Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Email:  [email protected]
Phone: (616) 331-8219
Office: 219 Lake Ontario Hall

Education:

• PhD, Social Psychology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2015
• MA, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012
• BS, University of California, Davis, 2005

Classes:

• WGS 200: Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• WGS 224: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
• HNR 280: Civil Rights and Social Movements
• WGS 310: LGBTQ Rights and the Law
• WGS 395: Women and Gender Studies Research Methods
• WGS 495: Capstone

Research Interests: 

My research interests include critical policy and legal studies, citizenship studies, and social justice movements. My current research examines how social policies reflect and reinforce racialized, gendered, classed, and sexualized norms of citizenship.

Recent Publications:

“Gendered ‘Risk’ and Racialized Inheritance: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Debt in US Higher Education,” Feminist Studies, 47.3 (2021): 729-752.

"(Re)Making a Politics of Protection in Immigration Policy: The ‘Criminal Alien,’ Gendered Vulnerability, and ‘Public Safety’." Citizenship Studies 23.1 (2019): 61-77.

“Globalised Imaginaries of Love and Hate: Immutability, Violence, and LGBT Human Rights.” Feminist Legal Studies 26.2 (2018): 141-161.

“The ‘Orphan’ Child: Politics of Vulnerability and Circuits of Precarity.” Feminist Formations 28.1 (2016): 60-85.