Gender Studies Faculty
Core Faculty
Professor of History and Gender Studies
Email: lbanner@usc.edu * Office: SOS 272 * Phone: (213) 740-1610
Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies
Email: josephbo@usc.edu * Office: THH 402G * Phone: (213) 740-2818
Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies
Email: sbriggs@usc.edu * Office: ACB 130 * Phone: (213) 740-0267
Professor of English, History, and Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies
Research Specialties: Popular Music Studies through the lens of gender, race, and sexuality; 20th C. U.S. History, particularly the long Sixties; Theories of Feminism; Memoir; Biography
E-mail: echols@usc.edu * Office: THH 404F * Phone: (213) 821-1163
Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies
Research Specialties: Critical Theory, Film & Popular Culture, Gender Studies, 19th-Century, Queer Studies.
Email: halberst@usc.edu * Office: THH 407 * Phone: (213) 821-1169
Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies
Research Specialties: American Politics, Political Theory, Public Policy Race/Ethnic Politics, Gender Politics, Intersectionality
Email: ahancock@usc.edu * Office: VKC 327 * Phone: (213) 740-6998
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies
Research Specialties: cultural sociology; sociology of inequality; gender studies; social theory
Email: sharonrh@usc.edu * Office: KAP 352 * Phone: (213) 740-3533
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies
Email: messner@usc.edu * Office: KAP 352 * Phone: (213) 740-8848
Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies
Email: orenstei@usc.edu * Office: THH 174 * Phone: (213) 740-0100
Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies
Research Specialties: Queer & Gender Studies; Minority Discourse; Popular Culture (Pop Music, TV, Entertainment & Media Cultures); Suburban Studies; Performance; Los Angeles & the Southern California Region; Contemporary Literature; 19th-Century British Literature; Theory; Aesthetics
Email: tongson@usc.edu * Office: THH 402K * Phone: (213) 740-2817
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies
Research Specialties: Areas of specialization: Early Modern Spanish prose and theater; early modern women’s narrative. Interests: Gender studies, queer theory, and visual cultural studies.
Email: svelasco@usc.edu * Office: THH 156M * Phone: (213) 740-7659
Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies
E-mail: mygordon@usc.edu * Office: THH 420 * Phone: (213) 740-2815
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies
E-mail: parrenas@usc.edu * Office: KAP 352 *Phone: (213) 740-3533
Assistant Professor of Religion and Gender Studies
Email: meganrei@usc.edu * Office: ACB 235 * Phone: (213) 740-3623
Associate Professor of Law and Gender Studies
Email: ksbuchanan@law.usc.edu * Office: LAW 474 *Phone: (213) 821-4411
Assistant Professor of History, Law, and Gender Studies
Research Specialties: 19th Century North America; law; race; gender; sexuality
Email: diana.williams@usc.edu * Office: SOS 277 * Phone: (213) 740-9325
Additional Faculty
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing
E-mail: dblaine@usc.edu * Office: JEF 150 * Phone: (213) 821-1209
Associate Professor (teaching) of English
Research Specialties: 20th century literature; the novel; memoir; literary theory; gay and lesbian studies; Los Angeles/Hollywood
Email: cefreema@usc.edu * Office: THH 404G * Phone: (213) 740-3745
Lecturer
Research Specialties: Japan, homosexuality, elite restaurants
Email: jrhawkin@usc.edu * Office: UUC 217 * Phone: (213) 740-4940
- Gender Studies Program
- University of Southern California
- Mark Taper Hall of Humanities, 422
- 3501 Trousdale Parkway
- Los Angeles, California
- 90089-4352 USA
- Phone: (213) 740 - 8286
- Email: gender@usc.edu