Faculty and Staff

Deborah Heath, Director of Gender Studies and
Associate Professor of Anthropology

GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
GEND 440 Feminist Theory                        
SOAN 395 Anthropology of the Body
GEND 445 Gender in the City Internship
department: Sociology and Anthropology
office: 350 J.R. Howard
phone: 503-768-7663
email: heath@lclark.edu

 

Kimberly Brodkin, Director of Gender Studies Symposium and Director of Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium; Assistant Professor with Term of Humanities
GEND 200 Gender and Sexualities in U.S. Society
ETHS 400 Personal & Political Identities

I regularly teach Gender Studies 200 and am the faculty director of the annual Gender Studies Symposium. My own research examines gender and politics, particularly in the United States.
department:   Gender Studies
office:     418 Miller Center
phone:    503-768-7678
e-mail:   kbrodkin@lclark.edu

Nancy Hugg, Administrative Coordinator                     
department: Gender Studies
office: Third Floor, Miller Hall
phone: 503-768-7378
e-mail: hugg@lclark.edu

 

 

 

 

Sponsoring Faculty

Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, Professor Emerita of French

 

Katja Altpeter-Jones, Associate Professor of German 
GERM 230 German Literature in Translation

 

Stephanie Arnold, Professor of Theatre

 

 

 

Therese Augst, Assistant Professor of German

Nora Beck, Professor of Music
MUS 363 Topics in History and Music II

 

Rachel Cole, Associate Professor of English
ENGL 450 Senior Seminar  Emily Dickinson

 

Janet Davidson, Associate Professor of Psychology
PSY 230 Infant and Child Development, which covers gender differences and similarities in physical, cognitive, and social development in humans.

 

Isabelle DeMarte, Associate Professor of French
GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression
FREN 230  French Literature in Translation
I have an article forthcoming on 18th-century French playwright Olympe de Gouges and her use of gendered discourse. I work on the epistolary form. In the Spring of 2009, I taught a captstone course, FREN 450, on letter-writing as a bridge between communication and creation. Gender is central to our discussions as, historically, essentially through the development of the epistolary novel, the epistolary form has been an authorized territory for women. At the same time, however, the epistolary form can also be viewed as a medium intrinsically linked to the shaping of individual consciousness, in particular as it applied to the idea of human, un-gendered, rights.

Susan Glosser, Associate Professor of History
HIST 311 History of Family and Gender in China examines the ideals and realities of family, gender, and sexuality throughout Chinese history, but with an emphasis on the past one hundred years. My research tends to deal with the ways in which gender and family practices and expectations intersect with politics in twentieth century China.

Daena Goldsmith, Professor of Communication                      COMM 330 Communication and Culture;
COMM 352 Gender in Public Communication

 

 

Karen Gross, Associate Professor of English
Eng 298 Medieval and Renaissance Women Writers

 

Andrea Hibbard, Adjunct Faculty of English
GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression
ENG 243 Women and Literature
 In 2005, I edited Catherine Frances Gore’s “Cecil: Or, the Adventures of a Coxcomb, an 1841 novel proffered as the memoirs of a Regency dandy”. Gore’s novel constitutes a
daring act of narratorial drag and a dramatic departure from the constraints of female propriety. More recently my research has explored intersections among law, literature, and gender.

Reiko Hillyer, Visiting Assistant Professor of History              
HIST 231 US Women’s History 1600-1980;
HIST 330 Race & Ethnicity in American History

Jane Hunter, Professor of History
I am currently serving as associate dean of the college, so am not teaching. However, my research has focused on the history of women—including a book on women missionaries in China—and the ways that gender influenced the way that Chinese and Americans regarded each other. I also have a book entitled “How Young Ladies Became Girls” that pays attention (among other things) to the impact of coeducational high schools in changing expectations for women I have taught U.S. Women’s History, and courses in American social and cultural history that include gender as critical to understanding the past.

Oren Kosansky, Associate Professor of Anthropology               SOAN 285 Culture and Power in the Middle East (Colonialism, Gender, and Religion in the Middle East).  Three of the five ethnographies in this course are about gender, as are many of the articles.

Timothy Mechlinski, Assistant Professor of Sociology
SOAN 275  Africa: Social/Cultural Perspective;
SOAN 350  Global Inequality

 

Susanna Morrill, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
RELS 340 Women in American Religious History.
My research focus is trying to find women in American religious history. I focus particular attention on Mormon women.

 

Claudia Nadine, Associate Professor of French with Term
FREN 350 Gender and Identity in 19th Century France
FREN 230 The Beautiful Beast: Metaphorical Monsters in French Literature
Core Vamps and Vampires (Exploration and Discovery)

Tatiana Osipovich, Associate Professor of Russian        
GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression
RUSS 290 Russian Fairy Tales    In 2003 I received the Fulbright Lecturing award and taught gender studies courses at the Nevsky Institute at St. Petersburg, Russia.  At present, I continue to research gender issues in Russian literature and culture.

 

Will Pritchard Associate Professor of English                    
ENG 333 Major Figures  My teaching and research both center on gender in 17th- and 18th-century British literature and culture. I wrote a book called “Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London”.

 

Maureen Reed Adjunct Professor of Humanities
GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

 

Sarah Warren Assistant Professor of Sociology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean M. Ward, Professor Emerita of Communication
GEND 200: Genders and Sexualities in U.S. Society
I continue to follow my passion for research and writing on the rhetorical and historical accomplishments of nineteenth—and twentieth—century Pacific Northwest women. My teaching interests for Gender Studies include Gender 200 and Communication courses with a gender focus.

Kristi Williams, Instructor of English,and
Coordinator of Academic Advising

 

 

Rishona Zimring, Associate Professor of English

 

 

 

 

Faculty Friends of Gender Studies

Jane Monnig Atkinson, Professor of Anthropology, and Provost of the College

 

 

Andrew Bernstein, Associate Professor History

 

 

 

Mary Clare, Professor of Counseling Psychology

 

 

John M. Fritzman, Associate Professor of Philosophy

 

 

Curtis Johnson, Professor of Political Science

 

 

Joanne B. Mulcahy, Assistant Professor in the Northwest Writing Institute

 

Dawn Odell, Assistant Professor of Art History, Asian Art    
One of my research areas is on the role of Indonesian women in defining national and ethnic identity in the Dutch colony of Batavia (Jakarta).

 Paul R. Powers, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

 

 

Cara Tomlinson, Associate Professor of Art