Heather Dell
Associate Professor & Chair, Women & Gender Studies, Sociology/Anthropology, and Political Studies
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Email: hdell1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7937
Office: UHB 3037
Teaching Interests: feminist theories, postcolonial women’s issues, cultural studies, social change theories, labor, sex work, and India.
Pat Langley
Professor Emeritus, Women & Gender Studies and Legal Studies
J.D., University of Detroit College of Law
Email: langley.pat@uis.edu
Faculty Web Page
Phone: (217) 206-7423
Office: UHB 3034
Teaching Interests: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer studies; the Christian Right; and social change movements, especially those centered on gender and sexuality.
Deborah Kuhn McGregor 
Associate Professor, Women & Gender Studies and History
Ph.D. History, Binghamton University
Email: mcgregor.deborah@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7439
Office: UHB 3063
Teaching Interests: United States history—especially nineteenth-century history—but also United States women's history; history of the family; the history of childhood; oral history; women, health and healing; the history of medicine; and the history of childbirth.
Dr. McGregor has written on the history of gynecology and obstetrics, and is the author of the book From Midwives to Medicine.
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Michael Murphy 
Assistant Professor, Women & Gender Studies
Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology, Washington University
Email: mmurp4@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-8510
Office: UHB 3017
Interests: feminist approaches to visual and popular culture; critical men's and masculinity studies; GLBTQ Studies/Queer theory; and rape and sexual assault prevention programs.
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Hinda Seif
Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies and
Sociology/Anthropology
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis
M. A. in Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Email: hseif2@uis.edu
Phone: 217 206-8413
Office: UHB 3017
Interests: Mexican migration and the US-Mexico border; interactions of gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nation; critical policy studies; law and society; human rights and citizenship; labor and work; Latino Studies; qualitative research methods.
