Meet Us
Administration
Tristan Josephson, Ph.D.
Chair, Women’s & Gender Studies Department
- Location: AMD 550
- Phone: (916) 278-4991
- tristan.josephson@csus.edu
- Duties: To make an appointment, please use this link: https://calendly.com/tristan-josephson-office-hours
Lora Bowler
Administrative Support Coordinator II
- Location: Amador Hall 550
- Phone: (916) 278-6817
- lora.bowler@csus.edu
will update information Fall 2025 job opening will be posted in July 2025
Student Assistant-Front Desk
- Location: AMD 550
- Phone: (916) 278-6817
New Student Assistant Hire Coming Soon!!!!
Faculty Student Peer Mentor
- Location: AMD 561A
- Phone: (916) 278-6817
- Duties: Office Hours:
Full-Time Faculty
Tristan Josephson, Ph.D.
Professor/Department Chair
- Location: Amador Hall 550
- Phone: (916) 278-4991
- tristan.josephson@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Weds 12-2pm and Thurs 12-1pm, and by appointment at https://calendly.com/tristan-josephson-office-hours
- Specialty & Interests: Queer theory, trans studies and politics, transnational feminist studies, critical legal studies
Sujatha Moni, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Amador Hall 560A
- Phone: (916) 278-6879
- smoni@csus.edu
- Office Hours: see course syllabus
- Specialty & Interests: Postcolonial Studies, Performance Theory, Women in South Asia and Sex & Gender
Cara Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: Amador Hall 560D
- Phone: (916) 278-4384
- cara.jones@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Out on Sabbatical Fall 2025
- Specialty & Interests: Gender & Health and Feminist Disability Studies
Joanna Núñez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Location: AMD 551D
- Phone: (916) 278-4370
- j.nunez@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesday 12-3pm
Mary Senyonga, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
- Location: Amador Hall 560B
- Phone: (916) 278-6696
- senyonga@csus.edu
- Office Hours: See course syllabus for Fall 2025 office hours
Part-Time Faculty
Vicki Hall, M.F.A.
- Location: Amador Hall 560C
- Phone: (916) 278-6806
- hallva@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 2:15 PM to 3:45 PM AMD 560C
- Specialty & Interests: Motherhood, Art, Culture
Elizabeth Mukiibi, Ph.D.
- Location: Amador Hall 560C
- Phone: (916) 278-6806
- emukiibi@csus.edu
- Office Hours: WGS 136 are on Monday 10:00 -10:50 am, For WGS 147 Wednesday 1:30-2:10 pm
- Specialty & Interests: Women and Work
Johnnie Terry, M.A.
- Location: Zoom
- Phone: (916) 278-6817
- johnnie.terry@csus.edu
- Office Hours: in-office hours TTr 10:30-11:30 AND zoom office hours at the same time. Zoom: https://csus.zoom.us/j/82666113881
- Specialty & Interests: Intro to Gender & Sexuality
Janice Tanemura, Ph.D.
- Location: Online Only
- Phone: (916) 278-6817
- janice.tanemura@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Thursdays from 12:50-1:50pm via Zoom
Katrina Bell McDonald Ph.D.
- Location: Amador Hall 560C
- Phone: (916) 278-6817
- katrina.mcdonald@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- Office Hours: Wed 10:00 - 11:15 PM, Amador Hall 560C
- Specialty & Interests: Gender, Race, Class, and Family phenomena, African-American Women, Black Marriage, and Introductory Statistics
Emeritus
Rita Cameron-Wedding, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
- Office Hours: Faculty has retired