Founded by Professor Scott, CGEST is a one-of-a-kind research unit focused on exploring, identifying, and creating innovative scholarship about underrepresented women and girls in STEM.

Head of the Russian section, Hoogenboom teaches language, literature, and culture. An expert on Catherine the Great, she researches noble culture, civil society, corruption, sentimentalism, book history, and women writers.

Mahgoub al-Tahawy is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and short story writer, and affiliated member of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU.

Lisa Barca 's research interests include rhetoric and writing; Italian language and literature; comparative literature; women writers; critical animal studies; ecofeminism; language and ideology; mass media.

Switzer's interdisciplinary research combines several fields including critical girlhood studies, critical development and globalization studies, transnational feminist theory and feminist methods.

Ward's research explores the intersection of Black cultural production, culture industries and urban placemaking efforts to advance arts practice and foster inclusive community development.

Free is Associate Professor of English, affiliate faculty in Gender and Women's Studies, and Barret Honors College faculty.

Chanley has taught a range graduate and undergraduate courses in the social sciences, with focus on public administration and political science, especially in public policy, women and gender, ethnic and racial studies.

Rachel Fedock earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interest include ethics, feminist ethics, Black feminism, abolition, gender, race, moral psychology, the philosophy of love, and care.