91传媒

Gwen D橝rcangelis

Associate Professor of Gender Studies   

Office: Ladd Hall, second floor
Phone: 518-580-8078
Email: gdarcang@skidmore.edu

Courses: 

• Introduction to Gender Studies
• Feminist Theories and Methodologies
• Senior Seminar in Gender Studies
• Feminist Science Studies

Biography:

Gwen D橝rcangelis is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at 91传媒. Her areas of teaching and research include gender, race, and science; feminist science fiction; disease and empire; and feminist and anti-imperial praxis. She has published on the construction of white scientific masculinity in U.S. national security discourse, gendered Orientalism in the U.S. news media during the 2003 SARS disease scare, and nurse activism against the war on terror. She has recently released a book-length manuscript titled "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility" (description below). She is currently working on a new project exploring Chinese Medicine as a key site for promoting health and wellness among communities of color and other marginalized communities in the United States. She has also been involved in community engagement projects on queer Asian Pacific Islander justice and environmental justice, and has blogged on topics of science justice.

Books:

• "Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility ().� Rutgers University Press, 2020.

More about her current projects .

Publications:

• 淐onfronting public health imperialism: A transnational feminist analysis of critical nurse response to the National Smallpox Vaccination Program of 2002,� Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies vol 40., no. 1 (2019): 95-121. 
• 淔raming China: Discourses of Othering in US News and Political Rhetoric,� with Su-Mei Ooi, Global Media and China, Feb 8, 2018. .
  
  
• 淩eframing the 楽ecuritization of Public Health�: a Critical Race Perspective on Post-9/11 Bioterrorism Preparedness in the U.S.,� Critical Public Health, 2016, .
  
  
• 淒efending White Scientific Masculinity: The FBI, the Media and Profiling Tactics During the Post-9/11 Anthrax Investigation,� International Feminist Journal of Politics, June 15, 2015, 1�20. .
  
  
• 淓nacting Environmental Justice through the Undergraduate Classroom: the Transformative Potential of Community Engaged Partnerships� (with Brinda Sarathy), Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship 8, no. 2 (2015): 97-106.
  
  
• 淪urveillance and Policing in U.S. Bioscience攑roducing transnational Others,� in Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International Geo揚olitics of Surveillance and Policing, ed. by Mar铆a Amelia Viteri and Aaron Tobler, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
  
  
• 淐hinese chickens, ducks, pigs and humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire,� in Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, ed. by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
  
  
• 淚nterview with Richard Lewontin� (with Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip), in Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, ed. by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
  
  
• 淧rison abolition in practice: The LEAD Project, the politics of healing, and 楢 New Way of Life櫇 (with Shigematsu, Setsu and Melissa Burch), in Abolition NOW! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex, ed. by CR10 Publications Collective, Oakland: AK Press, 2008.