Faculty and Staff
Jul 25th, 2012 by Donna Jean Kelsch
As an interdisciplinary department, Women and Gender Studies represents a broad variety of disciplines in a number of departments. Faculty members include anthropologists, artists and art critics, criminologists, economists, educators, health specialists, historians, literary critics, political scientists, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, sociologists, urban affairs analysts, and writers.
Core Faculty
- Monika Shafi, Chair and Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Elias Ahuja Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, more information
- Jennifer Naccarelli, Associate Chair, Women and Gender Studies, Assistant Professor
- Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science
- Suzanne Cherrin, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, more information
- Kara Ellerby, Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Women and Gender Studies, more information
- April Kendra, Assistant Professor, English, Women and Gender Studies
- Marie Laberge, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
- Barbara Ley, Assistant Professor, Communications, Women and Gender Studies, more information
- Jennifer Lobasz, Assistant Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Women and Gender Studies, more information
- Mary Jean Pfaelzer, Professor, English, Women and Gender Studies, more information
- Alvina Quintana, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Black American Studies, more information
- Jessica Schiffman, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
- Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities, Women and Gender Studies, English, more information
- Kathy Turkel, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Instructors
- Mary Ruth Warner, Supplemental Faculty
Staff
- Donna Seldomridge, Administrative Assistant
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Joint Faculty
- Margaret Andersen, Associate Provost, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, more information
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Associate Professor, Department of History, more information
- Gretchen Bauer, Chair and Professor Department of Political Science and International Relations, more information
- Ann Bell, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Anne Bowler, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Anne Boylan, Professor, Department of History, more information
- Emily Davis, Department of English, more information
- Rebecca Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of History, more information
- Peter Feng, Associate chair and Associate Professor, Department of English, more information
- Gary Ferguson, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, more information
- Ruth Fleury-Steiner, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Asia Friedman, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Nancy Getchell, Associate Professor, Health And Exercise Sciences, more information
- Annette Giesecke, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, more information
- Carla Guerron-Montero, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, more information
- Beth Haslett, Professor, Department of Communication, more information
- Judith Herrman, Associate Professor, School of Nursing
- Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, more information
- Saul Hoffman, Chair and Professor, Department of Economics, more information
- Amy Johnson, Professor, School of Nursing
- Jaehee Jung, Associate Professor, Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies, more information
- Barbara Kelly, Professor Emeritus, College of Health and Exercise Sciences
- Chrysanthi Leon, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Wunyabari Maloba, Professor, Department of History, more information
- Rudolph Matthee, Professor, Department of History, more information
- Susan Miller, Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, more information
- Russell Murray, Associate Professor, Department of Music
- Linda Pellecchia, Associate Professor, Department of Music
- Claire Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies (Sexualities and Gender Studies Coordinator)
- Meredith Kennedy Ray, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Language and Literatures
- Karen Rosenberg, Chair and Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Patricia Sloane-White, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Julie Wilgen, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Affiliated Faculty
- Ann L. Ardis, Interim Deputy Provost, Office of the Deputy Provost, Director, Arts and Sciences, Professor, Department of English
- Ronet Bachman, Chair and Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Persephone Braham, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Nancy Brickhouse, Interim Provost, Office of the Provost, Professor, School of Education
- Joan L. Brown, Elias Ahuja Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Donna Budani, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Bethany Hall-Long, Professor, Department of Nursing
- Audrey Helfman, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration
- Carol Henderson, Chair of Black American Studies, Associate Professor, Department of English
- Julie Hubbard, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
- Gladys Ilarregui, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Arwen Mohun, Associate Professor, Department of History
- Kristen Poole, Associate Professor, Department of English
- Laura Salsini, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Kathryn Scantlebury, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Barbara Settles, Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
- Deborah Steinberger, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Susan Strasser, Richards Chaired Professor, Department of History
- Gerald M. Turkel, Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Jeanne Walker, Professor, Department of English
- Tricia Wachtendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

