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Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies

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Department Faculty | Other Faculty Involved in Women’s and Gender Studies | Emeriti Faculty | Staff |

Department Faculty

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Annette Igra Bio
Director of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
Professor of History
Off Campus: Spring 2024
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: 507 222 5240
Email: aigra@carleton.edu

California-Los Angeles, B.A.; Sarah Lawrence, M.A.; Rutgers, Ph.D. American women’s history and women’s and gender studies. Interests include social welfare history, labor history, and historiography. Introduced a new course entitled “Gender and Work in U.S. History.” Began teaching at Carleton in 1994.

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Iveta Jusová Bio
Director of the Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies Program in Europe
Professor of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
Email: ijusova@carleton.edu
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Candace Moore Bio
Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies & Cinema and Media Studies
Office: Leighton Hall 224
Phone: 507 222 4182
Email: cmoore@carleton.edu

Candace Moore’s scholarship examines queer and transgender representations in film and television. Her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Feminist Media Histories, and assorted anthologies, including Televising Queer Women and Production Studies.

Candace received her PhD in Film, Television, and Digital Media from UCLA, where she held a Research Associate position at the Center for the Study of Women. Candace previously worked as a journalist and entertainment editor for national LGBTQ magazines. At Carleton she will offer courses in feminist and LGBTQ history, theory, media, and culture.

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Meera Sehgal Bio
Associate Professor of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies and Sociology
Off Campus: Winter 2024
Office: Leighton Hall 225
Phone: 507 222 4975
Email: msehgal@carleton.edu

Meera Sehgal (B.A., Ferguson College, India; M.A., Pune University, India; M.A. & Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004) has a joint appointment in the Sociology & Anthropology department and in the Women’s & Gender studies program. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, race, class & sexuality; social movements; globalization; militarism; transnational feminisms and India. Based on ethnographic methods, her research examines the mobilization of women in the right-wing Hindu nationalist movement in India. Her more recent fieldwork centers on a South Asian transnational feminist network and its consciousness-raising work in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Meera emphasizes interdisciplinary feminist perspectives in her teaching and travels regularly to India for research and familial purposes. She teaches courses on social movements, women’s health in the U.S., qualitative methods, transnational feminist theory, and feminist approaches to knowledge production, globalization and militarization.

Other Faculty Involved in Women’s and Gender Studies

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Sonja Anderson Bio
Assistant Professor of Religion
Office: Leighton Hall 323
Phone: 507 222 4218
Email: sanderson2@carleton.edu
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Kristin Bloomer Bio
Associate Professor of Religion
Chair of Religion
Office: Leighton Hall 324
Phone: 507 222 5734
Email: kbloomer@carleton.edu
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Anita Chikkatur Bio
Professor of Educational Studies
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Carol Donelan Bio
Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
Office: Weitz Center for Creativity 130
Phone: 507 222 5779
Email: cdonelan@carleton.edu
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Adriana Estill Bio
Director of American Studies
Professor of English and American Studies
Office: Laird Hall 215
Phone: 507 222 4901
Email: aestill@carleton.edu
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Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg Bio
Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology
Off Campus: Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 233
Phone: 507 222 4113
Email: pfeldman@carleton.edu

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990. She has been working on reproductive health issues, first as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, and later as an anthropologist. Her research focuses on connections between reproduction and belonging, especially when these are called into question by reproductive difficulties (e.g., infertility), ethnic stereotyping of fertility, or the challenges of migration. She has conducted research in both rural and urban Cameroon, as well as with Cameroonian immigrants in Berlin and Paris. She teaches courses on gender, Africa, migration, medical anthropology, reproduction, and social science writing as well as the African and African American Studies capstone.

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Clara Hardy Bio
David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities
Professor of Classics
Off Campus: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
Office: Weitz Center for Creativity 223
Phone: 507 222 5483
Email: chardy@carleton.edu
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Annette Igra Bio
Director of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
Professor of History
Off Campus: Spring 2024
Office: Leighton Hall 210
Phone: 507 222 5240
Email: aigra@carleton.edu

California-Los Angeles, B.A.; Sarah Lawrence, M.A.; Rutgers, Ph.D. American women’s history and women’s and gender studies. Interests include social welfare history, labor history, and historiography. Introduced a new course entitled “Gender and Work in U.S. History.” Began teaching at Carleton in 1994.

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Amna Khalid Bio
Associate Professor of History
Office: Leighton Hall 206
Phone: 507 222 4213
Email: amkhalid@carleton.edu
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Jessica Leiman Bio
Associate Professor of English
Office: Laird Hall 220
Phone: 507 222 4326
Email: jleiman@carleton.edu
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Annette Nierobisz Bio
Professor of Sociology
Off Campus: Fall 2023, Winter 2024
Office: Weitz Center for Creativity 123
Phone: 507 222 4114
Email: anierobisz@carleton.edu

Winnipeg, B.A.; Queen’s, M.A.; Toronto, Ph.D. Research interests are in the areas of the sociology of law, work and occupations, and gender. Her dissertation research explored the connections between law and the economy, specifically how judges respond to workplace wrongful dismissals in eras of economic uncertainty. Has also been involved in research that examined workplace sexual harassment complaints lodged with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. In addition to teaching introductory sociology, Annette also teaches research methods, the sociology of law, the sociology of work and occupations, and criminology. Began teaching at Carleton in 2000.

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Constanza Ocampo-Raeder Bio
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Off Campus: Fall 2023, Winter 2024
Office: Leighton Hall 234
Phone: 507 222 4115
Email: constanza@carleton.edu
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Liz Raleigh Bio
Associate Professor of Sociology
Off Campus: Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 228
Phone: 507 222 4842
Email: lraleigh@carleton.edu
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Asuka Sango Bio
John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion
Off Campus: Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024
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Emeriti Faculty

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Kathryn Sparling
Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Japanese, Emerita
Phone: 507 222 5437
Email: ksparlin@carleton.edu

Stanford, B.A.; Ochanomizu University, M.A.; Harvard, Ph.D.; Japanese language and literature, especially modern fiction, with particular emphasis on Natsume Soseki, Mishima Yukio, Shimao Toshio, and fiction by contemporary Japanese women. Growing interest in English language fiction by Indian women. Began teaching at Carleton in 1983.

Staff

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Danielle Schultz
Administrative Assistant, Sociology and Anthropology
Administrative Asst. in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
Editor
Office: Leighton Hall 230
Phone: 507 222 4108
Email: dschultz2@carleton.edu
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Shana Sippy Bio
Research Associate in Religion
Office: Nutting House
Email: ssippy@carleton.edu

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This page was last updated on 11 August 2022
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