Core areas of research in the department include the intersections of gender, race, and class (Gailey, Moses, McMullin, Ossman, Patterson); feminist theory and epistemology (Ashmore, Schwenkel, Ossman, Gailey); state and gender relations (Ossman, Gailey, Ashmore); reproduction (McMullin, Gailey); kinship, family, households, and social organization (Kronenfeld, Fay, Gailey, Ashmore); gender and representation (Ossman, Schwenkel); landscape, gender, and archaeology (Ashmore).