Mairead Sullivan
Associate Professor and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies
Biography
(emphasis in public health) from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University. In addition to being widely published in the field of LGBT public health, Sullivan is the author most recently of “Kill Daddy: Reproduction, Futurity, and the Survival of the Radical Feminist” in Women’s Studies Quarterly and “A Crisis Emerges: Lesbian Breast Cancer in the Wake of HIV/AIDS” in The Journal of Lesbian Studies. Prof. Sullivan is the author of Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Professor Sullivan's next project is a cultural study of the herpes virus.
Education
Emory University
Ph.D.
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Boston University
M.S.W.
2007
College of the Holy Cross
B.A.
2003
Accomplishments
LMU Ascending Scholar Award 2020
2020-05-01
The award is presented based on the scholarship, creative activity, and/or extramural funding of the faculty member while on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University. Scholarly work completed when the nominee was not on the LMU faculty is not formallyconsidered. Theworkhascontributedtoorinfluencedthefaculty member’sfieldofwork. Theworkhasgarneredexternalrecognitionsuchas honors, awards, or funding.
Mellon/Institute for Citizens and Scholars Emerging Faculty Leaders Award 2020
2020-05-15
https://woodrow.org/news/2020-mellon-emerging-faculty-leader-awards/
Courses
WGST 1000: Introduction to Gender Studies
WGST 1000: Introduction to Gender Studies
FYS 1000: Sex, Science, and Society
FYS 1000: Sex, Science, and Society
WGST 2200: Women's Health, Bodies, and Sexualities
WGST 2200: Women's Health, Bodies, and Sexualities
WGST 3100: Feminist Research Methods
WGST 3100: Feminist Research Methods
WGST 4001: Queer Theory
WGST 4001: Queer Theory