Faculty

  • Sealing Cheng

    Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.S., M.Phil., University of Hong Kong; D.Phil., University of Oxford

    Trained anthropologist who researches issues of sexuality, migration, and human rights, with a focus on South Korea.

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  • Elena Tajima Creef

    Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.A., University of California (Riverside); M.A., University of California (Santa Barbara); Ph.D., University of California (Santa Cruz)

    Engaged in research on Asian American visual histories in photography, film, and popular culture.

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  • Charlene Galarneau

    Charlene Galarneau

    Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A.R., Iliff School of Theology; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

    Interests: health and health care both public and global and the ethics and policy thereof, and feminist and religiously-based approaches to justice.

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  • Rosanna Hertz

    Class of 1919 – 50th Reunion Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology

    B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University

    Researches families in a changing economy and how social inequality at home and in the workplace shape the experiences of women and men.

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  • Nancy Marshall

    Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of Connecticut (Storrs); Ed.D., Harvard University

    Studies women and employment, with a focus on working conditions and health and on work-family systems, and studies of child care policy and early care and education.

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  • Irene Mata

    Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.A., M.A., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)

    Interests include Chicana/Latino literature and culture; and analysis of gender, labor, immigration, sexuality, and representation in cultural production.

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  • Maria Dulce F. Natividad

    Visiting Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.A., University of the Philippines; M.P.H., Ph.D., Columbia University

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  • Susan M. Reverby

    Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.S., Cornell University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Boston University

    Historian of American health care, women, race, and public health with a focus is on equality and ethics.

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  • Gabriella Sanchez

    Visiting Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Arizona State University

    Gabriella E. Sanchez is the 2012-2013 Visiting Lecturer on Transnational Feminisms and Migration at Wellesley College’s Women and Gender Studies Department.

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  • Sima Shakhsari

    Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

    B.S., M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., Stanford University


    Professor Shakhsari is currently working on turning her dissertation research into a book manuscript titled Blogging in Times of War: Iranian Diaspora, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan.

     

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