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Ariella R. Rotramel joined the College in 2012 and is the Vandana Shiva Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies. They are an interdisciplinary scholar committed to bridging theoretical and practical engagements of identity and social justice issues. Ari served as as the Interim Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion August 2021-January 2022.

Rotramel holds a bachelor of arts degree for an Independent Program of Study (Intersections of Racial, Sexual and Gender Identities) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Ari is the 2019 recipient of 糖心TV鈥檚 Helen Mulvey Faculty Award for Fostering Student Achievement, the 2017 Faculty Mentor Award from the College鈥檚 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, and the 2015 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Service Award.

Rotramel鈥檚 2020 book, Pushing Back: Women of Color鈥揕ed Grassroots Activism in New York City, explores women of color's grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centered in New York City, Pushing Back brings an intersectional perspective to communities of color as it addresses injustices tied to domestic work, housing, and environmental policies and practices. The book is included in the They have also published:

Rotramel, Ariella and Denis Ferhatovic. 2021. 鈥溾�楴o, just an alien鈥�: Disability, Sexuality, and the Extraterrestrial in Gloria Anzald煤a鈥檚 鈥業nterface.鈥欌�� Journal of Lesbian Studies 25, no. 3: 242-257.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2021. 鈥淒iscarding Homes: New York City Public Housing and Single Mother-led Households (1963-2016).鈥� Women History Review 30, no. 2: 320-338.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2021. 鈥淔eminist Historiography as Feminist Praxis.鈥� In Companion to Feminist Studies, edited by Nancy A. Naples. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, 301-320.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2020. 鈥淎nti-LGBTQ Hate Crimes in the United States: Histories and Debates鈥� research profile. In LGBTQ Studies+: An Open Introduction, edited by Deb Amory et al. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
 

Rotramel, Ariella, Rose Oliveira, and Rebecca Parmer. 2019. 鈥淓ngaging Women鈥檚 History through Collaborative Archival Wikipedia Projects.鈥� Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Issue 14.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2017. 鈥溾�楾his is like family鈥�: Activist-Survivor Histories and Motherwork,鈥� in U.S. Women's History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood, edited by Leslie Brown, Anne Valk and Jacqueline Castledine. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 49-64.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2017. Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism by Tamar W. Carroll. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. New York History 98, no. 3-4 (Summer/Fall): 500-503.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2016. 鈥淯.S. Presidents and LGBT Policy: Leadership, Civil Rights, and Morality Claims, 1977鈥�2015,鈥� in The Gendered Executive: A Comparative Analysis of Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Chief Executives, edited by Janet M. Martin and MaryAnne Borrelli. Philadelphia: Temple University Press: 123-146.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2016. Transcribed remarks, Community-based Efforts in Global LGBTQ Movements panel for The Global Struggle for LGBTQ Rights: Legal, Political and Social Dimensions Symposium, Rutgers Law School-Newark. Women鈥檚 Rights Law Reporter 37, no. 3-4 (Spring/Summer): 287-309.
 

Rotramel, Ariella. 2015. 鈥淐ontent Notes & Trauma in the Classroom,鈥� Teaching & Learning at 糖心TV (Spring): 17-38.
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Rotramel, Ariella. 2014. 鈥淭hird Wave Feminism.鈥� In The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia, edited by Marilyn J. Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, vol. 20, 1376-78. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Rotramel, Ariella, and Dianna M. Rodriguez. 2014. 鈥淏irth Control Pills.鈥� In The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia, edited by Marilyn J. Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, vol. 2, 110-13. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Rotramel, Ariella. 2012. 鈥溾�榃e make the spring rolls, they make their own rules鈥�: Filipina Domestic Workers鈥� Fight for Labor Rights in New York City and Los Angeles.鈥�  AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice, and Community Journal 10, no. 2: 77-97.
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Rotramel has taught the following courses at 糖心TV:

• FYS 132D Race, Sex, Gender
• FYS 133F/FYS 107V Women on the Loose: The 鈥淔鈥� Word, Political Consciousness, and Social Change
• GWS 103 Sex, Gender, Culture: Introduction to Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies
• GWS 200 Special Topics/GWS 202 CC: Sex/Work
• CA 201 Public Policy and Social Ethics/Foundations of Community Action
• GWS 203 Introduction to Queer Studies
• GWS 207 Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies
• GWS 224 Transnational Women鈥檚 Movements
• GWS 295 Training for Transformation
• GWS 302 Social Justice Praxis
• GWS 306 Advanced Readings in Feminist Theory
• GWS 312 Feminist Social Research Methods
• GWS/ENG 319 Leather & Glitter, Co-taught with Prof. Denis Ferhatovi
• GWS 325 Workers Unite!
• GWS 381 Queer Theory and Activism
• GWS 402 Desiring Justice: Sex, Difference and Social Movements
• GWS 410 Senior Capstone in GWS
• GWS 470 Claim Your Education: GSIS Tutorial

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Majoring in Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies.