| A Partial List of Marquette Faculty Teaching or Researching Gender Issues* |
| Dr. Monica Adya Assistant Professor of Management College of Business monica.adya@mu.edu Interests: Career motivations and experiences of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers, the role of national culture on women’s career experiences, particularly on STEM careers. |
| Dr. Francisco Alencar Jr. Assistant Professor of General Dental Sciences Dental School francisco.alencar@mu.edu Interests: chronic orofacial pain, including tension headaches, migraines, TMD or TMJ diseases and myofascial pain. |
| Dr. Ruth Ann Belknap Assistant Professor of Nursing College of Nursing ruth.belknap@mu.edu Interests: Migration and health with an emphasis on Mexican immigrant women’s experiences, exploring relationships between social/familial support after immigration and levels of stress, depressive symptoms and risk for intimate partner violence. |
| Dr. M.C. Bodden Associate Professor of English College of Arts and Sciences mc.bodden@mu.edu Interests: Religious language, privileging violence towards women, and hostility against women’s speech. |
| Dr. Louise Cainkar Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences College of Arts and Sciences louise.cainkar@mu.edu Interests: Arab and Muslim Americans, including issues of women and gender, and stereotypes of Arab and Muslim American women. |
| Dr. Ed de St. Aubin Associate Professor of Psychology College of Arts and Sciences ed.destaubin@mu.edu Interests: Human sexuality, Lesbian Self Lab, and teaches courses in human development and personality psychology that incorporate hegemonic structures, sex, and gender. |
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| Dr. Jean Grow Assistant Professor of Advertising and Public Relations College of Communication jean.grow@mu.edu Interests: Controversial advertising case studies related to gender and the lack of women in advertising creative departments. |
| Dr. Carla Hay Associate Professor of History |
| Dr. Diane Long Hoeveler Professor of English College of Arts and Sciences diane.hoeveler@mu.edu Interests: The female gothic, Romantic women writers, literature and psychology. |
| Dr. Heather R. Hlavka Assistant Professor of Criminology and Law Studies College of Arts and Sciences heather.hlavka@mu.edu Interests: Sexual victimization, child sexual abuse, gender and sexuality, social control of women and children, intimate partner violence, system responses to violence against women including police, courts, medical and socio-legal responses. |
| Dr. Sandra Hunter Associate Professor of Exercise Science College of Health Sciences sandra.hunter@mu.edu Interests: sex differences in motor function and muscle fatigue under the influence of stress. |
| Dr. Kate M. Kaiser Associate Professor of IT College of Business kate.kaiser@mu.edu Interests: Girls’ perceptions of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and the challenges to women working in IT. M |
| Dr. Lezlie Knox Associate Professor of History College of Arts and Sciences lezlie.knox@mu.edu Interests: Gender in medieval Europe, medieval Franciscan women, the masculinity of Franciscan friars, and monastic prisons. |
| Dr. Christine L. Krueger Professor of English Director, Who Counts Project College of Arts and Sciences christine.krueger@mu.edu Interests: Literature and law, women historians, women and religion, in Britain from 1750-1900. |
| Dr. Daniel Maguire Professor of Theology College of Arts and Sciences daniel.maguire@mu.edu Interests: feminism, feminist issues and religion, violence against women, reproductive health and ethics |
| Dr. Cheryl L. Maranto Associate Professor and Chair of Management College of Business Administration cheryl.maranto@mu.edu Interests: Gender discrimination in the workplace, women in management, and corporate diversity programs. |
| Dr. Michael J. Monahan Associate Professor of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences michael.monahan@mu.edu Interests: Theorizing oppression and liberation, especially as it pertains to race and gender, and teaches courses in Africana Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy and Political Philosophy. |
| Dr. Dawne Moon Assistant Professor of Sociology College of Arts and Sciences dawne.moon@mu.edu Interests: Uses ethnographic research to learn about identity, culture and politics in the United States to understand how social power works in processes of self-definition. |
| Dr. Sameena A. Mulla Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences College of Arts and Sciences sameena.mulla@mu.edu Interests: Sexual and reproductive violence, forensic intervention, gender, sexuality and law, the body, visual anthropology, subjectivity, medicine, and the relationship between institutional and kin relations. |
| Dr. Debra L. Oswald Assistant Professor of Psychology College of Arts and Science debra.oswald@mu.edu Interests: Uses social psychology theories to explain gender stereotyping, sexism, discrimination and teaches courses in Psychology of Gender and Psychology of Prejudice. |
| Dr. Anne M. Pasero Associate Professor of Spanish College of Arts and Sciences anne.pasero@mu.edu Interests: Contemporary women’s poetry, from Spain and Latin America, Spanish women writers from the renaissance, and Spanish women mystics. |
| Dr. Kris Ratcliffe Professor and Chair of English College of Arts and Sciences krista.ratcliffe@mu.edu Interests: Intersections of rhetoric, feminist theory, and critical race (whiteness) studies and teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, writing, and women’s literature. |
| Dr. Albert J. Rivero Professor of English College of Arts and Sciences albert.rivero@mu.edu Interests: Prose fiction about women and/or written by women from 1660-1820 in Britain and intersections between gender, race, and imperialism. |
| Ms. Andrea Schneider Professor of Law Law School andrea.schneider@mu.edu Interests: Differences in how men and women negotiate and what behaviors are most effective for women negotiators. |
| Dr. Nancy E. Snow Professor of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences nancy.snow@mu.edu Interests: Iris Murdoch, issues pertaining to rape, and teaches courses in feminism and Asian philosophy and feminism. |
| Mrs. Dawn Smith Clinical Assistant Professor, MPAS, PAC College of Health Sciences dawn.smith@mu.edu Interests: Women’s health instruction. |
| Dr. Meghan S. Stroshine Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences College of Arts and Sciences meghan.stroshine@mu.edu Interests: Domestic violence and teaches the courses Women, Crime and Criminal Justice, Domestic Violence in the U.S., and Family Violence and Public Intervention. |
| Dr. Steven Millen Taylor Professor of French College of Arts and Sciences steven.taylor@mu.edu Interests: Women as subjects and writers in French medieval literature. |
| Dr. Theresa Weynard Tobin Assistant Professor of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences theresa.tobin@mu.edu Interests: Feminist ethics, feminist approaches to the study of knowledge and teaches courses in feminist philosophy, feminist ethics and feminist epistemology. |
| Dr. Lynn Turner William R. Burleigh and E. W. Scripps Professor Director, Interdisciplinary Family Studies College of Communication lynn.turner@mu.edu Interests: Issues of how gender operates as on organizing principle for everyday interactions, how communication constructs gender as well as the reverse, and challenging the biology-is-destiny approach to craft a more complex understanding of gendered processes and practices. |
| Dr. Sarah Wadsworth Associate Professor of English College of Arts and Sciences sarah.wadsworth@mu.edu Interests: 19th century American women writers and gender and reading. |
| Dr. Olga Yakusheva Assistant Professor of Economics College of Business olga.yakusheva@mu.edu Interests: Obesity, health services and earnings, as they relate to schooling, teen pregnancy and gender, as well as teaching courses in labor economics, health economics, principles of microeconomics and intermediate economics. |
| Dr. Amelia Zurcher Associate Professor of English Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program College of Arts and Sciences amelia.zurcher@mu.edu Interests: Gender and earl modern British literature, feminist theory, feminism and globalization, and sexual violence. |
| *If you teach or do research in issues having to do with gender and are not included in this directory, please contact Amelia Zurcher via e-mail; we would love to include you here! |
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