Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Faculty

Sarah Buchanan

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota

• Alumni Association Teaching Award

Areas of Expertise

• Francophone Studies
• West African Cinema and Literature
• Maghrebian Cinema and Literature
• Caribbean Literature
• French Cinema

Julia Dabbs

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
• M.A., University of Maryland, College Park
• A.M.L.S., University of Michigan
• B.A., University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

• Women Artists of the Early Modern Period (1500–1800)
• 17th C. French Sculpture and Art Theory

Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Northwestern University
• B.A., University of Washington

• Alumni Association Teaching Award
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award

Areas of Expertise

• Medieval History
• Early Modern Europe
• Religious and Cultural History
• Gender Studies

Julie Eckerle

Associate Professor
Assistant Chair of the Humanities Division

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Areas of Expertise

• Early Modern British Literature
• Women’s Writing and Representations of Gender in Literature
• Early Modern Life Writing

Pieranna Garavaso

Professor

• Ph.D., University of Nebraska
• M.A., University of Padova (Italy)
• B.A., University of Padova (Italy)

• Alumni Association Teaching Award
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award

Areas of Expertise

• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Language
• Epistemology
• Frege
• Analytic Feminism

Michael Lackey

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Areas of Expertise

• Twentieth-century Intellectual History
• God and Religion in Literature
• Atheism

Brook Miller

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Indiana University

Elaine Marie Nelson

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of New Mexico
• M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• B.A.E., University of Nebraska at Kearney

Areas of Expertise

• History of the American West
• American Indian History
• Women and Gender Studies
• Tourism and Environmental History
• Great Plains History

Jennifer Rothchild

Associate Professor
Coordinator of the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) Program

• Ph.D., American University
• M.A., Georgia State University
• B.A., Miami University

• Alumni Association Teaching Award

Areas of Expertise

• Gender and Development
• Qualitative Methodology
• Systems of Inequality
• Childhood Studies
• South Asian Studies

Marynel Ryan Van Zee

Associate Professor (on leave, academic year 2012-2013)

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• B.A., University of Illinois, Chicago

Areas of Expertise

• Modern European history
• Women's history
• History of education
• History of the social sciences

Tisha Turk

Associate Professor
Writing Center Director

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Areas of Expertise

• Fan Videos
• Composition Studies
• Writing Centers and Peer Tutoring
• Narrative Theory
• History of the Novel in English
• Gender and Sexuality Studies