Women's and Gender Studies Faculty

Administration

Laura C. Tuley, Instructor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies

Anthropology

Jeffrey D. Ehrenreich, Professor; Cultural anthropology, critical theory and history of ethnology, qualitative methods, comparative religion and shamanism, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, the body as social text, culture contact and colonialism; Amazonia and Mesoameraca.

Steve Striffler, Professor and Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies; Cultural anthropology, Latin America, immigration, labor, political economyp>

Martha C. Ward, Research Professor; medical anthropology and women's studies, including early child-bearing, gender, poverty, and AIDS, women's lives, race, and magico-medical religions

English

Elizabeth Ruth Blankenship, Instructor; gender and sexuality in speculative fiction, illustrated fiction and non-fiction

Anne Boyd Rioux, Associate Professor; 19th century, cultural studies, and gender, specifically Women and Authorship, American Literary Regionalism, and Nature and the Nineteenth-Century American Literary Imagination

Nancy L. Easterlin, University Research Professor; British Romanticism, Prose Fiction, Literary Criticism and Theory, and Women’s Studies, with a focus in cognitive and evolutionary approaches to literature

John R. O. Gery, Research Professor; Poetry Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Poetics, Women's Poetry, specifically women's poetry and feminist poetics, including special courses in Modern American Women Poets, Recent American Women's Poetry and Cultural Identity, and American Immigrant Poets

Eileen Harney, Instructor; medieval women’s spirituality, the treatment of early saints’ lives in the Middle Ages, and gender motifs in the early and medieval Christian traditions

Kavita Hatwalkar, Instructor; Walt Whitman, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, cultural studies, feminism, poetry, and issues of race, gender and citizenship

Elizabeth M. Lewis, Retained Instructor; dance in literature, specifically the centrality of dance aesthetics to the style and structure of modern epics.

Catherine A. Loomis, Associate Professor; Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists, performance history, early modern women writers, and the use of corpses on the Jacobean stage

Kay A. Murphy, Associate Professor; poetry writing and poetry criticism Doreen M. Piano, Assistant Professor; the intersection of feminist studies, rhetorical theory, material culture, and literacy studies

Lisa R. Verner, Retained Instructor; ancient and medieval monsters, maps, and hunting manuals; and ancient and medieval sexuality studies, especially the discourse of prostitution in the Middle Ages

Robin A. Werner, Retained Instructor

History

Nikki Brown, Associate Professor; the American history survey, African American, U.S. Women, African American Women, American intellectual, African American intellectual, and Black Comedy as Social Commentary

Catherine M. Candy, Assistant Professor; postcolonial histories of class, sexuality, race and nation, specifically South Asian, British and Irish twentieth century feminist internationalism, the fin de siècle occult, music and imprisonment

Mary N. Mitchell, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies; U.S. South, Slavery & Emancipation, women and slavery, 19th-century U.S. cultural history, visual history and culture, the history of childhood

Madelon M. Powers, Associate Professor and Chair; U.S. social, urban, and women’s history, currently the adventures of runaway girls in New Orleans during World War I, the experiences of college women in Berkeley in the 1960s, and the role of neighborhood bars as “first responders” in helping New Orleans residents during and after Hurricane Katrina

Philosophy

Edward R. Johnson, Professor and Chair, and Director of Honors Program

Political Science

Christine Lucile Day, Professor and Chair; American Political Behavior and Institutions, Public Policy, Political Gerontology, and Women and Politics

Sociology

Jean Belkhir, Associate Professor; Race, Gender, Class and Capitalism, currently focusing on the lack of class analysis in Race, Gender and Class Studies.

D’Lane Compton, Assistant Professor; social psychology and social demography, and research exploring issues of sexual orientation, focusing primarily on same-sex, unmarried partners and families.

Pamela J. Jenkins, Professor; research on how communities sustain themselves, solve problems, and resolve conflicts, including issues of domestic violence, public safety, and community violence

Rachel E. Luft, Assistant Professor; Race, Gender, and Social Movements, specifically grassroots responses to Hurricane Katrina, focusing on raced and gendered dimensions of community organizing strategies, the politicization of displaced people, and volunteer solidarity politics

Susan A. Mann, Professor and Associate Chair; sociological theory, feminist theory and third-wave feminism

Phyllis H. Raabe, Assistant Professor; Work and Family, Gender, and Workplace and Social Policies