Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty
Tenure-line Faculty
Dean's Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality 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 Communication and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: feminist theory, race and the media, youth culture, popular and consumer culture, and citizenship and national identity
Email: sbanet@usc.edu Office: ASC 321F Phone: (213) 740-4088
Associate Professor of Religion, and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: feminist theology, nineteenth and twentieth Century German theology, early Christianity, theories of history and modern liberation movements
Email: sbriggs@usc.edu Office: ACB 130 Phone: (213) 740-0267
Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies, Professor of History and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: Popular Music & Social Movements of the Sixties; Transnational Circulation of Musical Ideas & Idioms; Gender & Sexuality;Race & Ethnicity; Memory, Subjectivity, & Class in Modern American History
Email: echols@usc.edu Office: SOS 274 Phone: (213) 821-0862
Director, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives
Research Specialties: Japan, homosexuality, elite restaurants
Email: jrhawkin@usc.edu Office: 909 W. Adams Boulevard Phone: (213) 821-2771
Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: Contemporary African Diasporic Literature, Film, and Art; Continental Philosophy; Contemporary Critical Theories; Feminist Philosophies of Science and Biomedicine; Aesthetics; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Disability Studies; Ecologies of Race
Email: zjackson@usc.edu
USC Associates Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: American politics, political behavior, the politics of immigration, racial and ethnic politics, gender politics, political identity
E-mail: junn@usc.edu Office: VKC 327 Phone: (213) 740-6998
Associate Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: youth culture and Black girlhood; race, gender, and popular culture; urban anthropology; migration and the African Diaspora; the global Caribbean
Email: oneka.labennett@usc.edu
Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: sex and gender, gender and sport, gender-based violence
Email: messner@usc.edu Office: HSH 212 Phone: (213) 740-8848
Assistant Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, focusing on interlinked histories of migration, colonialism, capitalism and cultural belonging
Email: kpant@usc.edu
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: Modern and Contemporary Korean Literature & Culture; Postcolonial Studies; Transnational Anarchism & Marxism; Feminism & Gender Studies; Science Fiction & Technocultural Studies
Email: sunyoung.park@usc.edu Office: THH 378 Phone: (213) 740-8256
Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: Gender, Migration, Families, Intimacy, Economic Globalization, Women and Work, Feminist Theory, Asian American Studies, Philippines and Southeast Asian Studies
Email: parrenas@usc.edu Office: HSH 324 Phone: (213) 740-3533
Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: Genocide; Ayatollah Khomeini; Islamic Republican Government; women; religious and ethnic minorities in Iran and Islam
Email: sanasari@usc.edu Office: VKC 231 Phone: (213) 740-3624
Professor of Urban Studies and Gender & Sexualtiy Studies
Research Specialties: Environmental justice, Sustainable transportation, Hazardous materials in urban environments, Community environmental quality
Email: lschweit@usc.edu Office: RGL 311 Phone: (213) 740-3866
Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: Black women’s aesthetic representations in music videos, social media, and the cinematic; media adaptations and representations of body horror; Black feminist phenomenology
Email: arielste@usc.edu Office: THH 413
Karen Tongson, Department Chair
Professor of English, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies & Ethnicity
Research Specialties: Queer & Gender Studies; Minority Discourse; Popular Culture (Pop Music, TV, Entertainment & Media Cultures); Suburban Studies; Performance; Los Angeles & the Southern California Region; Food & Taste Cultures; Contemporary Literature; 19th-Century British Literature; Theory; Aesthetics
Email: tongson@usc.edu Office: THH 416 Phone: (213) 740-2817
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Gender & Sexuality 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
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History, and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research Specialties: 19th-20th Century African American history; labor; race; gender
Email: frwilson@usc.edu Office: KAP 450C Phone: (213) 740-1667
RTPC Faculty
Lecturer for Writing and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Email: cbelcher@usc.edu Office: JEF 245
Professor (Teaching) of Gender & Sexuality Studies
Areas of Interest: Death in American culture; Representations of death in media; Representations of gender and the body; images of women in art and advertising
Email: dblaine@usc.edu Office: THH 413 Phone: (213) 821-5650
Clinician Educator, Director of Student Counseling and Mental Health, and Vice Chair of Student Mental Health
Email: bleaks@usc.edu Office: ESH 333 Phone: 213-740-7711
Associate Athletic Director (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and Lecturer for Gender & Sexuality Studies
Areas of Interest: Organizational culture and environmental; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in athletics/sports; women in athletics/sports; gender equality and equity in athletics/sports; intersectionality theory
Email: jroussea@usc.edu Office: THH 413 Phone: 213-740-8286
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Writing
Areas of Interest: Medical Humanities; Science and Technology Studies; Feminist Theory; Critical Race Theory; Gender, Race, and Medicine; Reproduction; Mindfulness.
Email: asattar@usc.edu Office: GFS 315 Phone: (213) 740-7408
Emeritus Faculty
Professor Emerita of History and Gender Studies
Email: lbanner@usc.edu
Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies
Email: orenstei@usc.edu
- Gender & Sexuality Studies
- 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