Gender Studies


People

Faculty

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
Phone: ()-


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


Karen Tongson
Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies

Research Specialities: Queer & Gender Studies; Minority Discourse; Cultural Studies; Popular Culture (Pop Music, TV, Entertainment & Media Cultures); Performance; Suburban Studies; 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