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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department examines the categories of women, gender, and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicities, belief systems, and nationalities. We offer an interdisciplinary framework through which to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality and the material impact of these constructions. We offer historical, contemporary, and transnational analyses of how the formations of gender and sexualities emerge within different contexts such as colonialisms, imperialisms, nationalisms, and globalization. From our engagement with, and critique of, disciplinary practices in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, we forge new critical paradigms and methods for generating feminist knowledges. Our creation of new critical paradigms relies on the linking of knowledge formation to activism and social justice movements. Our courses satisfy campus breadth requirements, develop critical analysis and writing skills, and transform students’ understanding of and engagement with the world around them.

A student who majors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will gain a strong liberal arts training in critical theory and social justice. They can apply these skills to a range of professions. Graduates may pursue advanced degrees in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, or medicine; or pursue work in the private sector, social services, advocacy programs, or the NPO sector. The Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) at Scripps participates in the Intercollegiate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research and Engagement at The Claremont Colleges.


Faculty List

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Alcalá, Rita Cano

Associate Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies; Chair, Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies
Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Phone: (909) 607-3543

Arteaga, Claudia

Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Bacsán, Gabriela

Assistant Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Castagnetto, Susan

Lecturer for Philosophy; Chair, Intercollegiate Feminist Center
Phone: (909) 607-8018

Chancy, Myriam J. A.

Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Chatterjee, Piya

Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women's Studies; Chair, Department of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
FGSS
Phone: (909) 607-0840

Cheng, Jih-Fei

Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
FGSS

Decker, Michelle

Associate Professor of English; Chair, Department of English
English
Phone: (909) 607-8137

Deeb, Lara

Professor of Anthropology; Chair of Anthropology
Anthropology, Middle East and North Africa Studies
Phone: (909) 607-3547

Drake, Kimberly

Associate Professor of Writing; Chair, Department of Writing and Rhetoric; Adviser in the Environmental Analysis Non-Science Tracks; Director of the Writing Program; Scripps College Academy Faculty Liaison; Faculty Executive Committee, Chair
Writing Program
Phone: (909) 607-8372

Forster, Cindy

Professor of History; Chair, Department of Latin American & Caribbean Studies
History
Phone: (909) 607-2807

Golub, Mark

Associate Professor of Politics
Politics
Phone: (909) 607-3380

Gonzales-Day, Ken

Professor of Art; Fletcher Jones Chair in Art
Art
Phone: (909) 607-4436

Gonzalez, Martha

Associate Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies
Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Phone: (909) 607-3548

Groscup, Jennifer

Professor of Psychology; Chair, Department of Psychology
Psychology
Phone: (909) 607-0913

Harley, Anne

Associate Professor of Music; Adviser in the Environmental Analysis Non-Science Tracks; Co-Chair, Department of Music
Music
Phone: (909) 607-1880

Hatcher-Skeers, Mary

Associate Dean of Faculty for Racial Equity; Professor of Chemistry; Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences
Chemistry
Phone: (909) 607-1586

Jáquez, Cándida

Associate Professor of Music
Music
Phone: (909) 607-0882

Kang, YouYoung

Associate Professor of Music; Co-Chair, Department of Music
Music
Phone: (909) 607-8760

Koss, Juliet

Professor of Art History; Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Chair in the History of Architecture and Art; Chair, Department of Art History
Art History
Phone: (909) 607-8997

Lemoine, France

Associate Professor of French
French Studies
Phone: (909) 607-8093

Macko, Nancy

Professor of Art; Mary W. Johnson Professorship in Teaching;
Art
Phone: (909) 607-3628

Morales, Gabriela

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology

Neiman, Nancy

Professor of Politics
Politics
Phone: (909) 607-3549

Park, Seo Young

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology
Phone: (909) 607-7586

Perez de Mendiola, Marina

Professor of Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Richard Armour Chair in Modern Languages
Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Rachlin, Nathalie

Professor of French; Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages; Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure Committee, Chair
French Studies
Phone: (909) 607-4260

Rhodes, Heidi

Visiting Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Politics
FGSS

Sanjuan-Pastor, Carmen

Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Chair, Department of Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Phone: (909) 607-9010

Soliman, Maryan

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Phone: (909) 607-7979

Tyson, Vanessa

Associate Professor of Politics
Politics

Weinberg, Rivka

Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Phone: (909) 607-1819

Williamson, Kevin

Associate Professor of Dance; Chair, Department of Dance
Dance
Phone: (909) 607-4587

Wing, Carlin

Assistant Professor of Media Studies; Chair, Department of Media Studies
Media Studies
Phone: (909) 607-4218