Women and Gender Studies Associate Faculty

The Women and Gender Studies Associate faculty work in conjunction with the core faculty to promote a strong and interdisciplinary community of scholars. They meet regularly to discuss program issues, serve on program committees, and participate in program events. Their research interests touch on a wide range of issues pertaining to the study of women, gender, and sexuality studies. We are honored to include them in our WGST family!

Jennifer Bair Assistant Professor, Sociology Interests: Political Economy, Economic Sociology, Sex and Gender, Comparative and Global Sociology, Latin America and the Caribbean Ketchum Hall 214 Phone: (303) 735-2389 Jennifer.Bair@colorado.edu CV		Joanne Belknap Professor, Sociology Interests: Sociology of Gender; Criminology & Deviance, Intimate partner abuse, sexual victimization, incarceration of women and girls, criminal legal policy, and feminist criminology Ketchum 210 / IBS Room 351 Phone: (303) 492-6924 / (303) 735-2182 Joanne.Belknap@colorado.edu Homepage
Scarlet Bowen Director, GLBTQ Resource Center Interests: Queer Studies, Female Masculinity, Queering Heterosexuality, laboring-class gender and sexuality C4C N450-B Phone: (303) 492-2966 scarlet.bowen@colorado.edu Biography CV		Lee Chambers Associate Professor, History Interests: American Women’s History, Nineteenth Century Social and Cultural History Hellems 222 Phone: (303) 492-5809 Lee.Chambers@Colorado.edu Biography
Bud Coleman Associate Professor, Department Chair, Theatre & Dance Interests:Theatre history, musical theatre, theatre directing and choreography, GLBTQ Studies, and the performance of gender Phone: 303-492-5809 bud.coleman@colorado.edu Homepage		Anne Costain Professor, Political Science Interests: American politics, politics of social movements, political parties and interest groups, gender politics, the media and political messages Phone: (303) 492-7871 costain@colorado.edu Homepage
Michaele Ferguson Assistant Professor, Political Science Interests: political theory, democratic theory, feminist theory, postfoundationalist theory, the politics of rhetoric, neoliberalism, contemporary U.S. politics, multiculturalism, feminist politics, women’s rights, sexuality, queer theory, critical theory Ketchum 105 Phone: (303) 492-6595 michaele.ferguson@colorado.edu Homepage		Lisa Flores Associate Professor, Communication Interests: Critical race studies, whiteness, masculinity, gender, feminist criticism, queer theory lisa.flores@colorado.edu Homepage
Donna Goldstein Associate Professor, Anthropology Interests: Intersection of Race, Gender, Poverty & Violence in Brazil; Impoverished domestic workers; Pharmaceutical politics, bioethics, regulation, and neoliberalism in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and the United States HALE 445 Phone: (303) 492-5484 Donna.Goldstein@colorado.edu Homepage		Kira Hall Associate Professor, Political Science Interests: Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology including language and gender, language and ethnicity, bilingualism and code-switching, the ethnography of speaking and performance, computer-mediated communication, narrative and identity, discourse analysis, language and nationalism Hellems 284 Phone: (303) 492-2912 kira.hall@colorado.edu Homepage
Janet Jacobs Professor, Sociology Interests: Gender and genocide, religion, memory and social psychology Ketchum Hall 215A Phone: (303) 492-7871 janet.jacobs@colorado.edu Homepage		Penelope Kelsey Associate Professor, English Interests: Native American Literature, Native American Film, Native American Visual Traditions, Native American Writing Systems, Native American Epistemologies, Native American Languages, Comparative Indigenous Studies, US Ethnic Literatures, Ethnicity and Disability, Multiracial Representations Hellems 120 Phone: (303) 492-6773 penelope.kelsey@colorado.edu Homepage
Danika Medak-Saltzman Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies Interests: Visual culture, Native histories, Red feminisms, cultural studies, comparative Japan/US colonial histories, Native film and speculative fiction Ketchum 22A danika.medak-saltzman@colorado.edu Homepage		Sanyu Mojola Assistant Professor, Sociology Interests: Population, Sociology of Health, Gender, Love and Money, The Life Course and African/Asian Demography Ketchum 208 Phone: (303) 492-7080 sanyu.mojola@colorado.edu Homepage
Hillary Potter Associate Professor, Sociology Interests: Black feminist criminology, racialized perceptions of crime, intimate partner violence, and qualitative research methods Ketchum Hall 211 Phone: (303) 492-8864 hillary.potter@colorado.edu Homepage		David Shneer Professor, History ; Director, Jewish Studies Interests: Russian Jewish history, Yiddish culture, Jews and sexuality, diaspora studies, Holocaust Studies UCLUB 216 Phone: (303) 492-7145 david.shneer@colorado.edu Homepage
Beverly Weber Assistant Professor, German and Slavic Interests: Cultural studies; Comparative Literature; Race, gender, and migration; post 1945 literature; Islam in Europe. McKenna 221 Phone: (303) 492-2604 Beverly.weber@colorado.edu Homepage		Christine Yoshinaga-Itano Professor, Speech, Language & Hearing Science Interests: Research on women and infants related to health care and disabilities, with an emphasis on children who are deaf or hard of hearing; investigates issues related to the role of socio-economic factors on parenting, maternal bonding, parental (mostly mothers’) language use and children’s development; parenting issues of minority populations within the US, including those who speak a native language other than English in the home, as well as on a global level where countries are attempting to establish universal newborn hearing screening programs throughout the world. Ketchum 105 Phone: (303) 492-6595 christie.yoshi@colorado.edu Biography