Anne Gessler

Anne Gessler is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Humanities program and Director of the First-Year Seminar Program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL), within the College of Human Sciences and Humanities. She also coordinates the UHCL Common Reader Program. Her doctorate in American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin (2015) informs her interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Her research focuses on social movement history, women’s and gender studies, media studies, and utopian studies. She authored Cooperatives in New Orleans: Collective Action and Urban Development (2020), analyzing cooperative movements’ impact on New Orleans’ economic and political institutions. Her current project explores Jewish and non-Jewish women’s coalition-building in New Orleans to professionalize public health and social work.

Gessler’s work appears in journals like Utopian Studies, Journal of Southern History, and Feminist Media Studies. Her teaching spans humanities disciplines, emphasizing intersectional approaches to history and social advocacy.