Frayda Cohen
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Frayda Cohen serves as Assistant Dean for the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Senior Lecturer, and Undergraduate Advisor for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. She is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include: children, gender, adoption, reproduction and population policy, transnationalism, and food and sustainability studies. She has spent several years working in China and has been the Director for the summer 6-week study abroad program, Pitt in China. Beginning in summer 2017, she has run a summer study abroad program in Italy on gender, sustainability, and food. She regularly teaches courses on gender and the politics of food, transnational feminisms, gendered bodies, and popular culture.
Michael Glass
Urban Studies
Dr. Michael Glass is the Director of the Urban Studies Program. Originally from New Zealand, Michael holds advanced degrees in geography from Penn State and the University of Auckland. His research is global in scope and focuses on how city-regions are experienced by the different communities that inhabit them. This interest motivates his work on urban violence, gentrification, and regional infrastructures, and his current Humanities Center project with Dr. Frayda Cohen on urban food insecurity. Author of over 30 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, Michael’s books include Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space (Routledge), Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods (NYU Press), and the forthcoming Urban Violence, Resilience and Security: Governance Responses in the Global South (Edward Elgar, January 2022).