Gender Studies Program

Gender Studies Research Faculty

The Gender Studies Research Faculty are appointed by the Gender Studies Steering Committee for two-year terms. They are recognized as outstanding scholars in the interdisciplinary field of gender studies.  Research Faculty are available to serve as advisors for undergraduate senior theses, undergraduate special studies, or graduate special studies.  Undergraduate and graduate students in Gender Studies should consult the following list of Research Faculty when seeking a faculty advisor who specializes in a particular area of research.

2008-10

Kasey Buckles
Department of Economics and Econometrics
Research interests: economics, women's careers, fertility timing, work-life balance, family decision-making.

Alyssa Gillespie
Department of German and Russian
Research interests: 19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry, gender and poetic myths, gender and poetic identity, inspiration and the muse.

Essaka Joshua
Department of Philosophy/ College Seminar Program
Research interests: Romantic Literature, Disability, and the body.

M. Cathleen Kaveny
Department of Theology/ College of Law

Susan Ohmer
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Research interests: film studies, television studies, teen culture, digital culture, media studies.

Gretchen Reydams-Schils
Program in Liberal Studies/ Department of Philosophy

Alison Rice
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests: French feminist theorists, contemporary women's writing, women and film, women and Islam, women and immigration.

Maura Ryan
Department of Theology

Pamela Wojcik
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Research Interests: film, performance, popular music, gender and space.

Christina Wolbrecht
Department of Political Science
Research Interests: American politics, political parties, interest groups, American political development, agenda-setting.