People - M.A. & Ph.D. Alumnx

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Zakiya Adair

GWSS Alumni '10 - Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies; Program Co-Director, International Studies, The College of New Jersey
African American History, Black Internationalism, Transnational Women's Cultural History

Alka Arora

GWSS Alumni '08 - Associate Professor, Women's Spirituality, California Institute of Integral Studies
Animal Ethics, Buddhism, Multicultural Feminist Theory, Spiritual Activism
GWSS Alumn, Amy Bhatt, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, UMBC

Amy Bhatt

GWSS Alumni '11 - Writer and Researcher, The Brohatt Group
Effects of Migration on Gender and Families, Social Reproduction, South Asian Community Formation

Brianna Blaser

GWSS Alumni '08 - Counselor/Coordinator, DO-IT Center, University of Washington
Women in Science

Jeanette Bushnell

GWSS Alumni '09 - Part-time Lecturer, University of Washington Honors Program; Co-founder, N.D.N. Players Research Group
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Renee Byrd

GWSS Alumni '13 - Associate Professor, Department of English, Cal Poly Humboldt
Mass Imprisonment, Neoliberal Political Rationalities, Prisoner Re-Entry, Race

Rebecca Castner

GWSS Alumni '12 - Freelance Speaker and Human Rights Activist

Calla Chancellor

GWSS Alumni '11 - Instructional Consultant, University of Washington
Digital Humanities, Teaching and Critical Pedagogies
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung

GWSS Alumni '24 - Part-time Lecturer, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
cyuenzi@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
PDL B111
Art, Art History, Culture, Decolonial, East Asian, Feminism, Gender, Sinophone studies, Transnational, Visual Arts, Visual Culture
GWSS Alum, Monica De La Torre, Assistant Professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University

Monica De La Torre

GWSS Alumni '16 - Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
Chicana/o, Media Studies, Radio and Sound Studies
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Sara Diaz

GWSS Alumni '12 - Associate Professor & Department Chair, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University
diazs@gonzaga.edu
Feminism, Feminism and Science, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Women, Women and the Environment
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Martha Gonzalez

GWSS Alumni '13 - Associate Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies, Scripps College
mgonzale@scrippscollege.edu
Chicana/o, Feminism, Latino/a Studies, Performance Studies, Transnational
Alyssa Hellrung

Alyssa Hellrung

GWSS Alumni '09 - Associate, Infosys
ahellrun@uw.edu
Gender & Sports

Mae C. Henderson

GWSS Alumni '06

Sean Jarvis

GWSS Alumni '20
sjarvis2@uw.edu
Bioethics, Historiography, Law and Political Thought, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity
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alma khasawnih

GWSS Alumni '18 - Associate Professor, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The College of New Jersey
Arab Feminisms, Arab Spring, Arab World, Egypt, Feminist Theory, Politics of Representation, Postcolonial, Public Art, Queer Studies, Social Change, Transnational, Urban Studies, Visual Culture
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Nina Kim Hanson

GWSS Alumni '13 - Public Speaker, Let Love Lead; Board Member, Lake Stevens School District
Religion
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Bobbi Kindred

GWSS Alumni '24 - Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas, San Antonio
ciegreen@uw.edu
African American, Black Geographies, Critical Addiction Studies, Drama, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, Folklore and Mythology, Oral History, Performance Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies

Jan Kinney

GWSS Alumni '10 - Retired
Academic Excellence

Kristina Knoll Niemi

GWSS Alumni '12 - Accessibility and Policy Analyst, California Department of Social Services
Civil Rights Laws
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Michelle Kritz Morado

GWSS Alumni '23 - Assistant Professor in History, Seattle Central College
Michelle.Morado@seattlecolleges.edu
Archives, Chicana/o, Class, History, Motherhood, Oral History, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Women of Color
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Kristy Leissle

GWSS Alumni '08 - Co-Founder, Cocoapreneurship Institute of Ghana; Educational Consultant Cacao Latitudes, Cocoa Masterclass
Politics Economics and Cultures of the Global Chocolate Industry

Angelica Macklin

GWSS Alumni '24 - Creative Director, UW Cultivate Learning
amacklin@uw.edu
Communication, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Production, Culture, Digital Humanities, Film/Cinema, Film/Media Production, Media Studies, Oral History, Politics of Representation, Social Change, Transnational Feminisms, Visual Culture

Serena Maurer

GWSS Alumni '06 - Consultant, Compassionate Social Justice Consulting

Michelle L. McGowan

GWSS Alumni '08 - Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics, UC Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ethical Legal and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics, Reproductive Technologies
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Tylir McKenzie

GWSS Alumni '19 - Faculty, Psychology, Highline College
tylirm@uw.edu
Critical Pedagogy, Education, Feminist Pedagogy, Gender, Identity and self disclosure, Intersectional Educational Approaches, Online Learning, Online pedagogy, Popular Culture, Psychology, Scholarship of teaching and learning, Sexuality, Writing Pedagogy

Akanksha Misra

GWSS Alum '20 - Assistant Professor in Gender & Women's Studies, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Education, Gender, Indian, Sexuality, Turkish

Dipika Nath

GWSS Alumni '08 - Faculty at UWC Dilijan College
Recent Ph.D. in Feminist Studies | Long-haired person wearing blue blazer looks into camera while smiling

Logan O'Laughlin

GWSS Alumni '18 - UX Researcher, CDW
Animal Studies, Critical Race Theory, Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Feminist Commodity Chains, Feminist Theory, Food, Political Economy, Posthumanism, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Reproduction, Science and Technology, Transgender Studies
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Amy Peloff

GWSS Alumni '11 - Administrative Director, League of Women Voters of Washington
Feminism, Women
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Elizabeth Ramirez Arreola

GWSS Alumni '22 - Part-time Lecturer, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
lagunera@uw.edu
Caribbean, Feminism, Gender, Globalization, Immigration, Labor, Performance Studies, Transnational
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Nicole Robert

GWSS Alumni '16 - Director of Visitor Experience, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Museum Studies/Museology
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Noralis Rodriguez-Coss

GWSS Alumni '16 - Assistant Professor, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gonzaga University
Activism, Body, Decolonial, Feminism, Gender, Island Studies, Performance Studies, Public Protests, Violence and Trauma
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fabian romero

GWSS Alumni '23 - Assistant Professor in Indigenous Knowledge, Ohio State University
romerof@uw.edu
American Indian/Native American, Collaboration, Digital Arts, Feminism, Indigenous, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Latino/a Studies, Performance Studies, Politics of Representation, Public Scholarship, Queer Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality Studies

Karen Rosenberg

GWSS Alumni '08 - Graduate Writing Specialist, McMaster University
Writing Pedagogy

Jaye Sablan

GWSS Alumni '12 - Assistant Director of Core Programs, UW Graduate School
Indigenous Feminism, Native Pacific Cultural Studies, Transnational Genders and Sexulaities

Julie Severson

GWSS Alumni '09 - Director, Office of Research Misconduct Proceedings, University of Washington

Mediha Sorma

GWSS Alumni '23
med1985@uw.edu
Critical Race Theory, Cultural Theory, Feminist Theory, Kurdish Resistance, Militarization, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Reproduction, Sexuality, Transgender Studies, Transnational, Turkish, Women of Color

Yiyu Tian

GWSS Alumni '19 - Software Engineer, Confluent
Anthropology, Biopolitics, Body, Chinese, East Asian, Labor, Migration, Performance Studies, Political Economy, Reproduction, Science and Technology
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Iris Viveros Avendaño

GWSS Alumni '23 - Part-time Lecturer, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
iriscviveros@gmail.com
Activism, Body, Community, Culture, Decolonial, Indigenous, Music, Subjugated Knowledges, Transnational, Violence and Trauma, Women of Color, Zapatismo
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Stephanie Yingyi Wang

GWSS Alumni '22 - Assistant Professor in Gender & Sexuality Studies, St. Lawrence University
stephaniewang54@gmail.com
Activism, Anthropology, China Studies, Ethnography, Feminism, Political Economy, Queer Studies, Reproduction, Social Change, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Transnational
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Jiwoon Yu-Lee

GWSS Alumni '18 - Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
Activism, Ethnography, Feminist Theory, Janitorial work, Labor, Oral History, Political Economy, Social division of labor, Social Justice, South Korea, Transnational
Shuxuan Zhou

Shuxuan Zhou

GWSS Alumni '17 - Policy Analyst, Seattle Office of Labor Standards
Chinese, Feminism, Gender, Labor, Women
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