The Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University is pleased to welcome Dr. Mairead Sullivan as a new Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. She joins LMU from Emory University where she is currently an Emory Dean’s Fellow in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Professor Mairead Sullivan completed her Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University in 2016. Sullivan’s research and teaching interests include feminist and queer theory, feminist methodologies, critical health studies, and identity based health politics. She spent a number of years working in women’s and LGBT public health before pursuing doctoral work. Her research and reviews have been published in: Women’s Studies Quarterly; Feminist Formations; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; The Journal of Homosexuality; among others. Sullivan’s current book project explores lesbian driven health and social movements before, during, and after the height of the U.S. AIDS crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s.