Message from Chancellor Fox: One of UC San Diego’s greatest institutional strengths is the breadth and depth of faculty research on a range of important topics. Each month, Chancellor’s Corner will showcase cross-disciplinary faculty expertise in a specific area. I invite you to learn more about the work of these scholars, and I hope you share my pride in their achievements and their contributions to society.

Women's History

Mary Blair-Loy,
Associate Professor, Sociology
Mary Blair-Loy is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She researches gender, family and career, and how social and cultural structures affect individual thoughts, emotions, and actions. Blair-Loy has been published in a variety of sociology journals and reviews. Her book, Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Executive Women, focuses on how a cultural mindset of devotion to work and family influence the structuring of businesses and family life, and how these perspectives shape the role of women at work and at home. More…

Suzanne Brenner,
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Suzanne A. Brenner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1991. Her academic interests include sociocultural anthropology; gender, family, and social transformation; the anthropology of modernity; contemporary religious movements; and women and Islam. Her regions of specialization are Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, and the United States. More…

Valerie Hartouni,
Associate Professor, Communication
Valerie Hartouni is an Associate Professor of Communication. Her research is situated at the intersection of cultural and feminist studies and examines the workings of medical, legal, scientific, and popular discourses on the contested terrains of such issues as abortion, infertility, gender identity, and AIDS. Her current research explores changing notions of reproductive freedom in the wake of the dismantling of the welfare state. More…

Christine Hunefeldt-Frode,
Professor, Communication
Christine Hunefeldt-Frode is a Professor of History. She focuses on Latin-American history; the history of women and family; urban slavery; agrarian development; and indigenous populations. Hunefeldt-Frode researches and publishes on Latin-American history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She also publishes on rural history, slavery, and women in Latin America. More…

Margaret Loose,
Assistant Professor, English Literature
Margaret Loose is an Assistant Professor of English Literature. She has teaching and research interests in Victorian literature and culture; working-class literature; poetry and poetics; Chartism; and gender studies. She has taught a variety of courses ranging from Women and Literature to Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. More…

Weijing Lu,
Associate Professor, History
Weijing Lu is an Associate Professor of History. Her research interests include women's and gender history in China, the history of the Chinese family and marriage, and late imperial social and cultural history. She has taught courses on the history of women and family in China, late imperial China, and East Asian history from the 13th through the 19th centuries. More…

Louis Montrose,
Professor, Literature
Louis Montrose is a Professor of Literature. He teaches and researches the area of Elizabethan and Early Modern (16th-early 17th centuries) literature. The focus of his research is the interaction of verbal, visual and performance culture with the socio-political dynamics of Elizabethan England. Montrose has published widely in Elizabethan and Early Modern studies, as well as on Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre. He has also written on representations of Queen Elizabeth in Elizabethan culture, Elizabethan poetry and poetics and the 16th century literature in the New World. More…

Rebecca Plant,
Assistant Professor, History
Rebecca Plant is an Assistant Professor of History. She received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 2001. Her work focuses on gender relations and the rise of the psychological professions in the twentieth-century American culture. Currently, she is writing a book on the history of motherhood. More…

Pamela Radcliff,
Associate Professor, History
Pamela Radcliff is an Associate Professor of History. She specializes in Modern Spanish history and has published on the social and cultural history of mass politics since the late 19th century. She teaches various courses on modern Spanish and European history, and has a special interest in women and gender. More…

Cynthia Truant,
Associate Professor, History
Cynthia Truant is an Associate Professor of History. Her primary discipline is early modern European history, 1650-1850, with an emphasis on France. Her special areas of research and interest are gender and labor studies in their cultural and political context. She has researched and written on the rites of labor in old and new regime France and articles on guild women in various trades in pre-Revolutionary Paris. More…

** To learn more about other campus faculty scholars and areas of expertise, please visit the searchable UC San Diego Faculty Experts Database at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyExperts/