Experts by Expertise: LGBTQ+ Issues

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  • Head shot of Michael Boucai.
    12/12/22

    Michael Boucai

    Professor of Law

    Expertise: Law and policy on sex, sexuality, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation; reproductive rights; constitutional, criminal, and family law; LGBTQ history

    Phone: 716-645-1743

    Email: mboucai@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of Susan K. Cahn.
    4/7/23

    Susan K. Cahn

    Emerita Professor of History

    Expertise: gender and sexuality in sports, homophobia in sports, women’s history, feminist theory, history of chronic illness, history of mental illness

    Phone: 716-645-8418

    Email: cahn@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Amy Hequembourg, University at Buffalo expert on health disparities among sexual minorities.
    9/14/20

    Amy Hequembourg

    Associate Professor of Nursing

    Expertise: health disparities affecting sexual minorities

    Phone: 716-829-2608

    Email: ahequemb@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Cody Mejeur, University at Buffalo game studies and social justice expert.
    6/27/22

    Cody Mejeur

    Assistant Professor of Media Study

    Expertise: game studies; trans, queer and feminist studies; narrative; storytelling; social justice and inclusion in video games and new media; games pedagogy

    Phone: 716-645-0932

    Email: codymeje@buffalo.edu

  • Amy Reynolds, faculty expert on multiculturalism in education.
    8/16/21

    Amy Reynolds

    Professor of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology

    Expertise: multicultural issues, college student mental health

    Phone: 716-645-1112

    Email: alr24@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Margaret Rhee, University at Buffalo new media and social justice expert.
    10/26/23

    Margaret Rhee

    Assistant Professor of Media Study

    Expertise: digital storytelling; participatory art; new media, ethnic, cultural, Asian American, queer and feminist studies

    Phone: 716-645-0923

    Email: mrhee@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Rinaldo Walcott.
    4/12/24

    Rinaldo Walcott

    Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies

    Expertise: Black diaspora cultural and postcolonial studies, Canadian studies, queer theory, and gender studies

    Phone: 716-645-0805

    Email: rinaldow@buffalo.edu