Women's Studies Faculty Listing

Core Faculty

Virginia Eubanks (Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Information technology and urban poverty in the United States; the relationship between public policy and feminist and anti-racist activism; collaborative research, design and educational approaches such as popular education and participatory action research. On sabbatical leave 2012-13.

Janell Hobson (Ph.D., Emory University) Graduate Director
Women in the African Diaspora, postcolonial feminist theories, critical race theories, film and popular culture.

Vivien W. Ng (Ph.D., University of Hawaii) Department Chair
Asian American studies; U.S. Women's History; U.S. Civil Rights History; transnational studies; film and popular culture; documentary film production.

Barbara Sutton (Ph.D., University of Oregon) Honors Program Director
Globalization; body politics; women in Latin America; human rights; women's movements; global justice movements; intersections of systems of inequality (race, class, sexuality, nation); qualitative methods. (On sabbatical leave 2013-2014)

Joint Faculty

Edna Acosta-Belén (Ph.D., Columbia University)
Gender and development in Latin America and the Caribbean; cultural studies; U.S. Latinas; global women's studies.

Iris Berger (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Women and gender in Africa; comparative perspectives on women; women's history; labor history; South Africa.

Christine E. Bose (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
U.S. historical demography; gender and employment in Latin America; social stratification and the labor market; household technology.

Sarah R. Cohen (Ph.D., Yale University)
Representations of the body, gender, and gesture in early Modern European visual culture (1500-1800); animals in visual culture and natural philosophy in the early modern era.

Julie Novkov (J.D., New York University; Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Law, gender, race and constitutional/political development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States.

Glenna Spitze (Ph.D., University of Illinois)
Gender, families and aging; household labor; intergenerational relations; work and family issues.

Retired Core Faculty

Bonnie Spanier (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Science and politics of breast cancer; women's health policy; feminist science studies; gender, race, class, sexuality, and ableness in the sciences; ideologies of difference in biology, particularly molecular biology. Email:bspanier@albany.edu

Bibliographer

Deborah LaFond (M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley).