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Postdoctoral Fellow

Anna P. Wald is the current postdoctoral research fellow in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Doctorate in Feminist Studies from UC Santa Barbara (2022), and was previously appointed as a visiting assistant professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College (2022-2023). Her research focuses on race, gender, and technology, with a specialization in digital culture studies, online discourse analysis, and racialized media.

Scholar-in-Residence

Professor Vanesa Miseres, Associate Professor, Romance Language and Literatures, is joining us as the Internal Scholar-in-Residence for 2024-25. She specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature with research specialization in travel writing, war literature, women writers, and food studies. She is the author of the award-winning Mujeres en tránsito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910). A second book, Gender Battles. Latin American Women, War, and Feminism, is forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press and new work is in development on women in science in Latin America.

Steering Committee

The Gender Studies Steering Committee advises and assists the Director on matters pertaining to the Program’s academic curriculum and programming. Members of the Committee also help to promote the Gender Studies Program as a scholarly community committed to the interdisciplinary study of gender and sexuality. Current Steering Committee Members