Activist, author, advocate Kate Bornstein will deliver a free talk about LGBTQ history and rights, as well as the evolution of gender identity in our culture. This talk celebrates the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.
Denise Walsh, Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UVA, is quoted as an expert in an article on gender equality in the United States.
The Campus Pride Index ranked UVA in the top ten for LGBTQ-friendly campuses.
Selected Publications
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture, University of Illinois Press, 2008
“Academic Mothers and their Feminist Daughters: A Remix” African American Review 40(2006): 35-38.
“Working Moms in Their Own Words” Black Issues in Higher Education, March 28, 2002.
Selected Publications
The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2009
The Daughter’s Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History, Oxford University Press, 2001
Selected Publication
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (Duke UP), Forthcoming
Manning the Race, New York University Press, 2004
The Contours of Masculine Desire, Oxford University Press, 1989
Lisa Shutt is an Associate Professor in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Virginia in 2010 after earning her M.A. at the University of Chicago. Before her appointment to the Department of African American and African Studies, Shutt served as an Association Dean and taught for several years in UVA’s Department of Anthropology and in several of the University’s interdisciplinary programs including Women, Gender & Sexuality, Global Development Studies, and Media Studies. Ms.
Selected Publications:
“The Episcopal Career of Gregory of Elvira” Journal of Ecclesiastical History (to appear April 2014).
“The Patristic Reception of Luke and Acts: Scholarship, Theology and Moral Exhortation in the Homilies of Origen and John Chrysostom”, in Issues in Luke-Acts (ed. S. Adams and M. Pahl; Gorgias Press, 2012), pp. 263-86.
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality affirms the importance of respecting and supporting all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia, including those of us who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender questioning. We believe that maintaining the excellence of the Univer
