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Claire Oueslati-Porter

Claire Oueslati-Porter

Senior Lecturer

(305) 297-0865
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Claire Oueslati-Porter is an anthropologist (Ph.D. at University of South Florida, 2012). Oueslati-Porter is a core lecturer in the Gender & Sexuality Studies program at University of Miami, where she teaches courses including Introduction to Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gender in the Middle East and North Africa, and Gender and Forced...
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Traci A Ardren

Traci A Ardren

Professor

(305) 284-4912
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Traci is an anthropological archaeologist interested in New World prehistoric cultures. Her research focuses on issues of identity and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record, especially the ways in which differences are explained through gender. Current preoccupations include the role of cuisine in identity formation...
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Steven Fred Butterman

Steven Fred Butterman

Professor

(305) 284-4858
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Louise K. Davidson-Schmich

Louise K. Davidson-Schmich

Professor

(305) 284-2143
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Louise K. Davidson-Schmich is Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies/ Associate Chair for Political Science. Her research interests include gender and politics as well as politics in long-term democracies. Davidson-Schmich is the author or editor of five books including the forthcoming Gender, Leadership and Crisis:...
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Sumita Chatterjee

Sumita Chatterjee

Lecturer

(305) 284-4916
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Sumita Chatterjee specialises in South Asia and its diaspora in the United States and the English Caribbean. Her research and teaching interests focus on women’s work, the role of gender, race, caste, and religious identities in shaping discourses around migration and the South Asian diaspora. She has a M.A. and M.Phil. in Modern...
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Pamela L. Geller

Pamela L. Geller

Associate Professor

(305) 284-5091
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Pamela L. Geller is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Miami. Over the years, she has conducted fieldwork in Hawaii, Belize, Honduras, Perú, and Haiti. Her intellectual interests include archaeology and bioarchaeology, feminist and queer studies, materiality of identity, the sociopolitics of the past, and...
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Tassie K Gwilliam

Tassie K Gwilliam

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4468
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Author: Samuel Richardson’s Fictions of Gender (Stanford 1993); articles in Novel, Journal of the History of Sexuality, ELH, Representations, and Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century. Dr. Gwilliam’s teaching focuses on the encounters between popular culture and...
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Nebil Husayn

Nebil Husayn

Associate Professor

(305) 284-3698
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Nebil Husayn is a specialist in the field of Islamic studies. His research explores authoritarianism in the Middle East, debates on the caliphate, and the development of Islamic thought. He is the recipient of a Fulbright award and the University of Miami Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities. Husayn obtained his Ph.D. in Near Eastern...
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Robert J Johnson

Robert J Johnson

Professor

(305) 284-4973
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Brenna M Munro

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5574
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Brenna Munro specializes in queer and postcolonial studies, Anglophone African literature, and queer global writing and cinema. Her first book, South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2013, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in LGBT...
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Martin A Nesvig

Martin A Nesvig

Professor
DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Mexico and Mesoamerica Co-Faculty Lead - UMIA

(305) 284-5963
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I was born and raised in California and have lived in New England, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, New Mexico, Sicily, and, for most of the last two decades, in Miami Beach.  While a gringo, I consume a steady diet of Mexican exceptionalism and live in a Spanish-speaking home.  I am also an out queer bisexual man with interests in...
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Elizabeth Oldman

Elizabeth Oldman

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-5366
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Elizabeth Oldman is a graduate of Barnard College (B.A., English), Yale University (M.A., English), and New York University (Ph.D., English), and has studied at Leiden University and The Hague. Her research interests include Renaissance literature, the history of law and political thought, the literature and philosophy of war, gender studies,...
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Gema Pilar Perez Sanchez

Gema Pilar Perez Sanchez

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4858 x7313
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Gema Pérez-Sánchez is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department of the University of Miami (UM). She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Cornell University (1998) and an M.A. in English Literature from Bucknell University (1992). She researches contemporary Spanish narrative and film;...
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Shouraseni Sen Roy

Shouraseni Sen Roy

Professor

(305) 284-4820
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Professor Sen Roy's research and teaching interests center on Climatology, spatial analysis, and crime patterns. Her work focuses on spatio-temporal patterns of climate processes across various regions, including the Indian subcontinent, South Africa, China, and USA, using advanced geo-statistical techniques to analyze trends in climatic...
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Hugh M Thomas

Hugh M Thomas

Professor

(305) 284-1556
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Professor Thomas received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988 and has taught at the University of Miami since then. He specializes in the history of Medieval Europe, focusing on England. His first book, Vassals, Crusaders, Heiresses, and Thugs: The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in...
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