GWS Faculty at the Claremont Colleges

Piya Chatterjee (Scripps GWS Backstrand Chair)
Piya Chatterjee is a historical anthropologist by training. She is interested women’s labor, colonial and post-colonial history, and feminist ethnographic writing and is currently involved with a Paulo Freireinspired, anti-violence political literacy project led by rural women in eastern India which has been funded by the Global Fund for Women.

Chris Guzaitis (GWS, Scripps College)
Chris Guzaitis is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at Scripps College. Her areas of expertise include; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Theory; Feminist Theory; American Cultural Studies; U.S. Imperialism; 19th and 20th Century U.S. Literature.

Sharon Snowiss (Political Studies/Gender & Feminist Studies)
Sharon Snowiss is Professor of Political Studies at Pitzer, and is also a member of the Gender & Feminist Studies field group (is currently the convenor) and the International/Intercultural field group. She teaches a course in feminist political theory and is also interested in Qi Gong and Cross Cultural Health and Healing.

Maria Soldatenko (Chicano/a Latino/a Transnational Studies, Pitzer)
Maria Soldatenko is Associate Professor of Chicano/a Latino/a Transnational Studies, a recently developed field group at Pitzer College. She was formerly a member of the Pitzer Gender & Feminist Studies field group. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, and teaches Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies, Latinas in the Garment Industry, Women in the Third World, and Chicana Feminist Epistemology, among other women’s studies courses.

Kyla Wazana Tompkins (English, Gender & Women’s Studies, Pomona)
Kyla Wazana Tompkins has a ½ FTE in Gender & Women’s Studies at Pomona, and teaches core courses in women’s studies there, including Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies, Transnational Feminist Theory, and other women’s studies courses. Her interests are in cultural theory; 19th c. U.S. literature; food studies; and critical feminist theory.