Research Advisory Council
Several distinguished scholars and practitioners have graciously agreed to advise us on our research program. These colleagues' role is to offer their perspectives and professional experiences to guide planning, ongoing project management, data interpretation, dissemination of findings, and implementation of curricular and programmatic materials.
Advisory Council Members
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Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya is a multiple award-winning professor at the University of Florida. Housed in the Research, Evaluation, and Measurement program, she serves as a qualitative methodologist for the College of Education. For the last fifteen years, Dr. Bhattacharya has explored qualitative research through critical, de/colonial, creative, transnational, and contemplative perspectives. She is the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mid-Career Scholar of Color Award and the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mentoring Award from Division G: Social Context of Education. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from International Congress of Qualitative Research. She was recognized as one of the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse magazine for her significant contribution to social justice work and efforts to de/colonize qualitative research Dr. Alan Berkowitz is an independent consultant with expertise in culture change, gender issues, behavioral health, ending men’s violence, and fostering social justice. He has received five national awards for his scholarship and innovative programs on substance abuse and sexual assault prevention, men’s role in ending violence against women, gender issues, bystander intervention theory and skills, and diversity. At Hobart and William Smith Colleges he developed a model rape prevention program for men that was recently evaluated and found to reduce actual sexual assaults by 75% at 4-month follow-up. Alan is a frequent keynote speaker at national conferences, a co-founder of the social norms approach, the author of a book on bystander intervention theory and skills, and currently serves as a sexual assault prevention and bystander intervention subject matter expert for the US Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Cornell University and is a licensed psychologist. |
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JASON: Dr. Harry Brod was my dear and respected mentor and friend for over 20 years. I want to continue expressing my gratitude for his kindness, inspiration, support and intellectual leadership by retaining his bio here. His profound and creative scholarly contributions continue to guide me and this project. He appeared in my first documentary, about male friendships. I produced it in 1997 and it can be viewed by clicking on it at the bottom of the page linked here. Harry's obituary here. Dr. Harry Brod (February 1, 1951 – June 16, 2017) was a child of Holocaust survivors and a child of the 60’s. Both heritages shaped his commitments to justice, expressed in decades of teaching, writing, and activism in the academic study of masculinities (where he was recognized as one of the founding figures of the field) and the profeminist men's movement (for which he has been a leading spokesperson). He earned a PhD in Philosophy and most recently served as Professor of Sociology and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. Dr. Brod served as Director of the Iowa Regent Universities Men’s Gender Violence Prevention Institute and on the Boards of Directors of Humanities Iowa and the American Men’s Studies Association. He was a member of the Iowa Governor's Task Force for Responsible Fatherhood and the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Public Philosophy. He received the Harry Cannon Award for Exemplary and Sustained Contributions to the Field of Men's Studies from the American College Personnel Association’s Standing Committee for Men, as well as the Leadership and Service Award from the Men’s Center of Saint John’s University (MN), and held a Fellowship in Law and Philosophy at Harvard Law School. He is survived by his two children, Artemis and Alex, and his life partner of 18 years, Dr. Karen Mitchell. A DVD of his lecture “Asking For It: The Ethics and Erotics of Sexual Consent,” produced by Media Education Foundation is used to educate on consent by colleges, universities and other institutions internationally, including by the US Air Force. His most recent book is Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way, published by Free Press (Simon & Schuster) in 2012. His previous books are Hegel's Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity and Modernity (Westview, 1992) and the edited volumes The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies (Routledge, 1987) and A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity (Crossing Press, 1988), as well as White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories, co-authored with Cooper Thompson and Emmett Schaefer (Duke University Press, 2003), Theorizing Masculinities, co-edited with Michael Kaufman (Sage, 1994), Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity, co-edited with Rabbi Shawn Zevit (Men’s Studies Press, 2010), and the co-edited The Legacy of the Holocaust: Children and the Holocaust (Jagiellonian University Press, 2002). |
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Dr. Cáel M. Keegan is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Professor Keegan’s research and writing analyze the histories and theoretical implications of queer and transgender media representation, aesthetic figuration, and cultural production. Prof. Keegan is committed to the critical exploration of the popular and has written extensively on transgender and queer affects, ontologies, and phenomenologies as articulated through popular media formats, platforms, and genres. He is the author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender and co-editor of special issues/sections of Transgender Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Somatechnics. In 2021-2022, he was a Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University. Keegan currently co-edits the book series Queer Screens with David Gerstner for Wayne State University Press. Professor Keegan's recent work is interested in the cultural formation of the transgender imaginary and the problems that realism and indexicality pose to the popular expression of transgender life. His current research paradigm argues for an archive of “bad” trans media objects that might illuminate the imposed
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