Sucheta Mazumdar
Even in these hard times there is some positive news, notes Gloria DeSole, Director of Affirmative Action. With the appointments made in 1991, the ratio of female to male faculty, at least at the untenured level, has almost reached parity. Forty-five percent of the University's faculty at the junior level are now women. The challenge of achieving parity at the level of associate and full professors still remains, however.
It is clear that interest in research on women and gender issues continues to grow. IROW now has sixty associates, including many of the new appointments. Others, though on our campus for some time, have recently joined IROW. We would like to introduce our new associates and welcome them as IROW enters a new decade of research and scholarship at the University at Albany.
The large number of new members from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts adds greatly to IROW's current strengths in literature and art and expands our expertise on French and Spanish speaking areas of the world. They include the following.
Eloise Briere, an Assistant Professor of French Studies, writes on women's voices in the literature of Francophone Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.
Suzanne Carroll, a Lecturer in English, specializes in 19th and 20th century women writers.
Sarah R. Cohen, appointed as Assistant Professor in Art History, researches issues of gender in 17th and 18th century art.
Teresa Ebert, Assistant Professor of English, focuses on feminist theory, postmodern critical theory, and cultural studies.
Rosemary Hennessy, Assistant Professor of English, specializes in feminist theory and postmodern and 19th century cultural studies.
Edith Moss Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Her areas of interest include modern Spanish and Spanish-American literatures, women as myth and metaphor, and Afro-Hispanic literature.
A focus on policy-oriented research unites the following new appointees from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy:
Deborah Avant is an Assistant Professor in Political Science with special interest in international relations theory and feminist critiques of international relations theory.
Frankie Y. Bailey has joined the School of Criminal Justice as a Visiting Assistant Professor and her areas of specialization are gender and crime, race and crime, and crime history.
Bonnie Carlson, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare, works on family violence and gender roles across the lifespan.
Sharon L. Harlan is the Director of Research, Center for Women in Government. Her specialty areas include gender and work, stratification, and women and social policy.
Anne Hildreth, Assistant Professor in Political Science, focuses on political behavior and public opinion.
Judith Saidel, Director, Center for women in Government and Adjunct Professor, Public Administration and Policy, researches women and public policy and nonprofit management and organizations.
Michelle van Ryn, Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, is interested in research on women and the medical care system and in stressful events such as violence against women.
Alissa Pollitz Worden is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice. Her specialty areas include criminal courts, judicial policy, and gender issues in criminal justice.
The interests of new IROW members in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences span many centuries and areas of expertise.
Anita Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor in Economics, specializes in labor economics, applied microeconometrics, and female and family labor supply models.
Susan Malbin, Lecturer in History, concentrates on the 12th century, with a focus on family, women, and feudal power.
Susan Senecah, Visiting Assistant Professor in Communication, is interested in the women's movement and in gender issues in media and organizations.
Finally, some of our new members have multidisciplinary expertise that spans college boundaries.
Luz del Alba Acevedo has joined the Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies Departments as a Lecturer. She writes on women in development and on the political economy of gender.
Deborah Curry, Assistant Librarian, is interested in research resources in women's studies and in Africana studies.
Linda Pershing, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, specializes in folklore, feminist theory in anthropology, and peace studies.