Gender Studies


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People

Faculty

Faculty of Gender Studies are divided into Core Faculty with joint appointments, listed below, and our Advisory Board of faculty, administrators, and other supporters of GS.

Lois Banner
Professor of History and Gender Studies

Research Specialities: Professor of History: Women, gender, cultural history, nineteenth and twentieth century United States; masculinity studies, feminist studies, sexuality and queer studies.
Email: lbanner@usc.edu
Office: SOS 272
Phone: (213)740-1610
Lisa Bitel
Professor of History and Gender Studies

Research Specialities: Medieval European history, history of Christianity, women's and gender history, Ireland, Celtic literatures and cultures, art and archaeology of medieval Europe
Personal Website URL: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~bitel/
Email: bitel@usc.edu
Office: SOS 282
Phone: (213)821-2150
Joseph Boone
Professor of English, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature

Email: josephbo@usc.edu
Office: THH 402G
Sheila Briggs
Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies

Email: sbriggs@usc.edu
Office: ACB 130
Phone: (213)740-0267
Alice Echols
Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies and History

Research Specialities: Social and Cultural Histories of Sexuality and Gender; Popular Music (particularly rock, R&B and disco); U.S. History, 1945-89; History and Theories of Feminism; Cultural Studies
Email: echols@usc.edu
Office: THH 404F
Phone: (213)821-1163
Christopher Freeman
Lecturer

Research Specialities: 20th century literature; the novel; memoir; literary theory; gay and lesbian studies; Los Angeles/Hollywood
Email: cefreema@usc.edu
Office: THH 404G
Phone: (213)740-3745
Sandra Gruner-Domic
Lecturer

Email: grunerdo@usc.edu
Office: KAP 352
Phone: (213)740-3533
Judith Halberstam
Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies

Research Specialities: (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1991) Professor of English and ASE: Critical Theory, Film & Popular Culture, Gender Studies, 19th-Century, Queer Studies.
Email: halberst@usc.edu
Office: THH 407
Phone: (213)821-1169
Joseph Hawkins
Lecturer

Research Specialities: Japan, homosexuality, elite restaurants
Email: jrhawkin@usc.edu
Office: GFS 131
Phone: (213)740-0523
Sharon Hays
Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology

Email: sharonrh@usc.edu
Office: KAP 352
Phone: (213)740-3533
Nancy Lutkehaus
Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and Political Science

Research Specialities: The art and cultures of Oceania. Gender in Melanesia and East Africa (Kenya in particular). Missionaries in Oceania. Margaret Mead and the history of anthropology.
Email: lutkehau@usc.edu
Office: GFS 126
Phone: (213)740-1917
Michael Messner
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies

Email: messner@usc.edu
Office: KAP 352
Phone: (213)740-8848
Gloria Orenstein
Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies

Email: orenstei@usc.edu
Office: THH 174
Phone: (213)740-0100
Amy Parish
Lecturer

Email: parish@usc.edu
Office: THH 422
Phone: (213)740-8286
Karen Tongson
Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies

Research Specialities: Queer & Gender Studies; Minority Discourse; Popular Culture (Pop Music, TV, Entertainment & Media Cultures); Suburban Studies; Performance; Los Angeles & the Southern California Region; Contemporary Literature; 19th-Century British Literature; Theory; Aesthetics
Email: tongson@usc.edu
Office: THH 402K
Phone: (213)740-2817
Sherry Velasco
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies

Email: svelasco@usc.edu
Office: THH 156M
Phone: (213)740-7659
Walter Williams
Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and History

Research Specialities: (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974) American Indian ethnohistory; American Civil War-Reconstruction; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender history; history of Indonesia and Thailand.
Email: walterlw@usc.edu
Office: STO 116
Phone: (213)740-1911