Araceli Alonso is an Associate Faculty at UW–Madison in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the School of Medicine and Public Health, where she teaches classes on women’s health and women’s rights. Dr. …
Gender and Women's Studies
Ankita Bharadwaj
Ankita is a Radio Show Host and a Lawyer who specializes in Policy, Politics, Socio-Economic Strategy and Social Movements. She is also proficient in Content Writing, Directing and Sound Producing for Podcasts and Radio Shows. …
Susan Brantly
Susan Brantly is a professor of Scandinavian Studies at UW-Madison. She specializes in 19th-century Scandinavian literature and culture and the author, Isak Dinesen. She has worked as a consultant for the Broadway sequel to Ibsen’s …
Andrea Buhler-Wassmann
I study how Latine caregivers nurture their children’s early development and learning through everyday practices in their home environments, with the goal of identifying culturally relevant ways to support caregivers and create environments that promote …
Jessica Calarco
Jessica (Jess) Calarco is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Calarco has published three books: Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School, A Field Guide to Grad School: …
Emily Callaci
I am an historian of modern Africa, global feminism and decolonization. My first book, Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania, explores the creative lives of urban migrant youth to the city …
Jill Casid
An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the position of Professor of Visual Studies with a cross-appointment in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid …
Allison Daminger
Allison Daminger is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how and why gender continues to shape individuals’ experiences at home and at work, even as support for …
Ramzi Fawaz
Ramzi Fawaz is an award-winning queer cultural critic, public speaker, and educator. He is the author of two books including The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016), and Queer Forms …
Jennifer Gaddis
Jennifer Gaddis is an associate professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American …
Ronni Hayon
Dr. Hayon joined the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health in 2011. She has been a pioneer at UWSMPH in supporting education related to gender-affirming care and LGBTQ+ health care delivery. In 2019, Dr. …
Jenny Higgins
Trained in both gender studies and public health, Jenny conducts research on women’s sexuality and reproductive health. At UW-Madison, she teaches the oldest and largest women’s health class in the country, reaching hundreds of students …
Michaela Hoffelmeyer
In 2023, I joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of the Dairy Innovation Hub-funded faculty. As part of this position, I will be conducting dairy-related research on topics such as robotics, labor, market concentration, …
Morgan Jerald
Morgan Jerald is an assistant professor of psychology at UW-Madison. She received her BA from Spelman College and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her current research examines sociocultural factors, such as the media …
Derek Johnson
Derek Johnson is Professor and Department Chair in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the books Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries as well as …
LB Klein
LB Klein’s (they/them or she/her) research focuses on gender-based violence (GBV;e.g., sexual assault/harassment, intimate partner violence, stalking, and anti-queer/trans harassment) prevention, survivor advocacy, and LGBTQ+ health. In one line of research, they are developing, adapting, …
Sara McKinnon
Sara McKinnon is an expert in immigration and refugee issues, violence, gender-based violence, and international/global politics. Her current research examines these these themes within the context of contemporary U.S.-Mexico relations. Dr. McKinnon also teaches and …
Nandi (Sunita) Nandihalli
Nandi has been working in the fields of social justice and holistic health for over a decade and has a background in cross-cultural research, teaching, and training using experiential techniques. Nandi earned a Bachelor of …
Katherine (Kate) Phelps
Dr. Kate Phelps is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They have a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Their teaching and research interests and areas of …
Marla Ramirez
Dr. Ramirez is a historian of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands with specialization in oral history, Mexican repatriation, social and legal histories of Mexican migrations, and gendered immigration experiences. She completed her doctoral degree at the University …
Tracey Lee Roberts
Tracey Lee Roberts, Senior Lecturer Emerita (History Department, University of Wisconsin- Platteville), has been researching and writing about Southwestern Wisconsin and the old Lead-Zinc Mining District for three decades. Her history talks engage audience in …
Sami Schalk
Dr. Sami Schalk is a professor of Gender & Women’s Studies. She is the author of Bodymind Reimagined: Disability, Race & Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke 2022). …
Elaine Scheer
Elaine Scheer’s often-humorous watercolors introduce us to her family, and events that have happened from before she was born to the present. Scheer first came in Wisconsin in the freezing winter of 1987 to participate …
Leigh Senderowicz
Leigh Senderowicz is a global health researcher and demographer, focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights. Leigh is currently an Assistant Professor of Gender and Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a …
KD Thompson
KD Thompson is a linguistic anthropologist and discourse analyst who explores the intersections of language, power, and identity in Muslim communities in East Africa and North America. Their research delves into how language shapes religious …
Chia-Jung Tsay
Chia-Jung Tsay is an Associate Professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at UW-Madison. Her research examines the psychological processes that influence decision making about performance. She investigates the role of perception, expertise, and …
Jess Waggoner
Jess Waggoner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Waggoner’s research and teaching interests span U.S. literature and culture, feminist disability studies, queer …
Aja Watkins
Professor Watkins’ research encompasses several topics in philosophy of science, including philosophy of climate science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of the historical sciences (such as paleontology), and feminist philosophy of science. She is particularly interested …