Interdisciplinary:
Gender Studies Faculty (Board of Study)
Shemeem Burney Abbas
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Natural and Social Sciences
M.A., University of Leeds; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Gender and Islamic studies; human rights; postcolonialism; sociolinguistic study of Pakistani and Indian languages.
shemeem.abbas@purchase.edu
Ahmed Afzal
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Vassar College; M.S., London School of Economics; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. South Asian Muslim immigrants in North America; anthropology of media and popular culture; gender and sexuality in cross-cultural perspectives.
ahmed.afzal@purchase.edu
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Professor of Political Science
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Bogaziçi University, Istanbul; M.A., Ph.D., Binghamton University, SUNY. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Women in developing countries; women and politics; international women’s rights; women in Islam.
zehra.arat@purchase.edu
Karen Baird
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of Houston. Women and health care; women and welfare policy; feminist theory.
karen.baird@purchase.edu
Bill Baskin
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
and Director of Writing
B.A., Fordham University; M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Feminist science studies; composition pedagogy; race, class, and gender; cultural materialism.
bill.baskin@purchase.edu
Kay Ellen Capo
Associate Professor of Literature and Drama Studies
School of Humanities
B.A., LeMoyne College; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University. Feminist theory; 20th-century poetry; dramatic literature; documentary performance.
kay.capo@purchase.edu
Lenora Champagne
Associate Professor of Drama Studies
School of Humanities
B.A., Louisiana State University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Contemporary theatre, drama, and performance; performance art; playwriting; interdisciplinary performance.
lenora.champagne@purchase.edu
Laura Chmielewski
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., St. Joseph’s University; M.A., Fordham University; M.Phil., Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center. Comparative early American history with an emphasis on the Atlantic World and cross-cultural encounters.
laura.chmielewski@purchase.edu
Kim Christensen
Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Earlham College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Political economy; feminist theory; political economy of AIDS; race, gender, and class.
kim.christensen@purchase.edu
Tracy Schpero Fitzpatrick
Assistant Professor of Art History
School of Humanities
Curator
Neuberger Museum of Art
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Modern art; museum studies; feminist practice; women and art.
tracy.fitzpatrick@purchase.edu
Rudolf Gaudio
Associate Professor of Anthropology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Yale University; M.I.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Stanford University. Language, communication, and media; gender; sexuality; race and ethnicity; space, place, and global capitalism; Africa.
rudolf.gaudio@purchase.edu
Rachel Hallote
Associate Professor of History
Director of the Jewish Studies Program
School of Humanities
B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Women in the ancient world.
rachel.hallote@purchase.edu
Chrys Ingraham
Professor of Sociology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., M.A., M.P.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University. Social inequality (race, class, gender, sexuality); critical cultural studies; sociology of heterosexuality and weddings; organizational development; globalization; social movements; corporate social responsibility; social and feminist theory.
chrys.ingraham@purchase.edu
Morris Kaplan
Professor of Philosophy
School of Humanities
B.A., Williams College; M.A., J.D., Yale University. Political and social philosophy; philosophy of law; Plato; lesbian and gay studies.
morris.kaplan@purchase.edu
Lisa Keller
Associate Professor of History
School of Humanities
B.A., Vassar College; Ph.D., Cambridge University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. Women’s history (European and American).
lisa.keller@purchase.edu
Suzanne Kessler
Professor of Psychology and
Dean, School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D., City University of New York. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Social construction of gender.
suzanne.kessler@purchase.edu
Mary Kosut
Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., M.A., University of New Orleans; Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Art; the body; consumption; popular culture and subculture; gender; social class; visual sociology.
mary.kosut@purchase.edu
Jane Kromm
Professor of Art History
School of Humanities
B.S., Wheelock College; M.Div., Harvard University; Ph.D., Emory University. Feminist issues in art and art history.
jane.kromm@purchase.edu
Elise V. Lemire
Associate Professor of Literature
School of Humanities
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. Feminist literary theory; feminist film theory.
elise.lemire@purchase.edu
Michael Lobel
Associate Professor of Art History
School of Humanities
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Postwar and contemporary art; the relationship between modernism and mass culture; contemporary theory and criticism.
michael.lobel@purchase.edu
Connie Lobur
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University. Feminist jurisprudence; women in politics; feminist theory.
connie.lobur@purchase.edu
Shaka McGlotten
Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Africana studies; new media and science/technology studies; feminist and queer studies.
shaka.mcglotten@purchase.edu
Wendy McKenna
Professor of Sociology (part-time)
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Antioch College; Ph.D., City University of New York. Gender and sexuality studies; women’s health.
wendy.mckenna@purchase.edu
Marjorie Miller
Professor of Philosophy
School of Humanities
B.A., Jackson College; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Feminist philosophy; women in Asian philosophy; women in American philosophy.
marjorie.miller@purchase.edu
Lisa Jean Moore
Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Tufts University; M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco. Medical sociology, cultural studies of science and technology, health policy, the sociology of AIDS/HIV, gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory.
lisa-jean.moore@purchase.edu
Gaura Narayan
Assistant Professor of Literature (part-time)
School of Humanities
B.A. (Honors), Delhi University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. 18th- and 19th-century British literature; South Asian literature; narrative theory; feminist theory.
gaura.narayan@purchase.edu
Ronnie Scharfman
Professor of French and Literature
B.A., Bryn Mawr College; Licence-ès-Lettres, Maitrise-ès-Lettres, University of Aix-en-Provence; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. French and Francophone literature; contemporary European literature.
ronnie.scharfman@purchase.edu
Rachel Simon
Lecturer in Women’s Studies (part-time)
School of Humanities | School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Colby College; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College.
rachel.simon@purchase.edu
Michelle Stewart
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies
School of Humanities
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Critical and cultural theory; critical media studies; women and media; feminist film theory.
michelle.stewart@purchase.edu
Nina Pelikan Straus
Professor of Literature
School of Humanities
B.A., Bennington College; Ph.D., New York University. Women in Central European literature; feminist philosophy.
nina.straus@purchase.edu
Jennifer K. Uleman
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
School of Humanities
B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Gender in modern social and political theory; oppression, power, and agency.
jennifer.uleman@purchase.edu
Louise Yelin
Professor of Literature
and Interim Dean, School of Humanities
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Women in literature; feminist theory.
louise.yelin@purchase.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Naomi Holoch
Associate Professor Emerita of French and Literature
School of Humanities
B.A., Oberlin College; Licence-ès-Lettres, University of Aix-en-Provence; Ph.D., Columbia University. Contemporary French women writers; lesbian and gay fiction; creative writing.
Esther Newton
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Founded the Lesbian/Gay Studies Program at Purchase College. Anthropology of American culture; sexuality and gender; deviance.
esther.newton@purchase.edu
Updated Aug. 22, 2008
