Faculty

University of Chicago Faculty who want to help:

Saskia Sassen (ssassen@uchicago.edu)
Department:    Anthropology
Issues: Globalization, labor issues

Susan Gal (s-gal@uchicago.edu)
Department: Anthropology

Jean Comaroff  (jcomaro@uchicago.edu)
Department: Anthropology, Sociology

Darby English (denglish@uchicago.edu)
Department: Art History
Issues: Cultural studies, postcolonial studies and queer theory

Rebecca Zorach (rezorach@uchicago.edu)
Department: Art History
Issues: Anti-war

Martha Roth (m-roth@uchicago.edu)
Department: Assyriology, Oriental Institute
Issues: Anti-war, family and gender issues

Ron Gregg (regregg@uchicago.edu)
Department: Cinema and Media Studies

Laura Letinsky (lletinsk@uchicago.edu    )
Department: Committee on the Visual Arts (Photography)

Cathy Cohen (cjcohen@uchicago.edu)
Department: Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
Issues: Race

Cybele Raver (cybele@uchicago.edu)
Department: Director of the Center on Human Potential and Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy

Dwight Hopkins (dhopkins@uchicago.edu)
Department: Divinity School

Deborah Nelson (dnelson@uchicago.edu)
Department: English
Elaine Hadley (ehadley@uchicago.edu)
Department: English

Kenneth Warren (kwarren@uchicago.edu)
Department: English
Issues: Race and society

Lauren Berlant (lberlant@aol.com)
Department: English, African-American Studies
Issues: Citizenship, social movements, public spheres, feminism, queer studies, anti-racism, class analysis, collective emotion

Jacqueline Stewart  (jacqueline@uchicago.edu    )
Department: English, Cinema and Media Studies, African & African-American Studies

Bill Brown (wlbrown@uchicago.edu)
Department: English, Committee on the History of Culture, Co-Editor of Critical Inquiry Issues: Race and culture

Gina Olson (golson@uchicago.edu)
Department: Gender Studies
Issues: Gender, queer issues, gentrification

Stuart Michaels (stuartm@uchicago.edu    )
Department: Gender Studies
Issues: Queer issues, intersection of class, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality

Norell Giancana (norellg@uchicago.edu)
Department: Gender Studies – Grad Student
Issues: Gender

Julie Saville  (jsaville@uchicago.edu)
Department: History

Leora Auslander (leoraaus@cs.com)
Department: History
Issues: Feminism, Racism in Europe, Reproductive Issues

Mae Ngai (maengai@uchicago.edu)
Department: History
Issues: Race, Asian-American issues

Seth Richardson (seth1@uchicago.edu)
Department: History
Issues: Anti-War, Anti-State

Michael Geyer (mgeyer@uchicago.edu)
Department: History
Issues: human rights, humanitarian law, humanitarian movements–will advise/support research

Andreas Feldman (afeldman@uchicago.edu)
Department: Human Rights
Issues: Human rights

Bart Schultz    (rschultz@uchicago.edu)
Department: Humanities Collegiate Division, Special Programs Division, Graham School of General Studies, Civic Knowledge Project
Issues: Community educational activities (works with NAUDL, the Chicago Cultural Center, the DuSable Museum of African American History, and the Chicago Architectural Foundation); has written on sexuality and culture of imperialism during the Victorian era

David Bevington (bevi@uchicago.edu)
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Comparative Literature

Emilio Kouri (kouri@uchicago.edu)
Department: Latin American Studies
Issues: Race

Lisa Wedeen     (l-wedeen@uchicago.edu)
Department: Middle East politics
Issues: Anti-war, production of gender, eradicating inequality, enlivening citizen participation and contestation, eliminating racism

Martha Feldman (rore@uchicago.edu)
Department: Music

Melissa Harris-Lacewell    (mvharris@uchicago.edu)
Department: Political Science

Patchen Markell (p-markell@uchicago.edu)
Department: Political Science
Issues: All issues!

Gina Miranda (gmiranda@uchicago.edu)
Department: Social Service Administration

Julia Henly (jhenly@midway.uchicago.edu)
Department: Social Service Administration

Waldo Johnson (wejohnso@uchicago.edu)
Department: Social Service Administration
Issues: Race

John Comaroff (jcomarof@uchicago.edu)
Department: Sociology

Omar McRoberts (omcrober@uchicago.edu)
Department: Sociology

Valerie Ritter (ritter@uchicago.edu)
Department: South Asian literature; Hindi
Issues: Gender issues

Armando Maggi (amaggi@uchicago.edu)
Issues: Gender issues, queer issues