Southwestern

Engaging Minds, Transforming Lives

Feminist Studies Program

Core Faculty

  • Alison Kafer

    Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
    (512) 863-1417
    Mood-Bridwell 314
    email
    Specialty: Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Activism

FST Committee (2011-2012)

  • Elaine Craddock

    Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1963
    Kyle E. White 101
    email
    Specialty: Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body

  • Lysane Fauvel

    Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    (512) 863-1209
    Kyle E. White 110
    email

  • Alison Kafer

    Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
    (512) 863-1417
    Mood-Bridwell 314
    email
    Specialty: Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Activism

  • Helene Meyers

    Professor of English and Holder of McManis University Chair
    (512) 863-1492
    Mood-Bridwell 207
    email
    Specialty: Contemporary Literature, Jewish Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Gothic Studies

Other Faculty

FST faculty regularly teach courses cross-listed with FST and/or are engaged in and supportive of research in Feminist Studies. Students interested in connections between FST and other academic disciplines are encouraged to contact the affiliated faculty in those departments.

  • Shana Bernstein

    Associate Professor of History
    (512) 863-1428
    Mood-Bridwell 212
    email

  • Erika Berroth

    Associate Professor of German
    (512) 863-1739
    Olin 319
    email

  • Michael Bray

    Associate Professor of Philosophy
    (512) 863-1131
    Kyle E. White 103
    email
    Specialty: Political Philosophy; Critical Theory

  • Eileen Cleere

    Professor of English
    (512) 863-1982
    Mood-Bridwell 211
    email
    Specialty: Victorian literature and culture, the novel, film studies, feminist studies.

  • Carina Evans

    Assistant Professor of English
    (512) 863-1962
    Mood-Bridwell 208
    email
    Specialty: African American literature and culture; American ethnic literature; Gender and women's studies

  • Lysane Fauvel

    Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    (512) 863-1209
    Kyle E. White 110
    email

  • E. Green Musselman

    Professor of History
    (512) 863-1595
    Mood-Bridwell 216
    email
    Specialty: history of science, British and imperial history

  • Laura Hobgood-Oster

    Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1669
    Kyle E. White 105
    email
    Specialty: Animals in the history of the Christian tradition; contemporary religious-ethical issues related to other-than-human animals; religion and ecology; environmental studies; Ecofeminism.

  • Melissa Johnson

    Associate Professor of Anthropology
    (512) 863-1406
    Mood-Bridwell 310
    email
    Specialty: Topical:Environment; Conservation; Development; Race and Racism; Social Theory;Environmental History; Tourism; Gender.Area: Belize; Caribbean;U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas

  • Kathleen Juhl

    Professor of Theatre
    (512) 863-1368
    Fine Arts 306
    email
    Specialty: Movement and Alexander TechniqueBrown Distinguished Teaching Professor 2001-2004

  • Edward Kain

    Professor of Sociology and University Scholar
    (512) 863-1967
    Mood-Bridwell 315
    email
    Specialty: Social Change and Families; Gender; The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Historical Demography/Mortality Change

  • Rebecca Lorins

    n/a
    (512) 863-1497
    Kyle E. White 108
    email
    Specialty: Islam and Islamic cultural studies; African cultural studies

  • Maria Lowe

    Professor of Sociology
    (512) 863-1936
    Mood-Bridwell 317
    email
    Specialty: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Social Movements, Activism, Race Relations, Gender Construction, Campus Climates in Higher Education

  • Shannon Mariotti

    Assistant Professor of Political Science
    (512) 863-1407
    Mood-Bridwell 243
    email

  • Thomas McClendon

    Professor of History
    (512) 863-1414
    Mood-Bridwell 214
    email
    Specialty: African, colonial, and legal history.

  • Sandi Nenga

    Associate Professor of Sociology
    (512) 863-1412
    Mood-Bridwell 308
    email

  • Aaron R Prevots

    Associate Professor of French
    (512) 863-1597
    Olin 315
    email

  • Omar Rivera

    Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    (512) 863-1749
    Kyle E. White 113
    email

  • Brenda Sendejo

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    (512) 863-1409
    Mood-Bridwell 309
    email
    Specialty: Anthropologyof religion, Mexican American spiritualities andindigenous heritage, gender and racialization, and Chicana feminisms.Geographic specialization: U.S. - Mexico Borderlands, Central and South Texas.

  • Kimberly Smith

    Associate Professor of Art History
    (512) 863-1349
    Fine Arts 232
    email
    Specialty: Modern German and Austrian art; European modernism; history of art history.

  • Elizabeth Stockton

    Assistant Professor of English
    (512) 863-1405
    Mood-Bridwell 210
    email
    Specialty: Nineteenth-century American literature; Gender and women's studies; Law and literature; Ethnic literatures of the U.S.