Faculty Publications
Our dedication to research includes the Feminist Research Alliance Workshop, a work-in-progress series featuring UB faculty, the Signature Lecture series, conferences and symposia, writing and reading groups.
For more information on these initiatives, please visit our Events page.
To read more about how the Gender Institute supports research, visit our Grants & Opportunities page.
Cody Mejeur
Assistant Professor of Game Studies
A special issue of the journal Narrative co-edited by Cody Mejeur (UB Media Study and Gender Institute Affiliate) and Chiara Pelligrini (Newcastle University) on trans narratives and narrative theories has recently been published. The outcome of a series of symposia and conferences in recent years, the special issue explores the forms, contexts, and possibilities of trans narratives. The article is available here.
Marla Segol
Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Marla Segol, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Students in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, has recently published "God’s Magical Womb: Pregnancy, Power, and the Feminized Divine in Jewish Ritual Texts" in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The article explores the ritual functions of medical and mythical embryologies in Jewish ritual texts from late antiquity to the present.
Marla is a Gender Institute Affiliate and was awarded a GI Faculty Fellowship in Fall 2022.
Meghana Joshi
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Berghahn Books, 2023.
Irus Braverman
Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor of Geography
Minnesota Press, 2023.
Carole Emberton
Associate Professor of History
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Miriam Thaggert
Associate Professor & Associate Chair of English
University of Illinois Press, 2022.
Victoria W. Wolcott
Professor, Department of History
University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Jasmina Tumbas
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Gender & Sexuality Studies
Manchester University Press, 2022.
Mishuana Goeman
Professor of Gender Studies, Chair of the Indigenous Studies
NYU Press, 2021.
Despina Stratigakos
Professor, School of Architecture
Princeton University Press, 2022.
Katja Praznik
Associate Professor, Arts Management Program
