PROGRAM FACULTY
Professors
Ann Dils, Department of Dance and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Jodi Bilinkoff, Department of History
Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater, Department of English
Emily Edwards, Department of Media Studies
Jill Green, Department of Dance
Mary Ellis Gibson, Department of English
Diane L. Gill, Department of Kinesiology
Karen Kilcup, Department of English
Derek Krueger, Department of Religious Studies
Hephzibah Roskelly, Department of English
Cathryne Schmitz, Department of Social Work
Jacquelyn W. White, Department of Psychology
Associate Professors
Rachel Briley, Department of Theatre
C.P. Gause, Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education
Gwen Hunnicutt, Department of Sociology
Katherine Jamieson, Department of Kinesiology
Janine Jones, Department of Philosophy
Elizabeth Keathley, School of Music
Lisa Levenstein, Department of History
Elizabeth Natalle, Department of Communication Studies
Tracy Nichols, Department of Public Health Education
Alexandra Schultheis, Department of English
Paige Hall Smith, Department of Public Health Education and Director of the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness
Leila Villaverde, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations
Karen Weyler, Department of English
Assistant Professors
Danielle Bouchard, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Sarah Cervenak, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Cybelle McFadden, Department of Romance Languages
Carisa Showden, Department of Political Science
Amy Vetter, Department of English
Mission Statement
The central mission of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program is to use gender, along with race and class, as a category of analysis, to help students investigate the role that gender plays in our history, art, politics, education, sports, health, and family. The Program grew out of the limitations that instructors perceived in the liberal arts curriculum as it was traditionally structured, with its overwhelming concentration on the perspective of privileged men. The Program addresses issues of neglect, omission, and bias in curricula while honing those critical thinking skills vital to a liberal education. With the assistance of the community-based Friends of Women’s and Gender Studies, the program sponsors visiting scholars, lectures, films, and conferences devoted to the advancement of women’s and gender studies.
