Affiliated Academic Appointees

Natalie Reinhart she/her/hers
Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows/ Anthropology
Social Sciences
nreinhart@uchicago.edu

Lee Hasselbacher she/her/hers
Research Assistant Professor & Faculty Director of Ci3, Biological Sciences/UChicago Medicine
Biological Sciences
lhasselbacher@bsd.uchicago.edu

David Moskowitz he/him/his
Senior Instructional Professor of Public Health Sciences, Biological Sciences/UChicago Medicine
Biological Sciences
moskowitz@bsd.uchicago.edu

Darnell N. Motley he/him
Research Assistant Professor & Director of Structural Interventions, Biological Sciences/UChicago Medicine
Biological Sciences
dmotley22@bsd.uchicago.edu

Christina Filippaki she/her/hers
Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Classics
Arts & Humanities
cfilippaki@uchicago.edu

Nisha Kommattam she/her/hers
Associate Instructional Professor, Comparative Literature
Arts & Humanities
nishak@uchicago.edu

Ryan Van Meter he/him/his
Associate Senior Instructional Professor; Associate Director, Program in Creative Writing, Creative Writing
Arts & Humanities
rwv@uchicago.edu

Lisa Moore she/her/hers
Senior Lecturer, Crown Family School Of Social Work, Policy, And Practice
Crown Family School Of Social Work, Policy, And Practice
moorel@uchicago.edu

S Simmons 
Assistant Instructional Professor, Crown Family School Of Social Work, Policy, And Practice
Crown Family School Of Social Work, Policy, And Practice
simmonss@uchicago.edu

Juanna Schrøter Joensen 
Research Associate Professor, Economics
Social Sciences
jjoensen@uchicago.edu

Emily Coit she/her/hers
Assistant Instructional Professor, English Language and Literature
Arts & Humanities
emilycoit@uchicago.edu

Dana Glaser
she/her/hers
Arts & Humanities Teaching Fellow in English Language and Literature

Dana Glaser is a Fellow in the Arts & Humanities and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago, where she earned her PhD in English in 2024. she researches and teaches in feminist theory and 20th/21st century American literature. Her research is interested in thinking about the 20th century political and intellectual history of gender, race, and sex in terms of aesthetics, and the history of 20th century literary concepts, such as “nonfiction,” testimony, and propaganda, in terms of epistemology and intellectual history. Her first book project, Abstract, Literal, Reductive: How Feminism Thought takes up the ambivalent persistence of the “Second Wave” as an object of reference for contemporary debate around gender and sex. It argues for a new understanding of 20th century genealogy of gender politics, and the conceptual problems that fall out of it, by reading our habitual descriptions of what’s, in a word, bad about midcentury feminist thought – its too literalness, its totalizing reductions – as aesthetic judgments that respond not to explicit positions or assertions but to style.

Sarah-Gray Lesley she/her/hers
Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, English Language and Literature
Arts & Humanities
sglesley@uchicago.edu

Gabriel Ojeda-Sague he/him/his
Humanities Teaching Fellow, English Language and Literature
Arts & Humanities
gaboj@uchicago.edu

Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and scholar, currently working as an Arts & Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on gay men’s literary and media cultures, with a specialty in the aesthetics of gay pornography. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in the journal Porn Studies, and is forthcoming in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and the volume The Sex Scene: Space, Place, Industry from Edinburgh University Press. As a poet, his most recent book is Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022). 

His dissertation, "The Gender of Gay Men: Identification, Sexual Cultures, and the Afterlives of the Inversion Model," studies how gay male sexuality has provoked gendered positions, conflicts, and identifications through the 20th and 21st centuries.

Rhiannon Love Auriemma she/her/hers
Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Rhiannon is a feminist theorist working in the fields of political theory and gender studies. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and an MA in Politics from The New School for Social Research. Her research and teaching focus primarily on intersectionality, feminist politics, critical race theory, and interpretive methods in feminist theory. 

Her dissertation, “(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of the Women’s March”, focuses on the ways that feminist politics are animated by debates concerning the political demands of intersectionality. The dissertation offers critical interpretations of the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw to trace the development of intersectionality as an analytic with connections to pragmatic uses of civil rights law and juridical understandings of politics. She argues that Crenshaw’s theorization of intersectionality offers us an ambiguous understanding of intersectionality’s politics that leaves open multiple avenues of radical resistance and practices of solidarity. Her current research extends this argument, focusing on Crenshaw’s understanding of racial solidarity in relation to ambivalence. This work attends closely to Crenshaw’s understanding of sexual harassment as a political problem, the relationship between intersectionality and radical feminism, and how Crenshaw’s articulation of sexual marginalization might help us rethink feminist politics in the wake of the #metoo movement. 

You can read more about her research at rhiannonlove.squarespace.com

Red Vaughan Tremmel he/him/his
Instructional Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Social Sciences
redtremm@uchicago.edu

Nicole Burgoyne she/her/hers
Assistant Instructional Professor, Germanic Studies
Arts & Humanities
burgoyne@uchicago.edu

Jessica Kirzane 
Assistant Instructional Professor in Yiddish, Germanic Studies
Arts & Humanities
jkirzane@uchicago.edu

Anindita Chatterjee she/her/hers
Assistant Instructional Professor, Global Studies
Social Sciences
chatterjeea@uchicago.edu

Caterina Fugazzola she/her/hers
Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Global Studies
Social Sciences
cfugazzola@uchicago.edu

Maria Bautista she/her/hers
Senior Research Associate, Harris School of Public Policy
Harris
mabautista@uchicago.edu

Karlyn Gorski she/her
Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Harris School of Public Policy
gorski@uchicago.edu

Maliha Chishti she/her/hers
Lecturer and Research Associate; Assistant Instructional Professor of International Development and Peace in the Muslim World, Harris School of Public Policy; Divinity
Harris; Divinity
mchishti@uchicago.edu

Paula Martin she/they
Assistant Instructional Professor, Health and Society
Social Sciences
paulam@uchicago.edu

Peggy Heffington she/her/hers
Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, History
Social Sciences
peggyodonnell@uchicago.edu

Katie Hickerson she/her/hers
Assistant Instructional Professor, History
Social Sciences
hickerson@uchicago.edu

Caine Jordan he/him/his
Teaching Fellow, History & Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Social Sciences
cainejordan@uchicago.edu

Eunhee Park she/her/hers
Postdoctoral Instructor in the History, History
Social Sciences
eunheep@uchicago.edu

Lindsey Gifford she/her/hers
Assistant Research Professor, Human Rights
Social Sciences
lgifford@uchicago.edu

Kara Ann Hooser she/her/hers
Assistant Instructional Professor, International Relations
Social Sciences
kahooser@uchicago.edu

K. Bellamy Mitchell they/them
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought & Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Social Sciences
bellamy@uchicago.edu

Sarah Johnson
Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Law, Letters, And Society
Social Sciences
sej@uchicago.edu 

Darrel Chia he/him/his
Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH
Arts & Humanities
dkchia@uchicago.edu

Alexandra Fraser 
Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH
Arts & Humanities
afraser@uchicago.edu

Agnes Malinowska 
Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH
Arts & Humanities
amalinowska@uchicago.edu

Tristan Schweiger 
Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH
Arts & Humanities
tschweiger@uchicago.edu

Hilary Strang 
Associate Senior Instructional Professor, MAPH
Arts & Humanities
hstrang@uchicago.edu

Darcy Hughes Heuring 
Director, MAPPS
Social Sciences
darcy@uchicago.edu

Yasmin Cho she/her/hers
Earl S. Johnson Instructor in Anthropology, MAPSS
Social Sciences
choy@uchicago.edu

Tori Gross she/her/hers
Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, MAPSS
Social Sciences
torigross@uchicago.edu

Deirdre Lyons she/her/hers
Earl S Johnson Instructor of History, MAPSS
Social Sciences
dtl412@uchicago.edu

Andrew Proctor he/him/his
Assistant Instructional Professor in Political Science, MAPSS
Social Sciences
aproctor@uchicago.edu

Ella Wilhoit she/her/hers
Associate Instructional Professor, MAPSS
Social Sciences
wilhoit@uchicago.edu

Michelle Johns she/her/hers
Senior Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago
Social Sciences
johns-michelle@norc.org

Kevin Irakoze he/him/his
Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Philosophy & Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Arts & Humanities
kirakoze@uchicago.edu

Tyler Zimmer he/him/his
Assistant Instructional Professor, Philosophy
Arts & Humanities
zimmertj@uchicago.edu

Beatrice Fazio she/her/lei
Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Romance Languages & Literatures
Arts & Humanities
bfazio@uchicago.edu

Bel Olid they/them/theirs
Assistant Instructional Professor in Catalan and Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures
Arts & Humanities
bolid@uchicago.edu

Veronica Vegna she/her/hers
Senior Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Arts & Humanities
vvegna@uchicago.edu

Connor Strobel he/him/his
Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Society of Fellows; Sociology
Social Sciences
strobel@uchicago.edu

Titas De Sarkar he/him/his
Teaching Fellow, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Arts & Humanities
titas@uchicago.edu / titasdesarkar@gmail.com

Heidi Coleman 
Senior Instructional Professor, Theater and Performance Studies
Arts & Humanities
coleman@uchicago.edu

Sharvari Sastry she/her
Harper Schmidt / Collegiate Assistant Professor, Theater and Performance Studies
Arts & Humanities
sharvarisastry@uchicago.edu