Faculty and Staff

Candace Moore’s scholarship examines queer and transgender representations in film and television. Her work has appeared in Cinema Journal, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Feminist Media Histories, and assorted anthologies, including Televising Queer Women and Production Studies.

Candace received her PhD in Film, Television, and Digital Media from UCLA, where she held a Research Associate position at the Center for the Study of Women. Candace previously worked as a journalist and entertainment editor for national LGBTQ magazines. At Carleton she will offer courses in feminist and LGBTQ history, theory, media, and culture.

Meera Sehgal (B.A., Ferguson College, India; M.A., Pune University, India; M.A. & Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004) has a joint appointment in the Sociology & Anthropology department and in the Women’s & Gender studies program. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, race, class & sexuality; social movements; globalization; militarism; transnational feminisms and India. Based on ethnographic methods, her research examines the mobilization of women in the right-wing Hindu nationalist movement in India. Her more recent fieldwork centers on a South Asian transnational feminist network and its consciousness-raising work in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Meera emphasizes interdisciplinary feminist perspectives in her teaching and travels regularly to India for research and familial purposes. She teaches courses on social movements, women’s health in the U.S., qualitative methods, transnational feminist theory, and feminist approaches to knowledge production, globalization and militarization.

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990. She has been working on reproductive health issues, first as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, and later as an anthropologist. Her research focuses on connections between reproduction and belonging, especially when these are called into question by reproductive difficulties (e.g., infertility), ethnic stereotyping of fertility, or the challenges of migration. She has conducted research in both rural and urban Cameroon, as well as with Cameroonian immigrants in Berlin and Paris. She teaches courses on gender, Africa, migration, medical anthropology, reproduction, and social science writing as well as the African and African American Studies capstone.

California-Los Angeles, B.A.; Sarah Lawrence, M.A.; Rutgers, Ph.D. American women’s history and women’s and gender studies. Interests include social welfare history, labor history, and historiography. Introduced a new course entitled “Gender and Work in U.S. History.” Began teaching at Carleton in 1994.

Stanford, B.A.; Ochanomizu University, M.A.; Harvard, Ph.D.; Japanese language and literature, especially modern fiction, with particular emphasis on Natsume Soseki, Mishima Yukio, Shimao Toshio, and fiction by contemporary Japanese women. Growing interest in English language fiction by Indian women. Began teaching at Carleton in 1983.