Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate Faculty


Asma Afsaruddin

Asma Afsaruddin

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor

Adjunct Faculty, Religious Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Quranic hermeneutics; hadith criticism; exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Muslim attitudes towards the People of the Book; Islam and religious pluralism; gender roles

Purnima Bose

Purnima Bose

Professor, English

Chair, English

Academic Director, IU India Gateway

Adjunct Professor, American Studies

Adjunct Professor, Comparative Literature

Adjunct Professor, Cultural Studies

Adjunct Professor, History

Affiliate Professor, Gender Studies

Affiliate , Study of Global Change

Maria Bucur

Maria Bucur

John W. Hill Chair, East European History

Professor, Department of History

Affiliate Professor, Gender Studies

  • mbucur@iu.edu

Research Interests
gender; citizenship; war and memory; eastern Europe

Beth Buggenhagen

Beth Buggenhagen

Professor, Anthropology

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
circulation and value; material and visual culture; photography; gender and Islam

Younjoo Cha

Younjoo Cha

Associate Professor, Sociology

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
gender inequality; work; labor markets; mobility; social inequality; organizations; employment discrimination; quantitative methods

Adele Fournet

Adele Fournet

Assistant Professor of Music (Music Production: Creation and Production)

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Latin American Music Center

  • afournet@iu.edu
  • Simon Music Center, SM175
Wendy Gamber

Wendy Gamber

Byrnes Professor, History

Chair, History

Adjunct Faculty, American Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, The Kinsey Institute

Research Interests
19th-century United States; social and cultural aspects; women and gender

Jennifer Goodlander

Jennifer Goodlander

Adjunct, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies (past Director, 2017-2019)

Affiliate Faculty, Anthropology

  • jgoodlan@iu.edu
  • Ballantine Hall, 6th floor
Angelica Guevara

Angelica Guevara

Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
Business Law, Business Law & Ethics, Non-apparent Disabilities, Disability Rights Law, Disability Antidiscrimination Law, Social Security Disability Insurance, Education Law, Disability in Higher Education, Disability Studies, Gender Studies

Maria Hamilton Abegunde

Maria Hamilton Abegunde

Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, African Studies

Founding Director, The Graduate Mentoring Center (2014-2021)

Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, doula, and a Reiki Master.
Jessica Hille

Jessica Hille

Assistant Director for Education, Kinsey Institute

Assistant Clinical Professor, Kinsey Institute

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
asexuality and ace spectrum identities, LGBTQ+ healthcare, gender equity, relationships

Sarah Imhoff

Sarah Imhoff

Chair, Religious Studies

Professor, Religious Studies

Professor, Borns Jewish Studies Program

Jay and Jeanne Schottenstein Chair, Borns Jewish Studies Program, IU

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

Adjunct Faculty, History

  • seimhoff@iu.edu
  • SY 223

Research Interests
gender; American Jewish history; race and Jewishness; rabbinic literature; American religious history

Patricia Clare Ingham

Patricia Clare Ingham

Martha Biggerstaff Jones Professor, English

Affiliate Professor, Gender Studies

Director, Institute for Advanced Study

Kristen Jozkowski

Kristen Jozkowski

William L. Yarber Endowed Professor of Sexual Health, School of Public Health

Senior Scientist, The Kinsey Institute

Principal Investigator, IU Abortion Attitudes Project Team (DAMSS)

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Stephanie C. Kane

Stephanie C. Kane

Professor, International Studies

Adjunct Faculty, Criminal Justice

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Study of Global Change

Stephanie Kane, previously an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Gender Studies, received her Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology and her Masters in zoology from the University of Texas at Austin. She’s a trained ethnographer and ecologist with a broad interdisciplinary interest in cultural studies.
Ellen D. Ketterson

Ellen D. Ketterson

Distinguished Professor, Biology

Director, Environmental Resilience Institute

Affiliate Faculty, Cognitive Science Program

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Affiliate Faculty, Neuroscience

Research Interests
behavior; ecology; evolution

Aziza Khazzoom

Aziza Khazzoom

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • khazzoom@iu.edu
  • (812) 856-2279
  • Global and International Studies Building, 3049

Research Interests
Israeli identity and multiculturalism; stratification; gender; race/ethnicity/nation; immigration

Seung-Kyung Kim

Seung-Kyung Kim

Director, Institute for Korean Studies

Korea Foundation Professor, Korean Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
gender and society in contemporary Korea

Karma Lochrie

Karma Lochrie

Provost Professor, English

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • klochrie@indiana.edu
Jody Madeira

Jody Madeira

Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law

Co-Director, Center for Law, Society & Culture

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Nicole Martins

Nicole Martins

Professor, The Media School

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
media violence; relational aggression; body image concerns; gender

Laura McCloskey

Laura McCloskey

Professor, Applied Health Science

Director, Center for Research on Health Disparities

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
origins and effects of gender-based violence across the life-course on girls' and women's mental and reproductive health

Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Class of 1948 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
self and social identity threat; stereotype threat; stereotyping and prejudice; intergroup dynamics; interracial interaction and friendship; organizational lay theories; structural and psychological barriers for underrepresented groups

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Ruth N. Halls Professor, Department of History

Affiliate Faculty, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Department of American Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender Studies

Research Interests
black women; African american history; 19th-century U.S.; the old south; social history; race; gender; sexuality and violence; freedom, citizenship, and power

Miriam Northcutt Bohmert

Miriam Northcutt Bohmert

Associate Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Director of Graduate Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
corrections; reentry; social psychological influences and environmental contexts; conservation criminology; gender

Radhika Parameswaran

Radhika Parameswaran

Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor (Class of 1950), The Media School

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
gender and media; cultural studies; south Asia; qualitative research

Zoë Peterson

Zoë Peterson

Professor, Applied Psychology in Education and Research Methodology

Senior Scientist, The Kinsey Institute

Director, Kinsey Institute Sexual Assault Research Initiative

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Sarah Phillips

Sarah Phillips

Professor, Anthropology

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
postsocialist; transformations; civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); globalization; development; gender studies; medical anthropology; post-Chernobyl health and healing; folk medicine; disability studies

Brian Powell

Brian Powell

James H. Rudy Professor, Sociology

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
sociology of family; sociology of education; gender; social psychology

Ryan Powell

Ryan Powell

Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • rppowell@iu.edu
  • The Media School, Franklin Hall, M030J

Research Interests
film studies; sound and cinema; LGBTQ studies; independent cinema; underground film; sexuality studies; gender studies; exhibition studies

Julia Roos

Julia Roos

Associate Professor, History

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • roos@iu.edu
  • Ballantine Hall 822

Research Interests
modern Europe and Germany; women and gender; sexuality; social; political, and cultural history; propaganda

Bret Rothstein

Bret Rothstein

Ruth N. Halls Professor, Art History

Adjunct Professor, Germanic Studies

Affiliate, Cultural Studies Program

Affiliate, Gender Studies

Steve Sanders

Steve Sanders

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Professor, Law and Val Nolan Faculty Fellow

Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, The Kinsey Institute

Edith Sarra

Edith Sarra

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Culture

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • esarra@indiana.edu

Research Interests
classical Japanese fiction and memoir; gender in premodern Japanese culture; eco-criticism and the literature of place

Micol Seigel

Micol Seigel

Professor, Department of History

Professor, Department of American Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Susan Seizer

Susan Seizer

Professor, Anthropology

Professor, Dhar Indian Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Research Interests
humor in use; stigma and its effects; performance; dance; theater; circus; standup comedy; south asian studies; ethnographic writing and ethnographic methods; documentary; Diaspora; feminist film; disability studies; gender studies; kinship

Rebekah Sheldon

Rebekah Sheldon

Associate Professor, English

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • rsheldon@iu.edu
  • Ballantine Hall 416
Margaret Peg Sutton

Margaret Peg Sutton

Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Studies

Affiliate Faculty, History, Philosophy & Comparative Education

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Freya Thimsen

Freya Thimsen

Associate Professor, English

Director, Rhetoric, Writing and Communication

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies

  • athimsen@iu.edu
  • Ballantine Hall 428

Research Interests
rhetoric of social movements; democratic theory; anti-corporate politics; communication and public advocacy

Alberto Varon

Alberto Varon

Associate Professor, English

Associate Professor, Latino Studies Program

Adjunct Associate Professor, American Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • avaron@iu.edu
  • Ballantine Hall 459
Virginia J. Vitzthum

Virginia J. Vitzthum

Professor, Anthropology

Senior Research Scientist, The Kinsey Institute

Director, Evolutionary Anthropology (EVA) Laboratory

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Research Interests
variation in human female reproductiony; contraceptive technology; applied health policy

Deborah Widiss

Deborah Widiss

Professor of Law and John F. "Jack" Kimberling Chair

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Susan Williams

Susan Williams

Walter W. Foskett Professor, Law

Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Y. Joel Wong

Y. Joel Wong

Provost Professor, Counseling and Counseling Psychology Programs

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

Cynthia Wu

Cynthia Wu

Professor, American Studies Department

Professor, Asian American Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • cynwu@iu.edu
  • BH 573

Research Interests
Asian American and comparative ethnic studies; disability studies; gender and sexuality studies

William L. Yarber

William L. Yarber

Provost Professor, Applied Health Science

Senior Scientist, The Kinsey Institute

Senior Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention

Adjunct Professor, Family Medicine

Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies

  • yarber@iu.edu