Center Staff and Leadership

Faculty Director
she/her/hers
ddelogu@uchicago.edu 

Daisy Delogu is the Howard L. Willett Professor of French Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She has been an affiliate faculty member of CSGS since 2004, and has served the Center in various capacities, including as part of the Board of Directors, prize selection committees, and on the undergraduate curriculum committee that proposed and then designed the core sequence, Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations. She also has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses cross-listed in CSGS, and has organized conferences and reading groups in collaboration with the Center. Daisy has published on the early modern querelle des femmes, female authors’ appropriation of male-authored texts, gender performance in medieval poetry, and the feminization of the body politic. Her book Allegorical Bodies explored figural representations of women in medieval literature, showing how the human form provided an imaginary space onto which might be mapped an ideal social order, while the allegorical figures of France and the University of Paris – staged textually as mothers and daughters – enacted highly-conventional paradigms of femininity and sexuality, thereby reinforcing the “natural” hierarchy inherent in the gender binary. Her current project looks in part at how women, as producers of both people and goods, are integral to the accumulation and intergenerational transmission of wealth. Outside of work, she spends time with her kids and cats, and enjoys reading, running, and baking. Visit Daisy's Website.

Associate Director
she/her/hers
tbrazas@uchicago.edu
773-795-6503

Tate joined the Center in 2014 where she provides administrative, financial, operational and programming support. She completed graduate work in Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University where her research focused on internet-based organizing and identity building among pregnant and parenting youth. She also received a BA with Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she majored in Community Studies with an emphasis on feminist organizing. Tate has developed and co-instructed both a graduate seminar course at San Francisco State University ("Queer, Feminist, and Sociological: A Readings Course") and an undergraduate seminar course at the University of California, Santa Cruz ("Youth & Sexual Politics"). At the University, Tate also serves as a Resident Head in Housing and Residence Life. Both at the Center and in Housing, Tate loves curating thematic snacks. For leisure, Tate enjoys vegan baking, swimming in the lake, dancing for fun, and spending time with her exceptionally sweet dog, Bee.