Advisory Board
Karen Weingarten
Director of Women &
Gender Studies
Professor of English
karen.weingarten@qc.cuny.edu
Karen Weingarten writes about cultural histories of reproduction and reproductive technologies. Most recently she edited the collection Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade (Penguin Classics 2025). Other publications include Pregnancy Test (Bloomsbury 2023) and Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940 (Rutgers UP, 2014).
Carol Giardina
PhD City University of New York
Associate Professor of History
Powdermaker Hall 352D
carol.giardina@qc.cuny.edu
Carol Giardina is Associate Professor of History, specializing in contemporary US history and women’s history. She earned her PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of Freedom For Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 (University Press of Florida, 2010) as well as other articles on the Second Wave of Feminism in the US She is presently working on a biography of Second Wave founder Judith Brown and a history of the feminist movement in Florida. She teaches Women’s Studies, Contemporary US History, and US Labor History.
Amy Herzog
Professor and Chair of Media Studies
G Building 100
amy.herzog@qc.cuny.edu
Amy Herzog is a media historian whose research spans a broad range of interdisciplinary subjects, including film, philosophy, popular music, urban history, pornography, gentrification, parasites, amusement parks, and dioramas. She is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College and Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has also taught as Visiting Associate Professor at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.
Valentina Nikulina
Assistant Professor of Psychology
SB A340
Valentina.@nikulina@qc.cuny.edu
Dr. Nikulina is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. She studies gender-based violence in young adult relationships. She is also interested in the experiences of sexual assault survivors, particularly their post-assault disclosure processes.
Affiliated Faculty
Alyson Cole
Professor of Political Science
Powdermaker Hall 200G
alyson.cole@qc.cuny.edu
Kayla Reece
Adjunct Instructor, Women and Gender Studies
Jefferson Hall 308
kayla.reece@qc.cuny.edu
Julia Sneeringer
Professor of History
Powdermaker Hall 352A
julia.sneeringer@qc.cuny.edu
James Lowry
Professor of Library and
Information Sciences
James.Lowry@qc.cuny.edu
Katherine Pickering Antonova
Professor of History
Powdermaker Hall 352Z
katherine.antonova@qc.cuny.edu
Soniya Munshi
Associate Professor of Urban Studies
Kiely Hall 111
soniya.munshi@qc.cuny.edu
Eugenia Paulicelli
Professor of Italian
Queens Hall 330C2
eugenia.paulicelli@qc.cuny.edu
Glenn Burger
Professor of English
Klapper Hall 607
glenn.burger@qc.cuny.edu
JV Fuqua
Associate Professor of Media Studies
jv.fuqua@qc.cuny.edu
David Andrew Jones
Associate Professor of French
Queens Hall 330C1
david.jones@qc.cuny.edu
