Gender Studies Faculty & Staff

Faculty at John Jay College teach and conduct research on gender and sexuality. You are welcome to contact them about their work, courses, or mentorship opportunities.
Faculty Affiliated with the Gender Studies Program
Name Department Email Research areas
Katarzyna Celinska, Associate Professor, Director of the Gender Studies Program Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration kcelinska@jjay.cuny.edu Women in prison, women migrants and refugees, program evaluation, research methodology
Amy Adamczyk, Professor Sociology Department aadamczyk@jjay.cuny.edu Religion, sexuality, public opinion and LGBTQ+, abortion attitudes
Rosemary Barberet, Professor Sociology Department rbarberet@jjay.cuny.edu International crime and justice, victimology, women and crime
Ellen Belcher, Associate Professor Library, liaison to Gender Studies Program ebelcher@jjay.cuny.edu Gender representation and ornamentation in Neolithic Mesopotamia and Anatolia
Alessandra Early, Assistant Professor Criminal Justice Department aearly@jjay.cuny.edu Queer social spaces, LGBTQIA+ identity formation, substance abuse
Crystal Endsley Taylor, Associate Professor Africana Studies Department cendsley@jjay.cuny.edu Poetry and spoken word arts, Hip Hop Ed work, art and activism, social justice pedagogy, global girlhoods and feminisms of color
Nina Rose Fischer, Associate Professor Interdisciplinary Studies Department nfischer@jjay.cuny.edu LGBTQQIA, women and gender justice, qualitative methodology
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
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
Ann Huse, Assistant Professor English Department ahuse@jjay.cuny.edu LGBTQQIA, New York history, women and gender justice
Olivera Jokic, Associate Professor English Department ojokic@jjay.cuny.edu History of gender and gender representation, gender and colonialism, women's writing
Brian Lawton, Associate Professor Criminal Justice Department blawton@jjay.cuny.edu Spatial patterns of crime, public health and their intersection, quantitative methodology
Amie A. Macdonald, Associate Professor Philosophy Department amacdonald@jjay.cuny.edu Human rights, race and social justice, women and gender justice
Samantha Majic, Professor Political Science Department smajic@jjay.cuny.edu Sex work, civic engagement, public policy, celebrity and politics
Mark McBeth, Professor English Department mmcbeth@jjay.cuny.edu Composition@ Rhetoric, queer theory, literacy and writing studies
Sara McDougall, Professor History Department smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu Women’s encounters with justice in Medieval Europe, premodern legal history and gender studies
Jayne Mooney, Professor Sociology Department jmooney@jjay.cuny.edu Domestic violence, sexual violence, gender / women / politics
Caroline Reitz, Professor English Department creitz@jjay.cuny.edu Female crime fiction
Shonna Trinch, Professor Anthropology Department strinch@jjay.cuny.edu Gender violence, sexualized assault, Seeing Rape, domestic violence, sexuality, sex and culture
Michael Yarbrough, Associate Professor Political Science Department, Law & Society myarbrough@jjay.cuny.edu Law and society, marriage and family, social movements; transnational queer and feminist politics, law in everyday life, South Africa
Adjunct Faculty Affiliated with the Gender Studies Program
Name & Department Email Research areas
Leah Entenmann, Anthropology lentenmann@jjay.cuny.edu Gender violence, human rights, social movements, gender and sexuality
Mengia Tschalaer, Anthropology and Political Science ngtschalaer@jjay.cuny.edu Gender, sexuality, migration, queer asylum, gender and sexual based violence, human rights, AI, intersectionality
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
Barbara Cassidy, Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies bcassidy@jjay.cuny.edu; barbaragcassidy.com Playwright, theater, film studies, gender violence, Seeing Rape
Laura Galeano, English Department lgaleano@jjay.cuny.edu LGBTQ+ identities, racial justice
Nicholas Malkov, Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration nmalkov@jjay.cuny.edu Role of race, class, and gender within institutional correctional community
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Young, Sociology, Criminal Justice jayoung@jjay.cuny.edu Victimology, domestic violence, prisons, arts in prison
Maria Cipriani, English Department mcipriano@jjay.cuny.edu Representations of gender in YA fiction; media and gender
Robin Freeman, Anthropology rfreeman@jjay.cuny.edu Queer Theory, harm reduction, social movements