Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty
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Margaret Jacobs Professor Jacobs specializes in U.S. women's history, cross-cultural relations between women in the American West, and gender and colonialism. In 1999 she published Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934. Her current book project, White Mother to a Dark Race, examines the role of white women in both the United States and Australia in removing indigenous children from their families to institutions between 1880 and 1940. Margaret Jacobs has just received a Visiting Fellowship in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University from June to August 2008. She will be undertaking collaborative work with members of the academic staff at the Centre and conducting research for her new project, tentatively titled "Dances with History". In this comparative study, she plans to explore how some indigenous groups in the American West, Hawaii, and Australia used dance as a means of conveying their histories. Most indigenous dances have been examined as expressions of the sacred or as a means of creating order and social control over the group. Margaret seeks to understand how dances could also convey history as defined and understood by indigenous groups. She wants to look in particular at attempts to restrict indigenous dances and what impact this had on how indigenous groups could tell their own histories to themselves and to outsiders. History-making and telling is a primary means of creating group identity and cohesion; thus, curtailing a group's means of telling its own history constitutes a potentially devastating colonial practice. |
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Rose Holz Rose likes to draw, paint, garden, cook and think about the past. She also likes to teach (such things as the history of women and gender, the history of sexuality, the history of medicine, and US history more generally) as well as to write. Her first story (“Nurse Gordon on Trial: Those Early Days of the Birth Control Clinic Movement Reconsidered”) was published in the Journal of Social History in the fall of 2005. Her first book (The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World ) will come out someday soon. She has received a number of awards for the work she has done, none of which would have been possible without the training she has received from Nature's Table, the Bakeshop, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the imaginary Institute for Plain Art. She would also like to express her deepest thanks to the artist who colored the portrait to the left whose name unfortunately is unknown. |
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Stephanie Adams Professor Adams received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in August of 1998. Her areas of concentration were Industrial Engineering and Management. Her research interests include Team Effectiveness, Collaborative and Active Learning, Engineering Education and Pedagogy, and Quality Control and Management. She has published a number of articles on the effective use of teams, as well as articles on issues related to mentoring students. |
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Donna Akers Professor Akers research interest is 19th century Native American Women and their everyday lives. Her latest book, Living in the Land of Death, relates the tragedies endured by the Choctaw Indians when they were forced from their native lands to a reservations. She is currently writing a paper about five Native American women using information from their letters and journals. |
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Radha Balasubramanian Dr. Balasubramanian received her Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Indiana University. Her area of
specialization is nineteenth-century Russian literature with an emphasis on short fiction. She has published a book
on Korolenko's short fiction, and articles on works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Korolenko, Sholokhov, Sologub,
Bulgakov, and Rushdie on teaching Russian to foreigners. Her present research project is devoted to the |
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Grace Bauer Professor Bauer's areas of specialty include poetry writing, contemporary poetry, women writers, short fiction and creative nonfiction. She regularly teaches courses on Writing of Poetry, Poetic Form, Poetry Since 1960, and 20th Century Women Writers. Among Bauer's honors and awards is the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. Grace's recent publications include poems in Southern Indiana Review and the anthology Nebraska Presence, short stories in The Los Angeles Review and Chariton Review, and a nonfiction essay in Santa Ana Review. |
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Susan Belasco Belasco is Professor of English and Women's Studies. Her research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century American literature and culture, women's literature, and humanities computing. Interested in the role of women writers in the literary marketplace of the nineteenth century, she is the editor of Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes and Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall. She is the co-editor of "These Sad but Glorious Days": Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller; Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America; and Approaches to Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin. Recent articles include "Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, the Daily Alta California, and the Tradition of American Humor." American Periodicals 10 (2000): 1-26 and "Harriet Martineau's Black Hero and the American Antislavery Movement." Nineteenth-Century Literature 55 (2000): 157-194. Belasco is editing Walt Whitman's periodical poetry for the The Walt Whitman Electronic Archive and serves on the advisory board for The Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture Archive. Currently, she serves as a Vice-President for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. |
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Jennifer Brand Professor Brand's
materials science research includes developing both new materials and new, more efficient materials production processes for deposition of thin films, microfibers (10 µm) and microparticles of commercial importance in advanced semiconductor and electronics devices, corrosion and wear resistant coatings, and catalytic support systems, with product morphology controlled by process parameters. Current investigations are ongoing in three areas: supercritical processing, boron carbide devices, and polymers for harsh environments. |
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Christina Brantner Christina Brantner, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Washington-St. Louis) Christina has been at UNL since 1987. She received her Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1987. Her areas of specialization are Romanticism, the interaction of music, literature and the arts, women writers and the translation of poetry. She has been the Program Director for the Berlin program since 1994. |
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Tom Carr Professsor Carr (Ph.D. Wisconsin) teaches courses in 18th-century literature and Quebec literature and civilization. His research interests have focused on the history of rhetoric and Port-Royal. Besides articles on Voltaire, Malebranche, and Marivaux, he published Descartes and the Resilience of Rhetoric (Southern Illinois UP 1990) and an edition of Antoine Arnauld's Réflexions sur l'éloquence des prédicateurs (Droz 1992). Professor Carr has written a number of articles on the pedagogy of French civilization and participated in the AAFT's Acquiring Cross-Cultural Competence (NTC 1996). Recent articles have appreared in The French Review (Marivaux), Quebec Studies (Gabrielle Roy) and Rhetorica. His Voix des Abbesses du Grand Siècle: La predication au fémini á Port-Royal (Tubingen, Biblio 17) appreaded in 2006. |
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Sidnie White Crawford
Sidnie White Crawford teaches in the areas of Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Biblical Hebrew and feminist criticism of the Bible, Her courses include: Hebrew 201 and 202, Biblical Hebrew Prose and Biblical Hebrew Poetry, CLAS/RELG/JUDS 205, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, CLAS 286, Literature of the Ancient Near East, CLAS/RELG/JUDS 306, Second Temple Judaism, CLAS/RELG/JUDS 340, Women in the Biblical World, and CLAS/RELG/JUDS 408/808, Dead Sea Scrolls. |
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Dawne Curry Curry received her PhD in 2006 from Michigan State University. Her areas of study include 20th century protest and resistance studies in Africa, specifically South Africa, comparative black history, women and gender, and colonialism in Africa. In 2006 she published "An African American Constructs and Confronts the Social Construction of Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa" in Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies, 2006: 22, April. |
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Meghan Davidson Davidson's research, clinical, and teaching interests focus primarily on interpersonal relationship violence, multicultural issues broadly defines, prevention, social justice and career development. Her current work includes creating a five-week career intervention for women survivors of domestic violence and evaluating a men's nonviolence program for men who batter and abuse women. Professor Davidson recieved her PhD in 2005 from the University of Missouri - Columbia. |
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Mary Jo Deegan Professor Deegan's areas of specialization include history of sociology (especially women), classical and contemporary theory, race relations, Chicago sociology, qualitative methods, culture and disability. She recieved her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1975. |
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Barbara DiBernard DiBernard is Professor of Women's Studies and English. She is also Graduate Chair of English. Her specialization and interests include 20th century women's literature, lesbian literature, disability literature and theory, and feminist pedagogy. She recently published ”Teaching What I'm Not: An Able-Bodied Woman Teaches Literature by Women with Disabilities,” in “Teaching What You're Not,” ed. Katherine Mayberry, NYU Press, 1996., ”Crossing the Road, or, What's a Nice Lesbian Feminist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” in Reflections: Narratives in the Helping Professions, ed. Diane Gillespie and Susan Nummedal. Spring 1998. DiBernard was a Winner of OTICA (Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Activity) Award for University of Nebraska, 2000. She teaches Intro to Women Writers, 20th Century Women Writers, 20th Century Lesbian Writers, Gay and Lesbian Literature, and Women's Creative Nonfiction. |
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Patricia Draper Dr. Draper recieved her PhD in 1972 from Harvard. She regularly teaches courses on Anthropology of Men and Women, Field Methods in Ethnography, and Hunters and Gathers. Professor Draper's research interests include hunter-gathers, biocultural bases of sex roles, adult development and aging, cultural ecology, peoples and cultures of Africa, and antropological methods. |
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Kwakiutl Dreher Dr. Dreher's research focuses on African American literature and film and visual culture. She recieved her PhD from the University of California-Riverside. Dr. Dreher has published in the Film Criticism journal and in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and has presented various professional conferences. |
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Anne Duncan Professor Duncan will regularly teach a course on "Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World." Dr. Duncan received her PhD in 2000 from the University of Pennsylvania. She has published articles such as "It Takes a Woman to Play a Real Man: Clara as Hero(ine) of Beaumont & Fletcher's Love's Cure." English Literary Renaissance 30.3 (2000) 396-407, and "Gendered Interpretations: Two Fourth-Century Performances of Sophocles' Electra." Helios 32.1 (2005) 55-79. Professor Duncan’s first book, Performance and Identity in the Classical World , was published in 2006, and she is currently working on her second titled Actor Kings and King-Actors: Staging Absolute Power in Greece and Rome. |
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Gwendolyn Foster Professor Foster regularly teaches courses on Women Filmakers, Film Theory and Criticism, Postcolonial Film, Advanced Screenwriting, Film Directors, Women's Films, and Comedy Directors. Her areas of specialty include film, cultural studies, film theory, race, class and gender theory. In 2004, Dr. Foster was awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguised Teaching Award. |
Shelley Fuller Professor Fuller her MFA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1989. A sampling of her work can be viewed at her Instructors Gallery on the Department of Art and Art History website. |
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Thomas Gannon Gannon specializes in Native American literature, critical theory and eco-criticism. His Ph.D. is from the University of Iowa (2003). Professor Gannon teaches Native American Women's Literature, Native American Literature, and Literary/Critical Theory. In all his courses he focuses on Native-feminist writers such as Silko, Hogan, Harjo, on on ecofeminist theory. |
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Amy Goodburn Goodburn's specializations include Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies. Her interests include critical and feminist pedagogies and methodologies, ethnographic and teacher research, and community/school literacies. Recent publications include Composition, Pedagogy, and the Scholarship of Teaching (co-edited with Deborah Minter) Heinemann/Boynton/Cook, 2002; “Writing the Public Sphere Through Family/ Community History” Readerly/Writerly Texts Fall/Winter 2001; “Concentrating English: Disciplinarity, Institutional Histories, and Collective Identity,” (with Deborah Minter) Beyond English Inc., Eds. Downing, Hurlbert, and Mathieu, Boynton/Cook, 2002; ”Collaborating Toward Intellectual Practice: Re-imagining Service in English Studies” (with Joy Ritchie) CONCERNS: A Publication of the Women’s Caucus of MLA Spring 2000; ”Composition Studies and Service Learning: Appealing to Communities?” (with Kevin Ball) Composition Studies 28 (Spring 2000): 79-94 (); “Racing (Erasing) Teacher/Researcher Authority in Writing About Race.” Race, Rhetoric, and Composition. Ed. Keith Gilyard. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999; ”Literacy Practices at the Genoa Industrial Indian School.” The Great Plains Quarterly 19 (Winter 1999). A recipient of UNL’s Scholarship in Teaching Award and the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, Goodburn was inducted into UNL’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2002. She co-coordinates UNL’s Peer Review of Teaching Project and teaches courses in First year and Advanced Composition, Autobiographical Writing, Literacy Issues and Community, Literacy Studies, Rhetorical Theory, and Reading Theory and Practice. |
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Iker González-Allende Professor González-Allende received his B.A. in Hispanic Philology from the University of Deusto (Spain) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in modern and contemporary Spanish peninsular literatures and cultures, with particular emphasis on gender studies and national identities. His major research interests are the Spanish Civil War, Basque narrative and the Republican exile. He has published articles on a wide array of subjects, including the poetry of Carolina Coronado, the memoirs of Carmen Baroja, the exile poetry of Ernestina de Champourcin and Francoist narrative during the Spanish Civil War. |
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Ruth Heaton Ruth Heaton is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests in mathematics education are in the areas of teaching, teacher learning, and teacher knowledge. She is the author of Teaching Mathematics to the New Standards: Relearning the Dance, published by Teachers College Press, 2000. She was a co-principal investigator of Math Matters, an NSF-funded project designed to link the mathematical, pedagogical, and field experiences of prospective elementary teachers. Heaton has also been working in a successful school-university partnership for eight years with teachers from Lincoln Public Schools’ Roper Elementary School. She is currently a co-principal investigator for the Math in the Middle Institute Partnership, an NSF-funded project designed to provide and study high quality professional development for middle school teachers with the long-term goal of improving K-12 student achievement in mathematics. She received her Ph. D. in mathematics education from Michigan State University. Prior to her work in higher education, Heaton taught elementary school for ten years. |
Gwendolen Hines Dr. Gwendolen (Wendy) Hines started teaching at UNL in 1993 after she recieved her PhD from Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on the area of dynamical systems. Professor Hines is currently working on discretized delay equations and continuity of attractors and Morse sets with respect to discretization timestep. This work is in her paper with Tomas Gedeon entitled "Continuity of Morse Sets With Respect to the Discretization Parameter". She also teaches summer math camps for high school girls. |
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Mary Ann Holmes Professor Holmes specialization is on clay minerals as products of hydrothermal and pedogenic weathering, burial diagenesis, and as sedimentary particles bearing information on provenance and paleoclimates. She is currently doing research on the barriers to the advancement of geoscience women in academia' an interest that grew out of her service as the President of the Assiciation Association for Women Geoscientists in 2000-2001. Holmes teaches senior/graduate-level courses on Clay Mineralogy and on Sedimentary Core Description, and first-year courses on Physical Geology and Oceanography . We have an active outreach program, working with Girl Scouts and local schools to get girls into the field and hooked on geology. |
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Melissa Homestead Homestead received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and she joined the faculty at UNL in 2005 as an associate professor of English. Her research focuses on the history of American women’s literary authorship from the Early Republic through the early 20th century. Her book American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 examines how popular white women novelists negotiated copyright law and laws restricting the ability of married women to own property. She is working on two new projects. The first is a study of the career of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, a popular fiction writer of the antebellum period. The second is a study of Edith Lewis, a career woman who shared a home with novelist Willa Cather for nearly four decades (like Cather herself, Lewis spent most of her life in New York, but spent her childhood in Nebraska – she was born and raised in Lincoln, and she spent her freshman year at UNL before transferring to Smith College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, which, not coincidentally, is Dr. Homestead’s undergraduate alma mater). Dr. Homestead teaches undergraduate English classes on Willa Cather and on 20th-Century Women Writers, and she hopes to develop a 300 level cross-listed English and Women’s Studies class on 19th-century American women writers. When she’s not in Andrews Hall, you can find Dr. Homestead at the Holmes Lake Park Dog Run with her basset hound (Helen) and her short-legged mutt (Florence) or at home hanging out with her four cats (Isobel, Grace, Betty, and Marjorie). |
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Maureen Honey Honey is Professor of Women's Studies and English. Her specialization and interests include American Women’s Literature of the Twentieth Century, Harlem Renaissance, Women in World War II, and Popular Culture. She recently published "Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II" (University of Missouri Press 1999), "Double-Take: Cross-Currents of Gender and Genre in the Harlem Renaissance" (Rutgers University Press 2001) co-edited with Venetria Patton, ”Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)” in eds. Sharon Harris, Jennifer Putzi, and Heidi Jacobs American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale Research Publishers 2000).” Erotic Visual Tropes in the Fiction of Edith Wharton” in eds. Candace Waid, Clare Colquitt, and Susan Goodman, A Forward Glance: New Essays on Edith Wharton (University of Delaware Press 1999). Honey had CNN interview on Rosie the Riveter, “Voices of the Millennium”, April 1999; consultant for NBC documentary “The Greatest Generation” hosted by Tom Brokaw, January 1999; consultant to the University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art on the pin-up art of Alberto Vargas during World War II. She teaches Images of Women in Popular Culture, Twentieth Century Women Writers, Graduate Seminars in Edith Wharton, Early 20th Century American Women Writers, Women Writers and Art 1890-1930. |
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Michael James Ardis James Professor of Textiles, Clothing and Design Professor James's research and creative work is in non-traditional quiltmaking. His quilts have been displayed at many prominent museums, including the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian). He has also brought several quilt artists to campus including feminist quiltmaker Radke Donnell. |
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Jeannette Jones Assistant Professor in History, Ethnic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies Professor Jones' area of expertise if women's experiences in American, African and african American history. She has taught courses in these topics at SUNY Fredonia and SUNY Buffalo and is currently preparing an African American Women's History Course at UNL. |
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Marie-Chantal Kalisa Professor Chantal Kalisa recieved her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She teaches courses on Francophone African and Caribbean literatures and cultures with particular emphasis on postcolonial and gender studies. Her research focuses on representation of gendered violence in those literatures, particularly by women, the topic of a book manuscript, currently under publication contract with NU Press. She has published articles on Gisèle Pineau, Ken Bugul, Michèle Lacrosil, Sembène Ousmane, Aminata Sow Fall and Frantz Fanon. She contributed to and co-edited (with Prof. Rangira Béatrice Gallimore, U. of Missouri-Columbia), Dix ans après: Réflexions sur le génocide rwandais (L'Harmattan, 2005), a volume of essays on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. |
Ann Kleimola Dr. Kleimola recieved her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1970 with specialization in Medieval Russia, Eastern Europe, and women. Her current research project focuses on Women's Cultural Patronage Activities in Russia Early Slavic Veterinary Medicine. |
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Sharon Baum Kuska Dr. Kuska is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer and recieved her PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research interests include studies involving issues and concerns related to both architecture and civil engineering, the relationship between architecture and civil engineering, rural architecture, bridges, and seismic design, covered bridge origins and design, four-square housing design and construction, and high-strength concrete column design. She is currently working on research regarding Building Structures Along the Oregon Trail. Dr. Kuska and Professor Betsy Gabb conducted a photographic survey to document existing structures of popular design along the Nebraska section of the Oregon Trail. The project was supported by a grant from the College's Council for Community Planning and Design. Expected products include a future proposal to the Center for Great Plains Studies and juried publications in appropriate professional journals. Additionally, Kuska is involved in research for the NAFTA Architectural Educational Consortium with Professor Cecil Steward through a grant from the US Department of Education-FIPSE for a student exchange program with schools of architecture in Mexico and Canada |
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Stephen Lahey Lahey holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in the History of Philosophy and Historical Theology (1996). Among the courses he has taught are Ethics courses on reace, gender, and animal rights issues, and at UNL, Contemporary Theology: Theologies of Liberation (including Black and Feminist Theology). |
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Margaret Macintyre Latta Margaret
Macintyre Latta received her PhD from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is an Associate Professor & Graduate Chair in the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Education in the College of Education & Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work foregrounds the integral role of aesthetic considerations such as attentiveness to participatory thinking, emotional commitment, felt freedom, dialogue, interaction, and speculation within the acts of teaching and learning. She terms these neglected epistemological assumptions, elemental to learners and learning. Her work emphasizes the primacy of teachers in the lives of their students and the long-term impact on the future, contributing to the scholarship regarding school curriculum, teacher education, and professional development reform initiatives. Currently, Margaret teaches graduate level courses that confront what ought to count as knowledge and experience given that 1) schools today are charged with the difficult task of educating an increasingly diverse student population and 2) teaching and learning are complex activities that can not be divorced from the social, cultural, and political contexts that frame individuals and classrooms. She is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Education & the Arts and recent publications can be found in the Journal of Teacher Education , Educational Philosophy & Theory, Teachers & Teaching: Theory & Practice, Studying Teacher Education, Education & Culture, Teaching Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, and Teaching & Teacher Education . Contact: mlatta2@unl.edu |
Carole Levin Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and she recently received a Distinguished Teaching Award. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University and her areas of specialty are late medieval and early modern English, cultural, and women’s history. She teaches Women in European history, Saints, Witches and Madwomen, and a variety of other courses that deal with historical questions of gender and power. Her books include The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (1994), and, most recently, The Reign of Elizabeth I (2002). In 2003 she will be an NEH Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. http://www.unl.edu/history/faculty/levin.html |
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Karen Lyons Karen Lyons teaches women's literature courses, 20th century women writers, and an honors seminar called "Great Love Stories." She has presented talks on N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain as well as on study abroad opportunities for honors students at the National Collegiate Honors Faculty Institute. Karen Lyons currently chairs the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women. |
Christin Mamiya Dr. Mamiya is currently Hixson-Lied Professor of Art History. She received her PhD in 1987 from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is an authoritative voice on contemporary art. Her book, Pop Art and Consumer Culture: American Supermarket (1992) serves as one of the definitive publications on that art movement. She also co-authored Gardner's Art Through the Ages, an award-winning publication that is the most widely used art history textbook. Her recent articles include "Nineteenth-Century French Women, the Home, and the Colonial Vision: Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique Wallpaper" in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (2007), and "The 'Triumph' of American Art?: Pop Art in the Postwar World," to be published by in Internationalizing American Art: A Reader (Penn State University Press, forthcoming). Mamiya received a College Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992, the Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities in 2001, and was selected for membership in the Academy of Distinguished Teaching at UNL in 2005. |
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Ann Mari May Ann Mari May is Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies. Her recent publications include "The Feminist Challenge to Economics," in Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Nov-Dec 2002, "Occupational Segregation of Women on the Great Plains" in Great Plains Research 2000, "Women and the Higher Learning in America: Veblenian Insights Into the Leisure of the Theory Class," in Thorstein Veblen in the Twenty-First Century, Doug Brown ed., (Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998) 158-67; "The Challenge of Feminist Economics," in Political Economy for the Next Century: Contemporary Views of the Trend of Economics, Charles Whalen, ed., (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
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Jennifer McKitrick Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies Jennifer McKitrick's research and teaching interests include metaphysics, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. Her publications include a forthcoming essay entitled "Gender Indentity Disorder" in Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences of which she is co-editor. Presentations include "Liberty, Gender, and the Family" which she gave at the Molinari Society Symposium in December 2004. |
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Harriet McLeod Professor McLeod examines dress in work-related environments. Recent topics of interest include: (1) effects of philanthropic clothing gifts on low-income women, and (2) saliency of aesthetics, conformity and ethnicity on African-American male executives and managers. Dr. McLeod's teaching and research specifically focus on the social-psychological aspects of appearance and clothing in society. |
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Julia McQuillan Julia McQuillan earned her Ph.D.(1998) from the University of Connecticut. She came to UNL as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in 1998. She became interested in applied research in 1992 and had several research related positions in graduate school. In 2005, she was promoted to associate professor in the Sociology department. Julia enjoys researching gender and disease related problems and is part of the research team that obtained the 5-year NICHD Family Choices (infertility) project that the BOSR is currently conducting. |
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Amelia Maria del la Luz Montes Assistant Professor of English, Ethnic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Professor Montes specializes in 19th-century American, Chicana, and Latina literary studies. Her recent book, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives, discusses Ruiz de Burton's 1885 novel The Squatter and the Don wich called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States. |
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Helen A. Moore Moore is Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology. She is also Editor of Teaching Sociology and A Quarterly Journal of the American Sociological Association. Moore's recent publication includes “Multiple perspectives on multimedia in the large lecture classroom.” Teaching Sociology 37: 92 -103, 1999. (with Pippert, Tomothy), "The Sociology of Women: The Intersection of Patriarchy, Capitalism and Colonization." New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. (Second Edition), 1998. First edition, 1992, and “Campus racial climate policies: The view from the bottom up.” with M.Miller, R. Anderson, E. Perez and J. Harms Cannon. Race, Sex & Class 5:76 - 90, 1998. Her recent grant achievements are 2000-02 - American Sociological Association/American Council of Colleges and Universities. Preparing Future Faculty Project. $40,000. Co-Principal Investigator. 2000 - American Sociological Association Teaching Improvement Grant to support travel of co- editors of a special issue of Teaching Sociology on HBCUs to Washington, D.C. Moore was honored by 2000 UNL Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Appointed, VC Academic Affairs, 2000 University of Nebraska System wide Outstanding Teaching and Creativity Award and 1999 UNL Ronald E. McNair Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award. Courses that she offers include Sociology 200 Women in Contemporary Society (Summer 2000), Sociology 490/890 Sociology of Women, Sociology 496/896 Family Violence (Spring, 2001), and Sociology 998 Seminar: Women of Color and Social Justice: Research and Theory (Fall 1999). |
Ruth Nissé Dr. Nissé's areas of specialization are in Midieval literature with specialties in theatre and exegesis, and relations among Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages. She regularly teaches courses on Medieval Drama, Medieval and Renaissance Women Writers, and Shakespeare. Nissé's current project is "Jacob's Shipwreck: Diaspora in the Literature of the Jewish and Christian Middle Ages". The book will explore the textual worlds of medieval Christian and Jewish authors in France and England at those points when they come into either conflict or dialogue with each other over shared traditions Beginning with the Latin and Hebrew accounts of the Fall of the Second Temple, she will argue that postbiblical literature––a term meant to encompass a body of disparate texts otherwise labeled apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, midrash and aggadah––becomes central to the polemics that define the Jewish Diaspora in Western Europe c.1100-1300. |
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Susan Poser Professor Susan Poser received her B.A. in Ancient Greek and Political Science from Swarthmore College and her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2000, Professor Poser received a Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the remedial phase of desegregation litigation. After law school, Professor Poser was a law clerk to Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She practiced law in Philadelphia and was the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics in the Legal Studies Department of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In Spring 2004, Professor Poser was a visiting professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Poser's research interests include professional responsibility, with a focus on Multijurisdictional and Multidisciplinary Practice. She has written and spoken widely on these issues. In 2003, she served as the Reporter to the Nebraska State Bar Association Committee that reviewed the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and proposed their adoption in Nebraska. In 2004, Poser became the director of the UNL Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics. Professor Poser is has also published articles on Tort law and has participated in empirical research and scholarship on the effects of Tort rules. Professor Poser has been a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Faculty, the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women, and served as Chair of the NU Systemwide Gender Equity Committee. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and Nebraska bars and serves on the Ethics Committee of the Nebraska State Bar Association. In 2002, she was appointed by the Nebraska Supreme Court to the District One Committee on Inquiry, which reviews disciplinary complaints against Nebraska attorneys. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska and the National Board of Directors of the ACLU. In 2003, Poser was awarded the Law College Distinguished Teacher award. In 2004 Poser was elected to the American Law Institute and in 2006 she received the Shining Light Award from the Nebraska State Bar Foundation. In 2007 she took the position of Chief of Staff and Associate to the Chancellor at UNL. |
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Linda Pratt Linda Ray Pratt was Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before assuming the position of Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Nebraska . Dr. Pratt received her Ph.D. from Emory University and has published widely on issues in higher education and in her scholarly field of Victorian and Modern Poetry. She has served as president and vice president of the national American Association of University Professors and as Chair of the Association of Departments of English. In 2000-01 she was Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNL. Dr. Pratt has won a Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 1994 she received the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
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Marcela Raffaelli Raffaelli is Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Psychology and Ethnic Studies. She is also Acting Director of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of Latino and Latin American Studies. Her specialization areas include Understanding and preventing risk taking behavior among adolescents and young adults with a particular focus on gender and cultural issues. Her current projects include studying parent-child communication about sexual topics, developmental trajectories of Latin American street youth, and cultural influences on the sexual behavior of Latinos. She recently publicized "How do street youth experience “the street”? "Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research." (with M., Koller, S.H., Bandeira, D.R., Reppold, C., Kuschick, M. & Dani, D.) (In press). Do mothers and teens disagree about sexual communication? A methodological reappraisal. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 28(3), 1999. 395-402. (with M., Smart, L., Van Horn, S., Hohbein, A., Kline, J., & Chan, W.L.), "Homeless and working youth around the world: Exploring developmental issues." New Directions in Child Development, 85 (W. Damon, Series Ed). Jossey-Bass. |
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Hilda Raz Raz is Professor of Women's Studies and English. She is also Chief editor of Prairie Schooner. Her specialization areas and interests include Poetry and creative nonfiction, literary publishing, women’s literature, and collaborations. Her most recent book is "Trans," published in the Wesleyan University Press poetry series and an essay published in "GenderQueer," an anthology from Alyson Press. She recently published "Divine Honors," Wesleyan Poetry Series, Wesleyan University Press "Living on the Margins: Women Writers and Breast Cancer," Persea Books "Truly Bone," Blue Heron Press, with Karen Kunc, artist "Best of Prairie Schooner: Personal Essays," with Kate Flaherty, University of Nebraska Press Judge, Heekin Group Foundation Fellowship for Short Fiction National Endowment for the Arts panelist for Creativity (small presses, magazines, literary organizations) PRAIRIE SCHOONER represented in all major prize anthologies. She is the recipient of the University of Nebraska system-wide Outstanding Reseach/Creative Activity Award for 2002. Raz teaches Woman and Poetry, Poetry Writing Workshops, MA Thesis and PH.D. Dissertation Supervision. |
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Joy Ritchie Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and English, Chair of the Department of English Joy Ritchie is Director and Professor of Women's Studies and English. Her interests include rhetorical theory, composition theory and pedagogy, feminist theory and pedagogy, teacher education and literary studies. Her most recent book is Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s), (Pittsburgh, 2001) with Kate Ronald. Because of her interest in women's rhetoric, she is currently working on an edited collection, Teaching Rhetorica: Redefining Rhetorical Theory and Practice. Her recent book, Teacher Narrative as Critical Inquiry: Rewriting the Script (Columbia University, Teachers College Press, 2000), co-authored with David E. Wilson, received the Outstanding Writing Award for 2002 from the National Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. She has published several essays on feminism and composition studies including "Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption," selected for the 50th Anniversary issue of College Composition and Communication, (June 1999) and an article with Amy Goodburn, "Collaborating Toward Intellectual Practice: Re-imagining Service in English Studies,” in CONCERNS: A Publication of the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association (Spring 2000). |
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Carleen Sanchez Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Geography, Ethnic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Carlene Sanchez's research and teaching focuses on Ancient cultures of Mesoamerica and Central America; Latin American History; Feminism and Gender Theory; Human Rights in Central America; and Violence in Contemporary Society. Publications include research reports on Central American and Latin American archeology and a chapter for The Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras. |
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Loukia Sarroub Professor Sarroub's areas of interest include literacy, language and culture and discourse across home and school contexts; anthropology and education; cross-cultural studies; immigrant communities in the US and Europe; youth cultures; ethnography and qualitative research methods, ethnicity and gender in education; education policy and social analysis. Since 2001, she has been working on an multi-year ethnographic project related to school success, literacy, and low socioeconomic youth populations. The purpose of this cross-cultural research is to examine cultural, language, and literacy practices that may either hinder or support the intellectual, social, and socioeconomic success of low SES students at home and school. Sarroub is conducting fieldwork in a community that includes refugees from Iraq and am exploring youth and family literacy practices in and out of school. She is also examining how "reading" is taught at the high school level to accommodate both ELL populations, such as the Iraqis and other refugees, and American students who struggle with literacy. In conjunction with the microanalyses of the fieldwork, Dr. Sarroub is doing archival research on refugee and immigrant populations in the United States and Europe and interviewing individuals who are part of humanitarian efforts. She anticipates writing a book based on this research, tentatively titled Transnationalism in the Middle: Glocality, Literacy, and Schools. |
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Julia Schleck Professor Schleck's interests and research include Renaissance literature, |
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Anna Shavers Professor Shavers joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1989. She received her B.S. degree from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio and her M.S. in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society. She received her J.D. degree (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. She was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1979 and the Nebraska bar in 1989. Other positions include: Associate, Faegre & Benson Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN 1979-83; Director of University Student Legal Services, University of Minnesota, 1983-86; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Minnesota, 1986-89. While at the University of Minnesota, Professor Shavers established that law school's first immigration clinic. She has also served as a mediator and arbitrator and has a strong interest in alternative forms of dispute resolution. Professor Shavers teaches Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Gender Issues and Civil Procedure and is faculty co-advisor to the Multi-Cultural Legal Society and BALSA. Professor Shavers believes that she has found the position for which she is ideally suited. She thoroughly enjoys the interaction with students. She also enjoys having the time to devote to reading and questioning various aspects of our legal system. Her primary interest is the area of immigration and its intersection with gender issues. This area appeals to her because of her appreciation of the differences of people from various cultures. She currently serves as a Board Member of the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc., Liaison for the ABA Administrative Law Section to the ABA Commission on Immigration and Publication Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section. She has previously served as Chair of the AALS Section on Immigration Law, a Council Member and Immigration Committee Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section. member of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and member of the ABA Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law. She is a frequent national and international presenter on immigration and administrative law issues. |
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Victoria Smith Professor Smith is a 19th century Native American historian. Her areas of concentration concern what some have termed "marginal" Indians, as contrasted with tribal histories. Professor Smith is interested in Native Americans who were often found on the front edge of colliding cultures. For example, she has a long-standing interest in Indian scouts and police, Indian captives, intermarried Indians, as well as mixed-blood Indian histories. Professor Smith's first book, a collaboration with Mr. Hollis Stabler, is entitled No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier (Nebraska Press, 2005). Her second book, Captive Arizona: Indian Captives and Captive Indians in Arizona Territory, 1850-1912 is under contract with the Nebraska Press and will be forthcoming in late 2007. Professor Smith is currently the faculty advisor for the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange (UNITE), as well as the Edgerton Junior Faculty Chair. Professor Smith is a Cherokee and Delaware descendant. |
Alison Stewart Professor Stewart specializes in Northern Renaissance printed works of art on paper. She teaches courses on Medieval and Northern Renaissance art, and the early history of prints. Her research has centered around secular imagery of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Germany and the Netherlands, including peasant festivals, and has been supported by Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. |
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LuAnn Wandsnider Wandsnider's areas of specialization includes archaeological method and theory, archaic-late prehistoric of the North American high plains, traditional food preparation, spatial analysis, quantitative methods (GIS, EDA), formation of the archaeological landscape, and pastoralist land use systems Dr. Wandsnider's research has three main themes. The first of these is concerned with the Late Prehistoric time period on the High Plains. In Northwestern Nebraska, her research has focused on the appearance and disappearance of pit hearth technology, which was widely used from AD 250 through AD 1000. The ability of the this material record to comment on gender systems, land tenure, subsistence strategies, and so forth is the subject of her research here. A second emphasis is that of the formation, documentation, and analysis of archaeological landscapes. She has worked in southern India, using ethnoarchaeological methods to monitor land parcels that participate in an agropastoral land use system. Other recent methodological work is concerned with spatial analysis of archaeological distributions that relies on results from actualistic studies. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and associated technologies (GPS, remote sensing) play an important role in this work. Most recently, she has initiated work to understand the relationship between traditional cooking systems, food biochemistry, and nutrition. This work ties directly into understanding significant subsistence shifts documented archaeologically and genetically in the human genome. |
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Wendy Weiss Professor Weiss teaches courses in textile design including woven and non-woven textile construction and surface design. She also periodically teaches in the interdisciplinary Visual Literacy program. |
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Susan Wortmann Dr. Wortmann received her Ph.D. in Sociology from UNL. Her dissertation was entitled: "Sacred Solace? Exploring Faith Community Responses to Domestic Violence." She has published "Teaching Sociological Concepts and the Sociology of Gender" in Talking Gender, ed. Marybeth C. Stalp and Julie Childers (American Sociological Association, 2005); "Women's Reproduction: Issues and Inequalities in the 21st Century" (Network News, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2003), and several other pieces. She describes her research program as focusing on women and their structurally unequal experiences within social institutions. |
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Oksana Yakushko Professor Yakushko holds a Ph.D. from the Unversity of Missouri-Columbia (2003) in Counseling Psychology. She is particularly interested in applying feminist, global, and cross-cultural perspectives of sexism, sexuality, women and body image, and lesbian gay, bisexual, and transgender studies. |
