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AMUW Professors in the Humanities
A group of alumnae formed the (AMUW) in 1938 to provide housing for women on campus. Since then, the organization has turned its focus to scholarships; annual awards to recognize outstanding graduating students, alumnae and female faculty members; and social, spiritual and educational events that bring women together.
For more than eight decades, AMUW has played a vital role in supporting and empowering ºìÐÓÊÓƵwomen in their academic and professional endeavors. The AMUW professorships continue this legacy by providing professional development funding to advance faculty research and enrich the student experience.
Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova and Dr. Heather Hathaway have been named Association of ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Women (AMUW) Professors in the Humanities. This prestigious honor, awarded for a five-year term beginning in fall 2025, recognizes their outstanding contributions to research, teaching and service.
The Chair in Humanistic Studies was endowed in 1963 through successful fundraising by AMUW members to bring distinguished scholars to ºìÐÓÊÓƵto teach, lecture and interact with students. The Boheim Lecture Series was established concurrently with a gift from Mary Boheim Finnigan, a friend of Marquette, in honor of her mother.
Previous AMUW Chairs
2023 Chair
Scholar of nineteenth-century American literature and award-winning fiction writer, , Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami, joined the English department at ºìÐÓÊÓƵ as the 2023-24 AMUW Women’s Chair in Humanistic Studies.
2022 Chair
, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, is a leading theorist of Latina/x feminisms. Her work, including In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self, emphasizes the importance of lived experience and embodiment in human understandings of social identity. She is known for her commitment to mentoring of people of color, especially Latinx people, and for founding the Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable, which fosters intellectual exchange among Latina/x people both inside and outside of the academy.
2021 Chair
, Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will join the ºìÐÓÊÓƵDepartment of Social and Cultural Studies for the fall 2021 semester.
2020 Chair
was not able to be with us due to COVID-19.
2019 Chair
is Professor Emerita at Northwestern University, where she taught in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and directed the Latina and Latino Studies Program. Her scholarship has examined popular music and gender, transnational musics, the cultural politics of language among U.S. Latinx communities, and more recently, the multiple nationalities of Intralatinx in Chicago.
2018 Chair
is a professor Emerita at duke University where she served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Program in Literature. She teaches and writes on the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries.
