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Marlene Epp
Professor of History and Peace and Conflict Studies

Areas of specialization:
- Mennonite history
- Gender studies
- History of immigration and ethnicity in Canada
Doris Jakobsh
Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Areas of specialization:
- Gender and Sikhism/religion and women
- Gender construction and the new media
Gabriel Niccoli
Professor, Department of Italian and French Studies/Medieval Studies, St. Jerome's University

Areas of specialization:
- Comparative literature
- 16th-Century Italian literature
- Women writers of the Italian Cinquecento
Carol Acton
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Area of specialization:
- Trauma and medical personnel through letters, diaries and memoirs
Tristanne Connolly
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Monica Leoni
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies

Areas of specialization:
- Early modern Spanish prose and theatre
- Early modern Hispanic female writers
- Italian Commedia Dell'Arte Tradition
Diana Parry
Associate Professor, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies

Areas of specialization:
- Women's leisure
- Leisure, health and well-being
- Qualitative inquiry
- Feminist theory
Kim Hong Nguyen
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts

Pronouns: she/they
Kim Hong Nguyen (she/they) is a scholar of Vietnamese descent appointed as Associate Professor of Communication Arts, at the University of Waterloo. Born and raised on the traditional lands of the Algonquin/Powhatan peoples, Tsenacommacah (later known as the Hampton Roads area), Nguyen was sponsored by families in Virginia Beach.
Nguyen’s research examines controversies over the political correctness or civility of a word, a trope, an expression, an analogy, or a cultural practice. It aims to explore how the capacity of marginalized peoples to act or speak effectively is not wholly dependent upon their articulate use of eloquent language, sound argument, or stirring performance, but rather is conditioned by governing systems of power.
Nguyen’s most recent book with University of Illinois Press’ Feminist Media Studies book series, Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss, considers terms, such as ‘Bitch’ ‘feminism’ ‘power couple’ ‘postfeminism’, from a postcolonial and intersectional lens.
Nguyen's research has appeared in leading cultural studies journals including; Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Politics, Howard Journal of Communication, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, Journal of Communication Inquiry. In addition, she has edited a collection of essays on neoliberal rhetoric entitled Rhetoric in Neoliberalism.
Nguyen serves on the Executive Board for the Organization for the Study of Communication and Language of Gender (OSCLG), the Editorial Board for Peitho Journal, and the Advisory Board for Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC).
Outside of university work, Nguyen chairs the Advisory Committee on Culture for the City of Waterloo. Growing up in a refugee family that fostered several refugee children, Nguyen also serves on the Board of Directors for the Family and Children’s Services of the Waterloo Region.
Sasha Cocarla
Lecturer

Areas of specialization:
- Bisexual visibility/politics
- Queer Theory
- Representations of gender & sexuality in popular culture
- Horror and abjection
- Body politics
Heather Eustace
Undergraduate Coordinator
Greta Kroeker
Associate Professor; Cross-appointed to Gender & Social Justice

Patricia Marino
Professor

Shannon Stettner
Lecturer

Areas of specialization
Reproductive health, women's health activism, oral history, media and women's rights
Carla Fehr
Associate Professor, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technology Literacy, GSJ Advisor

Areas of interest
feminist philosophy of science, feminist epistemology, feminist philosophy of biology, socially relevant philosophy of science, gender and diversity in STEM, animal studies
Craig Fortier
Associate professor, Department Social Development Studies

(they/them)
Areas of Specialization/Interest:
- Settler colonialism
- Social movements
- Abolitionist and decolonizing social work
- Popular culture and radical change
- Trans-disciplinary social justice pedagogy
- Urban materialization
- Accounting history
- Indigenous theory
- Migrant justice movements
- Nationalism and sovereignty
- Queer, trans, and non-binary participation in sport
- Baseball history
Jennifer Saul
Professor, Associate undergraduate chair: Philosophy

Areas of Interest
- Racist and sexist language
- Diversifying Academia
- Implicit bias
- Pragmatics
- Deception