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Core Faculty

NAMEDEPARTMENTAREAS OF INTERESTEMAIL

Nora Berenstain

(Chair)

Philosophyphilosophy of science, critical race feminisms, intersectionality, feminist epistemologynberenst@utk.edu

Alexandra Chiasson


(Associate Chair and Teaching Assistant Professor)
Women, Gender, and Sexualitydigital cultures and sexualityachiasso@utk.edu

Amy Alspaugh

Nursing

reproductive justice, health care access and equity, qualitative methods

aalspaug@utk.edu

LaToya Eaves

Geography & Sustainability

intersectionality, Black feminist geographies, American South

leaves1@utk.edu

Sam KendrickSociologygender and sexuality, courtship and marriage, sexual scripts, cultural studiesskendrick@utk.edu
Xuefei MaWorld Languages and Culturesfeminist, queer, and trans cultural production in the global Chinese and Sinophone communitiesxma30@utk.edu
Danielle Procope BellAfricana Studies & Englishmid- to late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American literature and contemporary Black Feminist criticismdprocopebell@utk.edu
Tamar ShirinianAnthropologyqueer theory and studies, queer anthropology, feminist anthropology, feminist theory and studies, transnational feminisms
Maria StehleWorld Languages and Culturesfilm and media studies, gender and the media, feminist activism, pop feminism, German and European Studies (research website)mstehle@utk.edu