Faculty

Guzman Nunez

Dr. Daisy E. Guzman Nunez is a Garifuna American from the South Bronx. Her work centers on the migratory experience of Garifuna-Guatemalan women from Livingston, Guatemala, to the South Bronx. Through a Black Feminist Ethnographic lens, she bears witness to ancestral praxis and ancestral knowledge embedded in the cultural performativity of Garifuna women and their matrilineal networks. Her research praxis and pedagogy lean on the Intellectual contributions of Black women such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Mayra Santos, and M.

Stone

Aaron J. Stone (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is a queer and trans studies scholar and narrative theorist whose research examines queer desires for form—that is, how queer and trans subjects organize their own lives and self-understandings (social forms) in relation to the structural affordances of stories about gender and sexual nonnormativity (narrative forms).

Orsak

Sarah L. Orsak is a feminist scholar of disability with a research focus on the relationships between Blackness and disability. Her work asks how disability operates as a racialized category and how this operation impacts scholarly field formation. A recent research focus includes the racial and disability politics of intersex athletic regulations. Dr. Orsak’s work has received funding from the Mellon Foundation and the Rutgers Center for Research on Women. This research has been published in Disability Studies Quarterly and Feminist Formations.

King (she/her/they/their)

Professor King’s work is animated by abolitionist and decolonial traditions within Black Studies and Native/Indigenous Studies. She is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2020) which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize. She also co-edited Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (Duke University Press, 2021).

Chin

Matthew Chin is anthropologist that engages feminist and queer histories of race to confront contemporary problem spaces at the intersection of geographies and fields.

Walsh

Denise Walsh (PhD New School for Social Research) is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Politics and Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her research investigates how democracies can be made more inclusive and just. ​Walsh's current book project, Culture and Women's Rights Don't Clash, focuses on the so-called "burka ban" in France, the legalization of polygyny in South Africa, and the marrying out rule for Indigenous women in Canada.

Speidel

Lisa Speidel is an Associate Professor, General Faculty and is also a Certified Sexuality Educator (CSE) through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). Lisa teaches Human Sexualities; Men and Masculinities; Gender Violence and Social Justice; Pleasure Activism; Race and Power in Gender and Sexuality Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies and Streaming Sexualities. 

Meyer

Books:

Meyer, Doug.  2022.  Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault against Queer Men.  Oakland: University of California Press.

Meyer, Doug.  2015.  Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Field

Corinne T. Field is Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia.  Her research focuses on the intersections of age, gender, and race in US history.  She is the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

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