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Lauren Auger
Assistant Professor
Email: lauger3@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall
Dr. Lauren Beth Auger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She is an oral historian and had the privilege of interviewing eighteen war bride veterans for her doctoral work.
Research Interest/Specialization
Lauren's research interests are women, gender, sexuality, love, and war. She is particularly interested in the ways in which social understandings of gender and sexuality impact women’s involvement in war and public perceptions of women’s roles in wartime. She is also interested in how discourses regarding gender and sexuality influence how women remember their war service and how women see themselves as veterans.
Teaching
GSWS 2160A, 2162B, 2275F, 2220E, 2283G
Dr. Lauren Beth Auger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She is an oral historian and had the privilege of interviewing eighteen war bride veterans for her doctoral work.
Megan Blair
Assistant Professor
Email: mblair56@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall
Megan recently completed her PhD in History at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation examined the involvement of teenage girls in feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. More broadly, Megan is interested in the intersection of age and gender in social and political movements in Canada.
Research Interest/Specialization
Canadian women's & gender history; the history of childhood and youth; girlhood studies; the history of feminism & social movements
Teaching
GSWS 2270A
Megan recently completed her PhD in History at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation examined the involvement of teenage girls in feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. More broadly, Megan is interested in the intersection of age and gender in social and political movements in Canada.
Andrea Burke
Instructor
Email: aburke46@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall
Andrea (she/her) is a PhD Candidate at the GSWS department studying the experiences of racialized and immigrant women engaged in essential work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research Interest/Specialization
Gender inequality, labour studies, social reproductive labour, public policy, feminist political economy, gender-based violence, girlhood studies, transnational feminism, international development, non-profit work and organizations, health care work, health crises and crisis response, housing policy, racial disparities, and Canadian immigration.
Teaching
GSWS 1022G, 2225F
Andrea (she/her) is a PhD Candidate at the GSWS department studying the experiences of racialized and immigrant women engaged in essential work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anmol Dutta
Instructor
Email: adutta24@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall
Anmol Dutta is a Lecturer in both GSWS and Film Studies. She is currently completing her PhD dissertation in English Studies on cultural identity at the intersection of caste, gender, and religion in Indian originals on Netflix.
Research Interest/Specialization
Anmol specializes in Media and Cultural Studies, Queer/Feminist cinemas, Postcolonial theory, South Asian popular culture, and Stand-up comedy and activism. She has published articles, book chapters and contributed to various public fora via invited interviews and guest talks on religion and representation in media, mainstream Hindi cinema, Netflix and censorial media regimes, as well as stand-up comedy.
Teaching
GSWS 2168B, 3330G
Anmol Dutta is a Lecturer in both GSWS and Film Studies. She is currently completing her PhD dissertation in English Studies on cultural identity at the intersection of caste, gender, and religion in Indian originals on Netflix.
Nikki Edwards
Instructor
Teaching
GSWS 2161B Women and Popular Culture, GSWS 2163A Sex Education
Jacob Evoy
Instructor
Email: jevoy2@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall
Jacob (they/them/their) is a Ph.D. candidate completing a collaborative degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies as well as Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.
Research Interest/Specialization
Queer theory, queer history, Holocaust and genocide studies, intergenerational trauma, history of the AIDS epidemic, pop culture.
Teaching
GSWS 1023G, 2164A, 3163G
Jacob (they/them/their) is a Ph.D. candidate completing a collaborative degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies as well as Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.
Amy Keating
Instructor
Email: akeatin@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall
Amy is a PhD Candidate in GSWS. Their research explores how queer art and aesthetics can foster communities of queer joy and belonging.
Research Interest/Specialization
Queer theory, queer temporality, community, queer art and aesthetics, affect theory, phenomenology, performance
Teaching
GSWS 2167B Queer Pop Culture
Amy is a PhD Candidate in GSWS. Their research explores how queer art and aesthetics can foster communities of queer joy and belonging.
Elk Paauw
Lecturer
Email: epaauw@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall
Elk (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, and teaches in both GSWS and Film Studies.
Research Interest/Specialization
Trans and crip/queer theory, temporality, & media studies (comics & animation)
Teaching
GSWS 2274G Intro to Trans Studies
Elk (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, and teaches in both GSWS and Film Studies.