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Associate Professor of Religion Karla G. Bohmbach is coordinator of the Women's Studies Program. She has a Ph.D. in Religion, as well as a graduate certificate in Women's Studies, from Duke University. Her research focuses on feminist interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. She teaches Introduction to Women's Studies, Women and Religion, Women in the Biblical Tradition, and Women and Violence. |
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy Coleen P. Zoller received her Ph.D. from Emory University. She teaches Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Philosophy. Her research focuses on Plato and pedagogy. |
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Professor Susan Hegberg, Head of the Music Department, holds a D.M. from Northwestern University; a M.M. from University of Michigan; and a B.M. from St. Olaf College. An active organ recitalist and clinician, she has published organ teaching materials, and reviews of new books and music. She teaches Women in Western Music. |
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Associate Professor Margaret T. Peeler holds a Ph.D. from Duke University. Her areas of teaching include introductory biology, developmental biology, and cell biology. She is currently researching the role of cell interactions in gene expression and cell fate in sea urchin embryonic development. |
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Dr. Michele Demary is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the University Prelaw Advisor. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts after working for over a decade in state politics in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on state high courts, while her teaching covers broader terrain, including the study of American political institutions (Courts, President), of American law (Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties), and of the interaction of diverse groups of citizens in the American political system including courses on Women and US Politics and Diversity and US Politics. |
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Dr. Susan Bowers, Associate Professor and head of the Department of English, earned her Ph. D. at the University of Oregon. A former journalist, she teaches courses in women's literature, Native American Literature, and modern British and American Literature. She is also the coordinator of the University's Diversity Studies. |
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Assistant Professor Rachana Sachdev earned her Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses on issues of race, gender, sexuality and immigration in 20th-century America, 17th-century British and American, and ethnic literatures. |
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Assistant Professor Amy Winans earned her Ph. D. from Penn State University. The department's expert on American literature before the 20th century, she teaches courses in American and ethnic literature, including African-American Women Writers and Early American Women. |
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Provost Linda McMillan earned a Ph. D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in medieval history with focused research on religious women in the 12th and 13th centuries. She teaches social, cultural and economic history of Europe between 800 and 1700 and women's studies and is co-editor of the book Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances. Dr. McMillin was recently chosen to be the provost of Susquehanna University. She will still continue to teach but on a lesser scale. |
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Assistant Professor Alyssa A. Packer holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her areas of teaching include plant ecology, systematic biology, and introductory biology. Her research interests include the interaction between temperate tree species and their soil pathogens. She is also interested in environmental impacts on women's health. |
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Associate Professor George Wei, department head, holds a Ph.D. from Washington University and teaches East Asian history and U.S. history. He is author of the book, Sino-American Economic Relations, 1949-1994, and more than a dozen articles in both English and Chinese as well as the editor of two books on Chinese nationalism. Dr. Wei is currently working on a book about Chinese women. |
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Assistant Professor Cymone Fourshey received her Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. She focuses on East African history before the 18th century. Her areas of research interest are Social and Cultural History of East Africa, African Gender Systems, Political History, Environmental History, and Indian Ocean cross-cultural intersections. She is currently working on a book, with the working title "Distant Narratives from Southwestern Tanzania: Ecology, Kinship, and Gender 500 BCE to 1900 CE." |
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Assistant Professor Gretchen S. Lovas received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis. She teaches Developmental Psychology and a course on the Psychology of Gender (which is cross listed in Women's Studies). She specializes in early social and emotional development and in gender issues across the lifespan, and her current research focuses on early gender development in the context of parent/infant and parent/toddler interactions. |
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Assistant Professor of Accounting Barbara McElroy received her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. McElroy is a C.P.A. with experience in both public accounting and industry. Her teaching and research interest lies in the areas of managerial and cost accounting and their interactions with public policy. In women's studies, she teaches Women in Organizations. |
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Associate Professor Valerie Livingston holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on American art of the early 20th century, Abstract Expressionism and regional American painting. She teaches Women in Art. |
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Associate Professor Scott Manning has a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. His academic interests include French literature and culture, gender studies, and the role of technology in the humanities. He also teaches courses in Italian language and culture. |
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Dr. Karol K. Weaver earned a Ph.D from Pennsylvania State University. She offers courses on American history and women's history. She specializes in the history of medicine with a research interest in the history of unofficial medical practicioners. She has written articles on midwifery, infantcide, and enslaved healers. Her book, Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue is being published by the University of Illinois Press in 2006. She is the Winifred and Gustave Weber Professor in the Humanities.
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