People
Administrators and Staff
- Dr. Elizabeth Gregory, Director, egregory@uh.edu
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Education
Research Interests
Selected Publications
Phone: (713) 743-0932
Email: egregory@uh.edu
Office: 624 Agnes Arnold HallElizabeth Gregory directs the WGSS Program and the UH Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality. She teaches and publishes on American modernist poetry and women’s work and fertility. Her work on poetry includes diverse essays and the following books and collections: Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "' Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads'" (1996), The Critical Response to Marianne Moore (2003), 21st-Century Marianne Moore: Essays from a Critical Renaissance (2017, co-edited with Stacy Carson Hubbard), and her current project “ Apparition of Splendor”: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-1970, forthcoming from U Delaware Press.
Gregory's book, Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood (2012/2007, Basic Books), based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 new later moms and extensive collateral research, shatters the myths surrounding later motherhood. Drawing on both the statistical evidence and the voices of the new later mothers themselves, she delivers surprising and welcome news about the shifting dynamics of modern motherhood. Her continuing work on the intersection of fertility and women’s work explores gender & the future of work and the effect of an expanded school schedule on women’s workforce participation .
She teaches courses on British and American modernism, contemporary poetry, ancient and classical literature, feminist criticism, and motherhood studies.
Since 1995, Professor Gregory has been the Director of what is now the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. As Director, she has expanded the program and developed what is now the Carey C. Shuart Women's Archive and Research Collection. The Shuart Archive collects the papers of Houston area women's organizations and records oral histories of women who have made history in Houston. The WGSS Program, through the support of the Friends of Women's Studies, provides scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students, funds a postdoctoral fellowship in Women's Studies, and awards grants for faculty research.
The Friends of Women's Studies is a model of collaboration between the academy and the community, sponsoring community programming to connect the accomplishments of women in Houston with the research of students and faculty in WGSS. Among their annual events are the Table Talk Luncheon, the Living Archives Interview Series, and the Fast Friends Speed Networking socials.
For more information, visit her website at www.elizabethgregory.net. You can follow her blog on the politics and economics of women's work at www.domesticproduct.net and www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-gregory.
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- Dr. Dina Alsowayel, Associate Director, dina@chasesource.com
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Dina Alsowayel is Associate Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Houston in Texas. She joined the University in 1998 as a post-doctoral fellow in Religious Studies. She received her M.A and PhD from Rice University in Political Science and her JD from University of Houston. Her B.A. is from Wellesley College. Alsowayel teaches a variety of courses in the History department, these include history of the Modern Middle East, State and Society in the Middle East, Women and Islam, A History of Islam, War in the Middle East and a History of the Palestine-Israeli Conflict. She also takes students to the Arab and Muslim world annually.
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- Dr. Guillermo De Los Reyes, Associate Director GLBT Studies, jdelosreyes@uh.edu
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Dr. Guillermo De Los Reyes is an Associate Professor of Latin American Cultures and Literatures and Director of Undergraduate Studies. He also serves as Associate Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and he is a Faculty-in-Residence since 2011. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (2004, 1999) and a M.A. and B.A. from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla (1997, 1994). Dr. De Los Reyes’ research interests are: Colonial Mesoamerica; gender, sexuality, and queer theory; Latin American cultural studies; secret and fraternal societies; and policy studies.
Dr. De Los Reyes is the author of Herencias Secretas: Masonería, política y sociedad en México (2009: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) and is currently working on a book-length project entitled: “El pecado nefando:” Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Mexico.
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- Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn, Assistant Professor, raquinn@uh.edu
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Rachel Afi Quinn received her Ph.D. from the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan in 2012. Her scholarship focuses on race, mixed race identities, gender, and sexuality in the African Diaspora and she employs tools of transnational feminist theory, including ethnography and visual culture in her research. Her first book project, Dominicana-Dominicana: Visualizing Contemporary Dominican Women’s Lives in Santo Domingo, is an interdisciplinary cultural studies project that explores the impact of neoliberal development and US popular media on Dominican women 's identities.
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- Dr. Sonny Nordmarken, Postdoctoral Fellow, snordmar@Central.UH.EDU
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Two goals drive his research: (1) to understand the institutional, relational, and discursive processes that generate transgender inequalities, especially around health, and (2) to understand how social actors, individually and collectively, challenge those processes. Taking an intersectional approach to the study of transgender health, Nordmarken considers how multiple forms of discrimination impact trans people’s physical and mental health, their access to both gender transition-related and non-transition- related health care, and the strategies they use to survive emotionally, physically, and culturally.
Dr. Nordmarken is on leave for FY21 from his position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University.
Recent articles include:
“Queering Gendering: Trans Epistemologies and the Disruption and Production of Gender Accomplishment Practices.” Feminist Studies 45(1): 36-66.
“Contesting Lyme Disease.” The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, edited by Natalie Boero and Katherine Mason. Oxford University Press.
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- Dr. Audrey Miller, Research Associate, Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality, akmiller3@uh.edu
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Audrey Miller is Research Associate at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality. She also teaches Intro to Women’s Studies. Dr. Miller's research examines predictors and sequelae of violence against women and marginalized groups, including racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, sexual minorities, and individuals with disabilities. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference presentations, in scholarly outlets such as Sex Roles, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Violence Against Women, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Dr. Miller completed MS and Ph.D. degrees in psychology at Ohio University, integrating coursework and scholarship in social psychology, personality psychology, health psychology, and quantitative methods, while completing an APA-accredited clinical program. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in law and psychology through the Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy at University of Washington.
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- Dr. Aishwarya Lakshmi, Program Director, Friends of Women’s Studies, alakshmi@uh.edu
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Email: alakshmi@uh.edu
Aishwarya Lakshmi is Program Director at Friends of Women’s Studies at the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Chicago.
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- Kim Howard, Director of Development, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, klhoward@central.uh.edu
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Kim Howard has served in several development capacities at University of Houston for nearly 20 years, working at Houston Public Media, Blaffer Art Museum and CLASS. She holds a BFA from University of Oklahoma and a Masters in Public Administration from University of Houston.
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- Bobbie Sue Schindler, Academic Advisor, bschindl@central.uh.edu
- Itzel Martinez, Graduate Office Assistant, wgss@uh.edu
Lecturers
SUMMER + FALL 2020:
- Introduction to Women's Studies
- Dr. Tracy Butler
- Dr. Bridget Fernandes
- Dr. Devan Ford-McCartney
- Dr. Audrey Miller
- Dr. Andrew Pegoda
- Introduction to LGBT Studies
- Dr. Trevor Boffone
- Dr. Andrew Pegoda
- Dr. Jaime Cano
- Liam Stone, ABD
Faculty Affiliates
Architecture & Design
Marta Rodriguez
713.743.1862 | martar@uh.edu
Art and Art History
Beckham Dossett
713.743.3006 | bdossett@uh.edu
Natilee Harren
713.743.0508 | noharren@central.uh.edu
Judith Steinhoff
713.743.2839 | Jsteinhoff@uh.edu
Sandra Zalman
713.743.3218 | Szalman@uh.edu
Biology and Biochemistry
Dan Graur
713.743.2936 | dgraur@uh.edu
Richard Meisel
713.743.3607 | rpmeisel@uh.edu
Communication
Beth Olson
713.743.2881 | bolson@uh.edu
Courses: Gender and Media
Jennifer E. Vardeman
713.743.4294 | jvardeman@uh.edu
Comparative Cultural Studies
Keith McNeal
713.743.3802 | kemcneal@uh.edu
Susan Rasmussen
713.743.3787 | srasmussen@uh.edu
Economics
Chinhui Juhn
713.743.3823 | cjuhn@uh.edu
Courses: Economics of Gender, Economics of Education
Education - Counselling Psychology
Nathan Smith
713.743.7648 | ngsmith@uh.edu
English
Hosam Aboul-Ela
713.743.3012 | haboul-ela@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit
Margot Gayle Backus
713.743.2970 | mbackus@uh.edu
Courses: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Culture; The British Women's Novel; Queer Closures: The Sexual Politics of Literary Form
Lauren Brosovich
lkbrozovich@uh.edu
Course: Women Writers
Ann Christensen
713.743.2964 | achrist@uh.edu
Courses: Family, Sex, & Households on the Shakespearean Stage; Gender and Performance in Shakespeare; Labor, Leisure, & Gender in Early Modern Drama
Karen Fang
713.743.2949 | kfang@uh.edu
Courses: Romantic Women Writers and Film Noir
María Gonzalez
713.743.2938 | mgonzalez@uh.edu
Courses: Women in Literature, Women Writers, Feminist Theory; Feminist Criticism
Elizabeth Gregory
713.743.0932 | egregory@uh.edu
Courses: Feminist Methodology, Women Writers, Modern Motherhood
Auritro Majumder
713.743.5873 | amajumder@uh.edu
Course: Postcolonial Lit
Nathan Shepley
713.743.1573 | nshepley@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Writing
Kavita Singh
kasingh@central.uh.edu
Courses: Caribbean Lit, Postcolonial Lit
Michael Snediker
713.743.3004 | msnediker@uh.edu
Lorraine Stock
713.743.2958 | lstock@uh.edu
Courses: Writing Medieval Women; Medieval Women in History, Text, and Film
Cedric Tolliver
713.743.1407 | ctolliver@uh.edu
Lynn Voskuil
713.743.2979 | lvoskuil@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology
Jennifer Wingard
713.743.2975 | jlwingard@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Theory & Methodology
Health and Human Performance
Daphne Hernandez
713.743.9056 | dhernandez26@uh.edu
Demetrius Pearson
713.743.9849 | dpearson@uh.edu
Courses: Sport in Contemporary Society
Hispanic Studies
Guillermo De Los Reyes
713.743.3716 | jdelosreyes@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Sexuality in Colonial Mexico; Gay/Lesbian Literature in Latin America
Maria Elena Soliño
713.743.3052 | mesolino@uh.edu
Courses: Hispanic Authors and Feminist Theory
Gabriela Baeza Ventura
713.743.3259 | gbventura@uh.edu
History
Dina Alsowayel
713.743.3732 | dina@chasecom.net
Courses: Women and Society in the Middle East
Tshepo Masango Chéry
713.743.0507 | tmchery@central.uh.edu
Courses: Love & African Revolution
Xiaoping Cong
713.743.3096 | xcong@uh.edu
Courses: History of Women in Modern China; East and SE Asian Women in Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives
Sarah Fishman
713.743.3098 | sfishman@uh.edu
Courses: Work and Family Life in Modern Europe; Social History of Modern France and Germany
Gerald Horne
713.743.3114 | ghorne@uh.edu
Courses: Civil Rights Movement
Kairn Klieman
713.743.0907 | kklieman@uh.edu
Natalia Milanesio
713-743-3113 | nmilanesio@uh.edu
Courses: Women in Latin America
Monica Perales
713.743.3103 | mperales3@uh.edu
Courses: Chicana History, Mexican American Labor History, Identity and Resistance in US History
Todd Romero
713.743.3112 | tromero2@uh.edu
Courses: Witchcraft in the Old and New World, Gender and Colonialism
Linda Reed
713.743.3092 | lreed@uh.edu
Courses: African American Women in Slavery and Freedom
Sally Vaughn
713.743.3122 | svaughn@uh.edu
Courses: Large portions of Medieval history courses deal with women's topics
Eric Walther
713.743.3101 | ewalther@uh.edu
Leandra Zarnow
713.743.3124 | lrzarnow@uh.edu
Courses: Issues in Feminist Research
Mexican American Studies
Modern and Classical Languages
Francesca D'Allesandro Behr
713.743.3043 | fdalessandro-behr@uh.edu
Courses: Women in the Ancient World; Italian Renaissance
Casey Due Hackney
713.743.3240 | cdue-hackney@uh.edu
Courses: Greek and Roman Mythology
Sandy Frieden
713.743.3051 | sfrieden@uh.edu
Courses: German Women Film Directors; International Women Writers; New Woman in Literature
Marie Theresa Hernandez
713.743.3074 | mherna18@central.uh.edu
Course: Gender & Sexuality in World Film
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
713.743.9341 | cmtamber@central.uh.edu
Courses: Female Divinities; Women in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Bhavya Tiwari
713.743.1737 | btiwari@uh.edu
Julie Tolliver
713.743.5368 | Jftolliver@uh.edu
Course: Feminist Philosophy
Philosophy
Cynthia Freeland
713.743.3206 | cfreeland@uh.edu
Courses: Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Methodology
Johanna Luttrell
Physics
Lawrence Pinsky
713.743.3552 | pinsky@uh.edu
Political Science
Naomi Choi
713.743.0413 | nchoi2@uh.edu
Courses: Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice
Jennifer Clark
713.743.3302 | jclark10@uh.edu
Nancy Sims
713.627.2223
Courses: Women in Politics
Psychology
Psychology
Christiane Spitzmueller
713.743.8625 | cspitzmueller@uh.edu
Courses: Industrial Organizational Psychology
Social Work
Jean Kantambu Latting
713.743.809 | jlatting@uh.edu
Courses: Forming Alliances across Gender, Race, Class, Culture, and Other Differences
Sociology
Amanda Baumle
713.743.3944 | kbaumle@uh.edu
Courses: Gender & Society & Sociology of Sexuality
Tracy X. Karner
713.743.3961 | txkarner@uh.edu
Courses: Gender and Health; Seminar in Masculinity
Sheila Katz
713.743.1918 | smkatz@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of Gender, etc.
Samantha Kwan
713.743.3948 | sskwan@uh.edu
Courses: Sociology of the Body, etc.
Shayne Lee
713.743.3954 | slee3@uh.edu
Courses: African–American Family, etc.
Maria Monserud
713.743.3962| mamonser@central.uh.edu
Courses: Comparative Family Structures, Sociology of Health Care, etc
Pamela A. Quiroz – Director of CMAS
743-3130 | paquiroz@Central.UH.EDU
Courses: Sociology of the Family; Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Social Class; etc.