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Feminist Studies Program

Core Faculty

The following is a list of full-time Faculty members within the Feminist Studies Program.

  • Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1963
    Kyle E. White 101
    email
    Specialty: Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body
  • Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
    (512) 863-1417
    Mood-Bridwell 314
    email
    Specialty: Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Activism

FST Committee (2008-2009)

  • Professor of Religion
    (512) 863-1963
    Kyle E. White 101
    email
    Specialty: Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body
  • Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
    (512) 863-1547
    Olin 314
    email
  • Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
    (512) 863-1417
    Mood-Bridwell 314
    email
    Specialty: Disability Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Activism
  • Professor of English
    (512) 863-1492
    Mood-Bridwell 210
    email
    Specialty: Contemporary Literature, Jewish Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Gothic Studies
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology
    (512) 863-1412
    Mood-Bridwell 308
    email

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.

  • Assistant Professor of History
    (512) 863-1428
    Mood-Bridwell 204
    email
  • Associate Professor of German
    (512) 863-1739
    Olin 319
    email
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy
    (512) 863-1131
    Kyle E. White 103
    email
  • Assistant Professor of English
    (512) 863-1962
    Mood-Bridwell 208
    email
  • Associate Professor of English
    (512) 863-1982
    Mood-Bridwell 211A
    email
    Specialty: Victorian literature and culture, the novel, film studies, feminist studies.
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    (512) 863-1749
    Kyle E. White 113
    email
  • Associate Professor of History
    (512) 863-1595
    Mood-Bridwell 216
    email
    Specialty: history of science, British and imperial history
  • 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; EcofeminismDr. Hobgood-Oster is coordinating a lecture series and conference - "Real" Animals and the Humanities - that will take place February 17-18, 2010 at Southwestern University. Dr. Paul Waldau, Dr. Marc Bekoff, and Carol Adams will all be presenting keynote addresses on February 17. On February 18 a roundtable of scholars studying animals and the humanities/social sciences will meet from 9:00-11:00 am. Any interested parties are welcome to join this roundtable conversation. For more information contact Dr. Hob-O at hoboster@southwestern.edu or call at 512-863-1669.
  • Professor of Theatre
    (512) 863-1368
    Fine Arts 306
    email
    Specialty: Movement and Alexander TechniqueBrown Distinguished Teaching Professor 2001-2004
  • Professor of Sociology and University Scholar
    (512) 863-1967
    Mood-Bridwell 315
    email
  • Professor of Sociology
    (512) 863-1936
    Mood-Bridwell 317
    email
    Specialty: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Social Movement Theory, Activism, Race Relations, Gender Construction
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science
    (512) 863-1407
    Mood-Bridwell 243
    email
  • Professor of History
    (512) 863-1414
    Mood-Bridwell 214
    email
    Specialty: African, colonial, and legal history.
  • 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
  • Assistant Professor of French
    (512) 863-1597
    Olin 315
    email
  • Associate Professor of Art History
    (512) 863-1349
    Fine Arts 232
    email
    Specialty: Modern European and American Art History
  • Assistant Professor of English
    (512) 863-1405
    Mood-Bridwell 220
    email