Leadership
Board of Directors
- Joseph Bruch, Public Health Sciences
- Maliha Chishti, Divinity School
- Daisy Delogu, Romance Languages & Literatures; CSGS Faculty Director
- Angie Heo, Divinity School
- Heather Keenleyside, English Language and Literature
- Rochona Majumdar, South Asian Languages and Civilizations & Cinema and Media Studies
- Hillary McLaren, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Lisa L. Moore, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
- C. Riley Snorton, English Language and Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies (On leave 2024-25)
- Red Vaughan Tremmel, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Ella Wilhoit, MAPSS
- Gabriel Winant, History
- Linda Zerilli, Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies
- SJ Zhang, English Language and Literature
Daisy Delogu
Faculty Director
she/her/hers
ddelogu@uchicago.edu
Daisy Delogu is the Howard L. Willett Professor of French Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She has been an affiliate faculty member of CSGS since 2004, and has served the Center in various capacities, including as part of the Board of Directors, prize selection committees, and on the undergraduate curriculum committee that proposed and then designed what has become a very successful core sequence, Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations. She also has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses cross-listed in CSGS, and has organized conferences and reading groups in collaboration with the Center. Daisy has published on the early modern querelle des femmes, female authors’ appropriation of male-authored texts, gender performance in medieval poetry, and the feminization of the body politic. Her book Allegorical Bodies explored figural representations of women in medieval literature, showing how the human form provided an imaginary space onto which might be mapped an ideal social order, while the allegorical figures of France and the University of Paris – staged textually as mothers and daughters – enacted highly-conventional paradigms of femininity and sexuality, thereby reinforcing the “natural” hierarchy inherent in the gender binary. Her current project looks in part at how women, as producers of both people and goods, are integral to the accumulation and intergenerational transmission of wealth. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her kids and cats, and enjoys reading fiction and poetry, running, and baking.
Gina Olson
Executive Director
she/her/hers
golson@uchicago.edu
773-834-8831
Gina Olson has served in leadership of the Center since July 2000. She manages the finances, administration, and operation of the CSGS while overseeing the organization of the Center's conferences, series, seminars, lectures, and other programs. She leads the Center’s fundraising and development and works with our faculty on affiliation, internal funding, and supporting their research projects. Her activist and intellectual interests include gender and racial justice, sexual liberation and reproductive justice, film and media, human rights, and Latin American politics and culture. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, with 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 (CISPES), managed data systems and patient education programs with the Chicago Department of Public Health STD/HIV Prevention Program, and supervised donor and data management in the Midwest Development Office of the American Friends Service Committee. She was a co-founder of the activist group Queer to the Left and part of the Chicago Restroom Access Project of the Pride Action Tank/AIDS Foundation of Chicago. She has served as president of the Board of Directors of Women in the Director's Chair and on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Women’s History Center. Her interests outside of the University include building solidarity economies through cooperatives and community-based organic gardening.
Bonnie Kanter
Assistant Director for Student Affairs and Curriculum
she/her/hers
bonniek@uchicago.edu
773-702-2365
Bonnie Kanter joined the CSGS staff as Student Affairs Administrator in August 2018. She is primarily responsible for advising undergraduate majors/minors and graduate certificate students. Prior to joining the CSGS staff, Bonnie worked for 15 years as an Adviser in the College. During that time she ran a program for Chicago Public School students who took coursework at UChicago and was one of the founding staff members of the Center for College Student Success, a program designed to support FLI (first-generation and/or low-income) students. Bonnie has a Master’s in Education with a minor in Women’s Studies from Oregon State University (her favorite paper was on the period in the 1920s when advertising images of women became sexualized). Bonnie also has a BS in Journalism from the University of Illinois. Outside of work, Bonnie spends way too much time thinking about/cooking/traveling for food. She's eaten at close to 800 restaurants in Chicago – feel free to ask for recommendations!
Tate Brazas
Assistant Director for Programming and Operations
she/her/hers
tbrazas@uchicago.edu
773-795-6503
Tate Brazas provides operational, logistical, and administrative support to the Center. She completed graduate work in Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University where her research focused on internet-based organizing and identity building among pregnant and parenting youth. She also received a BA with Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she majored in Community Studies with an emphasis on feminist organizing. Tate has developed and co-instructed both a graduate seminar course at San Francisco State University ("Queer, Feminist, and Sociological: A Readings Course") and an undergraduate seminar course at the University of California, Santa Cruz ("Youth & Sexual Politics"). Tate's academic interests include queer theory, reproductive justice, pregnant and parenting youth, sex education, racial justice and cultural studies. Her non-academic interests include vegan baking, triathlons, memes, and senior dogs.