Faculty

Steering Committee

Deborah Dickey (psychology), B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.S., University of Pittsburgh. Social, emotional, and personality development in children; psychological views of sex and gender; parent-child interactions.
Jennifer Hellwarth (English), B.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., Stanford; Ph.D., University of California (Santa Barbara). Medieval and early modern gender, sexuality, female devotional and literacy practices.
Helen McCullough (technology and Learning Commons), B.A., Allegheny College; M.Ed.IT, Edinboro University. Information technology; information literacy; contemporary media criticism.
Barbara Shaw (women’s studies). B.A. Colby College, Graduate Certificate and M.A. University of Maryland, College Park, Research M.A. University of Birmingham (UK), Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park.  Transnational feminisms; feminist and queer theory; Caribbean women’s literature and cultural studies; migration and diaspora studies; women, gender & sexuality in popular culture.
Paula A. Treckel (history), B.A., Kent State University; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University. Women and family life in American history; women’s history.
Caryn Werner (mathematics), B.A., SUNY–Binghamton; M.S., Ph.D., Colorado State University. Algebraic geometry.
Sharon Wesoky (political science), B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Feminism across cultures; women’s movements; Asian/Chinese politics and society.

Affiliated Faculty

Courtney Bailey (communication arts). Rhetoric and media studies.
Terry Bensel (environmental science). Ecological economics; climate change; sustainable development.
Bill Bywater (philosophy). Feminist philosophy.
Amelia Carr (art). Medieval France and Germany; liturgical art and drama; Northern and Italian Renaissance.
Stephen Casler (economics). Business cycles; energy and resource economics.
Diane D’Amico (English). 19th-century poetry and fiction.
Courtenay Dodge (French). Modern poetry; generative grammar.
JW P. Heuchert (psychology). Clinical psychology, psychopathology; peace psychology.
Aimee Knupsky (psychology). Human cognitive processes; language, bilingualism, memory, and imagery.
Mark LaPointe (communication arts). Media and cultural studies.
Aisha Lockridge (English). African American literature; black studies.
David C. Miller (English). 19th-century American literature and culture; American art; American studies.
Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak (psychology). Social and cognitive bases of religious belief systems; eating habits and beliefs; self-perceptions of control.

Laura Quinn(english). African American literature, literature and politics, Marxist feminism.
Barbara Riess (modern and classical languages). Spanish American literature; Hispanic feminist theory; literary criticism.
Joshua Searle-White (psychology). Cross-cultural psychology; clinical psychology.
Robert Seddig (political science). Contemporary legal philosophy; U.S. constitutional law and history; sociology of law.
Ishita Sinha-Roy (communication arts). Feminist theory in communication.
Ben Slote (English). American literature and culture.
Beth Watkins (communication arts). Directing; acting.
Glen Wurst (biology). Biological aspect of sexual development.

Selected Faculty Publications/Achievements

  • “Female Suffrage in New Jersey, 1790-1807,” published in Women and Politics
  • The Reproductive Unconscious in Medieval and Early Modern England, published by Routledge
  • “Prophesying Daughters: Testimony, Censorship, and Literacy Among Early Quaker Women,” published in Critical Survey
  • “Women’s Liturgical Manuscripts at Klosterneuburg,” published in The Early Drama, Art, and Music Review
  • Dark Eden: The Swamp in 19th-Century American Culture, published by Cambridge Press
  • “Women and Society in Pre-Colonial Iyede,” 
published in Anthropos
  • “Oral Field Techniques and Women’s History: The Case of Owan, Nigeria,” published in Ufahamu
  • “Environmental Justice from the Grassroots: 
Reflections on Gender, History and Expertise,” published in The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States
  • “Gender Schema Theory Revisited: Men’s Stereotypes of American Women,” published in Sex Roles
  • Unequal Justice, published by Simon and Schuster
  • To Comfort the Heart: Women in Seventeenth-Century America
  • Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender and Time
  • When Men and Women Mattered: A History of 
Gender Relations Among the Owan of Nigeria
  • Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization, published by Routledge