Welcome New Faculty! 

 
New Faculty attend WGST Meet and Greet in September.

Jennifer Esperanza (Anthropology), Lisa Anderson-Levy (Anthropology), Robin Zebrowski (Cognitive Science), Mona Jackson (History), Rachel Ellett (Political Science/International Relations), Kristin Bonnie (Psychology), and Jingjing Lou (Education and Youth Studies).

Some of the WGST affiliated faculty who attended the Meet and Greet Reception.

Women’s and Gender Studies to Begin Curriculum Review

• On-going conversations scheduled throughout the year about how to shift curricular emphases to better fit faculty expertise, student interests, and trends in the fields of Women’s and Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Ethnic Studies, White Studies, and Development Studies.
• Speakers on recent trends and challenges to the field of Women’s and Gender Studies.
• Faculty reading and discussion group that will cover key articles and issues in the field of Women’s and Gender Studies.
• Student focus groups  that will ask students to consider how the WGST program might best be shaped to fit their interests and needs.

Invited Speakers include:

Ann Braithwaite is co-author of Troubling Women’s Studies: Pasts, Presents and Possibilities and Coordinator of Women’s Studies at University of Prince Edward Island (Canada).

In Troubling Women’s Studies, authors present a multifaceted conversation about what is at stake in "passing on" the institutionalized project of Women's Studies at this historic moment. The authors come to this conversation from a diversity of histories, commitments and investments in Women's Studies. Framed by the argument that Women's Studies is a project fraught with uncertainty, the authors explore what it means to live within this uncertainty and how one might respond to it intellectually, emotionally, politically, institutionally and pedagogically. In exploring their own responses and taking into consideration responses from other feminist intellectuals, the authors subject their practices to the same kind of academic critique to which they subject the discipline, its location, theories, methods and pedagogies. The purpose of these essays is not to enact these responses nor to fix a firm direction for the future of the discipline; but rather, by looking back and attending to the now, inspire us to grapple with what might be possible.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE SPEAKERS TO BE NAMED AS CONFIRMATIONS COME IN…

Spring 2009 Women’s and Gender Studies courses include:

• Introduction to Feminisms
• Introduction to Gender Studies
• Feminist Theory
• Women in Preindustrial Europe, 1000-1700
• Gender, Education, and Development
• Sociology of Sex and Gender
• African-American Womens Novels
• Culture, Power and Place in Southeast Asian Societies
• Vox feminae
• Womens Health
• Writing and Embodiment in Ming-Qing China
• Psychology of Women
• The Invisible/Visibility of Whiteness
• Senior Seminar