Women's and Gender Studies

Faculty

CORE FACULTY

• MARTHA DONKOR
• Women's & Gender Studies, History
• MDonkor@wcupa.edu
• Transnational Feminisms; Women's History

• LISA HUEBNER
• Women's & Gender Studies, Sociology
• LHuebner@wcupa.edu
• Intersectionality; Work; Globalization; Intimacy; Violence; Feminist Theories; Qualitative Method

• LIAM OLIVER LAIR
• Women's & Gender Studies
• LLair@wcupa.edu
• Gender & Sexuality Studies;Transfeminisms;American Studies, Trans Studies; LGBTQ Studies;Gender & Race

• TABASSUM RUBY
• Women's & Gender Studies, Qualitative Methods
• TRuby@wcupa.edu
• Transnational/Global Feminisms, Islam, Gender, Modernity, Secularism, and Postcolonial and Critical Race Studies

• SIMON RUCHTI
• Women's & Gender Studies, Philosophy
• SRuchti@wcupa.edu
• Feminist Theories; Queer Theories; Masculinity Studies; Trans* Theories; Film and Performance Studies

• JUSTIN SPRAGUE
• Women's & Gender Studies
• JSprague@wcupa.edu
• Critical Race/Multiracial Studies; Ethnic Food and Foodways; Motherwork and the Ethics of Care; Queer and Intersectional Theory; Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms; and Feminist Pedagogy

AFFILIATED FACULTY

• JEN BACON
• English
• JBacon@wcupa.edu
• Contemporary Rhetoric; Queer Theory; Lesbian Studies; Narrative Studies; Qualitative Research Methods

• ELLIE BROWN
• Psychology
• EBrown@wcupa.edu
• Research; Teaching and Clinical Interests in Children's Academic and Social-Emotional Development; Developmental Risk Related to Poverty and Oppression; Models of Individual and Social Change

• JUANITA COMFORT
• English
• JComfort@wcupa.edu
• Composition Theory & Pedagogy; Rhetorical Criticism; Black Feminist Essayists

• VIRGINIA M. DA COSTA
• Art
• VdaCosta@wcupa.edu
• Women Artists, Women Writers 1550-1700; Ancient and Medieval Art; Travel Abroad Programs

• KRISTIN CROSSNEY
• Geography & Planning
• KCrossney@wcupa.edu
• Urban Geography; Housing; Community Development; Racial Inequality; Quantitative Research Methods

• ELI DEHOPE
• Social Work
• EDeHope@wcupa.edu
• Aging; Mental Health; Health Care; Sexuality

• JINA FAST
• Women's and Gender Studies, Philosophy
• JFast@wcupa.edu
• Feminist Philosophy

• JOY FRITSCHLE
• Geography & Planning
• JFritschle@wcupa.edu
• Sustainability and Sustainable Development; Feminist Science and Pedagogy; Biogeography; Ecological Restoration and Environmental Conservation

• SUSAN GANS
• Psychology
• SGans@wcupa.edu
• Biological Psychology; Individual Differences Among Females in Reproductive Physiology and Behavior

• KARIN GEDGE
• History
• KGedge@wcupa.edu
• 19th Century U.S. Cultural History; History of American Women; History of American Religions; History of Education and Pedagogy

• ERIN HURT
• 2016 Interim Director of Women's and Gender Studies
• EHurt@wcupa.edu
• US Latina/O Literatures; 20th Century American Literatures; Women and Gender Studies

• LAURI L. HYERS
• Psychology
• LHyers@wcupa.edu
• Prejudice from the Target's Perspective; Activism; Rites of Passage to Womanhood; Group Identity; Social Psychology

• DEAN JOHNSON
• Philosophy, Peace & Conflict Studies
• DJohnson4@wcupa.edu
• Activism; Social Justice; Social Movements; Violence; Intersectionality; Nonviolence; Critical Race Theory; Critical Whiteness Studies; Women and Religion

• LISA KIRSCHENBAUM
• History
• LKirschenbaum@wcupa.edu
• Modern European and Russian History; History of Family and Childhood; Gender and the Experience and Memory of War

• RODNEY MADER
• English
• RMader@wcupa.edu
• Early American Literature and Cultural Studies; Queer Theory

• DEBORAH MANDEL
• Nursing
• DMandel@wcupa.edu
• RN-BSN Studies

• DEBORAH MAHLSTEDT
• Psychology
• DMahlstedt@wcupa.edu
• Social Psychology; Small Group Processes; Psychology of Women; Dating Violence; Models of Social Change

• MELINA MCCONATHA-ROSLE
• Psychology
• MMcConatha-Rosle@wcupa.edu
• Human Development; Gender; Family; Group Dynamics

• LISA M. MILLHOUS
• Communication Studies
• LMillhous@wcupa.edu
• Organizational Communication; Intercultural Communication; Small Group and Leadership Dynamics

• MERRY PERRY
• English
• MPerry@wcupa.edu
• Rhetoric and Composition; Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory and Pedagogy; Masculinities and Men's Studies; Beauty Culture; Early Modern Drama

• RUTH PORRITT
• Philosophy
• RPorritt@wcupa.edu
• Aesthetics; Feminist Aesthetics; Women and Creativity

• GEETHA RAMANATHAN
• English
• GRamanathan@wcupa.edu
• Third World; Black; Feminist Literature and Film

• KATHLEEN RILEY
• Literacy
• KRiley@wcupa.edu
• Gender and Sexuality in Literacy and Feminist Pedagogy

• NANCY RUMFIELD
• Art
• NRumfield@wcupa.edu
• Photographic Images; Women and Sexuality; Digital Design

• STACEY SCHLAU
• Languages & Cultures
• SSchlau@wcupa.edu
• Latin American and Spanish Women Writers; Narrative Theory; Colonial Latin American Literature

• FRAUKE SCHNELL
• Political Science
• FSchnell@wcupa.edu
• Public Opinion; Women and Politics; Political Psychology; Political Socialization; Research Methods

• HELEN SCHROEPFER
• Philosophy
• HSchroepfer@wcupa.edu
• Feminist Philosophy of Religion; Religion and Ethics; Contemporary Continental Thought

• ELEANOR SHEVLIN
• English
• EShevlin@wcupa.edu
• 18th-Century British Literature and Culture; Postcolonial Writing and Theory; History of the Book

• ADALE SHOLOCK
• Women's & Gender Studies
• ASholock@wcupa.edu
• Anti-Racist Feminisms and White Privilege; Self-Representation and Visibility Politics; Feminist Theories and Methodologies; Women's Centers

• CAROLYN SORISIO
• English
• CSorisio@wcupa.edu
• Nineteenth Century American Literature; Representations of Race and Gender; Women's Literature

• LINDA STEVENSON
• Political Science
• LStevenson@wcupa.edu
• Latin American Culture and Politics

• MARIA VAN LIEW
• Languages & Cultures
• MVanliew@wcupa.edu
• Spanish Cultural Studies; Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature and Film; Feminist Film Theory

• JULIE WIEST
• Sociology
• JWiest@wcupa.edu
• Sociology of Culture; Social Psychology; Gender and Crime; Media Representation

• JOAN WOOLFREY
• Philosophy
• JWoolfrey@wcupa.edu
• Ethical Theory; Bioethics; Feminist Thought

• HYOEJIN YOON
• English
• HYoon@wcupa.edu
• Rhetoric & Composition; Critical Pedagogy; Critical Theory; Asian American Feminist Theories; Writing and Technology