GREG BUCHANAN (Associate Professor of Psychology) teaches WGST 155: Introduction to Gender Studies. This class explores t he variability and specificity of gendered identities, taking into account popular culture, post-structuralism, the queer, and embodied subjectivity across-cultures and disciplines. He started at Beloit in1999 and is an associate professor of psychology. His degrees include an M.A. from University of Hawaii and M.A. and a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania.

SUZANNE COX (Associate Professor of Psychology) teaches WGST 225: Psychology of Women. This course examines theoretical viewpoints on the development of gender identification and gender-typed behavior; research evidence for the existence/ non-existence of gender differences; female social development across the life span; psychological aspects of women’s roles in the family and in the workplace; clinical issues relevant to women, such as depression and eating disorders; and additional topics selected by class members.Cox joined Beloit College in 1994 and has a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

SONJA DARLINGTON (Professor of of Education and Youth Studies) teaches an advanced theory course, WGST 360: East African Women’s Practice. Given the range of feminisms, and the debates over the label of feminism for African women, this class teases out of women's practices their relationship to feminist theory. Darlington started at Beloit in 1992 after receiving a B.A. from Baldwin-Wallace College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Iowa State University.

GEORGIA DUERST-LAHTI (Professor of Political Science) teaches WGST 150: Introduction to Women's Studies and WGST 210. Gender and US Politics in a Global Context. Introduction to Women’s Studies examines women’s experiences within institutions such as family, religion, media, economy, health, and the state. In Gender and US Politics, considerations of theoretical aspects of gender, as well as the gendering of political participation, governing institutions such as the presidency and congress, war, citizenship, and ideas such as liberty are discussed. Duerst-Lahti started at Beloit in 1986 after receivng her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Political Science.

MARION FASS ( Professor of Biology) is one of a number of instructors who teach WGST 252: Women's Health (faculty from Psychology, Chemistry, and Anthropology have taught the course as well). Women’s Health focuses on the biological, social, psychological, cultural, and political factors that impact women’s experience of health and illness in the United States and around the world. Fass started at Beloit in 1990, and earned her Sc.D. at Johns Hopkins University's School of Hygiene and Public Health.

KATHY GREENE (Associate Professor of Education and Youth Studies) teaches EDYS 204: Diversity and Youth Studies. This course explores the major theories and significant research on the development and explanation of individual differences—including race, class, gender, language—and how those differences affect the education of youth. Greene earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

NATALIE GUMMER (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies) focuses her research and teaching on the comparative study of religion. Her courses look at questions of meaning, value, personal decision-making processes, and the responsibilities of global citizens. Through the examination of the distinctive institutions, beliefs, rituals, sacred writings, ethics, and myths of the world’s diverse cultures and civilizations, she asks students to consider the power of religious movements in shaping human history and current events. Gummer came to Beloit in 2001 after receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

KOSTA HADAVAS (Associate Professor of Classics) has taught a number of women’s and gender studies courses including WGST 230: Nothing with Dionysus. Kosta started at Beloit in 1997 with a B.A. from Oberlin College and a M.A. and Ph.D. from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His interests include Classic epic, drama, history, philosophy, democracy, art, gender studies, comparative literature, Greek New Testament, early christianity; (general) music (classical, opera, operettas, musicals), 20th-century literature (e.g., Cavafy, Ritsos, Joyce, etc.), 19th and 20th-century art, Medieval Literature.

TAMARA KETABGIAN (Assistant Professor of English) teaches a number of different WGST 200 courses including Victorian Garbage, The Rise of the Self-Help Book, and Steam, Speed and Modernity. The Victorian Garbage course examines dirt, both literally and metaphorically, and how works of English fiction address disgust. The Rise of the Self-Help Book conceptualizes “self-help” as a narrative and rhetorical mode, a historical movement, and a continuing contemporary preoccupation. Steam, Speed, and Modernity considers how machinery served as a suggestive metaphor in literature. Ketabgian earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University in 1999. She came to Beloit in 2004.

NANCY KRUSKO (Professor of Anthropology) She is one of a number of instructors who teach WGST 252: Women's Health (faculty from Psychology, Chemistry, and Anthropology have taught the course as well), which examines women’s experience of health and illness, including childbirth, breast cancer, aging, HIV/AIDS, and other forms of psychological and physical violence. She also occasionally teaches women, feminism, and science. Krusko earned her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and she started at Beloit in 1989.

DIANE LICHTENSTEIN (Professor of Engish and Associate Dean) teaches WGST 150: Introduction to Women’s Studies and WGST 230: African American Women's Novels. Introduction to Women’s Studies examines women’s experiences within institutions such as family, religion, media, economy, health, and the state. Lichtenstein has published articles on U.S. women writers as well as Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers (Indiana University Press, 1992. She started at Beloit in 1987 after receiving a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

KATHRYN LINNENBERG (Assistant Professor of Sociology) teaches WGST 220: The Sociology of Sex & Gender and 210: Families in Transition. The Sociology of Sex and Gender is an examination of sex and gender as sociological constructs and as central organizing features of social structures. Families in Transition examines dominant demographic changes in U.S. families (broadly defined) such as mating selection, family violence, and divorce in family structure and investigates how differences of social class, ethnicity, and religion affect this change. Linnenberg came to Beloit in 2004 after receiving a B. A. and M.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

SYLVIA LOPEZ (Associate Professor of Spanish)

EDWARD MATHIEU (Assistant Professor of History) teaches WGST 155: Introduction to Gender Studies, WGST 210: Women in Modern Europe, and WGST 210: Gender, Class, Nation, and Race. Introduction to Gender Studies explores the variability and specificity of gendered identities, taking into account popular culture, post-structuralism, the queer, and embodied subjectivity across-cultures and disciplines. Women in Modern Europe explores changing forms of women’s work, the public/private dichotomy, and the women’s liberation movement in the 19 th and 20 th century Europe. Gender, Class, Nation, and Race the variability and specificity of gendered identities are explored, taking into account popular culture, post-structuralism, the queer, and embodied subjectivity across-cultures. He started at Beloit College in 2001 after receiving his Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan.

DEBRA MAJEED (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies) teaches WGST 200: Writing Women’s Lives: Biography and Autobiography. This class draws attention to the spiritual quests, ritual practices, social struggles and religious attitudes of women of the African Diaspora and in other selected cultures. Majeed started at Beloit in 1999 and has a Ph.D. from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University.

CATHERINE ORR (Associate Professor and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies) teaches WGST 160: Introduction to Feminisms, WGST 255: International Perspectives on Women and Gender, WGST 258: Gender and Media, WGST 301: Feminist Theorizing, and WGST 370: Senior Seminar. Her research interests include institutional analyses of women's and gender studies in the US academy, social justice movements and higher education, and third wave feminisms. Orr received an MA in Communication Studies from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. In Communication Studies and Feminist Studies from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

LINDA STURTZ (Professor of History) teaches WGST 210: Survey of U.S. Women’s History. This class examines women’s economic, political, and cultural position in the United States from the 17th century to the present and how differences in ethnicity, class, and conditions of freedom transform women’s roles and change the family, men’s roles, and the economy. Sturtz completed her Ph.D. in history at Washington University in St. Louis. Her current projects include completing a manuscript on the history of propertied women in Virginia during the colonial period.

OSWALDO VOYSEST (Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures) teaches WGST 200: Women Writers and the Image of Women in Latin American 19th Century Letters. Voysest came to Beloit in 1997 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. His area of research deals with issues related to 19th century literati women in Latin American, in particular the Peruvian author Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909).

DANIEL YOUD (Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures) teaches WGST 230: Traditional Chinese Literature. This course surveys the ways in which multiple forms of desire have been represented in Chinese literature from mapping the gendered nature of various discourses of eroticism to placing a literary evolution of Confucian moral philosophy, Daoist sexology, and Buddhist religious beliefs. Youd, Luce Junior Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, received a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in East Asian Studies.