Scholars@Duke
Ara Wilson

Ara Wilson

Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
ara.wilson@duke.edu
117 East Duke Bldg., 90760, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours

Recent Courses

CULANTH 89S: First-Year Seminar
Spring 2025, Fall 2023
EAS 791: Reading Topics: Independent Study
Fall 2024
GSF 278: Sex/Gender - Nature/Nurture: Intersections of Biology and Society
Fall 2023
GSF 361: Money, Sex, Power
Spring 2025, Spring 2024
GSF 590S: Selected Topics in Feminist Studies
Spring 2024, Fall 2024
GSF 89S: First Year Seminar in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (TOP)
Spring 2025, Fall 2023
HISTORY 590S: Topics in History Seminar
Spring 2024
RIGHTS 361: Money, Sex, Power
Spring 2025, Spring 2024
SCISOC 89S: First Year Seminar Topics in Science and Society
Spring 2025, Fall 2023

Teaching Summary

Duke Centennial course award, GSF The Feminist 1970s, 2024
Advisory Board Member, Sexuality Studies Minor, GSF, 2017-present
Organizer, Trans Pedagogy Workshop, 2017
Sponsor, Duke Data+ summer program on the national transgender discrimination survey
Organizer, Transgender Studies & Pedagogy, spring 2017

Advising & Mentoring Summary

GSF Undergraduate Honors Program Director

Informal advising to graduate students enrolled in the Certificate of Feminist Studies (e.g. job preparation, publishing agendas, conference applications)
Job letter workshop, Fall 2019

Post-doctoral Fellow mentoring, GSFS