Professional Title

Assistant Professor

Department

Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Expertise

Gender & Sexuality Studies, Gendered Violence, Global Women's Health, Reproductive Politics, U.S. and Transnational Social Movements

Bio

B.A., Colby College; Graduate Certificate and M.A., University of Maryland; Research M.A., University of Birmingham (UK); Ph.D. University of Maryland

In addition to writing about sexual violence within transnational frameworks; Caribbean women’s grassroots movements; LGBTQ+ youth and migration; and feminist and queer pedagogies, Barbara Shaw works with colleagues to facilitate curricular transformation at Allegheny, in the Great Lakes region, and nationally.