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Gender Studies

Gender Studies at the University of Chicago encompasses diverse disciplines, modes of inquiry, and objects of knowledge. It is not a concentration, but rather a cluster of courses linked by their attention to gender as an object of study, or by their use of gender categories to investigate topics in sexuality, social life, politics and culture, literature and the arts, or systems of thought. Students are encouraged to use this listing of faculty and class offerings as a resource: for the purpose of constructing an interdisciplinary concentration in Gender Studies (e.g., in General Studies in the Humanities or Tutorial Studies); for the purpose of designing programs within disciplines; as an aid for the allocation of electives; or the pursuit of a B.A. project. For further work in Gender Studies, students are also encouraged to investigate other courses taught by the resource faculty. More information about Gender Studies is available from Kathleen Forde (HM 266, 702-0569) or on the World Wide Web.

Faculty

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

LEORA AUSLANDER, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

MARY E. BECKER, Professor, the Law School

LAUREN BERLANT, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

JAQUELINE BHABHA, Professor, the Law School

JAMES E. BOWMAN, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Committees on African & African-American Studies and Genetics, and the College

CAROL BRECKENRIDGE, Senior Lecturer, Division of the Humanities and the College

MARY BRINTON, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

WILLIAM L. BROWN, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature

GEORGE CHAUNCEY, JR., Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

JEAN COMAROFF, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguisihed Service Professor, Department of Anthropology; Committee on Human Nutrition & Nutritional Biology, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science & Medicine, and the College; Committee on African & African-American Studies; Chairman, Department of Anthropology

WENDY DONIGER, Mircea Eliade Professor, the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College

MARTHA FELDMAN, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and the College

NORMA M. FIELD, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

RACHEL FULTON, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

SUSAN GAL, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

JAN E. GOLDSTEIN, Professor, Department of History and the College

WENDY GRISWOLD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

ELAINE HADLEY, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

MIRIAM HANSEN, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Department of English Language & Literature, Committee on Art & Design, and the College

ELIZABETH HELSINGER, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

GILBERT HERDT, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the College

RONALD INDEN, Professor, Departments of History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College

JANET JOHNSON, Professor, Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Director, Oriental Institute

JANICE KNIGHT, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

LAURA LETINSKY, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Committee on Art & Design

CHRISTOPHER LOOBY, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

MARY MAHOWALD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

MARTHA MCCLINTOCK, Professor, Department of Psychology and the College

FRANçOISE MELTZER, Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature and the College

MALKA MOSCONA, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and the College

JANEL M. MUELLER, William Rainey Harper Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Department of English Language & Literature

GLORIA PINNEY, Professor, Departments of Art History and Classical Languages & Literatures, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College

ELIZABETH POVINELLI, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College

LISA RUDDICK, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

MARK SANDBERG, Lecturer, Department of Germanic Studies

LYNN SANDERS, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the College

JULIE SAVILLE, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

LINDA SEIDEL, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN, Samuel N. Harper Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology (Cognition & Communication), and Committee on Analysis of Ideas & Study of Methods

LAURA SLATKIN, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Languages & Literatures, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College

AMY STANLEY, Assistant Professor, Department of History and the College

LAUREN TAAFFE, Mellon Instructor, Humanities Collegiate Division; Associate Member, Department of Classical Languages & Literatures

KATIE TRUMPENER, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Studies and the College

WILLIAM VEEDER, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, and Committee on General Studies in the Humanities

CANDACE VOGLER, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and the College

MARTHA WARD, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Committee on Art & Design, and the College

ELISSA WEAVER, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the College

REBECCA WEST, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the College

JUDITH T. ZEITLIN, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

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