Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies

Brady G'Sell is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. Her research explores the intersection of citizenship, kinship, and economy in the daily lives of South African families. Professor G'Sell co-created Iowa City's inaugural African Festival of Arts and Culture held this past fall and played a key role in planning the 2024 Engagement Summit hosted by the Office of Community Engagement. At the summit, she led the session "Do Good Well: Building Community Partnerships," highlighting best practices for fostering meaningful and mutually beneficial collaborations between faculty, students, and community organizations.

Emerson Cram is an associate professor in the department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Communication Studies. Cram brings expertise in frameworks of critical environmental justice that center recursive relationships between race, disability, sexuality, and the environment. Cram will use the funding for a current book project Mad Ecologies: The Energy Politics of Dependency and Need that requires archival research and fieldwork.

Meena Khandelwal is one of four University of Iowa faculty members are recipients of the 2025 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence, recognizing their exceptional and ongoing contributions to student learning and success.