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Program Description

The minor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies (FGSS) is an interdisciplinary program committed to feminist and queer scholarship.

This is a minor field in the Graduate School. The initial application for admission is made only to major fields. After matriculation, a student may select FGSS as a minor concentration.

Graduate Minor Field Requirements

Students pursuing the minor in feminist, gender and sexuality studies are required to take FGSS 6880. They must then choose a faculty member in the field of FGSS, drawn from the list of FGSS grad field faculty, to guide research in the minor area of FGSS, recommend classes, and attest to competency in FGSS at the time of the A-Exam and dissertation defense. That committee member will inform the FGSS DGS of their student's progress in fulfilling minor requirements.

Faculty

Leslie Allen Adelson

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: postwar German literature; migrant and minority discourses; Jewish studies; feminist theory; cultural history

Catherine Appert

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Ethnomusicology; African Studies; Anthropology

Rachel Bezner Kerr

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Laura Schaefer Brown

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century literature; the female literary tradition; feminist criticism and theory

Judith A. Byfield

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Julia Haeyoon Chang

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Spanish literature and culture, gender, sexuality and feminist studies, medicine and literature, late Spanish imperialism

Elisha Cohn

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Ileen A Devault

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: U.S. working-class history; women's labor history; gender and class

Naminata Diabate

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Deborah Dinner

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Property, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Family Law, Gender & the Law, Law & Social Movements, and the Legal History of Risk

Yue Du

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Law; Family Values; State Building; Nationalism

Brooke Erin Duffy

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: digital and social media, gender and feminism, creative labor and cultural production, online self-presentation, consumer culture, impact of new technologies on work and labor

Maria Fernandez

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: history and theory of digital art; cybernetics and art in the late 1950s and 1960s; artificial life art; the integration of media theory with post-colonial and feminist theory

Chelsea Mikael Frazier

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Arnika Fuhrmann

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

J. Ellen Gainor

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: feminist theatre criticism and theory; women playwrights

Durba Ghosh

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: modern south Asia; gender; colonialism

Sabine Haenni

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: American cinema and cultural studies, intersections of gender and ethnicity in U.S. popular and mass culture

Kimberly Joy Haines-Eitzen

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: early Christianity; women's studies; biblical studies; early Judaism

Ellis Hanson

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: queer theory; Victorian studies; film

Saida Hodzic

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: medical anthropology, feminism, violence; Ghana, Africa

Cary S. Howie

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: French and Italian middle Ages in relation to literacy theory, theology and queer studies

Karen Jaime

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Stacey A. Langwick

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Lori Leonard

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Kathleen Perry Long

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: French Renaissance literatures and cultures, history of science, gender and sexuality studies (hermaphrodites, early modern transexuality and religious violence)

Tamara L Loos

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Southeast Asia; Thailand; gender; legal studies; sexuality; Internet; travel; identity

Kate Manne

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: moral philosophy, meta-ethics, moral psychology, practical reason, social philosophy, social epistemology, analytic ideology critique, feminist philosophy, misogyny

Vida Maralani

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: stratification, demography, education, gender, health

Kate McCullough

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: gay and lesbian studies; women and literature; feminist theory

Marilyn Migiel

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Juno Salazar Parrenas

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Queer Biosocial Diversities Who Gets to Retire? Human-Animal Life Histories of Labor

Judith Ann Peraino

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: medieval music; popular music; gender and sexuality in music

Lucinda Ramberg

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: sexuality, gender, religion, power; South India, United States

Masha Raskolnikov

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Middle English literature; allegory theory; medieval philosophy and rhetoric; contemporary critical theory; feminist and queer studies

Riche D. Richardson

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Kristin Anne Roebuck

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: the history of the body, medicine and law; race and sexuality; Japanese international relations

Nerissa Russell

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: European and Near Eastern pre-history; Neolithic studies; zooarchaeology and bone tools; inequality; human-animal relationships; social and symbolic roles of animals and meat

Nicholas G. Salvato

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: 20th century aesthetics and culture, modern drama, theatre and performance, queer theory, popular representations of gender and sexuality; histories and theories of melodrama

Shirley R Samuels

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: American women; women's fiction

Katherine Sender

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: gender, sexuality and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer media, research areas span television, audiences, cultural production, consumer culture and globalization

Suman Seth

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: history of physical sciences in the 19th and 20th Centuries; gender and science; science, colonialism, and nationalism

Samantha Noelle Sheppard

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Noah Tamarkin

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: Sociocultural, political, and legal anthropology. Feminist, global, and postcolonial science & technology studies. Jewish studies. Race and ethnicity, citizenship, diaspora, indigeneity, genetics and genomics, policing, gender and sexuality. South Africa.

Marie-Claire Vallois

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: French women writers; French feminism; women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France

Sofia A. Villenas

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Mildred Elaine Warner

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: privatization; devolution; social policy; economic development; social capital

Sara L. Warner

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: dramatic literature; performance studies; theories of gender and sexuality; queer performance and culture; second wave feminism

Kim A Weeden

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Rachel Judith Weil

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies
• Research Interests: gender; political culture in early modern England and Europe