Renatta Fordyce
Ph.D. Student in Africana Studies
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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Zifeng Liu
Alumni
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Juhwan Seo
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Education
Cornell University, MA
Harvard University, BA
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Du Fei
Graduate Student
Publications
“Fatima’s Inheritance: Law, Islam, and Gendered Archive-Making in India’s Early Modern Global Connections.” Past & Present, forthcoming.
“Know Your Rights: The (Un)Making of the Colonial Legal Subject in Rural North India, circa 1770-1857.” Modern Asian Studies 56, no. 1 (2022): 65-95.
Jiang, Jingkui, and Du Fei. “On Hindi Manuscripts in Nineteenth-Century North India.” Asian and African Studies, no. 2 (2017). (In Chinese)
Jingya Guo
PhD Candidate
Publications
Book Review
Book Review of Lu Shuying’s Infant Feeding and the Reconstruction of Motherhood in Modern China (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2020) in Chinese Studies in History, Volume 56, Issue 1, 2023.
Public History Writing
Interview with TJ Hinrichs on the Diverse Imaginations of Chinese Medicine and Healing Practices, the Paper 澎湃, 2020. (https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_10020482)
Review of Yi Ruolan’s Three Nuns and Six Grannies: Exploration of Ming Women and Society San gu liu po: Mingdai funü yu shehui de Shijian (Shanghai: Zhong xi shuju, 2019), the Paper 澎湃, 2019. (https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_4993286)
Education
2019-present: Ph.D. student, Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2016-2018: Master of Arts in History and Museum Studies, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
2012-2016: Bachelor of Arts in History, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang, China.
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Keywords
History of Body
History of Gender and Sexuality
Late Imperial China
History of Medicine
Material Culture
History of Knowledge
Emi Donald
PhD Candidate
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Honors), The University of Queensland, Australia
Departments and programs
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- History
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
Keywords
- Thailand & Southeast Asian History
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
- Queer & Trans History
- Sound Studies
Caitlin Kane
Ph.D. Candidate in Performing and Media Arts
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Chelsea Mikael Frazier
Assistant Professor
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Stephen Vider
Associate Professor
Publications
Book
The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Articles
"Public Disclosures of Private Realities: HIV/AIDS and the Domestic Archive,” Public Historian 41 no. 2 (2019), 163-189
“Clinical Activism in Community-based Practice: The Case of LGBT Affirmative Care at the Eromin Center, Philadelphia, 1973–1984," with David S. Byers and Emil Smith, American Psychologist 74, no. 8 (2019), 868-881.
“Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment in the 1950s and 1960s United States,” Gender & History 29, no. 3 (2017), 693-715
“The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community’: Communal Living and Gay Liberation in the 1970s,” Gender & History 27, no. 3 (2015), 865-881
“‘Oh Hell, May, Why Don't You People Have a Cookbook?’: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity,” American Quarterly 65, no. 4 (2013): 877-904 (Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, January 2015)
“Sanford Versus Steinberg: Black Sitcoms, Jewish Writers, and the 1970s Ethnic Revival,” Transition 105 (2011): 21-29
Book Chapters
“What Happened to the Functional Family?: Defining and Defending Alternative Households Before and Beyond Same-Sex Marriage,” Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History, edited by Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)
“Domesticity,” Routledge History of American Sexuality, edited by Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, and David Serlin (New York: Routledge, 2019)
“Consumerism,” Routledge History of Queer America, edited by Don Romesburg (New York: Routledge, 2018), 344-358
“’Nobody’s Goddamn Business But My Own’: Leonard Frey and the Politics of Jewish and Gay Visibility in the 1970s,” in The Boys in the Band: Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics, edited by Matt Bell (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016), 190-215
Exhibition Catalogues
Co-author, Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York, with Donald Albrecht, Skira Rizzoli and the Museum of the City of New York, 2016 (Finalist, 2017 Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Nonfiction)
“The Makings of Home,” essay in exhibition catalogue for On the Domestic Front: Scenes of Everyday Queer Life, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, curated by James Saslow, August to October 2015
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, History of American Civilization
- M.A., Harvard University, English
- B.A., Yale University, English and Psychology
Departments and programs
- American Studies Program
- Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
- History
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program
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Keywords
Post WWII US History; Public History; LGBTQ Studies
Kelly Richmond
Departments and programs
Keywords
performance studies, contemporary theatre, queer performance, feminist performance, queer ecology, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, haunting, ghosts