Faculty and Staff

Steering Committee

David S. Byers

Associate Professor of Social Work
Areas of Focus

Ethical theory, Psychoanalysis, Queer and trans theory, Clinical theory and practice, Adolescence, Bullying, International social work, Qualitative research.

Contact
Phone 610-520-2606
Location Social Work 218
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Colby Gordon

Associate Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, trans studies, queer theory, law and literature, religion and literature.

Contact
Phone 610-526-5413
Location English House 210
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Anita Kurimay

Associate Professor of History and Program Co-Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Focus

Modern European history; women's and gender history; history of sexuality; conservativism and the politics of the far right; history of human rights; history of sport

Contact
Phone 610-526-5040
Location Old Library 205
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Paul Joseph López Oro

Assistant Professor and Program Director of Africana Studies
Areas of Focus

Black Latin American/U.S. Black Latinx social movements, Black Queer Feminisms, Black Queer Diaspora Studies, Maroon geographies of Central America's Caribbean Coasts, Black Indigeneity, and transnational Black feminist ethnographies and theories.

Contact
Phone 610-526-5544
Location Old Library 213
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Rachel Speer

Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Research on the Alexandra Grange Hawkins Lectureship in Social Work
Areas of Focus

Mental health and Trauma, Parenting and Intergenerational Transmission of Risk, LGBTQ, Communities of Color, Intersectionality

Contact
Phone 610-520-2621
Location Social Work 217
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Stephen Vider

Associate Professor of History and Program Co-Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Focus

United States History, History of Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQ+ History, Public History, History of Mental Health and Mental Illness, Queer and Trans Studies, Visual and Material Culture.

Contact
Location Old Library 242
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Pat Healy

Administrative Support Staff
phealy@brynmawr.edu
610-526-5332


 

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Contact Us

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Anita Kurimay
Director of Gender and Sexuality
Associate Professor of History
Old Library 205
Phone: 610-526-5040
akurimay@brynmawr.edu

Stephen Vider
Associate Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality at 51°µÍø
Old Library 242
Phone: 610-526-5034
svider@brynmawr.edu

Gina Valasco
Associate Professor and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
370 Lancaster Avenue
Phone: 610-526-5034
gvalasco@haverford.edu