Gender Studies Faculty and Staff

Faculty and staff throughout John Jay College do research and teach about issues related to gender and sexuality. If you are interested in their work, want to take their class, or want to ask them to be your mentor, feel free to get in touch with them directly.
Faculty & Staff Affiliated with the Gender Studies Program
Mark McBeth, Professor English Department NB 7.63.10, mmcbeth@jjay.cuny.edu Composition@ Rhetoric, Queer Theory, Literacy & Writing Studies
Laura Galeano, Instructor Gender Studies Program lgaleano@jjay.cuny.edu LGBTQ+ Identities; Racial Justice
Olivera Jokic, Associate Professor Gender Studies Program Director; English Department English Department NB 7.63.12, ojokic@jjay.cuny.edu history of gender and gender representation, gender and colonialism, writing about gender, women's writing
Ellen Belcher, Associate Professor Library, liaison to Gender Studies Program ebelcher@jjay.cuny.edu Gender representation and ornamentation in Neolithic Mesopotamia and Anatolia
Samantha Majic, Professor Political Science Department smajic@jjay.cuny.edu sex work, civic engagement, public policy, celebrity and politics
Sara McDougall, Professor History Department smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu women’s encounters with justice in Medieval Europe, premodern legal history and gender studies
Robin Freeman, Lecturer Anthropology Department rfreeman@jjay.cuny.edu Queer Theory, Harm Reduction, Social Movements
Leah Entenmann, Lecturer Anthropology Department lentenmann@jjay.cuny.edu gender violence, human rights, social movements, gender and sexuality
Shonna Trinch, Professor Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender Studies strinch@jjay.cuny.edu Gender violence, sexualized assault, Seeing Rape, Domestic Violence, Sexuality, Sex and Culture
Mengia Tschalaer, Adjunct Professor Anthropology, Political Science mhongtschalaer@jjay.cuny.edu Gender, sexuality, migration, queer asylum, gender and sexual based violence, human rights, AI, intersectionality
Michael Yarbrough, Associate Professor Political Science Department, Law & Society myarbrough@jjay.cuny.edu law & society; marriage & family; social movements; transnational queer & feminist politics; law in everyday life; South Africa
Gina Rae Foster, Director Teaching & Learning Center gifoster@jjay.cuny.edu poetry, post-colonial feminism, ontological ethics and aesthetics, cross-cultural domestic violence survivor crisis counseling, cross-cultural sexual assault survivor support
Caroline Reitz English Department English 7.63.17, creitz@jjay.cuny.edu Female Crime Fiction
Crystal Endsley Taylor, Associate Professor Africana Studies cendsley@jjay.cuny.edu poetry and spoken word arts; Hip Hop Ed work; art as activism; social justice pedagogy; global girlhoods and feminisms of color
Barbara Cassidy Adjunct Professor Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender Studies bcassidy@jjay.cuny.edu; barbaragcassidy.com playwright, theater, film studies, gender violence, Seeing Rape
Katie Gentile, Professor Interdisciplinary Studies kgentile@jjay.cuny.edu sexual trauma, institutional betrayal, psychoanalysis, feminist queer and critical race theories, posthumanism, animal studies and the climate crisis, the fetus as a fetish object and abortion
Katarzyna Celinska, Associate Professor International Crime & Justice Program, Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration kcelinska@jjay.cuny.edu Justice-involved women, corrections, evaluation of violence prevention programs
Hila Shapira Gender Studies hshapira@jjay.cuny.edu Queer Theory, Fiber art, Design, Performance art, Visual Art
Katie Zuber Political Science Department kzuber@jjay.cuny.edu American Legal and Political Institutions; Legal mobilization among marginalized groups; Queer and Feminist Legal Theories
Nicholas Malkov Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration nmalkov@jjay.cuny.edu role of race, class, and gender within institutional correctional community; impact upon clients, staff and administration; examination of current correctional institutions and case studies by selected corrections experts
Jacqueline (Jacqui) Young Sociology, Criminal Justice, Gender Studies jayoung@jjay.cuny.edu Victimology, Domestic Violence, Prisons, Arts in Prison
Rosemary Barberet Sociology and International Criminal Justice rbarberet@jjay.cuny.edu International feminist criminology, victimology
Maria Cipriani English Department mcipriani@jjay.cuny.edu Representations of gender in YA fiction; media and gender
Nicole M. Elias Public Management nelias@jjay.cuny.edu https://igeps.org Gender equity in public administration and policy, identity and representation in human resources management
Alessandra Milagros Early Criminal Justice aearly@jjay.cuny.edu Gender and Sexuality; Race, Space, and Identity Formation; Queer Theory, Criminology, and Sociology; Drugs and Behavior; Gender, sexuality and the Carceral System
Amy Adamczyk Sociology aadamczyk@jjay.cuny.edu LGBTQ, abortion, sexuality, health, deviance, morality, public opinion, and religion
Nicole McKenna Law, Police Science, & Criminal Justice Administration nmckenna@jjay.cuny.edu Gender in the Youth Legal System; Youth Justice; Justice Systems Change; Feminist Criminology; Higher Education in Prisons; Transformative & Restorative Justice
Karla Mundim Political Science kmundim@jjay.cuny.edu Indigenous Politics, Social Movements, Latin American Politics, Territoriality, Feminist Theory, Gender & Politics
Robert P. Robinson Africana Studies rrobinson@jjay.cuny.edu Blackqueer Studies, Black Feminism, Black Freedom Movement, Urban Education, History of Education, Social Movements, Digital Humanities
Nina Rose Fischer, Associate Professor Interdisciplinary Studies, Gender Studies; CUNY Graduate Center Social Welfare PhD program nfischer@jjay.cuny.edu; https://www.nina-rose-fischer.com/ Mixed methods, multi media (documentary film and television) evaluation of cutting edge restorative youth justice and harm reduction interventions; critical and intersectional analysis of criminal justice; social justice experiential virtual pedagogy