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Core Faculty, Staff & Administrators
Director, Taylor Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Professor of English,
egregory@uh.edu
Dr. Elizabeth Gregory directs the WGSS Program and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality. She writes on Marianne Moore鈥檚 poetry and women鈥檚 work and fertility.
Her 2021 book, Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-1970, argues for the brilliance and populist panache of the poems of Moore鈥檚 late phase, long ignored by critics. 鈥�AOS" offers in-depth readings of these multi-layered poems and of Moore鈥檚 daring and innovative use of her late-life celebrity to activate long-held egalitarian principles. Cross-dressed as George Washington in cape and tricorne and writing about accessible topics like sports, TV, holidays, love, activism, mortality and celebrity, Moore reached a wide cross-section of Americans, engaging them in consideration of what democracy meant in their daily lives, around issues of gender/ race/ sexuality/ high-low dynamics/ immigration/ aging/ and more.
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Associate Director LGBT Studies, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, jdelosreyes@uh.edu
Dr. Guillermo De Los Reyes is an Associate Professor of Latin American Cultures and Literatures and Director of Undergraduate Studies. He also serves as Associate Director of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and he is a Faculty-in-Residence since 2011. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (2004, 1999) and a M.A. and B.A. from the Universidad de las Am茅ricas-Puebla (1997, 1994). Dr. De Los Reyes鈥� research interests are: Colonial Mesoamerica; gender, sexuality, and queer theory; Latin American cultural studies; secret and fraternal societies; and policy studies.
Dr. De Los Reyes is the author of Herencias Secretas: Masoner铆a, pol铆tica y sociedad en M茅xico (2009: Benem茅rita Universidad Aut贸noma de Puebla) and is currently working on a book-length project entitled: 鈥淓l pecado nefando:鈥� Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Mexico.
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Associate Director, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and
Comparative Cultural Studies, raquinn@uh.edu
Dr. Rachel Afi Quinn received her Ph.D. from the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan in 2012. Her scholarship focuses on race, mixed race identities, gender, and sexuality in the African Diaspora and she employs tools of transnational feminist theory, including ethnography and visual culture in her research. Her first book, Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo is an interdisciplinary cultural studies project that explores the impact of neoliberal development and U.S. popular media on Dominican women's identities.
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, zloyarvi@central.uh.edu
Dr. Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. She is also the director of Undergraduate Studies in the department of Sociology, and a joint faculty member with the Women, Gender and Sexuality program. She received her PhD. From Rice University in 2020.
Her research examines how health inequality is reproduced across the intersections of race and ethnicity, nativity, gender identity and sexual orientation. As a health scholar her qualitative, quantitative and theoretical work examines various axis of wellbeing including health status, health behaviors and healthcare utilization among population groups. In order to more accurately capture processes of inequality among marginalized groups, her research agenda highlights how racism, sexism and heterosexism structure and reproduce poorer health outcomes and health environments.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, ayildirim@uh.edu
Dr. Ali Yildirim is a postdoctoral fellow in the Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the 91破解版. Yildirim earned his Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. in Cultural Studies from Istanbul Bilgi University. His research explores the entangled politics of sectarianism and sexuality, with a particular focus on the culturally marginalized Alevi community in Turkey. Yildirim鈥檚 teaching and research interests include queer and trans studies in religion, feminist research methods, language and knowledge production, affect theory, the politics of social movements, anthropology of the everyday, storytelling, queer memory and archives, and the Middle East.
Staff Director, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, abustillo@uh.edu
Anneliese Bustillo is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at the 91破解版. Prior to working with Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, she served as the Vice President of Equity & Engagement with a reproductive justice organization and as the Director of the Women & Gender Resource Center. She earned her M.A. at the George Washington University and her B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her research documents the experiences of Latina survivors of sexual assault and examines how Title IX guidelines and other public policy impacts institutions of higher education's ability to support survivors and empower faculty and staff. She is the first in her family to pursue a doctorate.
Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Salma Ahmed is a first-year MSW student at the 91破解版. Salma comes from Egypt and has earned her B.A. in Psychology and Politics from Oberlin College, with minors in Law & Society and Middle Eastern and North African Studies.
Her research interests center on political psychology, stereotypes, policy, and media sentiment, with a focus on women, Queer communities, and Arabs across the globe as natives and immigrants. She has previously engaged in undergraduate research exploring the intersections of identity, belonging, power, and representation.
As a Graduate Assistant, Salma supports departmental programming, operations, and community engagement, and she is excited to contribute to the WGSS community at . Outside of academics, she enjoys dancing, doing special effects makeup, and watching video essays on YouTube!
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