Gender Studies Faculty and Staff
Faculty and staff throughout John Jay College do research and teach about issues related to gender and sexuality. If you are interested in their work, want to take their class, or want to ask them to be your mentor, feel free to get in touch with them directly.
| Mark McBeth, Professor | English Department | NB 7.63.10, mmcbeth@jjay.cuny.edu | Composition@ Rhetoric, Queer Theory, Literacy & Writing Studies |
| Laura Galeano, Instructor | Gender Studies Program | lgaleano@jjay.cuny.edu | LGBTQ+ Identities; Racial Justice |
| Olivera Jokic, Associate Professor | Gender Studies Program Director; English Department | English Department NB 7.63.12, ojokic@jjay.cuny.edu | history of gender and gender representation, gender and colonialism, writing about gender, women's writing |
| Ellen Belcher, Associate Professor | Library, liaison to Gender Studies Program | ebelcher@jjay.cuny.edu | Gender representation and ornamentation in Neolithic Mesopotamia and Anatolia |
| Samantha Majic, Professor | Political Science Department | smajic@jjay.cuny.edu | sex work, civic engagement, public policy, celebrity and politics |
| Sara McDougall, Professor | History Department | smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu | women’s encounters with justice in Medieval Europe, premodern legal history and gender studies |
| Robin Freeman, Lecturer | Anthropology Department | rfreeman@jjay.cuny.edu | Queer Theory, Harm Reduction, Social Movements |
| Leah Entenmann, Lecturer | Anthropology Department | lentenmann@jjay.cuny.edu | gender violence, human rights, social movements, gender and sexuality |
| Shonna Trinch, Professor | Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender Studies | strinch@jjay.cuny.edu | Gender violence, sexualized assault, Seeing Rape, Domestic Violence, Sexuality, Sex and Culture |
| Mengia Tschalaer, Adjunct Professor | Anthropology, Political Science | mhongtschalaer@jjay.cuny.edu | Gender, sexuality, migration, queer asylum, gender and sexual based violence, human rights, AI, intersectionality |
| Michael Yarbrough, Associate Professor | Political Science Department, Law & Society | myarbrough@jjay.cuny.edu | law & society; marriage & family; social movements; transnational queer & feminist politics; law in everyday life; South Africa |
| Gina Rae Foster, Director | Teaching & Learning Center | gifoster@jjay.cuny.edu | poetry, post-colonial feminism, ontological ethics and aesthetics, cross-cultural domestic violence survivor crisis counseling, cross-cultural sexual assault survivor support |
| Caroline Reitz | English Department | English 7.63.17, creitz@jjay.cuny.edu | Female Crime Fiction |
| Crystal Endsley Taylor, Associate Professor | Africana Studies | cendsley@jjay.cuny.edu | poetry and spoken word arts; Hip Hop Ed work; art as activism; social justice pedagogy; global girlhoods and feminisms of color |
| Barbara Cassidy Adjunct Professor | Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender Studies | bcassidy@jjay.cuny.edu; barbaragcassidy.com | playwright, theater, film studies, gender violence, Seeing Rape |
| Katie Gentile, Professor | Interdisciplinary Studies | kgentile@jjay.cuny.edu | sexual trauma, institutional betrayal, psychoanalysis, feminist queer and critical race theories, posthumanism, animal studies and the climate crisis, the fetus as a fetish object and abortion |
| Katarzyna Celinska, Associate Professor | International Crime & Justice Program, Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration | kcelinska@jjay.cuny.edu | Justice-involved women, corrections, evaluation of violence prevention programs |
| Hila Shapira | Gender Studies | hshapira@jjay.cuny.edu | Queer Theory, Fiber art, Design, Performance art, Visual Art |
| Katie Zuber | Political Science Department | kzuber@jjay.cuny.edu | American Legal and Political Institutions; Legal mobilization among marginalized groups; Queer and Feminist Legal Theories |
| Nicholas Malkov | Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration | nmalkov@jjay.cuny.edu | role of race, class, and gender within institutional correctional community; impact upon clients, staff and administration; examination of current correctional institutions and case studies by selected corrections experts |
| Jacqueline (Jacqui) Young | Sociology, Criminal Justice, Gender Studies | jayoung@jjay.cuny.edu | Victimology, Domestic Violence, Prisons, Arts in Prison |
| Rosemary Barberet | Sociology and International Criminal Justice | rbarberet@jjay.cuny.edu | International feminist criminology, victimology |
| Maria Cipriani | English Department | mcipriani@jjay.cuny.edu | Representations of gender in YA fiction; media and gender |
| Nicole M. Elias | Public Management | nelias@jjay.cuny.edu https://igeps.org | Gender equity in public administration and policy, identity and representation in human resources management |
| Alessandra Milagros Early | Criminal Justice | aearly@jjay.cuny.edu | Gender and Sexuality; Race, Space, and Identity Formation; Queer Theory, Criminology, and Sociology; Drugs and Behavior; Gender, sexuality and the Carceral System |