Director, Women's and Gender Studies

Gloria A. (Gay) Young has a longstanding focus on gender and development which has led her to study a range of issues, including the nature and consequences of women’s labor force participation in post-colonial societies – in Mexico, in particular – ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Juliet Bellow’s current research centers on the relationship between art and dance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her book Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde, forthcoming from Ashgate Press, analyzes set a... [More]

Dir Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Ally Resource Ctr

Sara is the Director of the GLBTA Resource Center. Previous to her start at American University in February 2007, Sara received her Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies and Political Science from the University of Rhode Island just a short distance fr... [More]

Part Time Staff

Assistant Professor

Dr. DeCicco-Skinner's research interests include cancer biology, cell biology, and immunology. Specifically, her research is focused on studying two of the major inflammatory pathways in the cell, MAPK and NF-kB, to identify how these pathways become... [More]

Associate Professor

Ellen K. Feder works at the intersection of contemporary continental philosophy and feminist and critical race theory, particularly as these relate to matters of social policy. Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender applies Foucault's method to... [More]

Associate Professor

Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship. Findlay's first book, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 was published with ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Professor Goldberg joined the faculty at American University in 2006, after having spent nine years at George Washington University. Her research focuses on diversity and discrimination. She has written over a dozen peer-reviewed articles in such jou... [More]

Professor

A statistician and lawyer, Professor Gray’s areas of research include applications of statistics to human rights, economic equity, legal issues, and education. She is the founder of the Association for Women in Mathematics, a fellow of the American S... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Loubna Skalli-Hanna is Assistant Professor in the International Development Program. She joined the American University in 2004 after teaching for 15 years at Moroccan Universities and Higher Institutes of Leaning (1987-2003). Dr. Skalli-Hanna’s ... [More]

Associate Librarian

Associate Professor

Leena Jayaswal is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She is head of the photography concentration. Her photography has been nationally recognized in galleries around the country. She has worked with famed photographer, Mary Ellen Mark. Her... [More]

Associate Professor

As a policy historian and the social studies specialist in the teacher education program at American University, Dr. Lawrence’s research interests extend from American Indian education to historical and qualitative research methodologies, to discipli... [More]

Associate Professor

Brigid Maher is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She is a filmmaker and writer who heads the Emerging Media concentration in SOC’s Film and Media Arts Division. Her scholarly writing focuses on the interplay between traditional film and ... [More]

Professor

Dr. Vidya Samarasinghe has conducted field surveys on tea plantation women in Sri Lanka, income inequalities among farming communities, and female adolescent food allocation patterns in Sri Lanka.

Associate Professor

Dr. Singerman is an Associate Professor and comparativist whose research interests focus on political change from below, particularly in the Middle East, and more specifically Egypt. Her work examines the formal and informal side of politics, gender,... [More]

Associate Professor

Dr. Vidal-Ortiz's scholarship cuts across racialization, sexuality, gender, and religion, and is interdisciplinary. Aside from completion of his book manuscript about sexual minorities in Santería (an Afro-Cuban religion), he has published awa... [More]

Assistant Professor

Jessica Waters is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society teaching Introduction to Law, Justice, Law and the Constitution, and Reproduction and the Law. Her research focuses on reproductive rights law, exploring questions... [More]