Women's Studies Faculty

Jump to a Faculty Member
( Listed in Alphabetical Order)
Aristarkhova | Dowler | Ginzberg | Landes | Mittelstadt |
Sachs (Director) | Springgay | Sinha | Squier | Sullivan | Tuana | White | Wright

Jump to a Lecturer
(Listed in Alphabetical Order)
Jolly | Jones | Wood

Jump to a Professor Emeritus
(Listed in Alphabetical Order)
Johnson | Mansfield

Jump to a Teaching Assistant or Instructor
(Listed in Alphabetical Order)
Biedendorf | Chatterjee | Dasgupta | Endsley | Hogan | Stephanie Jenkins | Toby Jenkins
Mendum | Samarth | Shrestha

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Faculty in Women's Studies

Irina Aristarkhova
	Office: 116 Willard Building Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00PM	email Dr. Aristarkhova
	Phone: 867-1230	Website
	Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Art. Fields of specialization: cyberculture and cyberfeminism, technology and difference, feminist theory and aesthetics, new media art.

Lorraine Dowler
	Office: 302 Walker Building	email Dr. Dowler
	Phone: 865-3433
	Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Geography. B.S., Business Administration, Manhattan College, Masters of Landscape Architecture, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse University, PhD Geography, Syracuse University.

Lori Ginzberg
	Office: 410 Weaver Building	email Dr. Ginzberg
	Phone: 863-8947
	Professor of History and Women's Studies. Fields of Specialization: American women's history; U.S. history to 1877; history of feminist thought; Lesbian and gay history.

Joan Landes
	Office: 220 Weaver Building Office Hours: M 1:30-3:00PM and by appointment	email Dr. Landes
	Phone: 863-0046
	Ferree Professor of Early Modern History and Women's Studies. Fields of specialization: Feminist theory, historical and contemporary; European intellectual, cultural, and gender history; women and gender relations in eighteenth-century France. Current research: gender, nationalism and popular imagery in revolutionary France.

Jennifer Mittelstadt
	Office: 316 Weaver Building Office Hours: by appointment	email Dr. Mittelstadt
	Phone: 865-0750
	Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies. Research interests include gender and women's history, poverty and welfare state history, and social politics in 20th century America.

Carolyn Sachs
	Office: 110 B Armsby Building	email Dr. Sachs
	Phone: 863-8641
	Head of Women's Studies and Professor of Rural Sociology. Fields of specialization: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Women in Agriculture and Rural Development. Research, Teaching, and Extension. Former Director of Women's Studies Program.

Mrinalini Sinha
	Office: 222 Weaver Building Office Hours: MW 9:00-10:30 and by appointment	email Dr. Sinha
	Phone: 865-2289
	Professor of History and Women's Studies. Fields of specialization: Feminist Historiography; Postcolonial Theory; British Imperial and colonial Indian history.

Stephanie Springgay
	Office: 201 Arts Cottage	email Dr. Springgay
	Phone: 863-7308
	Assistant Professor of Art Education and Women's Studies. Her teaching, research, and artistic explorations focus on issues of relationality, posing bodied ways of knowing through proximity, encounters, and vulnerability. In addition, as a multidisciplinary artist working with installation and video-based art, she investigates the relationship between artistic practices and methodologies of research.

Susan Squier
	Office: 117 Burrowes Building	email Dr. Squier
	Phone: 863-3604
	Julia Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English. Research Interests: Cultural studies of science and medicine; feminist theory; disability studies; modernism

Shannon Sullivan
	Office: 240 Sparks Building	email Dr. Sullivan
	Phone: 865-1647	Website
	Head of Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy , Women's Studies and African and African American Studies. Areas of specialization: feminist philosophy, critical race philosophy, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy.

Nancy Tuana
	Office: 240 Sparks Building	email Dr. Tuana
	Phone: 865-1653	Website
	Dupont/Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics; Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies; Director, Rock Ethics Institute.

Aaronette White
	Office: 111 Willard Building Office Hours: TR 8:00-9:00AM or by appointment	email Dr. White
	Phone: 865-5079
	Assistant Professor African and African American Studies and Women's Studies, holds a PhD. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. White formerly was a postdoctoral fellow for three years at Harvard University in the Radcliffe Bunting Program, the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research, and the Women and Public Policy/International Security Programs.

Melissa Wright
	Office: 302 Walker Building Office Hours: T 11:30AM-12:30PM or by appointment	email Dr. Wright
	Phone: 865-9133
	Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, Women in the Developing World, Mexico, The Mexico/US borderlands and Latin America.

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Lecturers in Women's Studies

Natalie Jolly
	Office: 133 Willard Building	email Natalie Jolly
	Phone: 863-3578
	Lecturer in Women's Studies
Leisha Jones
	Office: 133 Willard Building	email Leisha Jones
	Phone: 865-5480
	Lecturer in Women's Studies

Jill Wood
	Office: 112 Willard Building	email Dr. Wood
	Phone: 865-5708
	Dr. Wood earned her doctorate from Penn State University in Biobehavioral Health, with a minor in Women's Studies. Her research focuses on women's health, specifically menstruation and the menopausal transition.  Dr. Wood employs qualitative methodology and also has a research interest in feminist pedagogy.  She typically teaches: WMNST 001, 301, 400, and 492W.

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Professors Emeritus in Women's Studies

Mike Johnson
	1155 Oneida St.	email Dr. Johnson
	Phone: (814) 237-8061	Website
	Associate Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies. Fields of specialization: social psychology, feminist family sociology, domestic violence, commitment to close relationships. Current research: causes and effects of different types of partner violence, commitment and entrapment in domestic violence.

Phyllis Mansfield
	Office: 102 Willard Building	email Dr. Mansfield
	Phone: 863-0356
	Professor Emeritus of Women's Studies and Health Education. Fields of specialization: Women's reproductive health; politics and experiences of menopause.

Teaching Assistants and Instructors in Women's Studies

Jennifer Biedendorf
	133 Willard Building	email Jennifer Biedendorf
	Phone: (814) 863-4025
	PhD candidate in Communication Arts and Sciences with a minor in Women's Studies.

Sushmita Chatterjee
	117 Willard Building	email Sushmita Chatterjee
	Phone: (814) 865-2546
	Dual PhD candidate in Political Science and Women's Studies.

Shumona Dasgupta
	112 Burrowes Building	email Shumona Dasgupta
	Phone: (814) 865-6418
	Lecturer in English and Women's Studies.

Crystal Endsley
	Robeson Cultural Center	email Crystal Endsley
	Phone: (814) 865-3776
	Dual PhD candidate in Curriculum & Instruction and Women's Studies. Interim Assistant Director of the Robeson Cultural Center.

Lisa Hogan
	216 Sparks Building	email Lisa Hogan
	Phone: (814) 865-8668
	Senior Lecturer in Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies.

Stephanie Jenkins
	117 Willard Building	email Stephanie Jenkins
	Phone: (814) 865-2546
	Dual PhD candidate in Philosophy and Women's Studies.

Toby Jenkins
	21 Hetzel Union Building	email Toby Jenkins
	Phone: (814) 865-1779
	Director of the Paul Robeson Cultural Center.

Ruth Mendum
	117 Willard Building	email Ruth Mendum
	Phone: (814) 865-2546
	Dual PhD candidate in Rural Sociology and Women's Studies.

Manini Samarth
	112 Burrowes Building	email Manini Samarth
	Phone: (814) 865 5311
	Senior Lecturer in English and Women's Studies.

Srijana Shrestha
	133 Willard Building	email Srijana Shrestha
	Phone: (814) 863-4025
	Dual PhD candidate in Psychology and Women's Studies.