Graduate Faculty

Banu Subramaniam, Professor and Chair of Department, B.S., Stella Maris, Madras, 1986; Certificate, Duke, 1993; Ph.D., 1994.

Kiran Asher, Professor and Certificate Program Director, B.S., St. Xavier's College, 1987; M.E.M., Duke, 1990; Ph.D., Florida at Gainsville, 1998.

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Assistant Professor, B.A., Wesleyan, 2011; Ph.D., Stanford, 2017.

Laura Briggs, Professor, B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1986; M.T.S., Harvard, 1989; Ph.D., Brown, 1998.

Laura Ciolkowski, Senior Lecturer and Associate Graduate Program Director, B.A., Columbia, 1988; Ph.D., Brown, 1994.

Alexandrina Deschamps, Senior Lecturer II, C.Ed., West Indies, 1975; M.A., Massachusetts, 1975; Ed.D., 1996.

Miliann Kang, Associate Professor, B.A., Harvard, 1988; M.A., New York University, 1996; Ph.D., 2001.

Kirsten Leng, Associate Professor, B.A., Queen's, Canada, 2002; M.A., Carleton, Canada, 2005; Ph.D., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2011.

Fumi Okiji, Assistant Professor, B.A., Queen Mary's College, University of London, 1997; M.A., Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2001; Ph.D., Royal Holloway College, University of London, 2015.

Svati Shah, Associate Professor, B.A., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992; M.P.H., Emory, 1997; Ph.D., Columbia, 2006.

Angela Willey, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., Fordham, 2001; M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2002; Ph.D., Emory, 2010.

Faculty Emeriti

Ann Ferguson, Professor Emerita (2007).

For a list of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Affiliated Faculty in the Five Colleges, check the department's website.