Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
and Undergraduate Advisor

Office:  HDB 307E
940-898-2112 phone | 940-898-2101 fax |
email: jrohrer@twu.edu

Education
Ph.D. 2005 Political Science, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu

M.A. 1996 Political Science, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu

B.A. 1989 Political Science, cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania

Course Taught
Undergraduate: Gender & Social Change: An Introduction to Multicultural Women's Studies

Graduate: U.S. Women of Colors, Feminist Disability Studies, and Contemporary Feminist Theory

Research Interests
Feminist Theory, Disability Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Indigenous Studies, LGBT Studies and Queer Theory, Critical Legal Studies, and Critical Race Theory

Recent Publications
Rohrer, Judy. Haoles in Hawai'i. University of Hawai'i Press, in press.

Rohrer, Judy. "'The Marrying Kind?:' Intersectional Ambivalence from the Borderlands of Gay Marriage."  In Sapphists, Sexologists and Sexualities: Lesbian Histories Vol. II, Mary McAuliffe, Ed. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, January 2009.

Rohrer, Judy. "'We Say Code Pink': Feminist Direct Action and the 'War on Terror,'" Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Eds. Chandra T. Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Robin Riley. London: Zed Press, December 2008.

Rohrer, Judy. "Disrupting the 'Melting Pot:' Racial Discourse in Hawai'i and the 'Victimized' Haole," Racial and Ethnic Studies 31 (6): 1110-1125, September 2008. 

Rohrer, Judy. "Got Race?: The Production of Haole and the Distortion of Indigeneity in the Rice Decision," The Contemporary Pacific 18 (1): 1-31, Spring 2006.

Rohrer, Judy. "Toward a Full-Inclusion Feminism: A Feminist Deployment of Disability Analysis," Feminist Studies 31 (1): 34-63, Spring 2005.

Rohrer, Judy. "Haole Girl: Identity and White Privilege in Hawai'i," Social Process of Hawai'i 38:138-161, 1997.

Honors/Grants/Service
Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Native American Studies and Women's Studies Programs, Syracuse University, NY, 2006-2007.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Women's Studies Program, University of Limerick, Ireland, 2005-2006.

Dissertation Fellow, Women's Studies Program, University of California Santa Barbara, 2004-2005.