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Ara Wilson

Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
117 East Duke Bldg., 90760, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies · 2007 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology · 2020 - Present Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society · 2014 - Present Duke Science & Society, Initiatives

Previous Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology · 2013 - 2017 Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology · 2007 - 2012 Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke



Representative, Academic Council, 2019-present

Director of Graduate Studies, GSF, 2013-2020

Member, Executive Advisory Board, Duke University Press, 2014-2018

Chair of Advisory Board, Minor in Sexuality Studies, GSF, 2016-2017

Social Science representative, Executive Committee of the Arts & Sciences Council, 2016-19;

Director, program in the study of sexualities, 2006-2012