Faculty Fellows
Center Fellows
Faculty Fellowships are intended to enable University of Chicago faculty to be actively involved with the Center in mutually productive ways as we seek to build an intellectual community of scholars working on gender and sexuality across disciplines.
- 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
- Rachel Jean-Baptiste, History, Director, Sexualities in Africa and the African Diaspora
- Rochona Majumdar, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chair, CSGS Curriculum Committee
- Kristen Schilt, Sociology, Director of Studies
- Rebecca Zorach, Art History, Director, the Social Media Project
Sawyer Seminar
CSGS is pleased to announce the second year of its faculty seminar program. The 2011-2012 CSGS seminar will be run in tandem with the Sawyer Seminar on the topic "Women's International Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, Possibilities," which has been funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Seminar Fellows and Participants
- Lauren Berlant, English Language and Literature
- Susan Burns, History
- Jennifer Cole, Comparative Human Development
- Jane Dailey, History
- Leela Gandhi, English Language and Literature
- Susan Gzesh, Human Rights Program
- Alison James, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Rochona Majumdar, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
- Tianna Paschel, Political Science
- Charlotte Walker, Human Rights Program
- Tara Zahra, History
- Linda Zerilli, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Political Science
Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellows
Àngela Lorena Fuster Peiró, Ph. D., University of Barcelona
À. Lorena Fuster is Consortium for Advanced Studies in Barcelona (CASB) Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and Post-doctoral Researcher at the Research Consolidated Group "Creació i Pensament de les Dones" (Creation and Thinking of Women) as a member of the Seminar "Filosofia i Gènere" (Philosophy and Gender) at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the conceptualization of political imagination, especially from the perspective of Hannah Arendt and other contemporary women philosophers. She has published several papers on these topics and a book based in her dissertation is forthcoming in "Editorial Afers".
Zahra Jamal, Ph.D., Harvard University, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
Zahra Nasiruddin Jamal is the Sawyer Seminar Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow on International Women's Human Rights at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; she is also the Director of Strategy and Research at the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board USA, and a Fellow at The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Since 1999, she has been awarded the Javits, Mellon, Weatherhead, Hearst, Das, Menezes, and other research fellowships, as well as numerous teaching awards to conduct research and teaching on gender, (trans)nationalism and diaspora, citizenship and civic engagement, religion, human rights and conflict resolution, and comparative ethics in the United States, Canada, Pakistan, India, Russia, and Tajikistan. Professor Jamal has published in the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal; The Encyclopedia of Islam in America; The Huffington Post; E-volunteerism; The Pluralism Project; I Speak for Myself; and other venues. Over the past decade, she has been an ethnographic consultant for the U.S. Department of State, Aspen Institute, Swiss Development Cooperation, and Aga Khan Development Network, and a gender specialist for USAID on issues education, positive youth development, migrant labor, gender-equity, food security, and refugee settlement in North America, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia.