TEACHING POSITIONS |
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Anna Cooper Assistant Professor Email: annacooper@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3205 Office: Marshall Bldg, Room 234 Anna Cooper’s research interests include classical and contemporary Hollywood, transnational and postcolonial cinemas, representations of gender, space/place/mobilities in film, and feminist film and media studies. Her forthcoming monograph, titled An American Abroad: European Travel... |
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Barbara Cully Adjunct Lecturer, English, Retired Email: cullyb@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-0769 Office: Modern Languages BA, 1980, San Diego State University; MFA, 1984, University of Iowa [more information] |
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Irene D'Almeida Ph.D. Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Retired Email: dalmeida@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-7349 Office: Modern Languages 549 Irene D'Almeida, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, has just received a $60,000 grant from the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The grant will fund Professor D'Almeida's continuing research of the oral songs of Fon Women in Benin (Africa). |
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Rae Erin Dachille Assistant Professor Email: raedachille@email.arizona.edu Dr. Rae Erin Dachille (Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of California at Berkeley) specializes in the religious and artistic traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. Her research focuses upon representations of the body in art, ritual, philosophy, and medicine in Tibetan and Sanskrit sources. Dr... |
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Linda Darling Ph.D. Professor, History Email: ldarling@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-9754 Office: Social Sciences 231 My research deals with fiscal administration in the Ottoman Empire and its connections with political legitimation, and I set my work on the Ottomans within the wider context of the early modern period in Europe and, to a lesser extent, states farther east. My current project examines Ottoman... |
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Sapana Doshi Ph.D Associate Professor, School of Geography and Development Email: sdoshi@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1652 Office: Harvill 438 I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Geography and Development and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. My work explores the nexus of cultural politics and political economy in cities of the Global South and traverses the fields of critical development... |
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Suzanne Dovi Ph.D. Associate Professor Email: sdovi@email.arizona.edu
Suzanne Dovi is an Associate Professor of the School of Government... |
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Javier Duran Ph.D. Director, Confluence Center - in the Office of the Vice President for Research Email: duran@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5137 Office: ADMINISTRATION 601 Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Research interests: U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, critical theory, cultural studies, modern and contemporary Latin American narrative, Latin American women... |
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Aileen A. Feng Ph.D. Associate Professor, French and Italian Email: aafeng@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520)621-6428 Office: Modern Languages 570 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2008). Associate Professor of Italian; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Gender & Women's Studies. Dr. Feng specializes in late-Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature with comparative interests in Latin and Medieval-Renaissance French literature... |
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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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Carol Galper Ph.D. Assistant Dean, Curricular Affairs-Community Health Education, Retired Email: cgalper@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-2351 Office: Arizona Health Sciences Center Dr. Carol Galper’s interests include rural health, public health, social justice, the medically underserved, HIV education and advocacy, and LGBT issues. She serves as the faculty advisor for MedPride at the College of Medicine, where she is also the Assistant Dean for Medical Student Education... |
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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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Jill Guernsey de Zapien Ph.D. 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 Harden Assistant Professor Email: fharden@email.arizona.edu Faith S. Harden (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and affiliated faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research and teaching centers on the literary, cultural, and intellectual... |
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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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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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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... |
