Pam Butler

Associate Director of Gender Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Affiliated Faculty, Initiative on Race and Resilience
Faculty Fellow, Center for Social Concerns
Faculty Fellow, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies

Department: Gender Studies

Area of Specialization:

US histories of gender, sexuality, and empire; feminist, queer, and trans theories of race and racialization; reproductive politics; carceral studies

Pam Butler is Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Gender Studies Program. Their areas of expertise include: US histories of gender, sexuality, and empire; feminist, queer, and trans theories of race and racialization; reproductive politics; and critical prison studies. Dr. Butler teaches classes both at Notre Dame and at the Westville Correctional Center.

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Gender Studies Courses:

• Feminist and Queer Prison Studies
• Foundations in Gender Studies graduate seminar
• Gender and US Empire
• Histories and Politics of Marriage in the US
• Introduction to Trans Studies
• Introduction to Gender Studies
• New Readings in Transgender Studies
• Prisons and Policing in the United States
• Rethinking Crime and Justice
• Race and the Politics of Reproduction
• Transnational / Transgender