Isom Fellows

 About the Isom Fellows Program

The Isom Fellows Program is a two-year fellowship with the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies funded by the Office of Provost. Isom Fellows will be given $4,500 a year for two years, in support of a research project focusing on gender or sexuality. This money may be used as a summer salary, for travel, for graduate student support, or in some combination thereof.

For the 2025-2027 cohort, the Isom Center will support six fellows in research projects in gender and sexuality for the two-year period.  As part of their research, fellows may want to coordinate with the Isom Center in planning lectures and other campus events, or develop new crosslisted courses.  Isom fellow will present their research at a poster session each fall of their award, to create larger networking opportunities for interdisciplinary research.

Applications are due by the end of the day on January 15, 2025.

Please contact Dr. Jaime Harker (jlharker@olemiss.edu) with questions.

2024-2026 Isom Fellows

  • Miles Armaly

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • SARAH BAECHLE

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

  • Decorative Only

    KATHARINE BROWN

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE & LEGAL STUDIES

  • KESICIA DICKINSON

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • KARIANN FUQUA

    INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART AND ART HISTORY

  • TAMAR GOULET

    PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY

  • RACHEL GREENSPAN

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND LEGAL STUDIES

  • SARAH HENNIGAN

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATRE & FILM

  • LAURA HUBER

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • ALMAS KHAN

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW

  • AMBER KING

    INSTRUCTOR OF WRITING & RHETORIC

  • Frances Kneupper

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

  • Decorative only

    NATALIA NORWOOD

    INVESTIGATOR FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

  • ABIGAIL NOVAK

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE & LEGAL STUDIES

  • ANNE QUINNEY

    PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES

  • CARMEN SANCHIS-SINISTERRA

    INSTRUCTIONAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES

  • TERESA SIMONE

    INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATRE AND FILM

  • MARQUITA SMITH

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

  • KRISTEN SWAIN

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

  • ANA VELITCHKOVA

    CROFT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

  • KEXIN XIANG

    INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MARKETING

2023-2025 Isom Fellows

  • VANESSA CHARLOT

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA

  • ERIKA LEBLANC

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELOR EDUCATION

  • TY MCNAMEE

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HIGHER EDUCATION

  • ASMAA SHEHATA

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARABIC

  • MARC WATKINS

    LECTURER IN WRITING AND RHETORIC

2022-2024 Fellows

  • LAUREN BONE NOBLE

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MOVEMENT FOR THE ACTOR

  • LATOYA FAULK

    LECTURER OF WRITING AND RHETORIC

  • ARI FRIEDLANDER

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

  • ALEXANDRA LINDGREN-GIBSON

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

  • D'ANDRE WALKER

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND LEGAL STUDIES

2021-2023 Fellows

  • OWEN JAMES HYMAN

    INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • DIANE MARTING

    PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES

  • JOSEPH WELLMAN

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY

2020-2022 Fellows

  • MARIE BARNARD

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHARMACY ADMINISTRATION

  • DEANNA KREISEL

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

  • EVA PAYNE

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

  • DON UNGER

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF WRITING & RHETORIC

2019-2021 Fellows

  • FRANCIS D. BOATENG

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LEGAL STUDIES

  • DEIDRA JACKSON

    VISITING INSTRUCTOR OF WRITING

  • TESS LEFMANN

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK

  • GREGORY J. LOVE

    PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • AMY MCDOWELL

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY

2018-2020 Fellows

  • SUSAN H. ALLEN

    PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • ALYSIA BURTON STEELE

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM

  • AMANDA WINBURN

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELOR EDUCATION

  • KENYA WOLFF

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

  • PRIA WILLAMS

    INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATRE AND FILM & GENDER STUDIES

2017-2019 Fellows

  • CARRIE V. SMITH

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY