Gender Studies Faculty & Staff

Faculty members at John Jay College conduct research and teach on issues related to gender and sexuality. If you are interested in their work, would like to take their course, or wish to ask them to serve as your mentor, please feel free to contact them directly.
Faculty Affiliated with the Gender Studies Program
Katarzyna Celinska, Associate Professor, Director of Gender Studies Program Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration kcelinska@jjay.cuny.edu
Amy Adamczyk, Professor Sociology aadamczyk@jjay.cuny.edu
Rosemary Barberet, Professor Sociology and International Criminal Justice rbarberet@jjay.cuny.edu International feminist criminology, victimology
Ellen Belcher, Associate Professor Library, liaison to Gender Studies Program ebelcher@jjay.cuny.edu Gender representation and ornamentation in Neolithic Mesopotamia and Anatolia
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
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
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
Ann Huse, Assistant Professor English Department
Olivera Jokic, Associate Professor English Department, Gender Studies Program, Honors Program 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
Samantha Majic, Professor Political Science Department smajic@jjay.cuny.edu sex work, civic engagement, public policy, celebrity and politics
Mark McBeth, Professor English Department NB 7.63.10, mmcbeth@jjay.cuny.edu Composition@ Rhetoric, Queer Theory, Literacy & 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
Caroline Reitz, Professor English Department English 7.63.17, creitz@jjay.cuny.edu Female Crime Fiction
Shonna Trinch, Professor Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender Studies 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 & society; marriage & family; social movements; transnational queer & feminist politics; law in everyday life; South Africa
Katie Zuber, Assistant Professor Political Science Department kzuber@jjay.cuny.edu American Legal and Political Institutions; Legal mobilization among marginalized groups; Queer and Feminist Legal Theories
Adjunct Faculty Affiliated with the Gender Studies Program
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; impact upon clients, staff and administration; examination of current correctional institutions and case studies by selected corrections experts
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