Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Jasmina Tumbas, PhD, associate professor of global gender and sexuality studies, focuses her teaching and research on modern and contemporary art history and theory, histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art, art and activism, feminist art, and critical theory. In particularly, she explores art that illuminates the impact of political ideologies, especially in the context of human displacement and feminist and queer histories of resistance in the East European region and its diasporas. Tumbas’ first book, "I am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism," was recognized with the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She also recently received a prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a Getty Research Institute Scholar Grant in support of her next project.