Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Faculty

Our faculty combines exceptional records of research and productive involvement with local, national, and global communities. We practice and promote cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural feminist scholarship and teaching with a strong emphasis on the Pacific and Asia.

Monisha Das Gupta

Professor
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7464
Migration, Transnational Feminism

Kathy Ferguson

Professor
Office: Saunders 640E
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-6933
Email: kferguso@hawaii.edu
Political Theory, Feminist Theory, Anarchism

Mire Koikari

Professor, Graduate Chair
Office: Saunders 721J
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8579
Email: mire@hawaii.edu
Gender, Race, Empire, Militarism, Asia

S. Heijin Lee

Assistant Professor
Office: 721G
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-9177
Email: heijin.lee@hawaii.edu
Pop Culture, Digital/Media, Feminisms, Beauty

L. Ayu Saraswati, Faculty, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UH Mānoa

L. Ayu Saraswati

Professor
Office: Saunders 721H
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8669
Email: luhp@hawaii.edu
New/media studies, Affect Theory, Transnational

Lani Teves

Associate Professor, Department Chair
Office: Saunders 721G
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-6928
Email: tevesste@hawaii.edu
Indigeneity, Violence, Queer/Performance Theory

Lisa M. Vallin

Instructor, Undergraduate Chair
Office: Saunders 722B
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-2484
Email: vallin@hawaii.edu
Sex Education, Sexual Bodies, Queer Theory

Emeritus Faculty

Meda Chesney Lind

Professor Emeritus
Email: meda@hawaii.edu
Girls, Women, and Crime, Gender and Justice

Ruth Dawson, Faculty, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UH Mānoa

Ruth Dawson

Professor Emeritus
Email: dawson@hawaii.edu
Literature, Celebrity, History of Gender/Sexuality