Nan Alamilla Boyd
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Women Studies

Office: HUM 314
(415) 338-3065
alamilla@sfsu.edu

Office Hours:
Summer 2008: August 5, 21, 26 and 28
TTH 10:00-12:00, or by appt.

Fall 2008
MTH 10:00-12:00, or by appt.

Nan Alamilla Boyd's academic interests include the history of sexuality, queer theory, historical methodology, urban tourism, and globalization. She has published numerous articles and her book, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (University of California Press, 2003), charts the rise of gay and lesbian politics in San Francisco. Her current project explores the history of tourism and the commodification of race and sex in four San Francisco neighborhoods. She received a BA in History from UC Berkeley and a MA and Ph.D. from the Department of American Civilization at Brown University.

Courses
Fall 2008
WOMS 552: Lesbian, Queer, and Trans Identity
WOMS 698: Work Study in Feminist Projects

MA Jaimes Guerrero
Professor of Women Studies

Office: HUM 363
(415) 338-3146

Office Hours:
Fall 2008
TBA

MA Jaimes Guerrero is a leading Native American and Mestiza author, scholar, activist, novelist and poet. She has worked with Women of All Red Nations, the Indigenous Women/s Network, and the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council. She has taught classes on environmental justice, American Indian and Ethnic Studies, and is currently an Associate Professor of Women Studies. In addition, Jaimes Guerrero is editor and contributor of The State of Native North America (South End Press) and recently contributed the essay "Patriarchal Colonialism" to, and coedited the journal Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Special Issue: Indigenous Women in America Spring 2003: Volume 18, Number 2. Other recent publications include the research essay "Global Genocide and Biocolonialism" which appeared in Violence and the Body, 2003, and several poems published from her manuscript, Native Genesis. Currently she is completing the books Native Womanism: Exemplars of Indigenism and Global Genocide: A Case for Biocolonialism.

Courses
Fall 2008
WOMS 305/805: Women Studies Lecture Series
WOMS 561: Women of Color in the U.S.
WOMS 570/770: Women and Public Policy

Deborah Cohler
Associate Professor of Women Studies

Office: HUM 330
(415) 338-1238
dcohler@sfsu.edu

http://online.sfsu.edu/~dcohler

Office Hours:
Fall 2008
T 3:00-6:00

Deborah Cohler's areas of interest include feminist theory, sexuality studies and the interrelationships among gender, sexuality, race, and nationalism in the twentieth century. Her current projects include an analysis of relationships among female masculinity, lesbian identity and feminism; a study of the effects of World War I on representations of women's gender and sexual identities; and an examination of the role of nationalism in inter-war fictions by women. She is currently completing a book, Queer Inversions: Gender Deviance, Female Sexuality, and Nationalism.

Courses
Fall 2008
WOMS 510: Gender and Culture of War
WOMS 621: Feminist Theories
WOMS 700: Introduction to Graduate Study

Jillian Sandell
Assistant Professor of Women Studies

Office: HUM 328
(415) 338-1516
sandell@sfsu.edu

http://online.sfsu.edu/~sandell/

Office Hours:
Fall 2008
M 5:30-6:30
TTH 12:30-1:30

Jillian Sandell's areas of interest include feminist cultural studies; popular cultures of the United States; the histories and politics of identity-based movements in the U.S.; autobiography studies; and anthology studies. Her major current project analyzes anthologies of autobiographical and life-writing within the context of twentieth century U.S. identity politics. Other research projects include the uses of anthologies within Women's Studies, and the gendered and raced cultural and transnational politics of popular music in the United States.

Courses
Fall 2008
WOMS 485: Women and Media
WOMS 516: Gender and Visual Culture
WOMS 713: Issues in Feminist Theory

Julietta Hua
Assistant Professor of Women Studies

Office: HUM 450
(415) 338-3150
jyhua@sfsu.edu

Office Hours:
Fall 2008
MW 12:30-2:00


Julietta Hua's areas of interest include feminist theory, human rights and
global feminism, Asian American Studies and the implications of the politics of difference in the post-Civil Rights, post-Cold War Era. Her major current
project examines US women's human rights discourse and the production of categories like "Third World women" and "feminism" at the turn of the millenium.

Courses
Fall 2008
WOMS 160: Women, Politics, and Citizenship
WOMS 534: Gender and the Law
WOMS 820: Feminist Research Methods

Kasturi Ray
Assistant Professor of Women Studies

Office: HUM 437
(415) 338-3128
kasturiray@yahoo.com

Office Hours:
Fall 2008
TTH 11:00-12:00, TH 3:00-4:00

Kasturi Ray’s areas of interests include women and work; globalization and transnationality; immigration and diaspora studies; and colonial, postcolonial, and neo-colonial studies. She is currently at work on a book, The Trade in Maids: Cross-Cultural Readings of Paid and Unpaid Domestic Workers, which is a historical examination of women’s work in Hawai’I, Bengal, the Bay Area, and the Philippines. She is also working on a comparative social history of women workers on nineteenth-century sugar plantations in Hawai’I, Louisiana, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Courses
Fall 2008
WOMS 200: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
WOMS 201: Gender, Race, and Nation
WOMS 564/764: Women Writers and Colonialism

Chinosole
Emerita
Retired, Spring 2003

In 1970 Chinosole served as the first acting dean of what is now Ethnic Studies and as a full-time professor in Black Studies.

In 1989 she served as Chair of Women Studies. She specialized in the literatures of the African Diaspora with an emphasis on Black feminist theory and literature and autobiography. She authored African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin, published 2001 by Peter Lang Publishers.

Lecturers

Women Studies Lecturers' Office: HUM 318
(415) 338-1389
Fall 2008
Office hours vary upon lecturer

Elisabeth Arruda
arrudae@hotmail.com
WOMS 150: Women in American History and Society
Office Hours: M 11:10-12:10

Maris Bustamante
maris@cahctas.org
WOMS 303: Women as Creative Agents
Office Hours: TBA

Tricia Murajda
triciamurajda@yahoo.com
WOMS 160: Women, Politics, and Citizenship
Office Hours: TBA

Gail Sansbury
sansbury@worldnet.att.net
WOMS 150: Women in American History and Society
Office Hours: TTH 12:30-1:30, or by appt.

Janelle White
janellewhite@sfwar.org
WOMS 562: History of African American Women
Office Hours: TBA