Feminist Studies

Our Faculty

    • NAME

      Elaine Craddock

    • TITLE

      Professor of Religion and Department Chair

    • Specialty

      Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body

    • NAME

      Ken Mello

    • TITLE

      Associate Professor of Religion

    • Specialty

      Native American traditions, Contemporary Indigenous Identity, Sacred Space, Gender and Sexuality, Indigenous Myth and Narratives, other non-textual religious traditions.

    • NAME

      Meagan Solomon

    • TITLE

      Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies

    • Specialty

      Latina Lesbian Literature, Chicana Feminist Literature, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Lesbian Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Decolonial Feminist Theories



  • Affiliated Faculty

      • NAME

        Michael Bray

      • TITLE

        Professor of Philosophy

      • Specialty

        Political Philosophy; Critical Theory

      • NAME

        Melissa K Byrnes

      • TITLE

        Professor of History

      • Specialty

        Modern European History, France and the French Empire, Migration, Race, Muslims and the Islamic World, Human Rights, Humanitarianism

      • NAME

        Eileen Cleere

      • TITLE

        Professor of English

      • Specialty

        Victorian literature and culture, the novel, film studies, feminist studies.

      • NAME

        Elaine Craddock

      • TITLE

        Professor of Religion

      • Specialty

        Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body

      • NAME

        Laura Hobgood

      • TITLE

        Professor of Religion

      • Specialty

        Animals in the history of the Christian tradition; human-dog history; contemporary religious-ethical issues related to other-than-human animals; religion and ecology; environmental studies; Ecofeminism; human-animal studies; alternative religious experiences (i.e. cycling as religion)

      • NAME

        Jessica Hower

      • TITLE

        Professor of History

      • Specialty

        Early Modern Era, Britain and Ireland, The British Empire, The Atlantic World, Comparative Colonialism, Women & Gender

      • NAME

        Joseph E. Hower

      • TITLE

        Associate Professor of History

      • Specialty

        U.S. History, Labor and Politics in Modern America, Social Movements, Urban History, Policy History

      • NAME

        Melissa Johnson

      • TITLE

        Professor of Anthropology

      • Specialty

        Topical: Nature, the more than human and the human; Race, Racism, Critical Race Theory; Environment and Place; Conservation; Social Theory; Environmental History; Racial History; Tourism; Gender. Area: Belize; Caribbean; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas

      • NAME

        Joshua Long

      • TITLE

        Professor of Environmental Studies

      • Specialty

        Climate Justice, Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Urban Studies, Sustainability Discourses.

      • NAME

        Maria R. Lowe

      • TITLE

        Professor of Sociology

      • Specialty

        Racialized spaces, neighborhood surveillance, American racial attitudes, campus climate research, the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, qualitative and mixed methods research

      • NAME

        Aaron Prevots

      • TITLE

        Professor of French

      • Specialty

        Film; feminisms; intercultural skills; intersections of art, literature, culture, and popular memory; music traditions; Paris; poetry; novels; translation. Interdisciplinarity including through Environmental Studies and International Studies.

      • NAME

        Katy Bourland Ross

      • TITLE

        Professor of Spanish

      • Specialty

        Post-Franco Spanish literature, twentieth and twenty-first century peninsular Spanish literature and film. 

      • NAME

        Kimberly Smith

      • TITLE

        Professor of Art History

      • Specialty

        Modern art; feminist art history; history of art history.