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Professor of Gender Studies
and Department Chair
Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Communication & Culture
 Suzanna Danuta Walters is Professor and Chair of the
Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, where she also holds
appointments in the departments of Sociology and Communications and Culture.
Previously, she was a Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies
at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Her work is centered on
questions of gender, sexuality, family, and popular culture and she is a
frequent commentator on these issues for the media. Her most recent work -
All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (University of Chicago
Press, 2001) - examined the explosion of gay visibility in culture and
politics over the past 15 years and raised pressing questions concerning the
politics of visibility around sexual identity. The book was a finalist for
numerous literary awards (including the Lambda Literary Award) and was the
subject of radio and television interviews and discussions, culminating in a
15 city book tour in the Fall of 2001 and Spring 2002.
Her other works include books
on feminist cultural theory (Material Girls: making sense of feminist
cultural theory), mothers and daughters in popular culture (Lives
Together/Worlds Apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture) and numerous
articles and book chapters on feminist theory, queer theory and LGBT studies,
and popular culture.
She is currently engaged with
several research projects, including an extension of the analysis of gay
visibility that asks about the construction of sexual communities and
identities in a "post-visibility" age. In addition, she continues
to investigate questions of family formation and is specifically researching
how different modalities of "choice" figure into the
decision-making of single mothers.
Professor of Gender Studies
and History
 Professor Allen's areas of research specialization
include: the comparative histories of feminism, sex research, feminist theory
and politics; feminist critiques of disciplinary knowledge and the emergence
of interdisciplinary women's/gender studies; women's social and cultural
history in Australia and the Pacific Rim; and gender issues in crime and
criminal justice. Before joining IU in 1993, Professor Allen held
Australia's first Chair of Women's Studies. Her present research involves a study
of conflicting strands in changing interwar and postwar understandings of
sexuality, with a focus on sex research, marriage counseling, birth control
technology, and sex education movements. She has been the recipient of
Australian Research Council Large Grants, and has been a nominee for
prestigious Australian book prizes.
Assistant Professor of
Gender Studies and African American & African Diaspora Studies
 Professor Bailey's
research interests include: African Diaspora studies, queer diasporas, race,
gender, and sexuality, queer theory, Black queer studies, theatre/performance
studies, ethnography, and HIV/AIDS (cultural politics, research, and
prevention of HIV/AIDS in Black communities). Dr. Bailey earned his PhD in
African Diaspora Studies with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and
Sexuality, in the Department of African American Studies at the University of
California-Berkeley. Currently, Dr. Bailey is working on a book
manuscript that expands his performance ethnographic study of Ballroom
Culture, a Black and Latina/o queer culture in North America. His most
recent publications examine performance, HIV/AIDS prevention, and Ballroom
Culture. In addition to his current research, Dr. Bailey has published
on Black queer performance and same-sex marriage. He is also an
accomplished professional actor, director, and performance artist. He has
performed at professional theatres in Minneapolis, DC, Louisville, and
Detroit. His most recent performance was in "The Hard Evidence of
Existence: a Black Gay Sex (Love) Show," at the Thick House in San
Francisco, California. Prior to joining the faculty at IU, Dr. Bailey
was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and Women’s Studies at the
University of California-Berkeley from 2005-2007. He holds an MA in
African American Studies from UC-Berkeley, an MFA in Theatre Performance from
West Virginia University, and a BA (cum laude) in Theatre/Speech Education
from Olivet College.
Professor of Gender Studies and
Communication and Culture
 Alex
Doty was born in a trunk at the Princess Theatre in Pocatello, Idaho. If
you get that reference, then you won’t be surprised to discover that I teach
and work in GLBTQ film and media studies. I was actually born in a
military hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts the year the film I quote above
came out. My family, however, finally claimed west Texas as home, and,
after decades of resistance, I have grown fond of the land of tumbleweeds,
road runners, and horned toads. I received my BA from the University of
Texas-El Paso (or “Harvard on the Border” as it is known on bumper stickers),
and my MA and PhD from the University of Illinois-Urbana. Previous to
coming to Indiana, I held positions at The American University in Cairo and
at Lehigh University, which is in Bethlehem, just down the road from Nazareth
and Egypt—Pennsylvania. I have published Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass
Culture (Minnesota) and Flaming
Classics: Queering the Film Cannon (Routledge), as well as
co-edited Out in Culture:
Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Duke) and
edited two special issues on Camera
Obscura: “Fabulous! Divas I and II.” My current
scholarship includes a co-written book (with IU’s own Patty Ingham) on the
monstrous and the medieval, a project on contemporary film melodrama, and
articles on Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, and “Queer Hitchcock.”
I am thrilled to be at an institution that supported Kinsey’s work.
Assistant Professor of
Gender Studies 
Professor Lessie Jo Frazier's
work focuses on political culture in the Americas. She is particularly
interested in the intersection of cultural studies theories of power,
subjectivity, and ideology with questions of political economy. She has
published on gender, nation-state formation, human rights, mental health
policies, memory, poetics, activism, and feminist ethnography. She is
currently writing a book on gender, sexuality, and political culture in
Chile; a co-edited volume on gender and sexuality in a global 1968; as well
as articles on Cold War POWs and masculinity (using film and oral history),
and amnesia as a paradoxical form of agency (using queer theory). Professor
Frazier's teaching includes courses on transnational feminisms; gender, race
and the erotics of imperialism; gender and sexuality in Latin America;
theories of gender and sexuality; feminist perspectives on warfare and
militarism; methodology; and gender and human rights.
Associate Professor of
Gender Studies and Anthropology
Professor Friedman's research
focuses on the relationship between political processes and intimate life in
China and Taiwan. Her first project looked at how China's socialist regime
sought to produce new socialist citizens through transforming intimate
practices associated with marriage, labor, bodily adornment, and same-sex
networks. More recently, she has begun a multi-sited project that examines
how our conceptions of citizenship are changing as people and capital flow
across national borders. By working with people who are moving between Taiwan
and China, Professor Friedman explores changes in the discourses and practices
of citizenship in the region and their relationship to gender and kinship
identities. In Gender Studies she teaches courses on The Politics of
Marriage, Cross-Cultural Gender Formations, and Gender and Citizenship, as
well as Anthropology courses on culture and power and contemporary Chinese
societies.
Assistant Professor of
Gender Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professo r of History and American Studies
Colin Johnson holds a BA with
honors in Law, Letters and Society from the University of Chicago and an MA
and PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. His
research focuses on the history of gender and sexuality in non-metropolitan
America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is
especially interested in the history of homosexuality in rural America and is
currently completing a book manuscript on that subject. Other areas of
interest include 19th and 20th century US literature,
the history of agriculture and the environment, queer theory, psychoanalytic
theory, and film and media studies.
Senior Lecturer in Gender
Studies
Dr. Maher has completed a Ph.D.
in English and Modern Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has worked previously as a Visiting Assistant
Professor at the University of Wisconsin where she taught courses in Popular
Culture, American Women's Literature, Third Wave Feminism, and Gender and the
Body. Her most recent essay was published in the NYU Press anthology Reality TV: Remaking Television
Culture (2004) and her most
recent work of fiction was published in Seal Press' Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth about Women's Friendships
(2005). She is a frequent contributor to Bitch: A Feminist Response to Popular Culture. At Indiana University, Dr. Maher's area of
expertise covers popular culture; American women's literature; third wave
feminism; gender and the body; and contemporary women's writing. She is
currently at work on a larger project focused on representations of teachers
in popular culture.
Martha C. Kraft Professor
of Humanities
Professor of The College of Arts & Sciences and
Adjunct Professor of Law
Professor Malti-Douglas began
her career in Middle Eastern studies, producing nine books in this area (two
chosen for singular distinction) and over 80 articles. She has served
on many boards (including editorial boards) and received numerous fellowships
and endowed lectureships, as well as the 1997 Kuwait Prize for Arts and
Letters and the 1998 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Dean for Women's
Affairs at IU. Professor Malti-Douglas has recently broadened her
intellectual interests. Hisland (SUNY Press, 1998) is a
satirical novel of the academy. Her most recent book, The Starr Report
Disrobed (Columbia University Press, 2000), links the interdisciplinary area
of gender, sexuality, and the body with that of American legal and political
narratives. Her current research includes work in Europe and Latin America as
well as the United States, as it continues her interest in visual and verbal
narratives. Professor Malti-Douglas was recently selected for
membership in the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society
in the country. She is only the fourth IU faculty member to receive
this award. In the fall of 2004 she was inducted into the society with
professor and author Noam Chomsky, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Steven
Breyer. The American Philosophical Society was founded by Benjamin
Franklin in 1743. For more details... Currently, Dr. Malti-Douglas is serving as the
Editor-in-Chief of a new four-volume Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender for
MacMillian.
Professor of Gender Studies
and Anthropology
Professor Pyburn's research
centers on the ancient Maya, with secondary foci in archaeology and gender,
archaeological ethics, and public archaeology. She joined the faculty at IU
in 1996. Professor Pyburn is director of the Chau Hiix Project, funded
by the National Science Foundation and Indiana University. She holds a
government of Belize permit to excavate the remains of Chau Hiix, an ancient
Mayan city, and directs an archaeological field school at the site. She
also directs the MATRIX project, Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant in the
21st Century. This National Science Foundation project brings together 30
archaeologists to design a new set of teaching materials for undergraduate
education in archaeology. Professor Pyburn is an elected member of the
American Archaeological Association's Ethics Committee and the book review
editor for Latin American Antiquity.
Professor of Gender Studies and Director of Graduate
Studies
Associate Director of the Kinsey Institute
Professor Sanders' research,
conducted in the United States and Scandinavia, addresses: sexual behavior;
sexuality, sexual identity, and gender relations; sex differentiation; gender
difference in psychological and physical development; effects of prenatal
hormones and drugs on human development; women's health and well-being,
menstruation, menopause, and the life cycle; and biopsychological
perspectives on debates in feminist theory. Instructing Gender Studies
courses since 1995, her current research analyzes gendered dimensions of
scientific research methodologies; the effects of oral contraceptives on
sexuality and well-being in women; sexual behavior and risk for sexually
transmitted diseases; and the long-term behavioral effects of prenatal
exposure to drugs and hormones. Professor Sanders recently served as
President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and has been
a co-principal investigator on research grants from such agencies as the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development. Dr. Sanders recently won a prestigious award from the
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Read More ...
Dr.
Susan Stryker
gender@indiana.edu
Associate Professor
of Gender Studies
 Susan Stryker worked for many years
an independent scholar and filmmaker specializing in transgender history,
theory, cultural production, and political activism. She earned her Ph.D. in
United States History at University of California-Berkeley in 1992, and later
held a Ford Foundation/Social Science Research Council post-doctoral research
fellowship in sexuality studies at Stanford University. She has held visiting
faculty positions at Harvard University, University of California-Santa Cruz,
and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Between 1999-2003 she served as
Executive Director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco.
Works include the Lambda Literary Award finalists Gay By the Bay: A History of Queer
Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996;
co-authored with Jim Van Buskirk) and Queer Pulp: Perverse Passion in the Golden Age of the
Paperback (2001), as well as the
Lammie-winning anthology (co-edited with Stephen Whittle) The Transgender Studies Reader (2006). With colleague Victor Silverman she co-directed,
-wrote, and -produced the Emmy-winning public television documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at
Compton's Cafeteria (2005). She edited the
1998 transgender studies special issue of GLQ: The Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and also co-edited (with Paisley Currah and Lisa-Jean Moore)
the 2008 transgender studies issue of Women's Studies Quarterly. She has published scholarly articles in Radical History Review, Parallax,
GLQ, and other journals.
Research interests include embodiment and technology,
built environments, film, and critical theory, as they relate to gender and
sexuality. Current projects, in addition to ongoing editorial work, include a
book, Sex Change
City: Theorizing Urban Trans/Formation in San Francisco, and an experimental film about the cinematics of 1950s
celebrity Christine Jorgensen's transexual embodiment, Christine in the Cutting Room.
Assistant Professor of
Gender Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, American Studies and English
Professor Weber's areas of
interest include nineteenth and twentieth century British and United States
literatures and media, cultural history and social theory, the politics of
representation, reception and the construction of celebrity, cultural studies
of the body and its representation, masculinity theory, popular culture, and
feminist geographies. Recent essays include "The Text as Child: Gender/Sex
and Metaphors of Maternity at the Fin de Siecle," published in Feminist
Studes; "What Makes the Man? Television Makeovers, Made-Over
Masculinity, and Male Body Image," published in The International
Journal of Men's Health; and "Beauty, Desire, and Anxiety: The Economy
of Sameness in ABC's Extreme Makeover," published in Genders (available
at http://www.genders.org
). Her present book projects are Into the Makeover Maze: Before and
After Bodies and the (Ill)Logics of Makeover TV and Figuring Fame: Women,
Gender, and the Body in the Transatlantic Production of Literary Celebrity. A
recent article can be seen at:
http://www.genders.org/g41/g41_weber.html
Professor of Gender Studies
and Anthropology
Professor Wilk has conducted
research with Mayan people in the rain forest of Belize, in West African
markets, and in suburban California. Professor Wilk has published on topics
as diverse as beauty pageants, household organization, power and
decision-making, economic anthropology, and the effects of television on culture.
Most of his recent research concerns the global environmental impact of mass
consumer culture, gender and consumer culture, and the history of the global
food system. His current book project addresses gender and the origin of
consumer culture. His most recent publication is The Anthropology of Media,
co-edited with Kelly Askew (Blackwell). Professor Wilk is on the senior
Cultural Anthropology review panel at the National Science Foundation and is
president of the Society for Economic Anthropology. He has recently been
working on the way masculinity was defined in the working cultures of male
work groups in the extractive economy of the nineteenth century. Professor
Wilk's goals include a better understanding of the role that gender plays in
driving the constant spiral of increasing wants and needs in modern consumer
culture.
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