Affiliate Faculty

CRGE promotes a community of scholars committed to social justice and engaged in intersectional research. Please browse our directory of Affiliated Faculty, who take part in our QRIG Seminars, QRIG’s Faculty Seed Grant Program, and other CRGE programs and research projects.

Our community of affiliates continues to grow, with faculty from over 20 departments. We collaborate with the School of Public Health, Center for Health Equity, the David C. Driskell Center, the Office of Community Outreach, and the University of Maryland Baltimore Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy.

NOTE: *Denotes Professor Emeritus **Denotes faculty is no longer at UMD, see website included for their information

Last Name	First Name	Email	Department	Research Areas	Website
Ahuja	Neel	neel1@umd.edu	Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Critical Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Decolonial Feminisms, Disapora, Disability, Feminist Science Studies, Medical Humanities, Postcolonial Feminisms	https://wgss.umd.edu/directory/neel-ahuja
Anderson	Lindsey	lbander@umd.edu	Communication	aging, emotions, organizations	https://communication.umd.edu/directory/lindsey-anderson
Atanasoski	Neda	natanaso@umd.edu	Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Critical Race Theory Cultural Studies Decolonial Feminisms Feminist Science Studies Media Studies Postcolonial Feminisms Transnational Feminisms Visual Culture	https://wgss.umd.edu/directory/neda-atanasoski
Ater	Renee	rater@umd.edu	American Art	Race & Gender, National Identity, Public Culture, Memory & Monument Building	https://www.reneeater.com/bio
Avilez	GerShun	avilez@umd.edu	Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities, Professer Department of English	African American/African Diaspora, American LGBTQ Studies	https://english.umd.edu/directory/gershun-avilez
Barkley Brown	Elsa	barkleyb@umd.edu	History & Women's Studies	African-American History, Black Women in America	https://history.umd.edu/directory/elsa-barkley-brown
Barrie	Rabiatu	rbarrie@umd.edu	Department of Family Science	Black masculinity; coping with racism; gendered-racial socialization; Black youth	https://sph.umd.edu/people/rabiatu-barrie
Bhattacharya	Sayan	sayanb@umd.edu	Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Transgender Studies, Queer Theory, Critical Disability Studies, Transnational Sexualities, Transnational Feminisms, South Asian Studies, Public Health, Sociocultural Anthropology, Cultural and Performance Studies, Dalit Studies.	https://wgss.umd.edu/directory/sayan-bhattacharya
Brown	Tara	tmbrown@umd.edu	Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership	Gender, race/ethnicity, Education, Sexuality	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/tara-brown
Bruce	LaMarr Jurelle	ljbruce@umd.edu	American Studies	Africana/Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Literary Theory and Criticism, Queer Theory	https://amst.umd.edu/directory/la-marr-jurelle-bruce
Burgos	Nilsa	nilsamb@yahoo.com	Social Work	Gender, race/ethnicity	https://www.iassw-aiets.org/nilsa-burgos/
Butler	James	jbutler9@umd.edu	Department of Behavioral and Community Health	Tobacco Control; Community-Engaged Research; Health Disparities; Health Equity; Qualitative Research Methods; Smoke-Free Policies; Tobacco Outlet Density	https://sph.umd.edu/people/james-butler-iii
Cabrera	Natasha	ncabrera@umd.edu	Human Development	Children's social development & school readiness, Ethnic and cultural variations in fathering and mothering behaviors, Family processes in a social and cultural context	https://www.popcenter.umd.edu/mprc-associates/ncabrera
Caughey	John	jcaughey@umd.edu	American Studies	Ethnography, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Production, Anthropology	https://amst.umd.edu/directory/john-caughey
Clegg	Tamara	tclegg@umd.edu	Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership	Education, Technology	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/tamara-clegg
Cooper-Jean	Ebonie	ejc0508@umd.edu	Associate Clinical Professor School of Public Policy	Black Philanthropic Traditions, Funding Equity in the Nonprofit Sector, Social Identity and Intersectionality	https://spp.umd.edu/our-community/faculty-staff/ebonie-cooper-jean
Corbin Sies	Mary	marycorbinsies@yahoo.com	American Studies	Urban Studies/History, Everyday Life, Space and Place, Heritage and Preservation	https://amst.umd.edu/directory/mary-sies
Donawerth	Jane	donawert@umd.edu	Emeritus Professor, English Professor Emerita, Classics	Comparative Literature, Language, Writing and Rhetoric, Medieval and Renaissance	https://english.umd.edu/directory/jane-donawerth
Dow	Dawn	dmdow@umd.edu	Sociology	Race, class, gender in education, workplace, law, politics, and popular culture	https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/dow/dawn
Dyer	Typhanye	typhanye@umd.edu	Epidemiology and Biostatistics	social, cultural and structural determinants of infectious disease disparities	https://sph.umd.edu/people/typhanye-vielka-dyer
Espino	Michelle	mespino@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	Gender, race/ethnicity, higher education	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/michelle-espino
Falconier	Mariana	marianak@umd.edu	Family Science	Couples' Stress; Couples' Coping; Economic Stress; Latinx Couples; Program Development and Evaluation	https://sph.umd.edu/people/mariana-k-falconier
Fisher Liu	Brooke	bfliu@umd.edu	Communications	risk and crisis	http://www.comm.umd.edu/people/faculty/bfliu
Fries-Britt	Sharon	sfries@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	Minority students, minority high achievers, underrepresented faculty	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/sharon-fries-britt
Fryer	Craig	csfryer@umd.edu	Behavioral and Community Health	Race/ethnicity, Health, Substance Abuse,	http://sph.umd.edu/people/craig-s-fryer
Galindo	Claudia	galindo@umd.edu	Associate Professor of Education Policy	Equity, Latinx Education, School-Family-Community Partnerships, Urban Education Reform	https://education.umd.edu/directory/claudia-galindo
Getrich	Christina	cgetrich@umd.edu	Anthropology	health, immigration, Race/Ethnicity, policy	https://anth.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Getrich/Christina
Griffin	Kimberly	kgriff29@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	Race/ethnicity, Economics	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/kimberly-griffin
Guerrero	Perla	guerrero@umd.edu	American Studies	Race/ethnicity, immigration, space and place, labor & 20th-century U.S. history	https://amst.umd.edu/directory/perla-guerrero
Hallett	Judith	jeph@umd.edu	Professor Emerita Department of Classics	Latin language and literature; women, the family and sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity; the study and reception of classics in the Anglophone world	https://classics.umd.edu/directory/judith-hallett
Hanhardt	Christina	hanhardt@umd.edu	American Studies	Sexuality, Social movements, Urban studies	https://amst.umd.edu/directory/christina-hanhardt
Hardaway	Cecily	hardaway@umd.edu	African American Studies	Psychology, Child Development, Poverty, Social Class	https://aasd.umd.edu/facultyprofile/hardaway/cecily
Harley	Sharon	sharley@umd.edu	African American Studies	Black women's labor history, Racial and gender politics	http://www.aasd.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Harley/Sharon
Howard	Donna	dhoward1@umd.edu	Behavioral and Community Health	Health, resilience, violence	https://sph.umd.edu/people/donna-e-howard
Irazabal	Clara	irazabal@umd.edu	Urban Studies and Planning	Interactions of culture, politics, and placemaking, and their impact on community development; socio-spatial justice in Latin American cities and US Latinx, immigrant, and minority communities	https://arch.umd.edu/people/clara-irazabal
Iwamoto	Derek	diwamoto@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	Gender and racial socialization, substance use, mental health, ethnic minorities	https://psyc.umd.edu/facultyprofile/iwamoto/derek
Jette	Shannon	jette@umd.edu	Kinesiology	gender, health, popular culture,	https://sph.umd.edu/people/shannon-jette
Khamis	Sahar	skhamis@umd.edu	Communication	gender, media	https://communication.umd.edu/directory/sahar-khamis
Killen	Melanie	mkillen@umd.edu	Human Development & Quantitative Methodology	Social cognitive development; Intergroup relationships; Social reasoning; Morality and Theory of Mind; Culture and social exclusion	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/melanie-killen
Klees	Steve	sklees@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	Families/children, Gender, international/transnational, race/ethnicity; social movements; economics; policy; education	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees
Lewin	Amy	alewin@umd.edu	Family Sciences	Families/children, Health	http://sph.umd.edu/people/amy-b-lewin
Lewis	Sydney F.	sflewis@umd.edu	Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	20th and 21st century African-American Culture, Queer and Gender Studies, black feminist theory and culture, intersectional black liberation	https://wgss.umd.edu/directory/sydney-lewis
Lie	Siv B.	slie@umd.edu	Musicology & Ethnomusicology	romani music, race/ethnicity, anthropology	https://music.umd.edu/directory/siv-lie
Lindemann	Marilee	mlindema@umd.edu	English	LGBT studies, Women's studies	https://english.umd.edu/directory/marilee-lindemann
Lopez	Andrea M.	lopez@umd.edu	Anthropology	Medical anthropology, urban anthropology, health policy, anthropology of violence, health inequities	https://anth.umd.edu/facultyprofile/l%C3%B3pez/andrea-m.
Lung-Amam	Willow	lungamam@umd.edu	Urban Studies & Planning	Race/ethnicity, immigration, policy, urban studies	http://www.arch.umd.edu/ursp/faculty/willow-lung-amam
Madhavan	Sangeetha	smadhava@umd.edu	African American Studies	Families/children, race/ethnicity	https://aasd.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Madhavan/Sangeetha
Marquez	Bayley	bmarquez@umd.edu	American Studies	Racial narratives and forms of colonial pedagogy propagated by white educational reformers in the late 19th and 20th centuries in schools created for black and indigenous students	https://amst.umd.edu/news/2019-20-new-faculty-appointments
Marsh	Kris	kmarsh1@umd.edu	Sociology	The Black Middle Class, Stratification, Demography, Racial Residential Segregation, Single and Living Alone Adults (SALA)	https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Marsh/Kris
Martin-Beltran	Melinda	memb@umd.edu	Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership	Education, Linguistics	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/melinda-martin-beltran
Mathiason	Jessica Lee	jessielm@umd.edu	Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Film, television & new media, genetic technologies, queer theory, transgender studies	https://wgss.umd.edu/directory/jessica-mathiason
McLaughlin	Amy	amclaug1@umd.edu	Lecturer and Academic Advisor, Department of Sociology	Gender, Caregiving, Social Norms, Inequality	https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/mclaughlin/amy
Ming Liu	William	willmliu@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, & Special Education	Social class and classism; men and masculinity; White supremacy and privilege	https://education.umd.edu/directory/william-ming-liu
Mirabal	Nancy Raquel	nmirabal@umd.edu	American Studies	Afro-diasporic and Latinx Studies; Immigration; Space, Place, Gentrification	https://amst.umd.edu/directory/nancy-mirabal
Park	Julie J.	parkjj@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	Racial diversity and equity in higher education, religion, Asian American college students, affirmative action and college admissions, social and cultural capital	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/julie-j-park
Payne-Sturges	Devon	dps1@umd.edu	Applied Environmental Health	racial and economic disparities in exposures to environmental contaminants and associated health risks, environmental policy	https://sph.umd.edu/people/devon-c-payne-sturges
Ray	Rashawn	rjray@umd.edu	Sociology	Race/ethnicity, Economics, gender, health	https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Ray/Rashawn
Richardson	Joseph	jrichar5@umd.edu	African American Studies	economics, health, gender & education, Race/ethnicity	https://aasd.umd.edu/facultyprofile/richardson-jr./joseph
Roberts	Jennifer	jenrob@umd.edu	Kinesiology	relationship between the built environment and physical activity towards public health outcomes	https://sph.umd.edu/laboratory-resources/public-health-outcomes-and-effects-built-environment-phoebe-laboratory
Rodriguez	Ana Patricia	aprodrig@umd.edu	Spanish & Portuguese	Central American and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures, Central American cultural production in the U.S.; transnational migration and cultural production, diaspora studies, violence and postwar/trauma studies; gender studies; U.S. Latina/o popular culture; community-based research; and Latina/o education (K-16)	https://sllc.umd.edu/news/ana-patricia-rodriguez-ideas-serve
Rowley	Michelle	mrowley1@ umd.edu	Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	gender	https://wgss.umd.edu/directory/michelle-v-rowley
Roy	Kevin	kroy@umd.edu	Family Sciences	families/children, welfare, policy,	http://sph.umd.edu/people/kevin-roy
Shin	Richard Q.	rqshin@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	resilience, race/ethnicity, Sexuality, health	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/richard-shin
Simon-Rusinowitz	Lori	lasr@umd.edu	Public Health	health, policy	http://sph.umd.edu/people/lori-simon-rusinowitz
Smith	Martha Nell	mnsmith@umd.edu	English	Film Studies and Cultural Studies, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, Literary Theory, Women's Literature and Feminist Theory	https://english.umd.edu/directory/martha-nell-smith
Smith-Bynum	Mia	msbynum@umd.edu	Family Sciences	Families/children, race/ethnicity, Sexuality	http://sph.umd.edu/people/mia-smith-bynum
Turner	Jennifer	jdturner@umd.edu	Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership	Race/ethnicity, education	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/jennifer-turner
Wexler	Jade	jawexler@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education	Education	https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/jade-wexler
Williams-Forson	Psyche	pwforson@umd.edu	American Studies	gender, race/ethnicity, popular culture, material culture; food studies	https://amst.umd.edu/directory/psyche-williams-forson
Zamora Liu	Rossina	rzliu@umd.edu	Counseling, Higher Education, & Special Education	Antiracist and social justice education; counter-storytelling and counternarratives; cross-racial solidarity and coalition building among BIPOC communities	https://education.umd.edu/directory/rossina-zamora-liu
Zebadúa-Yáñez	Veronica	vzebadua@umd.edu	University Honors Program	Feminist political theory, transnational and decolonial feminisms, and human rights	https://universityhonors.umd.edu/personnel/veronica-zebadua-yanez/