Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty
Fisher faculty are dedicated, highly credentialed professionals who consistently make the advancement of scholarship in their respective fields a top priority.
Professor
Areas of Interest: Supporting students with disabilities in inclusive settings, including students who are deaf-blind, and critical analyses of text and film representations of disability.
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Interrelationships between stigma, health, and wellbeing; the psychology of weight; pedagogical research
Visiting Assistant Professor and Program Director, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Interest: US and global queer studies; disability studies; critical race theory
Professor
Areas of Interest: Scholarship of teaching and learning, curriculum design, assessment, sport sociology focusing on gender, activism, and diversity.
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Areas of Interest: Mindfulness. Application of mindfulness in the classroom, mindfulness and college student well-being and academic success, mindfulness and diversity
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Public Health, and Director of Gerontology
Areas of Interest: Sociology of aging, health, family, mental health; Latinos/as in the U.S.; Hispanic cultural studies.
Associate Professor; Chair, American Studies Department; Interim Program Director, African American Studies
Areas of Interest: anti-racism, social justice, DEJI, activism studies; autobiography and memoir studies; Black women’s literature and cultural history; dialogue studies (circle processes, non-violent communication, restorative practices, race and gender dialogues, Sustained Dialogue); immigration and refugee studies (fiction, memoir); pedagogy theory (place-based, community-engaged, Black feminist); and race, racism, and whiteness studies.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Women and gender studies; indigenous literature; world literature
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: Film studies, American film history, queer film and feminist film theory, cultural studies in film, Hitchcock
Office:Basil 022A
Email:dsutherland@sjf.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: Rhetorical history and theory, composition studies, 19th-century American literature, women and gender studies.
Professor and Academic Division Chair, Humanities
