Department of Women's Studies

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Faculty

Irina Aristarkhova
	Office: 116 Willard Building Office Hours: Wed 1:00-3:00PM	email | website
	Phone: 867-1230
	Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Art. Fields of specialization: cyberculture and cyberfeminism, technology and difference, feminist theory and aesthetics, new media art.

Gabeba Baderoon
	Office: 102 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 865-2372
	Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African and African American Studies. Gabeba Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town, and has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, the Nordic Africa Institute and the University of Sheffield.  She has published widely on representations of Islam, slavery and the construction of 'race' and sex in South Africa.  In 2007-2008, she was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Africana Research Center at Penn State.  She joined the Departments of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies as an Assistant Professor in July 2008
Lorraine Dowler
	Office: 302 Walker Building	email
	Phone: 865-3433
	Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Geography. B.S., Business Administration, Manhattan College, Masters of Landscape Architecture, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse University, PhD Geography, Syracuse University.

Lori Ginzberg
	Office: 410 Weaver Building	email
	Phone: 863-8947
	Professor of History and Women's Studies. Fields of Specialization: American women's history; U.S. history to 1877; history of feminist thought; Lesbian and gay history.

Joan Landes
	Office: 220 Weaver Building Office Hours: Mon 1:30-3:00PM and by appointment	email
	Phone: 863-0046
	Ferree Professor of Early Modern History and Women's Studies. Fields of specialization: Feminist theory, historical and contemporary; European intellectual, cultural, and gender history; women and gender relations in eighteenth-century France. Current research: gender, nationalism and popular imagery in revolutionary France.

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
	Office: 110 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 867-0367
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Jennifer Mittelstadt
	Office: 316 Weaver Building Office Hours: by appointment	email
	Phone: 865-0750
	Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies. Research interests include gender and women's history, poverty and welfare state history, and social politics in 20th century America.

Benedicte Monicat
	Office: S334 Burrowes Building Office Hours: Thurs. 10:00AM-12:00PM and by appointment	email
	Phone: 865-1959
	Professor of French and Women's Studies. Fields of specialization: 19th-century French literature; travel literature; women's studies.

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
	Office: 259 Chambers Building Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 2:30-3:30 pm	email
	Phone: 867-2732
	Associate Professor of Education, Language & Literacy Education and Women's Studies; Jacqueline Reid-Walsh's (McGill University) research interests include historical children's literature and culture, children's and youth popular culture, comparative media literacy and girlhood studies. A literary historian working with theoretical lenses drawn from cultural studies, children's studies and feminist studies, she has co-edited and co-authored several books. Her most recent book is Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia (2007). She is a founding editor of new journal called Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Carolyn Sachs
	Office: 110 B Armsby Building	email
	Phone: 863-8641
	Head of Women's Studies and Professor of Rural Sociology. Fields of specialization: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Women in Agriculture and Rural Development. Research, Teaching, and Extension. Former Director of Women's Studies Program.

Mrinalini Sinha
	Office: 222 Weaver Building Office Hours: Mon & Wed 9:00-10:30 and by appointment	email
	Phone: 865-2289
	Liberal Arts Research Professor of History and Women's Studies. Fields of specialization: Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial Theory; British Imperial and colonial Indian history.

Stephanie Springgay
	Office: 201 Arts Cottage	email
	Phone: 863-7308
	Assistant Professor of Art Education and Women's Studies. Her teaching, research, and artistic explorations focus on issues of relationality, posing bodied ways of knowing through proximity, encounters, and vulnerability. In addition, as a multidisciplinary artist working with installation and video-based art, she investigates the relationship between artistic practices and methodologies of research.

Susan Squier
	Office: 117 Burrowes Building	email
	Phone: 863-3604
	Julia Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English. Research Interests: Cultural studies of science and medicine; feminist theory; disability studies; modernism

Shannon Sullivan
	Office: 240 Sparks Building	email | website
	Phone: 865-1647
	Head of Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy , Women's Studies and African and African American Studies. Areas of specialization: feminist philosophy, critical race philosophy, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy.

Nancy Tuana
	Office: 240 Sparks Building	email | website
	Phone: 865-1653
	Dupont/Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics; Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies; Director, Rock Ethics Institute.

Melissa Wright
	Office: 302 Walker Building Office Hours: T 11:30AM-12:30PM or by appointment	email
	Phone: 865-9133
	Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, Women in the Developing World, Mexico, The Mexico/US borderlands and Latin America.

Lecturers

Natalie Jolly
	Office: 133 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 863-3578
	Lecturer in Women's Studies. Natalie received a Dual PhD degree from PSU in Rural Sociology and Women's Studies. Her research focuses on issues of birth and the female body. She has used ethnographic methods to study medicalized birth in popular culture, homebirth in Amish society, and is currently examining incarcerated women's birthing options.

Leisha Jones
	Office: 116A Willard Building	email
	Phone: 865-5480
	Lecturer in Women's Studies

Christy Lusiak
	Office: 117 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 865-2546
	Lecturer in Women's Studies
Jill Wood
	Office: 112 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 865-5708
	Senior Lecturer, Dr. Wood earned her doctorate from Penn State University in Biobehavioral Health, with a minor in Women's Studies. Her research focuses on women's health, specifically menstruation, women's sexuality, and the menopausal transition. Dr. Wood employs qualitative methodology and also has a research interest in feminist pedagogy. She typically teaches: WMNST 001, 301, 400, 452, and 492W.

Emeritus Professors

Mike Johnson
	1155 Oneida St.	email | website
	Phone: 237-8061
	Associate Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies. Fields of specialization: social psychology, feminist family sociology, domestic violence, commitment to close relationships. Current research: causes and effects of different types of partner violence, commitment and entrapment in domestic violence.

Phyllis Mansfield
	Office: 116A Willard Building	email
	Phone: 863-0356
	Professor Emeritus of Women's Studies and Health Education. Fields of specialization: Women's reproductive health; politics and experiences of menopause.

Teaching Assistants and Instructors

Sushmita Chatterjee
	117 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 865-2546
	Dual PhD candidate in Political Science and Women's Studies.

Shumona Dasgupta
	112 Burrowes Building	email
	Phone: 865-6418
	Lecturer in English and Women's Studies.

Crystal Endsley
	Robeson Cultural Center	email
	Phone: 865-3776
	Dual PhD candidate in Curriculum & Instruction and Women's Studies. Interim Assistant Director of the Robeson Cultural Center.

Stephanie Jenkins
	117 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 865-2546
	Dual PhD candidate in Philosophy and Women's Studies.

Ruth Mendum
	117 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 865-2546
	Dual PhD candidate in Rural Sociology and Women's Studies.

Manini Samarth
	112 Burrowes Building	email
	Phone: 865-5311
	Senior Lecturer in English and Women's Studies.

Srijana Shrestha
	133 Willard Building	email
	Phone: 863-4025
	Dual PhD candidate in Psychology and Women's Studies.

Stephanie Troutman
	Office: 117 Willard	email
	Phone: 865-2546
	Dual PhD candidate in Curriculum & Instruction and Women's Studies. Fields of interest include: representations of women in the media and visual culture, feminist perspectives on public education and curriculum, feminism, gender and social change, and feminism in relation to youth and popular culture