The Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBTQIA critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting social justice. Students will learn how gender and sexuality are socially constructed, what these terms mean in various contexts, and how these concepts are used to support social and political institutions. They will also learn how critical analysis and creative questioning of these concepts can help to reshape those institutions.

Students will use the skills they learn in our classes to engage with such disciplines as anthropology, performing and media arts, English literature, Africana studies, comparative literature, Romance studies, music, Asian studies, industrial and labor relations (ILR), science and technology studies, sociology, government, history, history of art and many more. Because of the program’s interdisciplinary focus, our majors are often double majors, and go on to pursue careers in law, medicine or public health, development and international aid, media, research and community activism.

All majors and minors take courses in three key distribution areas of the program: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies (LGBT); the study of intersecting structures of oppression including race, ethnicity and class (ISO); and global perspectives on feminism, gender and sexuality (GLO). These three areas assure that students understand a wider range of issues concerning sexuality and gender identity, the connection of human rights and social justice concerns across identities that are often represented as separate, and the global contexts for all of these discussions.

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Deborah Dinner

Professor of Law

Publications

  •   The Sex Equality Dilemma: Work, Family, and Legal Change in Neoliberal America (forthcoming Cambridge University Press)
  •   “The Care Crisis: Covid-19, Labor Feminism, and Democracy,” in Labor and Democracy (Mark Barenberg & Angela B. Cornell, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  •   “Sex in Public,” Yale Law Journal 129 (2019) (with Elizabeth Sepper)
  •   “Beyond ‘Best Practices’: Employment Discrimination Law in the Neoliberal Era,” Indiana Law Journal 92 (2017)
  •   “The Divorce Bargain: The Fathers’ Rights Movement and Family Inequalities,” Virginia Law Review 102 (2016)

See all publications on SSRN.

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Education

B.A. Yale College, 1999

J.D., Yale Law School, 2005

Ph.D., Yale University, 2012

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Akhil Kang

Ph.D. Student in Socio-Cultural Anthropology

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Jessie Taieun Yoon

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Milad Sotoudeh

Graduate Student

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “Phantasmagoric Manifestations of the Modern City During the Pahlavi Era and Its Representation in Brick and Mirror”, S. Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad & Milad Sotoudeh, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, May 2022, page 1-21
  • “Panopticon Surveillance on Iranian Women during the Pahlavi Era, with Concentration on the Visibility and Invisibility Paradigms: the case of Dead End" by Parviz Sayyad (1977), Milad Sotoudeh & S. Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad, Feminist Media Studies, August 2021, page 1-15
  • “The Capacities of Haptic Perception in Persian- Islamic Art and its Function in Cinematic Expression: The Case of The Green Fire”, A. Sayyad & Milad Sotoudeh & S. Sotoudeh, BAGH-E NAZAR Journal, Volume 17, Issue 88, October 2020, Page 19 - 26.
  • “The Role of Decoupage in Orientation and Moral Judgment of the Audience: Studying Two Iranian Movies, The Glass Agency and A Separation”, S. Esfandiary & S. Sotoudeh & Milad Sotoudeh, Journal of Dramatic Arts and Music: Academic Journal of University of Art, Volume 11, Issue 21, Summer 2020, page 47- 65.
  • “Child’s perception in Walter Benjamin’s reflections and its representation in The Runner (1984)”, S. Sotoudeh & Milad Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad, Thinking and Child Quarterly, Volume 10, Issue 1, No 19, Summer and Autumn 2019, pages 125-148.
  • “Female Flânerie and Transition from a Fetishized Object to an Observer-Subject: A Case Study on Cleo from 5 to 7”, A. Sayyad & S. Sotoudeh & Milad Sotoudeh, Journal of Women in Culture and Art, Volume 11, Issue 1, Spring 2019, pages 1-23.
  • “Aestheticism of Framing and Deframing in Iranian cinema from 2001 to 2011”, S. Sotoudeh & Milad Sotoudeh & A. Alasti & M.J. Yousefian, Honar-Ha-Ye Ziba: Honar-Ha-Ye-Namayeshi Va Mosighi: Academic Journal of University of Tehran, Volume 21, Issue 2, autumn 2016, Pages 5-14.
  • “The Analysis of Camera Movement Aesthetics in Iranian Cinema From 2001 to 2011”, S. Sotoudeh & Milad Sotoudeh & A. Alasti & M.J. Yousefian, Journal of Dramatic Arts and Music: Academic Journal of University of Art, Volume 5, Issue 10, Autumn 2015, pages 49-66.
  • “Dramatic Functions of Depth of field in Iranian cinema from 2001-2011”, S. Sotoudeh & Milad Sotoudeh & A. Alasti & M.J. Yousefian, Journal of Dramatic Arts and Music: Academic Journal of University of Art, Volume 4, Issue 8, Summer & Autumn 2014, Pages 51-66.

Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books

  • “Eastern Caressing Eyes: Persian-Islamic Arts, Haptic Moments, and Kiarostami’s Cinema”, Milad Sotoudeh & S. Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad, in Trends in Iranian Cinema: Local and Global Perspectives, Edited by B.M. Bakhtiari and M. Rahmati, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, (Accepted- Forthcoming).
  • “The City in Fragments: Distraction, Flânerie, and Urban Modernity in Tehran, Studying Tehran, Conceptual Art by Mohammad Reza Aslani”, S. Sotoudeh & A. Sayyad & Milad Sotoudeh, in Handbook of Iranian Cinema, Edited by M. Langford & M. Ghorbankarimi & Z. Khosroshahi, I.B Tauris & Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, (Accepted- Forthcoming).
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Education

  • M.A. in Dramatic Literature, 2013, Tarbiat Modares University
  • B.A. in Filmmaking, 2010, Soore University, Iran,

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Cat Lambert

Assistant Professor

Publications

  • "Forging Lesbians: Sappho and The Songs of Bilitis" (2024) Classical Receptions Journal 16.2: 162-177.
  • "The Ancient Entomological Bookworm" (2020) Arethusa 53.1: 1-24.
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Education

  • Ph.D., Classics, Columbia University (2022)
  • B.A., Classics, Princeton University (2015)

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Jess Marie Newman

Publications

2019. “‘There is a big question mark’: Managing Ambiguity in a Moroccan Maternity Ward.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

2018. “Aspirational Maternalism and the ‘Reconstitution’ of Single Mothers in Morocco.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 14 1 : 45-67.

2018. “Deploying the Fetus: Constructing Pregnancy and Abortion in Morocco.” Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society. Han, Sallie, Tracy Betsinger, and Amy Scott, eds. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 200-226.

2016. “Sex Toys and the Politics of Pleasure in Morocco.” Abortion Pills, Test Tube Babies, and Sex Toys: Emerging Sexual Reproductive Health Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa. Wynn, L. L. and Angel Foster, eds. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

2015. “Medical Anthropology in the Middle East and North Africa.” A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East. Soraya Altorki, ed. Boston: Wiley Blackwell Publishers, 207-232. With Marcia C. Inhorn.

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jnewman@cornell.edu

Education

MPhil & PhD: Yale University

BA: UC Irvine

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Elissa Badiqué

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Dennis Wegner

Mellon Graduate Fellow

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Publications

“Queer Constellations, Cosmic Contacts: Trans-Forming the Narrative of Europe in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Meteoriten.” German Studies Review 48, no. 2 (forthcoming 2025).

“Gothic Cinema and Sexology in the Weimar Republic: Towards a Queer Gothic Aesthetic on Screen.” In Queer Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion, edited by Ardel Haefele-Thomas, 78–96. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

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Isabel Avens

Graduate Student

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Dawn Schrader

Associate Professor

Publications

Journal Publications

Book Chapters

  • Schrader, D. E. (2008). Cognitive Moral Development. Moral Education: A Handbook Power, F. C., Nuzzi, R. J., Narvaez, D., Lapsley, D, & Hunt. T. C. (ed.), Praeger, New London, CT, USA.
  • Schrader, D. E. (2008). Moral Development. Moral Education: A Handbook Power, F. C., Nuzzi, R. J., Narvaez, D., Lapsley, D, & Hunt. T. C. (ed.), Praeger, New London, CT, USA.
  • Schrader, D. E. (2008). Moral Judgment. Moral Education: A Handbook Praeger, New London, CT, USA.
  • Schrader, D. E. (2008). Teaching Moral Leadership: Becoming Moral Leaders and Being Moral Leadership. p. 227-248 Getting involved: Global citizenship development and sources of moral values Oser, F. & Veugelers, W (ed.), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Schrader, D. E. (2006). Metacognitive reflection in university students. Human Development across the life span: Educational and psychological applications (2nd Edition) Mosher, R., Youngman, D. & Day, J. (ed.), Information Age Publishing LLC, Westport, CT.
  • Schrader, D. E. (2003). Moral metacognition in adolescence and adulthood. p. 301-327 Handbook of Adult Development Demick, J. & Andreoletti, C (ed.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Presentations and Activities

  • A Framework for Engineering the Inclusion People of Color in Digital Technologies. Association for Moral Education: Morality, Environmental Sustainability, and Education. October 2020. Association for Moral Education. Online.
  • Informed Consent or Coercion? Technological necessity constraints to autonomy and self-determination. Association for Moral Education: Morality, Environmental Sustainability, and Education. October 2020. Association for Moral Education. Online.
  • Incidental Therapy of Social Media Apps. Moral Education Toward A Caring Society: Civic Engagement And Moral Action. June 2018. Association for Moral Education. Barcelona, Spain.
  • The Future Of Humans In A Robotic World. Moral Education Toward A Caring Society: Civic Engagement And Moral Action. June 2018. Association for Moral Education. Barcelona, Spain.
  • Incorporating Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Privacy-Aware Systems. NSF SaTC PI Meeting 2015. January 2015. National Science Foundation. Arlington, VA.
  • Being in and helping out: Inclusion, Exclusion and Bystanding Behavior in Adolescent Girls. Annual Meeting of the Association for Moral Education. November 2014. Association for Moral Education. Pasadena, CA. .
  • Adolescents’ Views on Psychological aggression in dating relationships. Society for Research on Adolescence . March 2014. Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting. Austin, TX.
  • Adolescent girls’ considerations when deciding whether or not to upstand. 39th Annual Conference of The Association for Moral Education. October 2013. Association for Moral Education. Montreal, Canada.
  • Balancing moral challenges and opportunities under surveillance: Liberty, autonomy and civic responsibility. 39th Annual Conference of The Association for Moral Education. October 2013. Association for Moral Education. Montreal, Canada.
  • Cliques and popularity influences on upstanding and bystanding behavior. 39th Annual Conference of The Association for Moral Education. October 2013. Association for Moral Education. Montreal, Canada.
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Keywords

moral development; epistemology; metacognition; life-span developmental psychology

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