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- Zakiya Adair - Interests include: women's 19th and 20th century social and cultural history (broadly defined). Specifically, Black women entertainers performing abroad during the period of the Harlem Renaissance, looking at Josephine Baker and the ways in which race, sex, and class shift within a trans-Atlantic and transnational context. Grant Activities and Awards: Graduate Opportunity McNair Research Fellowship 2001-2002; President's Scholars Fellowship 2001-2004. Email: kiya4518@u.washington.edu.
- Alka Arora - Interests include: examining the relationship between spiritual practices and social engagement in the lives of feminsit women; exploring, through the use of a critical hermeneutic method, if and how some feminists understand their spiritual lives and spiritual practices as an inspiration, resource, or complement to their feminism and work for social change; analyzing the impact of spiritual practice upon these women's subjectivities and sense of agency in working for social change. Grant Activities and Awards: Huckaby Fellowship, UW Graduate School, 2005; Fellow, Connecting with Community, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Summer 2005. Email: alka@u.washington.edu.
- Vero Barrera - Interests include: Analyzing the tension between memory as praxis of Human Rights/Left struggles for social justice and neo liberal models in Latin America; using multi-sited ethnographic methods to examine memory as an activist tool to resist neo liberal ideologies and the overarching gender dynamics present in the everyday actions of activists. Activism, Latin American social movements, memory struggles, race, class, gender, transnational feminist theory, and documentary film. Grant Activities and Awards: Bank of America Diversity Fellowship 2004; 2006 Doman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Women Studies, UW. Email: veronb@u.washington.edu.
- Amy Bhatt - Interests include: transnational feminist theory, development studies, and reproductive health and understandings of sexuality in diasporic South Asian communities. Grant Activities and Awards: FLAS Summer Travel Grant, South Asia Center Summer 2005; FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, South Asia Center 2005-2006; FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, South Asia Center 2006-2007; FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, South Asia Center 2007-2008. Email: abhatt@u.washington.edu.
- Brianna Blaser - Interests include: issues concerning women as practictioners and students of science, the role that social networks and relationships, including sexual relationships, play as well as the way that women fit into the scientific culture.Email: blaser@u.washington.edu.
- Jeanette Bushnell - Interests include: perceptions, epistemologies and knowledges. Teaching: CHID introductory class, (Re)Thinking Diversity. Grant Activities and Awards: 2003 Doman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Women Studies, UW; Ford Foundation/The Evans School of Public Administration Case Study Diversity Grant; Huckabay Fellowship, UW Graduate School, 2003-2004; American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship. Email: pembina@u.washington.edu.
- Renee Byrd: Political Commitments Include: Participatory Action Research; Race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, and the increasingly global prison-industrial complex; working-class women of color and trangender folks' experiences of police violence; the ways in which policing models are moving across nation-state borders. Email: byrdr@u.washington.edu.
- Rebecca Castner - Email: burtch@u.washington.edu.
- Calla Chancellor - Interests include: examining articulations of gender, sexuality and identify of LGBTIQ youth in cultural, media, and research discourses through the intersecting lenses of queer, feminist, and antiracist theories.Email: calla8@u.washington.edu.
- Sharmistha Ghosh - Interests include: women and their relation with microfinance institutions and how this particular method of development affects violence in the lives of women. Email: ghoshs@u.washington.edu.
- Alyssa Hellrung - Interests include: body politics - how do young women and girls who participate in athletics and athletic arts at an elite level perceive their bodies? To what degree do athletics and athletic arts affect body acceptance/ awareness/ hatred/ image in young women? Email: ahellrun@u.washington.edu.
- Nina Kim - Interests include: Asian American politics and organizing with an emphasis on Asian American women's empowerment. Feminist and critical race theories.Email: ninakim@u.washington.edu.
- Jan Kinney - Interests include: Women's altar-building and other practices of feminist spirituality and religion. Presentations include: "The Coffee Goddess and the Wall that Heals: Women's Altars in Public Spaces." 2004. Email: jkinney@u.washington.edu.
- Kristy Leissle - Interests include: the relationship between development policy and women's productive and reproductive activities; women's participation in agricultural export production in West Africa and how development projects and macroeconomic policies affect women's work in this sector. Grant Activities and Awards: FLAS Summer Fellowship, 2002 French; International Studies Center FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, 2002-2003 French; International Studies Center, Excellence in Public Service Fellowship, Evans School of Public Affairs, Summer 2003. Bonderman Travel Fellowship, 2005-2006. Email: kleissle@u.washington.edu.
- Kristina McMullen - Interests include: feminism, intersectionality and disability studies; sexual violence, trauma and stigma; feminist theory/philosophy; bridging activism and theory; and German. Grants Activities and Awards: 1998/1999 Fulbright Scholar in Women Studies, Austria; 2003 Master of Arts, Women Studies Practicum, with Communities Against Rape and Abuse & the Disability Pride Project; 2005 Doman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Women Studies, UW. Email: krk@u.washington.edu.
- Dipika Nath - Interests include: exploring the status and treatment of nonhuman animals and the question of animality in the human psychic, social, ethical and material imaginaries. I place animal studies in conversation with queer and feminist studies to point towards the philosophical and material urgency of rethinking animal-human relations. Email: dipika@u.washington.edu.
- Amy Peloff - Interests include: Twentieth-century U.S. women's history, media representations of feminism as an idea; feminist historiography. Email: apeloff@u.washington.edu.
- Karen Rosenberg - Interests include: domestic violence organizations and social change; victim-defendants and the criminal justice system; "Performing Identities in the Classroom" research project examining the course of Jewish Women in Contemporary America, as well as larger questions regarding issues in teaching at the intersection of Jewish Studies and Women Studies. Grant Activities and Awards: 2002 Huckabay Fellowship, UW Graduate School; 2003 Krasnow Jewish Studies Research Fund. Email: ker@u.washington.edu.
- Julie Severson - Interests include: developing a historical continuum between eugenics and family planning based on the ideologies of pop control and welfare reform; biomedical ethics. Grant Activities and Awards: 2002-2003 Graduate Opportunity Program Research Assistantship, UW Graduate School.Email: severson@u.washington.edu.
- Chancellor Sims - Interests include: the impact of nonprofit incorporation on grassroots feminist social movement organizations.Email: simsc@u.washington.edu.
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