Affiliate Faculty

	Judith A. Allen Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-7581 \| Ballantine Hall 742 Research Interests: The comparative histories of feminism, sex research, feminist theory and politics
	Penelope Anderson Assistant Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-4529 \| Ballantine Hall 442 Research Interests: Early modern British literature, especially that of the English Civil Wars
	Purnima Bose Associate Professor of English Director of Cultural Studies Send Email \| (812) 855-5334 \| Ballantine Hall 431 Research Interests: Globalization, the role of corporations in public life, and anti-globalization resistance
	Claudia Berger Associate Professor of Germanic Studies Send Email \| (812) 855-1894 \| Ballantine Hall 669 Research Interests: 20th- and 21st century literature, film and culture, with a particular emphasis on (the interrelations of) gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race, as well as literary, media, and cultural theory
	Maria Bucur-Deckard John W. Hill Chair of European History, Department of History Send Email \| (812) 855-1993 \| Ballantine Hall 719 Research Interests: Gender and cultural history of Eastern Europe
	Beth A. Buggenhagen Assistant Professor of Anthropology Send Email \| (812) 855-0617 \| Student Building 034 Research Interests: The politics of social production and value, material culture, visuality, gender, Islam, and globalization
	Lynn Duggan Associate Professor of Labor Studies, School of Social Work Send Email \| (812) 855-1560 \| Poplars 635 Research Interests: Comparative economic systems, East and West German family policy, comparative social policy, women in building trades, and working conditions in retail employment
	Mary A. Favret Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-8283 \| Ballantine Hall 433 Research Interests: British Romanticism, late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature in English, wartime literature, literature and violence, gender and genre, feminism, Jane Austen
	Jennifer Fleissner Associate Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-8224 \| Ballantine Hall 436 Research Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, with an emphasis on the turn of the century, the era of realism, naturalism, and early modernism
	Wendy Gamber Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-5876 \| Ballantine Hall 819 Research Interests: The social and cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States, with particular attention to relationships between gender and economy
	Mary L. Gray Associate Professor of Communication and Culture Send Email \| (812) 855-4379 \| 800 E. Third St. 243 Research Interests: Theory and ethnography of queer genders & sexualities; new media & cultural identity production
	Susan Gubar Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English Send Email \| (812) 855-3634 \| Ballantine Hall 454 Research Interests: A pioneering feminist and culture critic, Gubar is the author of the books Poetry After Auschwitz and Rooms of Our Own, and she is co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.
	Scott Herring Associate Professor of English Send Email \| Ballantine Hall 442 Research Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. literatures (particularly American modernisms), queer theory, cultural studies, and critical regional/rural studies
	Patricia Clare Ingham Associate Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-0521 \| Ballantine Hall 410 Research Interests: Both on Chaucer and on texts of Medieval Romance from the high to the late Middle Ages, particularly in light of psychoanalytic, postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory
	Stephanie C. Kane Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Send Email \| (812) 855-0896 \| Sycamore Hall 305 Research Interests: Environmental justice (water security in port cities); public health and criminal justice discourses (AIDS, drugs, sexuality)
	Ellen Ketterson Distinguished Professor of Biology Send Email \| (812) 855-6837 \| Jordan Hall 033 Research Interests: Population, behavioral, and physiological ecology, avian biology, hormones and behavior
	Ellen Mackay Associate Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-4735 \| Ballantine Hall 462 Research Interests: Renaissance through Restoration drama, Renaissance literature, queer theory and performance studies. Women and gender
	Alyce Miller Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-2232 \| Ballantine Hall 524 Research Interests: Family, gender, race, class, sexuality, and animality
	Marissa J. Moorman Associate Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-5384 \| Ballantine Hall 725 Research Interests: Popular culture, gender and nation; transnational feminism; gender and sexuality in African history
	Amrita Myers Assistant Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-2030 \| Ballantine Hall 733 Research Interests: Race, gender, freedom and citizenship and the ways in which these constructs intersect with one another in the lives of black women, particularly in the antebellum South
	M. Jeanne Peterson Professor Emeritus of History Send Email Research Interests: Historical constructions of British masculinities and femininities; Victorian medicine, public health, disease, and prostitution; and gender, the family, sexuality, and paid work in the nineteenth century
	Sarah D. Phillips Associate Professor of Anthropology Send Email \| (812) 855-0216 \| Student Building 130 Research Interests: Postsocialist transformations, civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), globalization, development, gender studies, medical anthropology, post-Chernobyl health and healing, folk medicine, and disability studies
	Brian Powell James H. Rudy Professor of Sociology Send Email \| (812) 855-7624 \| Ballantine Hall 744 Research Interests: Family sociology, sociology of education, gender, and social psychology
	Jean C. Robinson Professor of Political Science Send Email \| (812) 856-0827 \| Kirkwood Hall 104 Research Interests: Comparing the politics of reproductive policies, as well as feminist movements and gendered public policy
	Julia Roos Assistant Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-1682 \| Ballantine Hall 715 Research Interests: Twentieth-century Germany, gender, and sexuality
	Colleen Ryan Associate Professor of Italian Send Email \| (812) 855-1249 \| Ballantine Hall 626 Research Interests: Women and gender representations in contemporary Italian literature and film
	Micol Seigel Associate Professor of American Studies Send Email \| (812) 855-6327 \| Memorial Hall East M33 Research Interests: Intersections among gender, sexuality, race, nation, and other categories of identity and the relationship of queer theory to postcolonial studies
	Susan Seizer Associate Professor of Communication and Culture Send Email \| (812) 856-1986 \| 800 E Third St Research Interests: Humor in Use, Stigma & Subjectivity, South Asia through Performance, Queer Ethnographic Narrative, and Disability Studies
	Beate Sissenich Assistant Professor of Political Science Send Email \| (812) 855-6308 \| Woodburn Hall 210 Research Interests: The international and comparative politics of advanced industrialized countries, especially Europe
	Margaret "Peg" Sutton Associate Professor of Education Send Email \| (812) 856-8368 \| Wright Education Building 4254 Research Interests: Educational policy formation in international assistance agencies; gender and education in the Third World
	Michiko Suzuki Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Send Email \| (812) 856-7002 \| Goodbody Hall 327 Research Interests: The dynamic intersection of modern Japanese literature, history, and culture, particularly as manifest in women’s writing, popular literature, magazines, and newspapers
	Kristen Sword Assistant Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-6289 \| Ballantine Hall 735 Research Interests: The transformation of early modern household relations of dependence from assumed and accepted ways of ordering society into social and political problems
	Shane Vogel Associate Professor of English Send Email \| Ballantine Hall 411 Research Interests: The intersection of performance studies, theatre studies, American studies, and queer studies
	Deborah Widiss Associate Professor of Law Send Email \| (812) 855-1435 \| Law Building 259 Research Interests: The family law, employment law, the legislative process, and the significance of gender and gender stereotypes in the development of law and government policy
	Susan Hoffman Williams Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law Send Email \| (812) 855-6319 \| Law Building 270 Research Interests: Constitutional law and feminist legal theory
	William L. Yarber Professor of Applied Health Science Send Email \| (812) 855-7974 \| HPER 142 Research Interests: Sexual risk behavior and AIDS/STD prevention

	Judith A. Allen Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-7581 \| Ballantine Hall 742 Research Interests: The comparative histories of feminism, sex research, feminist theory and politics
	Penelope Anderson Assistant Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-4529 \| Ballantine Hall 442 Research Interests: Early modern British literature, especially that of the English Civil Wars
	Purnima Bose Associate Professor of English Director of Cultural Studies Send Email \| (812) 855-5334 \| Ballantine Hall 431 Research Interests: Globalization, the role of corporations in public life, and anti-globalization resistance
	Claudia Berger Associate Professor of Germanic Studies Send Email \| (812) 855-1894 \| Ballantine Hall 669 Research Interests: 20th- and 21st century literature, film and culture, with a particular emphasis on (the interrelations of) gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race, as well as literary, media, and cultural theory
	Maria Bucur-Deckard John W. Hill Chair of European History, Department of History Send Email \| (812) 855-1993 \| Ballantine Hall 719 Research Interests: Gender and cultural history of Eastern Europe
	Beth A. Buggenhagen Assistant Professor of Anthropology Send Email \| (812) 855-0617 \| Student Building 034 Research Interests: The politics of social production and value, material culture, visuality, gender, Islam, and globalization
	Lynn Duggan Associate Professor of Labor Studies, School of Social Work Send Email \| (812) 855-1560 \| Poplars 635 Research Interests: Comparative economic systems, East and West German family policy, comparative social policy, women in building trades, and working conditions in retail employment
	Mary A. Favret Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-8283 \| Ballantine Hall 433 Research Interests: British Romanticism, late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature in English, wartime literature, literature and violence, gender and genre, feminism, Jane Austen
	Jennifer Fleissner Associate Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-8224 \| Ballantine Hall 436 Research Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, with an emphasis on the turn of the century, the era of realism, naturalism, and early modernism
	Wendy Gamber Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-5876 \| Ballantine Hall 819 Research Interests: The social and cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States, with particular attention to relationships between gender and economy
	Mary L. Gray Associate Professor of Communication and Culture Send Email \| (812) 855-4379 \| 800 E. Third St. 243 Research Interests: Theory and ethnography of queer genders & sexualities; new media & cultural identity production
	Susan Gubar Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English Send Email \| (812) 855-3634 \| Ballantine Hall 454 Research Interests: A pioneering feminist and culture critic, Gubar is the author of the books Poetry After Auschwitz and Rooms of Our Own, and she is co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.
	Scott Herring Associate Professor of English Send Email \| Ballantine Hall 442 Research Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. literatures (particularly American modernisms), queer theory, cultural studies, and critical regional/rural studies
	Patricia Clare Ingham Associate Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-0521 \| Ballantine Hall 410 Research Interests: Both on Chaucer and on texts of Medieval Romance from the high to the late Middle Ages, particularly in light of psychoanalytic, postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory
	Stephanie C. Kane Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Send Email \| (812) 855-0896 \| Sycamore Hall 305 Research Interests: Environmental justice (water security in port cities); public health and criminal justice discourses (AIDS, drugs, sexuality)
	Ellen Ketterson Distinguished Professor of Biology Send Email \| (812) 855-6837 \| Jordan Hall 033 Research Interests: Population, behavioral, and physiological ecology, avian biology, hormones and behavior
	Ellen Mackay Associate Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-4735 \| Ballantine Hall 462 Research Interests: Renaissance through Restoration drama, Renaissance literature, queer theory and performance studies. Women and gender
	Alyce Miller Professor of English Send Email \| (812) 855-2232 \| Ballantine Hall 524 Research Interests: Family, gender, race, class, sexuality, and animality
	Marissa J. Moorman Associate Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-5384 \| Ballantine Hall 725 Research Interests: Popular culture, gender and nation; transnational feminism; gender and sexuality in African history
	Amrita Myers Assistant Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-2030 \| Ballantine Hall 733 Research Interests: Race, gender, freedom and citizenship and the ways in which these constructs intersect with one another in the lives of black women, particularly in the antebellum South
	M. Jeanne Peterson Professor Emeritus of History Send Email Research Interests: Historical constructions of British masculinities and femininities; Victorian medicine, public health, disease, and prostitution; and gender, the family, sexuality, and paid work in the nineteenth century
	Sarah D. Phillips Associate Professor of Anthropology Send Email \| (812) 855-0216 \| Student Building 130 Research Interests: Postsocialist transformations, civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), globalization, development, gender studies, medical anthropology, post-Chernobyl health and healing, folk medicine, and disability studies
	Brian Powell James H. Rudy Professor of Sociology Send Email \| (812) 855-7624 \| Ballantine Hall 744 Research Interests: Family sociology, sociology of education, gender, and social psychology
	Jean C. Robinson Professor of Political Science Send Email \| (812) 856-0827 \| Kirkwood Hall 104 Research Interests: Comparing the politics of reproductive policies, as well as feminist movements and gendered public policy
	Julia Roos Assistant Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-1682 \| Ballantine Hall 715 Research Interests: Twentieth-century Germany, gender, and sexuality
	Colleen Ryan Associate Professor of Italian Send Email \| (812) 855-1249 \| Ballantine Hall 626 Research Interests: Women and gender representations in contemporary Italian literature and film
	Micol Seigel Associate Professor of American Studies Send Email \| (812) 855-6327 \| Memorial Hall East M33 Research Interests: Intersections among gender, sexuality, race, nation, and other categories of identity and the relationship of queer theory to postcolonial studies
	Susan Seizer Associate Professor of Communication and Culture Send Email \| (812) 856-1986 \| 800 E Third St Research Interests: Humor in Use, Stigma & Subjectivity, South Asia through Performance, Queer Ethnographic Narrative, and Disability Studies
	Beate Sissenich Assistant Professor of Political Science Send Email \| (812) 855-6308 \| Woodburn Hall 210 Research Interests: The international and comparative politics of advanced industrialized countries, especially Europe
	Margaret "Peg" Sutton Associate Professor of Education Send Email \| (812) 856-8368 \| Wright Education Building 4254 Research Interests: Educational policy formation in international assistance agencies; gender and education in the Third World
	Michiko Suzuki Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Send Email \| (812) 856-7002 \| Goodbody Hall 327 Research Interests: The dynamic intersection of modern Japanese literature, history, and culture, particularly as manifest in women’s writing, popular literature, magazines, and newspapers
	Kristen Sword Assistant Professor of History Send Email \| (812) 855-6289 \| Ballantine Hall 735 Research Interests: The transformation of early modern household relations of dependence from assumed and accepted ways of ordering society into social and political problems
	Shane Vogel Associate Professor of English Send Email \| Ballantine Hall 411 Research Interests: The intersection of performance studies, theatre studies, American studies, and queer studies
	Deborah Widiss Associate Professor of Law Send Email \| (812) 855-1435 \| Law Building 259 Research Interests: The family law, employment law, the legislative process, and the significance of gender and gender stereotypes in the development of law and government policy
	Susan Hoffman Williams Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law Send Email \| (812) 855-6319 \| Law Building 270 Research Interests: Constitutional law and feminist legal theory
	William L. Yarber Professor of Applied Health Science Send Email \| (812) 855-7974 \| HPER 142 Research Interests: Sexual risk behavior and AIDS/STD prevention