Leadership
Board of Directors
- Lauren Berlant, English Language and Literature, Director, the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project
- Mary Anne Case, Law School, Director, the Feminist Theory Project
- Hillary Chute, English Language and Literature, Director, the Artists' Salon
- Jane Dailey, History
- Michael Dawson, Political Science, Director, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
- Susan Gal, Anthropology
- Don Kulick, Human Development
- Rochona Majumdar, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chair, CSGS Curriculum Committee
- Kristen Schilt, Sociology, Director of Studies
- Christine Stansell, History
- Rebecca Zorach, Art History, Director, the Social Media Project
Linda M. G. Zerilli
Director
lmgzerilli@uchicago.edu
Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the College; Professor of Gender Studies. Her fields of interest are political theory, feminist and gender theory, gender and politics. She is the author of Signifying Woman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994), Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), and articles on subjects ranging across feminist thought, the politics of language, aesthetics, and Continental philosophy. Her current book project is titled Toward a Democratic Theory of Judgment. She has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow. Professor Zerilli has served on the executive committee of Political Theory and is currently serving on the editorial boards of Philosophy and Rhetoric, Constellations, and Culture, Theory, and Critique.
Website: http://political-science.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/zerilli.shtml
Gina Olson
Associate Director
golson@uchicago.edu
Gina Olson was recently appointed Associate Director at the Center after serving as the Assistant Director since July, 2000. Gina manages the administration and operation of CSGS while also initiating or playing a key role in organizing the Center's conferences, series, seminars, lectures, and other programs. Her interests include gender and racial justice, sexual liberation and reproductive justice, community building and world making, film and media, human rights, and Latin American politics and culture. She holds a BS in political science, with a minor degrees in women's studies and ethnic and cultural studies from Illinois State University and a certificate in financial decision-making from the University of Chicago. Previously, Gina was the Midwest regional director of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, managed data systems and patient education programs with the Chicago Department of Public Health STD/HIV Prevention Program, and coordinated donor and data management in the Midwest development office of the American Friends Service Committee. She is a cofounder of the activist group Queer to the Left and for several years was president of the Board of Directors of Women in the Director's Chair.
Sarah Tuohey
Student Affairs Administrator and Sawyer Seminar Coordinator
stuohey@uchicago.edu
As the Student Affairs Administrator Sarah Tuohey manages most aspects of the Center's graduate and undergraduate curriculum. She advises undergraduate Gender and Sexuality Studies majors and minors and works with graduate students participating in the newly established graduate certificate program and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop. Sarah has worked in student affairs at the University of Chicago for the past 25 years. She has served as an adviser in the College, as the departmental coordinator in the English Department, and most recently as the Assistant Dean of Students for Admissions and Fellowships in the Humanities Division. In all of these positions, Sarah specialized in advising students about funding opportunities and graduate studies. She earned her BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and her MA in English at the University of Chicago. While a graduate student in the 1980s, Sarah was a member of a Feminist Studies proto-workshop nicknamed "The Feminar." She has been active in support of LBGTQ students on campus since the early 1990s.