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Gender & Women's Studies Faculty

Director

Carole McCann, Associate Professor
ACIV 437, 410-455-2161
Reproductive politics, cultural politics of gender, sexuality, race and science, U.S. women's history

Full-Time Faculty

Jodi Kelber-Kaye, Lecturer, Director, WILL Program
ACIV 436, 410-455-6371
Cultural studies, feminist and queer theories, film and media studies, critical race theory, eugenics, reproduction and reproductive technologies

Part-Time Faculty

Clare Jen, Lecturer

ACIV 440, 410-455-2798

Transnational discourses of gender, race and public health, feminist theories of the body, and critical race studies

Affiliate Faculty

Marina Adler, Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
Gender stratification, cross-national work and family issues, sociology of women

Tiffany Sanders Baffour, Assistant Professor, Social Work
Social work practice with families with an emphasis on African-American at-risk youth and families in rural communities

Jessica Berman, Associate Professor, English
20th-century narrative, gender and cultural studies, feminist theory

Beverly Bickel, Research Professor, Language, Literacy and Culture Program

Globalized communication, new media and transnational public space, and transformational knowledge projects

Dawn Biehler, Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems

historical geography of environmental health in US cities; gender, race, class, and the environment; environmental justice; social geography; housing.

Rebecca Boehling, Associate Professor, History
European women's history, German women, gender and politics in Europe

Anne Brodsky, Associate Professor, Psychology
Girls', women's risk and resilience in community context, qualitative methods

Kathy Bryan, Affiliate Assistant Professor/Lecturer, American Studies
Education and cultural transmission, childhood and family, intellectual history

Sarah Chard, Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology
Medical Anthropology, urban health, anthropology of women

Gloria Chuku, Associate Professor, Africana Studies

frican history, African culture and development, West African history, History of women & gender in Africa, Women in Africa and the Diaspora, Comparative slavery in Africa & the New World

Jean Fernandez, Assistant Professor, English
Victorian literature, narratology, class and literacy studies,
empire and post-colonial theory, autobiography and women’s writing


Amy Froide, Assistant Professor, History
European women's history, women in early modern England, never-married women, women, work, and investment

Marilyn Goldberg, Associate Professor, Ancient Studies
Women in ancient Greece and Italy

Kriste Lindenmeyer, Associate Professor, History
U.S. social history, Gilded Age and Progressive era, public policy, women and gender, history of childhood, historical methods

Ilsa Lottes, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research methods, statistics, gender roles, sexuality, cross-national work on women's status, reproductive and sexual health

Christine Mallinson, Assistant Professor, Language, Literacy and Culture
Race, class, and gender inequality; regional, ethnic, and gender variation in American English; language and discrimination; interface between sociolinguistics and social theory.


Susan McCully, Affiliate Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Theatre
Literature, playwrighting, feminist theatre

Patrice McDermott, Associate Professor and Chair, American Studies
History of feminism, gender in U.S. society, multicultural studies

Susan McDonough, Assistant Professor, History
Medieval history and western civilization, relationships between Christians and Jews, men and women, nobles and the middling sort in late medieval Marseille, the dynamics of gender and religious interaction in history


Eileen O’Brien, Affiliate Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Psychology
Women's and children's health and well-being, integrated mental health and support services programs for women and children, women in adolescence, impact of gender throughout the lifespan

Sara Poggio, Associate Professor, Modern Languages
Latinas in the U.S., gender international migrations and public policies analysis

Michelle Scott, Assistant Professor, History
African-American women's history, U.S. social history, 19th-20th centuries, African-American musical and entertainment culture

Anna Shields, Associate Professor of Chinese, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Director, The Honors College

Chinese literature, specializing in Tang and Five Dynasties poetry and prose, the intersections of literary, social, and intellectual history, including the issues of gendered voice in medieval literature.  

Orianne Smith, Assistant Professor, English
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature and culture, Romantic women writers, millenarianism, the Gothic

Christel Temple, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
African-American literature, African-Caribbean literature

Constantine Vaporis, Associate Professor, History
Women in Asia, East Asian history, urban history

Shelly Wiechelt, Assistant Professor, Social Work
Social work practice, substance use and shame among women, intersection of trauma and substance use problems in the context of culture

Coordinating Committee