People

The GSWS Program and The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies have over 100 Core and Affiliated Faculty from more than 20 departments and schools who are national and international leaders in the field of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.  

Our faculty have won many awards and fellowships including Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes for Health, Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, and many others.  

Our faculty offer over fifty courses reflecting the most recent cutting edge research and topics each year, and taken by 1300 to 1500 students annually. 

Melissa E. Sanchez

FQT/GSWS Director
Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature

sanchezm@english.upenn.edu

Fisher-Bennett Hall  216
215-746-3765

Gwendolyn Beetham

Associate Director, Program in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies

gbeetham@sas.upenn.edu

345 Fisher-Bennett Hall
Suite 304
Phone: 215-898-8623

Che Gossett

Associate Director, The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies 

cheg@sas.upenn.edu

345 Fisher-Bennett Hall

Suite 342

Riley Fortier

FQT/GSWS Program Coordinator

rfortier@sas.upenn.edu

345 Fisher Bennett Hall
Suite 343

Nat DiFrank

Project Manager, Trans Oral History Project

difrank@sas.upenn.edu

Fisher-Bennett Hall
3340 Walnut Street
Suite 345

Dora Lin

FQT/GSWS Administrative Assistant, Work Study Student

xiyuanl5@sas.upenn.edu

Caitlin Adkins

GSWS Graduate Associate

adkinsca@sas.upenn.edu

345 Fisher Bennett Hall

Suite 302

Eva Pensis

Postdoctoral Fellow, Trans Oral History Project

epensis@sas.upenn.edu

345 Fisher-Bennett Hall

Nat Rivkin

Graduate Associate, Trans Oral History Project

nrivkin@sas.upenn.edu