People
Core Faculty and Staff
![Katherine Fusco](/Assets/Images/default-place-holder-image.jpg)
Associate Professor of English; Chair of Gender, Race, and Identity
she/her/hers
FH
216
![Deborah Boehm](/Assets/Images/default-place-holder-image.jpg)
Foundation Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and Anthropology; Graduate Director, GRI
(775) 682-6503
TB
Room 118
![Guadalupe Escobar](/Assets/Images/default-place-holder-image.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and English
(775) 682-6481
TB
116
![Vadricka Etienne](/Assets/Images/default-place-holder-image.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and Sociology
she, her, hers
TB
117
![Prisca Gayles](/Assets/Images/default-place-holder-image.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity
she, her, hers / ella
(775) 682-7762
TB
107
![Emily K. Hobson](/Assets/Images/default-place-holder-image.jpg)
Associate Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and History; National Humanities Center Fellow, 2024-25
she/they
(775) 682-6482
TB
106
Staff
Faculty Associates
GRI pursues the interdisciplinary and intersectional study of gender, race and related constructions of identity, difference and power. Our regular faculty are joined by associated faculty with aligned research and teaching from over a dozen departments in three colleges across the University of Nevada, Reno. If you are University of Nevada, Reno faculty and would like to join us as an associate, please email Meredith Oda.