Dr. Dinorah Cortés-Vélez, Professor of Spanish

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Expertise: Gender/sexual differences, gender and queer studies, Latin American Literature and Culture

Office Phone: (414) 288-3531

Dinorah.cortez-velez@marquette.edu

 

Jason Farr, Associate Professor

English

Expertise: Disability studies; deaf history; and conversations about accessibility in the profession

Media type: Print, T.V. and radio

Phone: (619) 807-1272
jason.farr@marquette.edu

 

Heather Hlavka, Professor

Social and Cultural Sciences

Expertise: Sexual Victimization and Offending, Partner Violence

Office Phone: (414) 288-6846
heather.hlavka@marquette.edu

Patrick Johnson, Assistant Professor

Department of Journalism and Media Studies

Expertise: news literacy: civic engagement, learning, purpose and practice; media literacy, equity, and justice; journalism: practice, education, ethics; education: curriculum and instruction, pedagogy, equity and justice; political communication: campaigns, coverage, analysis; children, adolescents, and media: cognitive science, representation, learning; sexuality and media: LGBTQ+ issues, knowledge production, sex media; horror studies: film, cognitive response

Media type: Print, T.V. and radio
Office phone: 414-288-5068
patrick.johnson@marquette.edu

Lezlie Knox, Associate Professor/Chair

History

Expertise: Medieval History, Crusades, Orthodox and Heretical Religious Movements in the Middle Ages, Medieval Gender and Sexuality, Medieval Women

Office Phone: (414) 288-7863
lezlie.knox@marquette.edu

Jane Peterson, Professor

Social and Cultural Sciences

Expertise: Rise of Agriculture, American Southwest, Archeology, Near East - Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Gender Issues in Anthropology, Sexual Division of Labor

Office Phone: (414) 288-7917
Home Phone: (414) 302-5143
jane.peterson@marquette.edu

Giordana Poggioli-Kaftan, Teaching Associate Professor of Italian

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Expertise: Italy as a nation and the Italian language; Marginalization of classes of people (notably: women, Jews, Italian Southerners); Exclusionary and marginalization rhetoric and the resistance efforts to it; Italian 19th and 20th centuries products promising modernity.

Media type: Print, TV and radio

giordana.kaftan@marquette.edu