Lisa Diedrich

Undergraduate Program Director and Professor

RESEARCH: Critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist theories, interdisciplinary methods.

Victoria Hesford

Department Chair and Associate Professor

RESEARCH: Gender, sexuality, queer and feminist theory, U.S. queer and feminist history, popular and mass culture in the postwar era, and critical theory.

Angela Jones

Graduate Program Director and Professor

RESEARCH: Sexualities; sex work; Black feminist theory and methods; trans studies; and African American political thought and protest.

Ritch Calvin

Associate Professor

RESEARCH: Feminist theory, Latina literature and culture, Latina feminisms, feminist science fiction, reproductive technologies.

Manisha Desai

Professor

RESEARCH: Gender and globalization, transnational feminisms, global justice, particularly climate justice movements and human rights.

Nancy Hiemstra

Associate Professor

RESEARCH: Global migration, immigration enforcement practices, detention and deportation, homeland security, borders, gender, race, Latin America, feminist epistemology and methodologies

Christina Khan

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH: Feminist methodologies, sexualities, race/ethnic studies, body/embodiment, Latina/o/x studies, qualitative methods, sex work, and women of color feminisms

Jenean McGee

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH: Black feminism, Digital Studies, African American Studies.

Liz Montegary

Associate Professor

RESEARCH:Feminist and queer theory; transnational American studies; LGBT/queer activism; travel, tourism, and mobility studies; cultural studies of militarization.

Adjunct Faculty

EMAIL: suzanne.staub@stonybrook.edu

Joanna Wuest

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH: LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, conservatism, critical and queer theory, law and political economy, science and technology studies.

Mary Jo Bona

Distinguished Professor Emerita

RESEARCH: Feminist theories and literatures; feminist and queer narrative theories; multi-ethnic American literary cultures; Italian American / Italian diasporic literary and cultural studies; diaspora/migration/critical race theories.

PhD Student 2022- Present

RESEARCH: Black feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Politics, Critical Race theory, African studies, Asylum and Refugee Aesthetics, African lgbtq+ migration and mobility.

PhD Student 2025-Present

RESEARCH: Kurdish and Iranian feminisms, gendered violence and resistance, diasporic identity, visual culture and storytelling, feminist media studies, trauma and representation, transnational feminism, memory and narrative, digital activism, and violence prevention.

PhD Student 2024-Present

RESEARCH: Critical Theory, Fascism, Media Studies, Psychoanalysis, Science Studies, Sexuality Studies.

PhD Student 2022-Present

RESEARCH: Disability Studies, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Film and Media Studies, Video Games, Deconstruction, Embodiment, and Bioethics

PhD Student 2024-Present

RESEARCH: Gender and sexuality, Feminist Praxis, Feminist Pedagogy, Critical Institutional Studies, Affect Theory, Embodiment, Digital Media Studies

Galia Cozzi Berrondo

PhD Student 2020-Present

RESEARCH: Transnational feminisms, Queer politics, Migration and mobility in Latin America, Queer and transgender studies, de/coloniality, Latinx imaginaries, Performance studies

PhD Student 2022-Present

RESEARCH: Feminist Literary and Cultural Studies, Affect Theory, Horror Studies, Monster Theory, Feminist Disability Studies and Crip Theory.

MA Student 2024-Present

RESEARCH: Queer and transgender theory; transnational feminism; media studies; disability studies; de/colonialism

PhD Student 2019-Present

RESEARCH: Disability, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, migration, aesthetics, body and embodiment and settler-colonialism studies.

PhD Student 2023-Present

RESEARCH: friendship; feminist solidarities; Indigenous feminisms; Latin American social movements; Mexican feminisms; affect theory; community and kinship; transnational feminisms; decolonial theory and methodology; and lesbian feminist theory.

Mar Galvez Seminario

PhD Student 2024-Present

RESEARCH: Reproductive Justice, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, Queer and Crip Theory, Disability Justice Theory, and Gender Politics in Public Policy.

PhD Student 2019-Present

RESEARCH: Sexuality, feminism and queer theory, agency, trauma and mental health, critical race theory, transnational activism.

PhD Student 2023-Present

RESEARCH: Black Feminism, Race & Ethnic Studies, Representation of Black Womanhood & Blackness in Popular Media

PhD Student 2019-Present

RESEARCH: Aesthetic medicine, Black and African American studies, body/embodiment, care work, decolonizing methodologies, kinship, queer and trans genders and sexualities.

PhD Student 2025-Present

RESEARCH: Black queer feminist thought, crip and queer temporalities, the body as archive, oral histories, disability justice, and African and African Diaspora studies.

PhD Student 2024-Present

RESEARCH: Burmese militarized sexual violence against women, reproductive justice/rights for women, activism, transnational feminisms and Burmese refugee/immigrant patterns to the United States.

PhD Student 2022-Present

RESEARCH: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Care Work; Disability Justice & Madness Studies; Queer & Crip Theories; Embodiment & Affect, Hybrid Aesthetics, Performance Studies & Comic Studies

Frankie Petronio

PhD Student 2024-Present

RESEARCH: Trans studies; cultural studies; American studies; critical discourse analysis; parasociality; politics and social movements; political psychology; far-right studies.

PhD Student 2020-Present

RESEARCH: Critical Race Studies, the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality in pop culture, television studies, consent.

PhD Student 2019-Present

RESEARCH: Surveillance Studies, Critical Studies of Race, Philosophy of Sex, and Radical Pedagogy

PhD Student 2017-Present

RESEARCH: Critical Race Theory; Black and Latino Studies; Higher Education Studies; Disability Studies; Queer Theory; Transgender Studies; Masculinity Studies

MA Student 2025-Present

RESEARCH: queer theory, asexuality, aromanticism, masculinity, and race. Jay hopes to eventually pursue a PhD and build a career in academia with the goal of fostering spaces for shared knowledge, dialogue, and research exchange.

PhD Student 2020-Present

RESEARCH: Critical Fat Studies; Fat Theory and the medicalization of fat bodies; Queer Theory; Critical Race Theory; Jotería Studies; Latinx/a and Xicanx/a Feminisms; Latinxs in Labor Systems, Disability/Crip Theory.

Department Administrator

Email: jacqueline.m.donnelly@stonybrook.edu

Academic Coordinator

Email:charles.j.edwards@stonybrook.edu

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