Core
Faculty
Maia
Boswell-Penc (Ph.D., University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill) Undergraduate Director
Literary theory; environmental justice; feminist pedagogy.
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.
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) Honors Program Director
Asian American studies; modern Chinese social history; transnational
studies; film and popular culture; production of interactive
hypertext narratives.
Marjorie
Pryse (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz)
Interdisciplinarity, methodology, and field development in Women's
Studies; feminist theory; regionalism in American fiction; issues
of canonicity and multiculturalism in the humanities; psychoanalytic
object relations.
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. (On sabbatical leave 2007-2008.)
Barbara
Sutton (Ph.D., University of Oregon)
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.
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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.
Judith
Barlow (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
American women playwrights; feminist critical theory and theater;
gender and writing.
Iris
Berger (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Women and gender in Africa; comparative perspectives on women;
women's history; labor history; South Africa.
Roberta
Bernstein (Ph.D., Columbia University)
Art history; art since 1945; painting, sculpture, printmaking;
special interest in art of the 1950s and 1960s; iconography including
gender issues.
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.
Gwen
Moore (Ph.D.,
New York University) Department Chair
Comparative studies of gender and leadership; gender and social
networks; civil society and gender inequality; political sociology.
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.
Bibliographer
Deborah
LaFond (M.I.L.S., University of California,
Berkeley)
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