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AFFILIATED FACULTY

Susan Hardy Aiken
University Distinguished Professor, Department of English

Research interests: Nineteenth-century British and American literature and culture; gender criticism and theory; poetry and poetics; and the work of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen).

Read about Susan Aiken in the LGBT Studies Research News.

 

Caryl Flinn

Professor, Women's Studies

Research interests: Film and visual cultures, music and musical theatre, theories of camp and kitsch

Read about Caryl Flinn in the LGBT Studies Research News.

http://www.carylflinn.com/

http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/faculty/flinn.php

 

Carol Galper

Assistant Dean of Medical Student Education

Clinical Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine

Read about Carol Galper in the LGBT Studies Research News.

 

Kristin Gunckel

Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning, & Sociocultural Studies

Research interests: Preparation of elementary teachers to teach science and environmental education, elementary teachers' use of curriculum materials to teach science, development of inquiry-based science curriculum materials, and learning progressions for environmental literacy.

 

Benjamin H. Irvin

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Research interests: I am a social and cultural historian of early America, focusing particularly upon the Revolutionary period. I have strong interests in gender history and I teach a course entitled, Manhood and Masculinity in the United States.

http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/history/faculty/faculty.php?id=577

 

John Paul Jones III

Professor and Head, Department of Geography & Regional Development

Research interests: Human geography with an emphasis on poststructuarlist approaches to social space, representation, and identity

Read about John Paul Jones in the LGBT Studies Research News.

http://geog.arizona.edu/people/jones.php

 

Adela C. Licona

Assistant Professor, Department of English / Rhetoric

Research interests: Borderlands rhetorics and third-space theory, gender studies, feminist pedagogies, documentary film

Read about Adela Licona in the LGBT Studies Research News.

http://www.aguamiel-documentary.com

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aclicona/

 

Sallie A Marston

Professor, Department of Geography & Regional Development

Research interests: My research is centered on political geography with particular interest in social and spatial theories of difference.

Read about Sallie Marston in the LGBT Studies Research News.

http://geog.arizona.edu/people/marston.php

 

Kay Mathiesen

Senior Lecturer, Department School of Information Resources and Library Science

Research interests: My research focuses on the logic of social identity and group membership and the ethical issues surrounding access to and use of information.

http://www.sir.arizona.edu/faculty/mathiesen/mathiesen.html

 

V. Spike Peterson

Professor, Political Science, with affiliations in Women's Studies, International Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies

Research interests: International Relations Theory; Global Political Economy; Gender and Politics; Contemporary Social Theory (Critical, Postmodern, Postcolonial, Feminist Theory, with an emphasis on intersectional analysis)

Read about Spike Peterson in the LGBT Studies Research News.

http://web.arizona.edu/~polisci/faculty/peterson.html http://www.u.arizona.edu/~spikep/

 

Hai Ren

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies and affiliated faculty in Department of Anthropology

Research interests: Focusing on the intersections of political subjectivity, history, culture and economy, my research interests include popular culture and mass media in East Asia and contemporary United States.

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hren/

 

David M. Robinson

Associate Professor, Department of English

Research Interests: Gay & Lesbian Studies; History of Sexuality; Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature; Late 19th- & Early 20th-Century Lesbian & Gay Literature

Most recent publications:

  • Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century (Ashgate, 2006)
  • "Pleasant Conversation in the Seraglio: Lesbianism, Platonic Love, and Cavendish's Blazing World," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Summer-Fall 2003 [actually 2004]) 133-166.

 

Andrea Romero

Associate Professor, Mexican American Studies & Research Center

Affiliate Psychology Department

Affiliate Family Studies & Human Development Division, John & Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences

Research interests: Adolescent health and sources of resiliency in ethnic identity, families, and low-income neighborhoods. Current research projects are to prevent substance use, and STDs/HIV/AIDS among Mexican American and Native American teens.

Read about Andrea Romero in the LGBT Studies Research News.

http://fp.arizona.edu/profromero/

 

Susan Shaw

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Research interests: Gender, sexuality, ethnicity, access to health care, health disparities, governing.

http://anthropology.arizona.edu/people/display_fac_details.php?id=45

Read about Susan Shaw in the LGBT Studies Research News.

 

Sally J. Stevens

Executive Director and Professor, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, Women's Studies

Research interests: Health, equity and gender/sexuality related issues with a focus on low income, under-served women and children living in southwestern United States

http://sirow.web.arizona.edu

 

Marcy B. Wood

Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies

Research interests: Learning and teaching elementary (K-8) mathematics, social construction of identiy and equity education

http://mbwood.faculty.arizona.edu