Affiliated Faculty

The Global Women’s Institute Affiliated Faculty represent disciplines and schools from across the George Washington University with a shared focus on women, gender and sexuality.

Our Affiliated Faculty gather each term to share ideas, discuss projects and plan for ways to work together to improve the lives of women and girls. 

Sean Aday
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs
School of Media and Public Affairs

Sarah Baird 
Professor of Global Health and Economics; Vice Chair of the Department of Global Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health

Jameta Nicole Barlow
Associate Professor of Writing; Health Policy and Management; Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Rosa Celorio
Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies; Burnett Family Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in International and Comparative Law and Policy
The George Washington University Law School

Imani M. Cheers
Associate Professor of Digital Storytelling
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Maria Cseh
Professor of Human and Organizational Learning; Director of the Human and Organizational Learning Program
Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Kavita Daiya
Associate Dean of Academic Innovation; Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Stacy Dean
Carbonell Family Executive Director
Global Food Institute

Maryam Z. Deloffre
Associate Professor of International Affairs; Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative
Elliott School of International Affairs

Julie Donovan
Associate Professor in the Women's Leadership Program and University Writing Program
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Christina Fink
International Development Studies MA Program Director; Associate Professor of International Affairs
Elliott School of International Affairs

James Foster 
Vice Dean and Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics
Elliott School of International Affairs

Christina B. Gee
Associate Professor of Clinical/Community Psychology
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Mimi Ghosh
Associate Professor
Milken Institute School of Public Health

Ina Gjikondi
Director, Learning Innovation & Strategic Growth
Center for Excellence in Public Leadership

Shirley Graham
Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs; Associate Professor of Practice in International Affairs
Elliott School of International Affairs

Elisabeth Hess Rice
Associate Professor, Special Education and Disability Studies
Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Nabila Hijazi
Teaching Assistant Professor of Writing
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Leslie Jacobson
Professor Emeritus, Theatre and Dance Program; Director of Graduate Studies, Classical Acting
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Ivy Ken
Department Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Pooja Lakshmin
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Huynh-Nhu (Mimi) Le
Professor of Clinical/Community Psychology
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Derek Malone-France
Associate Professor and Director of Peace Studies
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Toni Marsh
Program Director, Paralegal Studies MPS; Associate Professor
College of Professional Studies

Joan Meier
National Family Violence Law Center Professor of Clinical Law; Director, National Family Violence Law Center at the George Washington University Law School
The George Washington University Law School

Natalie B. Milman
Associate Dean, Office of Student Life; Professor, Educational Technology Leadership
Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Kelly Pemberton
Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Olga Acosta Price
Associate Professor of Prevention and Community Health; Director of the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Milken Institute School of Public Health 

Katrin Schultheiss
Associate Professor of History
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Stephen C. Smith
Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences; Elliott School of International Affairs

Julia Storberg-Walker
Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning; Director of Human and Organizational Learning Doctoral Programs (Hybrid and PhD)
Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Ashwini Tambe
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and History
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Wendy Wagner
Lecturer; Nashman Faculty Fellow for Academic Service-Learning
Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service

Silvio Waisbord
Professor of Media and Public Affairs
School of Media and Public Affairs 
James H. Williams
Professor Emeritus, International Education and International Affairs
Graduate School of Education and Human Development

 

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