Experts in Social Issues — Gender/Sex/Sexuality
Dr. Dinorah Cortés-Vélez, Associate Professor
Spanish, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Expertise: Gender/sexual differences, gender and queer studies, Latin American Literature and Culture
(414) 288-3531
Dinorah.cortez-velez@marquette.edu
Jason Farr, Associate Professor
English
Expertise: Disability studies; deaf history; and conversations about accessibility in the profession
Media type: Print, T.V. and radio
Phone: (619) 807-1272
jason.farr@marquette.edu
Heather Hlavka, Associate Professor
Social and Cultural Sciences
Expertise: Sexual Victimization and Offending, Partner Violence
Office Phone: (414) 288-6846
heather.hlavka@marquette.edu
Patrick Johnson, Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism and Media Studies
Expertise: news literacy: civic engagement, learning, purpose and practice; media literacy, equity, and justice; journalism: practice, education, ethics; education: curriculum and instruction, pedagogy, equity and justice; political communication: campaigns, coverage, analysis; children, adolescents, and media: cognitive science, representation, learning; sexuality and media: LGBTQ+ issues, knowledge production, sex media; horror studies: film, cognitive response
Media type: Print, T.V. and radio
Office phone: 414-288-5068
patrick.johnson@marquette.edu
Lezlie Knox, Associate Professor
History Department
Expertise: Medieval History, Crusades, Orthodox and Heretical Religious Movements in the Middle Ages, Medieval Gender and Sexuality, Medieval Women
Office Phone: (414) 288-7863
lezlie.knox@marquette.edu
Jane Peterson, Professor
Social and Cultural Sciences
Expertise: Rise of Agriculture, American Southwest, Archeology, Near East - Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Gender Issues in Anthropology, Sexual Division of Labor
Office Phone: (414) 288-7917
Home Phone: (414) 302-5143
jane.peterson@marquette.edu
Giordana Poggioli-Kaftan, Teaching Associate Professor of Italian
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Expertise: Italy as a nation and the Italian language; Marginalization of classes of people (notably: women, Jews, Italian Southerners); Exclusionary and marginalization rhetoric and the resistance efforts to it; Italian 19th and 20th centuries products promising modernity.
Media type: Print, TV and radio
giordana.kaftan@marquette.edu