Shannon Winnubst, professor and chair of the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, researches queer and trans studies, race theory, psychoanalytic theory, and 20th century French theory. Energized by the Black Lives Matter movement, she talks about new language that is emerging in the public sphere to name systemic racism and the dee…

Judson Jeffries, professor of African American and African Studies, researches media studies, public policy, Homeland Security, African American politics, and police-community relations. He sees the BLM protests as having a new kind of participant and perhaps a new kind of possibility for success. For more of his discussion with David Staley, liste…

Williams, a professor in the department of sociology, researches the influence of family and other personal relationships on mental and physical health, with a particular focus on gender and life course variations in those patterns. She is particularly interested in exploring how the more trauma people experience, the worse their health is and how …

How readers engage with what they encounter in reading has ethical significance, says Ashley Hope Pérez, assistant professor of comparative studies. In addition to having written three novels, she researches fiction with an eye to how it shapes the way that readers respond to others in the real world. For more of her discussion with David Staley, l…

When São Paulo, Brazil, gifted an empty 12,000 square foot building to the city's homeless, a world of opportunities and needs was created. Susan Melsop, an associate professor in the Ohio State Department of Design, had recently received the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award, which gave her the opportunity to create a social i…