Affiliate Faculty






			Dr. Elizabeth A. Armstrong elarmstr@indiana.edu Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Sociology Elizabeth A. Armstrong, an Assistant Professor at IU since 2000, received her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. Her interests in cultural sociology, social movements, institutional theory, and sexuality are reflected in her book Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994, which was published by the University of Chicago Press (2002). As part of a multi-year project exploring how individuals change in college, she is tracking students at several universities through the college experience. This research on "the erotic curricula" of American universities was funded by a $50,000 National Academy of Education Spencer Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Purnima Bose pbose@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English Purnima Bose is the Director of the Cultural Studies Program and an Associate Professor of English. Her book, Organizing Empire (Duke 2003), examines colonial, Irish and Indian feminist and nationalist constructions of individualism and collective agency. Bose's articles on South Asian feminism, nationalism, and globalization have appeared in Genders, Passages, Concerns, and Haunting Violations. Her co-authored essays with Laura E. Lyons on colonial personnel circuits and corporate globalization have appeared in boundary 2 and Against the Current. She serves on the editorial board of Genders, SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection), and SAGAR (South Asia Graduate Research Journal). Dr. Claudia Breger clbreger@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Germanic Studies, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication Claudia Breger received her Ph.D. at Humboldt University Berlin. She recently published a book on imaginary configurations of royal power in modernity (Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach, 2004) and is now working on another book project that addresses intersections of performance and narrative in contemporary culture. More generally, her research and teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st century literature, film and culture, with a particular emphasis on (the interrelations of) gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race, as well as literary, media, and cultural theory. Dr. Maria Bucur-Deckard mbucur@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and History Interim Chair Department of Gender Studies August 2008 to July 2009 Maria Bucur , the John W. Hill Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Illinois), was appointed in 1996. Her courses include The Balkans 1804-1920, Eastern Europe 1918-Present, Survival and Resistance under Communism, Film and History in Eastern Europe, and Memory and Nationalism in Modern Europe. She recently published Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002). Other publications include "Between the Mother of the Wounded and the Virgin of Jiu: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War," Journal of Women's History (Summer 2000) and Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present(Purdue University Press, 2001). She is currently working on a book on war and memory in twentieth century Eastern Europe and is currently the Chair of History of Gender and Sexuality. Dr. Laurel L. Cornell cornell@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Sociology Professor Cornell's principal area of expertise is demographic transformation in Japan and in cross-cultural perspective, with a focus on gender issues in marriage, divorce, reproduction, households, aging and mortality from the eighteenth century until the present. Professor Cornell has been a faculty member at IU since 1987. Her current topical research interests include gender, space, architecture, and urban design. Professor Cornell has secured grant and fellowship support from the National Science Foundation and the Japan Foundation. Dr. Jennifer Fleissner jfleissn@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English Jennifer Fleissner focuses her research on American literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the turn of the century. Her current projects include "Novel Appetites: Eating and Meaning in Modernizing America," which looks at eating as a means of self-formation and boundary crossing in various writers from this transitional era (such as James, Chesnutt, Cahan, and Yezierska), and "Maladies of the Will," a more temporally sprawling endeavor that asks about the pathologies and uncertainties that result from modernity's dual conceptualization of persons as wholly self-willing and as unprecedentedly determined by internal and external forces. She also has an ongoing interest in women as emblems of modernity (a major theme of her first book, Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism [U. of Chicago Press 2004]) and has a couple of pieces coming out on this subject as well. "The Biological Clock: Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood," to appear in American Literature, is part of an ongoing investigation into figures of technologized women in the modern era. Dr. Wendy Gamber wgamber@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and History Professor Gamber is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of American History and a former Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department. Her research interests center on relationships between gender, labor, culture, and economy in the nineteenth-century United States. She is the author of The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 1997) and is at work on An American Institution: Boardinghouses in Nineteenth-Century America (under contract, Johns Hopkins University Press). Dr. Mary L. Gray mlg@indiana.edu Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Communication and Culture Professor Gray's research areas include theory and ethnography of queer genders & sexualities; new media & cultural identity production; youth & public culture; the pedagogy of research ethics; sociology of scientific knowledge and practice as it relates to gender and sexuality. You can visit her web site by clicking here. Dr. Patricia Ingham pingham@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English Professor Ingham's research areas include Medieval Cultural Studies; Arthurian Romance; Chaucer; Postcolonial Studies; Psychoanalytic Theory; Gender and Sexuality; and Medievalism. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995. She has written the following books: Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). Co-editor, Postcolonial Moves Medieval Through Modern (NY: Palgrave Press, 2003) Dr. Stephanie C. Kane stkane@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Criminal Justice Professor Kane has carried out ethnographic research on indigenous rain forest peoples in Central America; on the social context of HIV risk related to drug use, sexuality, and crime; and most recently, on the use of life writing in cross-cultural criminal justice. She has been a faculty member at IU since 1993. She has received grant and fellowship support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fullbright, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Organization of American Studies. Visit Dr. Kane's site... click here ! Dr. Ellen Ketterson ketterso@indiana.edu Professor of Gender Studies and Biology Professor Ketterson's research focuses on population, behavioral, and physiological ecology, avian biology, hormones and behavior. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Public Heath Service. She has taught at IU since 1977. She has been honored with awards from the American Ornithologists' Union and the Wilson Ornithological Society, and, most recently she was named Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer at IUB. Her numerous publications have appeared in Animal Behaviour, Ethology, Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, and American Naturalist, among others. Dr. Rosemary H. Lloyd, Emeritus rolloyd@indiana.edu Rudy Professor of French and Gender Studies Professor Lloyd's many scholarly books and articles address a variety of issues, including gender, family, and identity in the poetry and prose of Mallarme, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and other writers of 19th-century France. She has been a member of the IU faculty since 1990 and has held Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Camargo, and Leverhulme Fellowships. She also holds an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. Among her current research projects are a book on the interrelationships of literature and the visual arts (especially still life) and another on the French livres de dialogue between poets and painters. Dr. Marissa J. Moorman moorman@indiana.edu Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and History Professor Moorman's research interests include: popular culture, gender and nation; transnational feminism; gender and sexuality in African history. Dr. Amrita Myers apmyers@indiana.edu Assistant Professor of History Dr. M. Jeanne Peterson, Emeritus petersom@indiana.edu Founding Emeritus Professor of Gender Studies and History Professor Peterson's scholarly books and articles interrogate historical constructions of British masculinities and femininities; Victorian medicine, public health, disease, and prostitution; and gender, the family, sexuality, and paid work in the nineteenth century. Professor Peterson has been a faculty member of IU since 1971, primarily in the History Department, joining the Department of Gender Studies in 1996. She is currently engaged in two different research projects: one focusing on patterns of masculinity and class in Britain, and another examining gender issues in 19^th century medical theory and practice. Professor Peterson is Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography, and has secured grant and fellowship support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Jean C. Robinson robinso@indiana.edu Professor of Gender Studies and Political Science Professor Robinson was Coordinator and then Director of Women's Studies at IU from 1977-1982, and again in 1991-92. She was Dean for Women's Affairs from 1998-2003. Her research is cross-national, focusing on comparing the politics of reproductive policies, as well as on feminist movements and gendered public policy. Professor Robinson is a founding member of RNGS (Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State), and has contributed to Comparative State Feminism (1995) and Abortion Politics, Women's Movements, and the Democratic State (2001). Professor Robinson was co-editor of Women and Social Policy: From Local to Global (NWSA Journal, 2001) and has also published in numerous volumes and journals. She has a forthcoming book on Gender and Post-Communism. Her newest project analyzes equality discourse in the US, especially debates over the Equal Rights Amendment and same-sex marriage. She also is starting work on a comparative study of sexuality policies in Poland, France, China, and the US. She has received two NSF grants as well as funding from other major federal agencies. Professor Robinson is recipient of the Indiana University President's Award for Distinguished Teaching (1996) and of five other teaching awards. She is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science. Professor Robinson teaches courses on Chinese politics, feminist political thought, gender and the state, cross-cultural studies of gender, and family and politics. Dr. Ranu Samantrai rsamantr@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and English Professor Samantrai's research areas include cultural studies; postcolonial literature; contemporary Britain; and Black Britain. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990. Dr. Susan Seizer sseizer@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Communication & Culture Professor Seizer's research and teaching interests include: Humor in Use, Stigma & Subjectivity, South Asia through Performance, Queer Ethnographic Narrative, and Disability Studies. Her recent book, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama artists in South India (Duke University Press 2005), focuses on the lives of Tamil popular theater artists onstage and off. Prior to beginning her academic career, Professor Seizer was a performer of dance, theater, and circus. Many of her scholarly interests follow threads she first explored as a performer: improvisation; the way comedy can be used to do just about anything; and the particular exhilaration many women find in transgressing normative gender roles through public performance. Professor Seizer has published in journals as diverse as Public Culture, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Transition, Heresies, and Indian Folklife. You can visit her website at http://www.stigmasofthetamilstage.com Dr. Margaret "Peg" Sutton msutton@indiana.edu Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Education Professor Sutton's activities in the School of Education include teaching foundations courses in the teacher preparation programs as well as instructing graduate students in international/comparative education and in policy studies. She studies and researches education and cultural change both outside and inside the U.S., with research and publications on educational policy formation in international assistance agencies; gender and education in the Third World; comparative multicultural policies; the sources and forms of global awareness among children and youth in the U.S.; and on citizenship and education around the world. Dr. Kirsten Sword ksword@indiana.edu Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and History Professor Sword's current book project is Wives not Slaves: Dependence, Authority and Justice in Early America. Her research examines the legal and social connections between marriage, slavery and servitude, and documents the process by which ordinary people developed new ideas about justice within households and in American society at large during the long eighteenth-century. She teaches Marriage and the American Nation http://www.indiana.edu/~marriage, Women, Feminism and History, the U.S. history survey and other topical and methods courses in early American and American women's history. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002. Dr. Susan Hoffman Williams shwillia@indiana.edu Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law and Gender Studies Before joining the Law faculty at IU in 1993, Professor Williams taught at the Cornell University School of Law and served as Judicial Clerk to Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit. Her many articles address such subjects as epistemology, feminist theory, free speech, and civil society. She has wide experience in judicial education, especially in the area of feminist legal theory. Her current research brings together issues in political theory, epistemology, and feminist jurisprudence. Professor Williams teaches courses on Feminist Jurisprudence, HIV and the Law, and Gender Equality in Comparative Perspective. In her recent book -- Truth, Autonomy, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment -- Professor Williams addresses the impact of feminist critiques of truth and autonomy on the theoretical foundations of freedom of expression. She is currently studying the ways in which constitutional systems in different countries conceptualize gender equality and the legal mechanisms they use to promote it. Dr. William L. Yarber yarber@indiana.edu Lecturer in Gender Studies and Sr. Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention Being an IU faculty member since 1984, Professor Yarber's research interests include HIV/STD risk behaviors, adolescent sexual behavior, sexuality education, and condom use behaviors. He has published over 85 articles and four school HIV/STD curriculum including the nation's first school HIV curriculum. Professor Yarber has received over $2.5 million in extramural funding for his research and HIV prevention work. Professor Yarber has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Graduate Student Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (2002) and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award (2002). He has also held positions of national and international leadership, including Chair of the Board of Directors of the Sexuality Information and Education Council (SIECUS), President of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, President of the Friends of The Kinsey Institute, and Consultant for the World Health Organization and Center for Diseases Control (CDC).


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