Women's and Gender Studies

People

CORE FACULTY

• MARTHA DONKOR (she/her)
  • Women's & Gender Studies, History
  • MDonkor@wcupa.edu
  • Transnational Feminisms; Women's History

 

• LISA HUEBNER (she/her)
  • Women's & Gender Studies, Sociology
  • LHuebner@wcupa.edu
  • Intersectionality; Work; Globalization; Intimacy; Violence; Feminist Theories; Qualitative Method

 

• LIAM OLIVER LAIR (he/him)
  • Women's & Gender Studies
  • LLair@wcupa.edu
  • Gender & Sexuality Studies;Transfeminisms;American Studies, Trans Studies; LGBTQ Studies;Gender & Race

 

• TABASSUM RUBY (she/her)
  • • Women's & Gender Studies, Qualitative Methods
    • TRuby@wcupa.edu
    • Transnational/Global Feminisms, Islam, Gender, Modernity, Secularism, and Postcolonial and Critical Race Studies

 

• JUSTIN SPRAGUE (he/him)
  • Women's & Gender Studies
  • JSprague@wcupa.edu
  • Critical Race/Multiracial Studies; Korean Studies; Ethnic Food and Foodways; Motherwork/Ethics of Care; Women of Color Feminisms

 

• SIMON RUCHTI (he/him)
  • Philosophy
  • SRuchti@wcupa.edu
  • Gender Theory, Performance Theory, Philosophy

• JOAN WOOLFREY

  • Chair, Women’s & Gender Studies
    Philosophy 
  • she/her
  • JWoolfrey@wcupa.edu
  • Ethical Theory; Bioethics; Environmental Ethics; Feminist Theory

 

ADJUNCT FACULTY

• SAM BROOKS (they/them) 
  • Women's & Gender Studies
  • SBrooks@wcupa.edu
  • prisons studies, transgender history, Black feminist theory

 

• TABITHA A. MORGAN (she/they)
  • Women's & Gender Studies
  • TMorgan@wcupa.edu
  • 19th and 20th century gender studies, radical intersectional feminism, activism, history of the Americas, Mexico-U.S., working class studies, and working-class women's art

 

• SARA VAKILI (she/her) 
  • Women's & Gender Studies
  • SVakili@wcupa.edu
  •  queer desire & queer becoming in spiritual practices

 

• JINA FAST (she/her)
  • Women's & Gender Studies

• • JFast@wcupa.edu
  • Feminist Epistemologies of Science, Critical Race Theory & Queer Theory

Feminist Advisory Council-We appreciate the many faculty around campus who have served on the recently retired Feminist Advisory Council and who have or currently offer support for Women's & Gender Studies by teaching cross-listed courses.