Faculty (Steering Committee)

Deborah Dickey (psychology) Social, emotional and personality development in children, parent-child interactions.

Jennifer Drouin B.A., Universitè Sainte-Anne; M.A., Acadia University; Ph.D., McGill University. Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, nationalism, gender and sexuality.

Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Medieval and Renaissance literature.

Helen McCullough (technology) B.A., Allegheny College; M.Ed. in Instructional Technology, Edinboro State University. Information technology, media services, contemporary media criticism.

Paula Treckel, B.A., Kent State University; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University. Colonial America, the American family, women's history.

Sharon Wesoky (political science) B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., Cornell University. Feminism across cultures, women's movements, Asian/Chinese politics and society.

Affiliated Faculty

Ann Bomberger (English) Contemporary American women's literature, race and identity politics.

Amelia Carr (art) Medieval France and Germany, liturgical art and drama, Northern and Italian Renaissance.

Stephen Casler (economics) Business cycles, energy and resource economics.

Catharina Coenen (biology) undergraduate work, Universitat Bremen (Germany), Ph.D., Oregon State University (Corvallis). Plant hormone physiology.

Diane D'Amico (English) 19th-century poetry and fiction.

Courtenay Dodge (French) Modern poetry, generative grammar.

David C. Miller (English) 19th-century American literature and culture, American art, American studies.

Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak (psychology) Social and cognitive bases of religious belief systems, eating habits and beliefs, self-perceptions of control.

Barbara Riess (modern and classical languages) Spanish American literature, hispanic feminist theory and literary criticism.

Joshua Searle-White (psychology) Cross-cultural psychology, clinical psychology.

Robert Seddig (political science) Contemporary legal philosophy, U.S. constitutional law and history, sociology of law.

Ben Slote (English) American literature and culture.

Glen Wurst (biology) Biological aspect of sexual development.

Selected Faculty Publications/Achievements

• "Female Suffrage in New Jersey, 1790-1807," published in Women and Politics
• "Mirrors of Language, Mirrors of Self: The Conceptualization of Artistic Identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola," published in Maternal Measures, Ashgate
• Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization, Routledge
• "Developmental regulation of H+ATPase-dependent auxin responses in the diageotropica mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)," Physiologia Plantarum 114
• The Reproductive Unconscious in Medieval and Early Modern England, Routledge
• "Prophesying Daughters: Testimony, Censorship, and Literacy Among Early Quaker Women," forthcoming in Critical Survey
• "Women's Liturgical Manuscripts at Klosterneuburg," published in The Early Drama, Art, and Music Review
• Dark Eden: The Swamp in 19th Century American Culture, published by Cambridge Press
• "Women and Society in Pre-Colonial Iyede," published in Anthropos
• "Oral Field Techniques and Women's History: The Case of Owan, Nigeria," published in Ufahamu
• "Environmental Justice from the Grassroots: Reflections on Gender, History and Expertise," published in The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States
• "Gender Schema Theory Revisited: Men's Stereotypes of American Women," published in Sex Roles
• Unequal Justice, published by Simonand Schuster
• To Comfort the Heart: Women in Seventeenth-Century America
• Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time
• Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
• When Men and Women Mattered: A History of Gender Relations Among the Owan of Nigeria
• Congressional Women: Their Recruitment, Integration, and Behavior