Gender and Women's Studies

Gender and Women's Studies

Faculty in Gender and Women's Studies

Director

Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten

ashlyn.kuersten@wmich.edu

Administrative Assistant

Patty DeLoach

patty.deloach@wmich.edu

Instructors

Ms. Michelle Bonczek

Ms. Amber Depuydt

Ms. Linda Dick

Ms. Jen Emmerich

Ms. Tracy Hall

Ms. Marin Heinritz

Dr. Janet Heller

Dr. Gail Landberg

Ms. Maria Markus

Mr. David Piacenti

Ms. Joyce Siegel

Ms. Kara Wolff

Undergraduate Assistants

Skylar Joy Bre'Z

Lauren Carney

Jayne Michaels

Holly Vinson

 

Joint Appointments with Gender and Women's Studies

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

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

 

Gender and Women's Studies
3061 Moore Hall
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5365 USA
(269) 387-2511 | (269) 387-2507 Fax
ashlyn.kuersten@wmich.edu