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Creative writing, fiction; Victorian literature, domestic roles of women; neo-Victorian literature.

Comparative Literature; Gender Studies; Psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer analysis of twentieth and twenty-first century literature, visual art, and film from Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States.

Caroline specializes in contemporary literature, media, and culture from the Iberian Peninsula and the Global Hispanophone—Spanish-speaking areas beyond Spain and Latin America—, specifically, Equatorial Guinea and the Western Sahara. Her areas of inquiry include migration, historical memory, gender, sexuality, human rights, and decoloniality.

Gender, Body Politics, Health and Medicine

A former public defender, Dr. Carol Gray is an Assistant Professor of Public Law at UAF, teaching courses in political science and law. She is available to advise any UAF students interested in applying to law school. Gray obtained her JD from Northeastern University School of Law and her Masters in Advocacy (LLM) from Georgetown University Law Center. She also holds a PhD and Masters of Political Science, and certificates in Human Rights; Feminist Studies; and Race, Ethnicity and Politics, from the University of Connecticut.  Gray was a Fulbright Scholar in Montreal; a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar in Egypt; a Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, and a National Association for Public Interest Law Fellow at the Georgia Resource Center which represents those on Georgia’s Death Row. Gray was also a UMass W.E.B. Du Bois Community College Fellow, a Wood/Raith Gender Identity Fellow, and holder of the Mary Miles Bibb post-doctoral teaching fellowship at Framingham State University. Her research is interdisciplinary exploring law, politics and human rights as they intersect with issues of race, class, and gender. She has published in the CLR James Journal; the Worcester Review; and the American Philosophical Association’s Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy and its Black Issues in Philosophy series blog. She published a book chapter on the lack of due process at Guantanamo and has a forthcoming co-authored book chapter on the role of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Israeli foreign policy, an edited volume to be published by Routledge.

Raised in Delta Junction and Fairbanks, Dr. Johnson received her B.A. in Justice from UAF in 2010 and completed both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA (2013; 2018). She taught and conducted research as a professor in the University of ºÚÁÏÉçappAnchorage Justice Center from 2018-2024. In 2024, she returned to Interior ºÚÁÏÉçappto join the UAF Department of Justice. The focus of much of Dr. Johnson’s research is on help-seeking and justice needs among survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and how formal and informal networks can improve those processes. She is also expanding her research into violence prevention and has expertise in the areas of rural-urban differences, substance use and treatment access, and restorative justice. You can access many of her publications via her profile or on the website.

Degrees:
BA, Cornell University (English)
MFA, University of Oregon (Poetry)
Ph.D., University of Utah (Poetry)

Areas of Expertise:
Poetry Writing, Nonfiction Writing, Contemporary Poetry, and Poetics, Eco-poetics, Film, Apocalyptic Texts

History of philosophy, ethics, free will and autonomy, analytic feminist philosophy

Art History, Women in Art History

CTC Department of Writing,  Women's and Gender Studies, Women's Studies Program

Dr. Amy Lauren Lovecraft is a Professor of Political Science and has served as University of ºÚÁÏÉçappfaculty since 2001.   She received her B.A. in 1994 from Trinity University and began graduate studies in Vienna, Austria pursuing her undergraduate focus on international economics and European integration. Unable to resist North America for long she returned to earn her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin concentrating on American political development, public policy, and political theory. Her dissertation analyzed transboundary water policy between the United States and Canada in the Great Lakes. At UAF her courses include the Law and Society suite – Politics and Judicial Process, Con Law I and Con Law II – and, among others, Public Policy, Political Economy, and Political Behavior. Working to foster interdisciplinary engagement among students and faculty she is active in the Arctic and Northern Studies and the Resilience and Adaptation programs at UAF. In her research, Dr. Lovecraft explores power dynamics in social-ecological systems. Her scholarship has been published as book chapters and in journals such asArctic, Marine Policy, The American Review of Canadian Studies, Polar Geography, Policy Studies Journal, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Recently she is co-editor of the transdisciplinary volume North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems (Autumn 2011) that developed from collaboration during the International Polar Year. She has been a Dickey Fellow in Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College and a Fulbright Research Scholar in Norway at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO). She has served two terms as a member of the U.S. National Academies Polar Research Board and is he Associate Director of the North by 2020 Forum.  Currently, as the Principle Investigator on a three-year National Science Foundation grant, she leads a team working with resident experts in the Northwest Arctic and North Slope Boroughs on scenarios development asking "what is required for healthy sustainable communities in Arctic ºÚÁÏÉçappby 2040?"

Mary Ludwig is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Her dissertation "Incarcerated Nations: Confinement, Removal, and Policing on the Colorado River Indian Reservation" examines how Indian policy underpins the carceral state. She teaches Indigenous History, History of the North American West, American History, and Public History.

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dr. May's current scholarship focuses on understanding gender and power disparities in the #MeToo movement along with how power may be used in digital media to silence marginalized and disenfranchised populations, excluding them from conversations regarding climate change and environmental science. Dr. May’s research has been published in Journal of Communication Pedagogy, Teaching in Higher Education, and Qualitative Research Reports in Communication. Dr. May also presents at regional, national, and international conferences, including the National Communication Association (NCA) and International Communication Association (ICA). She served as editor for Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy and Education(Lexington, 2020) and Women of the Wild: Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (Lexington, 2022). Dr. May also serves as the current Director of the Public Speaking Center and Graduate Student Coordinator for the MA in Professional Communication.  

Victoria (Tori) McDermott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland in the Public Relations track of the Department of Communication. Her research explores how power is communicated in traditionally masculine environments, specifically the military and higher education. Tori is the first editor of three edited volumes  (2020),  (2022), and On the Front Lines: Women Educators’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic (forthcoming). Her research can be read in the Journal of Communication Pedagogy and Public Relations Review. Tori has presented research at a variety of conferences including but not limited to the National Communication Association Conference, International Communication Association Conference, and the Organization of Biological Field Stations. She is currently the co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Women at UAF and co-chair of the IDEA+ committee at the Organization of Biological Field stations.