Our core faculty are an accomplished and diverse group of instructors united under the common goal of spotlighting social justice issues relating to women, gender and sexuality. Affiliate faculty members support the interdisciplinary approach of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
If you are a University of South Carolina faculty member whose research and teaching intersect with Women's and Gender Studies, please fill out our online application form [doc]. Learn more about the Women's and Gender Studies Department's current affiliates on our Affiliate Faculty page.
Explore our faculty directory for the full list of program instructors.
Want to learn more about the research profiles of WGST's faculty? Review our research profile document here.
Research areas: Civic responsibility, service-learning, Archiving South Carolina Women Collection
Research areas: gender and politics, inclusion and representation, political, feminist, and democratic theory, social movements, the gender politics of the US South
Research areas: Gender representation in media and pop culture, contemporary feminist social movements
Research areas: Global women's health, gender and health, reproductive health, health equity, diversity and inclusion
Research areas: Sexuality studies & Irish studies, Irish masculinities, gay rugby, Irish literature, poetry
Research areas: Gender and sexuality studies, feminist studies of health and medicine, reproductive justice, LGBTQ health, qualitative methods
Research areas: Feminist philosophy, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics
Research areas: African-American/diasporan women and spirituality, black feminist theory, gender and religion
Research areas: relationship between culture and the construction of racial and ethnic identities
Research areas: Interpersonal and dating violence, sexual violence, drugging
Research areas: intersectionality, critical literacy, multicultural education, the history of white supremacy in education in the south
Research areas: Black women’s cultural production and political traditions in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries, Black feminist theory, womanist theory and theology, affect theory, queer theory, women of color feminisms, and the intersections between sexuality, creativity, and spirituality
Responsible for business manager duties, coordination of course scheduling, managing
administrative assistant and management for undergraduate and graduate programs (including
GA hiring).
Responsible for HR; WGST programming and events; website and social media, newsletters
and promotional materials, work-study student management, Close-Hipp office suite
management.
