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Gender and Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Jon Adams – English. Areas of expertise: American Literature; War Literature; Gender and Sexuality studies. E-mail address: jon.adams@wmich.edu
Dr. Melisa Beeson – Public Affairs & Administration. Research interests: Evaluation and assessment of nonprofit organizations, giving circles and women’s philanthropy. Email address: melisa.beeson@wmich.edu
Dr. Linda Borish – History. Areas of expertise: 19th-Century American Social and Cultural History; American Sport History; Women’s History; American Studies; Material Culture. Email address: linda.borish@wmich.edu
Dr. Susan Caringella –Sociology. Areas of expertise: Criminology, social problems, women and violence, methodology. Email address: susan.caringella@wmich.edu
Dr. Sue Ellen Christian – Communication. Areas of expertise: newspaper reporting and writing, with an emphasis in health and minority issues. Email address: sueellen.christian@wmich.edu
Dr. Janet Coryell – History. Areas of expertise: Antebellum and Civil War; Women's History; Biography. Email address: janet.coryell@wmich.edu
Dr. Suhashni Datta-Sandhu - Political Science. Faculty Supervisor, African Studies at Cape Town Study Abroad Program. Areas of expertise: African political systems, gender and development, gender and international environmental politics, and democratization. Email address: s.datta-sandhu@wmich.edu
Dr. Mariam Deme – Africana Studies. Research interests: Francophone and Anglophone African literature and culture, as well as in African-American history, literature and culture. Email address: mariam.deme@wmich.edu
Dr. Margaret Dupuis – English. Areas of expertise: Early Modern Poetry and Drama. E-mail address: margaret.dupuis@wmich.edu
Dr. Nora Faires – History. Areas of expertise: 19th and 20th-Century US; Gender, Migration, Race, and Ethnicity. Email address: nora.faires@wmich.edu
Dr. Rebekah Farrugia – Communication. Gender, technology, popular music, and cultural production. Current research project is a study of women who DJ and produce electronic/dance music. Email address: rebekah.farrugia@wmich.edu
Dr. Elena Gapova – Sociology. Areas of expertise: Nation, gender and class in post communist societies. Email address: Elena.gapova@wmich.edu
Dr. Marion (Buddy) Gray – History. Areas of expertise: Modern Germany; Gender History; Agricultural and Environmental History. Email: marion.gray@wmich.edu
Dr. Carolyn Harris – Spanish. Areas of expertise: twentieth-century and current Spanish theater with an emphasis on women writers. Email address: carolyn.harris@wmich.edu
Dr. Emily Hauptmann - Political Science. Areas of expertise: contemporary democratic theory (including deliberative democratic theory and rational choice theory) and in the history of political science as a discipline. Email address: emily.hauptmann@wmich.edu
Dr. Barbara Havira – History. Areas of expertise: 19th and 20th Century United States with an Emphasis on Economic and Labor History, Local History, and History of Women, and History of Education. Email address: barbara.havira@wmich.edu
Dr. Sara Hill – Anthropology. Research interests: Garbage, recycling, environmental politics, biofuels. Email address: sara.hill@wmich.edu
Dr. Mark Hurwitz – Political Science. Research interests: judicial politics, judicial behavior, law and courts, and congressional politics. Email address: mark.hurwitz@wmich.edu
Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten - Political Science. Areas of expertise: American judicial behavior, particularly on the US Courts of Appeals. Email address: ashlyn.kuersten@wmich.edu
Dr. Priscilla Lambert - Political Science. Areas of expertise: Japanese employment and family policy, comparative social policy, and the policy-making process. Email address: priscilla.lambert@wmich.edu
Dr. Irma Lopez – Spanish. Areas of expertise: contemporary Spanish American narrative, particularly women writers and Mexican literature. Email address: irma.lopez@wmich.edu
Dr. Vincent Lyon-Callo – Anthropology. Research interests: Inequality and resistance, political economy, homelessness, poststructuralism. Email address: vincent.lyon-callo@wmich.edu
Dr. Jennifer Machiorlatti – Communication. Research interests: Media Production. Email address: jennifer.machiorlatti@wmich.edu
Dr. Ann Miles – Anthropology. Research interests: Medical anthropology, gender and family, transnational migration. Email address: ann.miles@wmich.edu
Dr. Angie Moe – Sociology. Areas of expertise: Criminology, women & violence, gender & justice, feminist epistemology, gender; gender performance & construction. Email address: angie.moe@wmich.edu
Dr. Chris Nagle – English. Research interests: Literary and Critical Theory, Romanticism, 18th-Century British and Irish Literature, Women Writers. Email address: chris.nagle@wmich.edu
Dr. Ilana Nash – English. Areas of expertise: Youth Literature, Gender, Popular Culture, Multicultural Literature, and American Literature. E-mail: ilana_nash@yahoo.com.
Dr. Dasha Nisula - Foreign Languages. Email address: dasha.nisula@wmich.edu
Dr. Mark Orbe – Communication. Research Interests: Co-cultural communication, intergroup relations, African American communication, mass media representations of underrepresented group members, negotiation/intersection of multiple cultural identities. Email address: mark.orbe@wmich.edu
Dr. Gwen Raaberg – English. Areas of expertise: Women's Studies, Modernism. Sabbatical 2007/08 E-mail address: raaberg@wmich.edu
Dr. Sybil Rhodes - Political Science. Areas of expertise: the influence of civil society and social movements on public policy, including economic regulation as well as foreign policy and citizenship policy. Email address: sybil.rhodes@wmich.edu
Dr. Cynthia Running- Johnson - Foreign Languages. Email address: c.running-johnson@wmich.edu Foreign Languages
Dr. Rika Saito – Foreign Language. Research interests: Japanese. Email address: rika.saito@wmich.edu
Dr. Eve Salisbury – English. Areas of expertise: Old and Middle English Literature including Chaucer, Medieval Women Writers, Medieval Literary Theory. E-mail: eve.salisbury@wmich.edu
Dr. Zoann Snyder – Sociology. Areas of expertise: Criminology; gender and justice; race, ethnicity, and justice; and sociology of law. Email address: zoann.snyder@wmich.edu
Dr. Laura Spielvogel – Anthropology. Research interests: Gender and the body, sport and leisure, identity. Email address: laura.spielvogel@wmich.edu
Dr. Jocelyn Steinke – Communication. Research interests: Science communication, images of women scientists in the mass media. Email address: jocelyn.steinke@wmich.edu
Dr. Bilinda Straight – Anthropology. Research interests: Human condition, experience. death. landscape, memory, indigenous histories, sexuality, violence, gender, adornment, material culture. Email address: bilinda.straight@wmich.edu
Dr. Jacinda Swanson - Political Science. Areas of expertise: contemporary, feminist, and democratic theory, and on issues of political economy within both political theory and American politics. Email address: jacinda.swanson@wmich.edu
Dr. Gwen Tarbox – English. Areas of expertise: American Literature, Children's and Adolescent Literature, Feminist Theory. E-mail address: gatarbox@yahoo.com
Dr. Susan Weinger - Social Work. Areas of expertise: Interpersonal practice with women, individual treatment, poverty. Email address: susan.weinger@wmich.edu
Dr. Kathleen Wong – Communication. kathleen.wong@wmich.edu
Dr. Allen Zagarell – Anthropology. Research interests: Social inequality, ethnohistory, political economy, computer-based applications in archaeology. Email address: allen.zagarell@wmich.edu