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Department of Women’s & Gender Studies College of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Studies

Meet Us

Administration

Tristan Josephson, Ph.D.

Chair, Women’s & Gender Studies Department

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  • Duties: Mondays 1-2pm (Zoom only), Tuesdays 2:30-4:00pm, Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm, and by Zoom, & appointment. To sign up for office hours at: https://calendly.com/tristan-josephson-office-hours

Lora Bowler

Administrative Support Coordinator II

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Elliot Tan

Student Assistant-Front Desk

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  • Location: AMD 550
  • Phone: (916) 278-6817
  • Pronouns: they/Siya
  • Duties: Monday and Wednesday 11-4pm

Full-Time Faculty

Tristan Josephson, Ph.D.

Professor/Department Chair

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  • Office Hours: Mondays 1-2pm (Zoom only), Tuesdays 2:30-4:00pm, Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm, and by Zoom, & appointment. To sign up for office hours 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

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  • Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30am-1:30pm & Thursdays 3:00pm-4:00pm
  • Specialty & Interests: Postcolonial Studies, Performance Theory, Women in South Asia and Sex & Gender

Cara Jones, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

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  • Office Hours: Out of office Fall 2026 and will return in Spring 2027
  • Specialty & Interests: Gender & Health and Feminist Disability Studies

Joanna Núñez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: Tuesday 12-3 p.m. drop-in online ar by appointment

Mary Senyonga, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00AM - 1:00 PM on Zoom. 

Part-Time Faculty

Vicki Hall, M.F.A.

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  • Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00pm-12:45pm
  • Specialty & Interests: Motherhood, Art, Culture

Johnnie Terry, M.A.

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  • Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30am- 11:20am and by appointment on Zoom
  • Specialty & Interests: Intro to Gender & Sexuality

Janice Tanemura, Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: Email for an appointment via Zoom

Katrina Bell McDonald Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: Mondays 10:15am - 11:30am and by appointment on Zoom
  • Specialty & Interests: Gender, Race, Class, and Family phenomena, African-American Women, Black Marriage, and Introductory Statistics

Lena McQuade, Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: Email for a Zoom appointment
  • Specialty & Interests: Intersectional Feminist Theory, Histories of Gender and Race in Public Health Policy, and Reproductive Justice

Bao Vaaj Nchaiv Txab Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: MW 11:00am-11:50am

Emeritus

Rita Cameron-Wedding, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

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  • Office Hours: Faculty has retired

Elizabeth Mukiibi, Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: Faculty has retired Fall 2026
  • Specialty & Interests: Women and Work
Total Members: 16