Feminist and Gender Studies

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Nadia Guessous
she/her/hers
Assoc. Professor, Chair
(719) 389-6079 | Interdisciplinary House #204B
Expertise: The transnational politics of gender and sexuality, religion and secularism, affect, power and subjectivity, memory and embodiment, Islam, Morocco
Heidi R. Lewis
she|her(s)
Professor
David & Lucile Packard Professor
(719) 389-6081 | Interdisciplinary House #205
Expertise: Rap, Media Studies, Black Feminism, Hip Hop, Feminism
Rushaan Kumar
he/him
Associate Professor
(719) 389-6078
Expertise: Queer Studies, Trans Studies, Queer Theory, Transnational Gender and Sexuality, Film and Media Studies, South Asian Studies, Trans Feminism
Joana Chavez
she/her/ella
Assistant Professor
Interdisciplinary House #106
Expertise: Archives, Carceral Studies, Abolition, Gender Race Class and Sexuality, Chicana Feminism, Chicanx Studies, Group Homes, Testimonios, Inland Empire
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