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Department Head
![Alicia Decker](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-42-225x300.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and History
Department Head, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 867-3561
Faculty
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Assistant Teaching Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![Gabeba Baderoon](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-56.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature
![Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-27-240x300.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies
(814) 865-5747
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Burnett-225x300.jpg)
Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
![Ariane Cruz](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-96-223x300.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-8495
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/flores-2018-headshot-300x200.jpeg)
Weiss Chair of the Humanities; Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/ErinHansesHS-1-scaled-1-200x300.jpg)
Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/S.M.-Klausen-photo-2023-218x300.png)
Brill Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![C Libby](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-43-222x300.jpeg)
Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-8719
![Hil Malatino](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-168-225x300.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy
Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor
Acting Director of the Rock Ethics Institute
Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute
![Maha Marouan](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-53.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African American Studies and African Studies
(814) 867-6249
![Jessica Matsick](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-8-214x300.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 863-0126
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/amiller_portrait_f20-214x300.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Telecommunications and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![Benedicte Monicat](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-125.jpeg)
Professor of French and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-1959
![Mariana Ortega](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-20-200x300.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![Aparna Parikh](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-72-275x300.jpeg)
Assistant Teaching Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies
![Jacqueline Reid-Walsh](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-66-260x300.jpeg)
Professor of Education, Language & Literacy Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 867-2732
![Tracy Rutler](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-145-248x300.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and French and Francophone Studies
Harry and Elissa Sichi Early Career Professorship
Director of Undergraduate Studies
![Manini Samarth](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-121.jpeg)
Associate Teaching Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5311
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5896-200x300.jpg)
Assistant Teaching Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and History
![Laura Spielvogel](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-45.jpeg)
Teaching Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5254
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Tenorio_Press-Release-Headshot-244x300.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American Studies
(814) 865-5888
![Nancy Tuana](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-164.jpeg)
DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-1653
![Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-94-246x300.jpeg)
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English
Acting Director of Graduate Studies
(814) 867-0367
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Jill_wood_1-300x225.png)
Teaching Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5708
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_3137-225x300.jpg)
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Geography
814 865 9133
Emeritx Professors
![Micaela Amateau Amato](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-129.jpeg)
Professor Emerita of Visual Arts and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![Lori Ginzberg](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-99.jpeg)
Professor Emeritus of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![Charlotte Holmes](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-62.jpeg)
Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-9126
![Mike Johnson](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-5.png)
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality, and African and African American Studies (retired 2005)
(814) 404-6975
![Joan Landes](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-4.png)
Ferree Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
(814) 863-0046
![Carolyn Sachs](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-108-279x300.jpeg)
Professor of Rural Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
(814) 863-8641
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/SAS-in-Santa-Fe-August-2022-225x300.jpg)
Professor Emeritx of Psychology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-9514
![Susan Squier](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/image-148.jpeg)
Julia Brill Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English
(814) 863-3604
Post Doctoral Fellows
![](https://wgss.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/IMG_4366-248x300.jpg)
President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies