Women's Studies Faculty

Executive Committee
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Naomi Cahn
Professor of Law, GWU Law School
2000 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20052 / Phone: 202-994-6025
NCAHN@law.gwu.edu

Interests: Feminist jurisprudence; women and the law; family law; nineteenth century women's legal history; domestic violence

Selected Publications:

Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture (with Helena Michie), Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Articles in Harvard Women's Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Cornell Law Review and Michigan Law Review.

Elizabeth Chacko
Associate Professor of Geography & International Affairs

1957 E Street, NW, Suite 512/Phone: 202 994 5328

E-mail: echacko@gwu.edu

Interests: Women's reproductive health; access to health care; social, economic and cultural factors that affect disease prevalence and disease landscapes; gender and development; South Asia.

Selected Publications:

Chacko, Elizabeth. (2005) Understanding the Geography of Pellagra in the United States: the Role of Social and Place-based Identities. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 12(2): 197-212.

Chacko, Elizabeth. (2004) Positionality and Praxis: Fieldwork Experiences in Rural India. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 25(1): 51-63.

Chacko, Elizabeth (2003) Marriage, Development and the Status of Women in Kerala. Gender and Development. Special Marriage Issue 11 (2): 52-59.

Chacko.Elizabeth (2001) Women's use of contraception in rural India: A village-level study. Health and Place 7(3): 197-208.

Leah Chang
Assistant Professor of French
Phillips Hall 513G / Phone: 202-994-6830

Interests:
Late Medieval and Early Modern women's writing; Gender and Early Modern Material Culture; Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern French literature and culture.

Select Publications:

“Clothing ‘Dame Helisenne’: The Staging of Female Authorship and the Production of the 1538 Angoysses Douloureuses qui procedent d’amours” Romanic Review 92:4 (2001) 381-403
“Catherine des Roches’s Two Proserpines: Textual Production and the ‘Ravissement de Proserpine’ in the Missives de Mes-Dames des Roches (1586)” Symposium 58:4 (Winter 2005) 203-222.

Kavita Daiya
Associate Professor of English
Rome Hall, Room 667/ Phone: 202-994-6637
Email: kdaiya@gwu.edu

Interests: Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Colonial Discourse, Transnational Feminisms, South Asian American Literature, Bollywood Cinema, Visual Culture, Race and Diaspora, twentieth century British Literature.

Publications:

Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender and National Culture in Postcolonial India.Temple University Press. 2008. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1958_reg.html

"26/11, A Historical Perspective," Verve, January 2009. www.verveonline.com

“Home and the Nation: Women, Citizenship and Transnational Migration in Postcolonial Literature,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing vol. 44, no. 4 Dec 2008: 391-402.

“Introduction: Imagining South Asia,” co-author, with Amardeep Singh, special issue of South Asian Review 28(1): 2007

“Postcolonial Masculinity: 1947, Partition Violence and Nationalism in the Indian Public Sphere,” Genders March 2006. http://www.genders.org/g43/g43_daiya.html

“Provincializing America: Engaging Postcolonial Critique and Asian American Studies in a Transnational Mode,” South Asian Review vol. 26, no. 2 Dec 2005: 265-275.

“’No Home But in Memory:’ Migrant Bodies and Belongings, Globalization and Nationalism in Amitav Ghosh’s Novels,” in Brinda Bose, ed., Amitav Ghosh: Critical Essays (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2003).

“’Honourable Resolutions:’ Gendered Violence, Ethnicity and the Nation,” Alternatives: Global Local Political 27.2 (April-June 2002) 72-86.

Cynthia Deitch
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Sociology, and Public Policy
837 22nd St. NW #204 / Phone: 202-994-7438
deitch@gwu.edu

Interests: Gender and work; gender and employment policy.

Selected publications:

"Manufacturing Job Loss among Blue Collar Women: An Assessment of Data and Policy" in Gender Differences: Their Impact on Public Policy, co-author, (Greenwood Press, 1991).
"Gender, Race, and Class Politics and the Inclusion of Gender in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act" Gender and Society 7(2), 1993.
"How U.S. Radiologists Use Their Professional Time: Factors Affecting Work Activity and Retirement Plans," co-author, Radiology 194(1): 33-40, 1995.

Cathy Eisenhower
Humanities and Instruction Librarian
Gelman Library, Room 104 / Phone 994-9508
cathye@gwu.edu

Interests: U.S. and Latin American women's poetry, pedagogy,
translation, fugitive publishing

Selected publications:

clearing without reversal (Edge Books, forthcoming 2006)
"Jane Sexes It Up." Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire. Lisa Johnson, ed. Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2002.
Language of the Dog-heads (Phylum Press, 2001)

Cayo Gamber
Assistant Professor in the University Writing Program
Rome Hall, Room 567 / Phone: 202-994-2087
cayo1@gwu.edu

Interests: Cultural studies

Selected publications:

• “Engaging the Art of Peritext: From the Promise of the Index to the Allure of the Footnote.” Forthcoming in The International Journal of the Book.   
• “Designing the Holocaust at the Sites of the Shoah and Museum Stores.” Forthcoming in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal.   
•"Barbie as the Text of My Life." Wrestling with the Angel in the House: Little  Girls Becoming Women. Christine Lac and Gwen Barnes-Karol, Editors. Forthcoming collection of essays from Greenwood Press.   
•“The Girl in the Snowsuit,” “Girl Scout Troop 61,” and “My Mad Bertha.” Mothers and Daughters, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 10.2 (Fall/Winter 2008): 59-70.  
• “In a Napping House,” Mothering in the Academy, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 5.2. (Fall/Winter 2003): 113-15.  
• with Walter A. Brown. Cost Containment in Higher Education: Issues and Recommendations. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report: Volume 29, Number 5. Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Barbara Gault
Director of Research
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Research Professor, Women's Studies

1707 L. St. NW, Suite 750, WDC, 20035
gault@iwpr.org, (202) 785-5100

Research Interests: poverty, early care and education, civic engagement, work/life balance, education access, women and work.

Selected Publications:
Coauthored and authored the following publications:

In Our Own Backyards: Local and State Strategies to Improve the Quality of Family Child Care. Washington, D.C. Institute for Women?s Policy Research, 2005.
"The Costs and Benefits of Policies to Advance Work Life Integration." Invited manuscript for the American Behavioral Scientist,in press.
The Educational Status of Women in California, the Educational Status of Women in Texas, the Educational Status of Women in Georgia, and the Educational Status of Women in Michigan. Washington, D.C., American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 2004.
The Price of School Readiness: A Tool for Estimating the Cost of Universal Preschool in the States. Washington DC: The Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2004.
The Roles of Empathy Anger, and Gender in Predicting Attitudes Toward Punitive, Reparative, and Preventative Public Policies. Cognition and Emotion, 14, (4), 495-520, 2000.

Cynthia Harrison
Associate Professor of History, Women's Studies, and Public Policy
837 22nd St. NW #104 / Phone: 202-994-6943
harrison@gwu.edu

Interests: American women: 20th century policy, politics and law; women in American history (colonial to twentieth century); U.S. policy and politics; 20th century U.S. constitutional and legal history.

Selected publications:

· " 'A Revolution But Half Accomplished': The Twentieth Century's Engagement with Child-Raising, Women's Work, and Feminism," in William H. Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 243-274.

· "Constitutional Equality for Women: Losing the Battle/Winning the War," in Sandra VanBurkleo et al., eds. Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2002, pp. 174-210.

· "A New Women's Movement: The Emergence of the National Organization for Women," in Thomas Dublin & Kathryn Kish Sklar, eds., Women and Power in American History, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2002, pp. 227-239.

Heidi Hartmann
Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Research Professor, Women's Studies
IWPR, 1400 20th St. NW #104, Washington DC 20036
Phone: 202-785-5100

Interests: Family and medical leave; child care; wefare reform; health care; public policy; feminist theory; the political economy of gender to women's organizations.

Selected Publications:

Co-author of the following reports:
Unnecessary Losses: Costs to Americans of the Lack of Family and Medical Leave
Who Needs a Family Wage?: The Implications of Low-Wage Work for Family Well-Being
Women's Access to Health Insurance
Combining Work and Welfare: An Alternative Anti-Poverty Strategy

Leslie Jacobson
Chair, Department of Theater and Dance
Marvin Center, Room 227 / Phone: 202-994-7072
lesliej@gwu.edu

Selected works:

A....My Name is Alice Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical (1988)
Croak, or the Last Frog (1997)
Directed the world premiere of Richard Rashke's Dear Esther (1998)
Directed the world premiere of The Last Game Show for Horizons Theatre (1999)
Wrote and co-directed In Good Company: The Power Edition (1999)

Ivy Ken
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Phillips Hall, Room 409H / Phone: 202/994-1886
E-mail: kennelly@gwu.edu

Interests: Race, Class, and Gender; Labor Markets and Work; Occupational Segregation; Theory; Inequality.

Selected Publications:

2001. Ivy Kennelly, Sabine Merz, and Judith Lorber. “Comment: What is Gender?” American Sociological Review 65:4:598-605.
2001. Marina Karides, Joya Misra, Ivy Kennelly, and Stephanie Moller. “Representing the Discipline: Social Problems compared with ASR and AJS.” Social Problems 48:1:111-128.
2000. Linda Grant, Ivy Kennelly, and Kathryn Ward. “Revisiting the Gender, Marriage, and Parenthood Puzzle in Scientic Careers.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 28:1&2:62-85
1999. Ivy Kennelly. “ ‘That Single Mother Element’: How White Employers Typify Black Women.” Gender & Society 13:2:168-192.
1999. Joya Misra, Ivy Kennelly, and Marina Karides. “Employment Chances in the Academic Job Market in Sociology: Do Race and Gender Matter?” Sociological Perspectives 42:2:215-247
1999. Ivy Kennelly, Joya Misra, and Marina Karides. “The Historical Context of Race, Gender, and Class in the Academic Labor Market.” Race, Gender & Class 6:3:128-158.

1999. Irene Browne and Ivy Kennelly. “Stereotypes and Realities: Black Women in the Labor Market.” Pp. 302-326 in Latinas and African American Women at Work: Race, Gender, and Economic Inequality. Edited by Irene Browne. New York: Russell Sage Press.

Bonnie Morris
Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies
837 22nd St. NW #105 / Phone: 202-994-1263
drbon@gwu.edu

Interests: Women's history; women's participation in sports and war; Jewish women's identity; the women's music movement.

Selected publications:

Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor, Indiana University Press, 2009.
"Mainstreaming the Women's Music Scene," in Sapphists and Sexologists, ed. Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008
Girl Reel, Coffee House Press, 2000.
Eden Built By Eves, Alyson, 1999.
Lubavitcher Women in Amnerica, SUNY Press, 1998.
The High School Scene in the Fifties, Bergin & Garvey, 1997.

Forthcoming:

Big and Strong, I Belong! Diversion Press, 2009 [children's book on school bullies]
"The Writing Sensibility," in Writers and Their Notebooks, ed. Diana Raab, University of South Carolina Press, 2009

Daniel Moshenberg
Director, Women's Studies
Associate Professor of English
837 22nd St. #201/ Phone: 202-994-9086
E-mail:dym@gwu.edu

Interests: Feminist rhetoric; women's literacy cultures; women's mobilization cultures; women workers' cultural studies.

Selected publications:

"As the Women Sing: A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia by Bina Agarwal" [review essay], Thamyris 4(1) Spring, 1997.
"'Sit Down, Listen to the Women!'" in Shirly Walters, et al. Globalization, Adult Education and Training: Impacts and Issues (London: Zed, 1997).

Kelly Pemberton
Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's Studies
2106 G St., NW 202-994-6363
kpembert@gwu.edu

Interests: gender and Islam in South Asia and the Middle East; the landscape of religious authority and authorities; gender and development; ritual studies; migration, transnationalism, and identity; comparative research methods (esp. trans-national comparative research)

Selected publications:

· Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (co-edited with Michael Nijhawan, York University, Toronto) Routledge Press, 2008 (forthcoming)

· Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in the Indian Subcontinent (in submission)

“An Islamic Discursive Tradition on Reform as Seen in the Writing of Deoband’s Maulana Taqi ‘Usmani” Muslim World special issue (forthcoming 2008)
“Perfecting Women in the New Age of Ignorance: Emerging Patterns of Reformist Rhetoric in Indo-Pakistan and Beyond,” Gender and Language vol 3. no. 1 (forthcoming 2008)
Entries for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol V. Suad Joseph, general ed. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

Rachel Riedner
Associate Professor of Writing
rach@gwu.edu

Interests: Transnational Feminisms, Feminist Rhetorics, Cultural Studies, Pedagogy

Selected publications:

· Democracies to Come: Rhetorical Action, Neoliberalism, and Communities of Resistance. Laniham, Maryland: Lexington Press (Spring, 2008) with Kevin Mahoney

· "Introduction without Guarantees: Conviviality in the Time of Neoliberalism”. Enculturation 6.1 (Spring 2008)

· “Affective Encounters: Writing Zapatismo” Journal of Advanced Composition, 27.3, 2007

Gail Weiss
Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences
609 22nd St. NW Room 301 / Phone: 202 994-4297
gweiss@gwu.edu

Interests: Feminist continental philosophy (especially phenomenology and existentialism), feminist ethics, critical race theory, disability studies, and philosophy of literature.

Monographs and Edited Volumes:

Refiguring the Ordinary (Indiana University Press, 2008)
  Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty, Editor (SUNY Press, 2008).  
Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty, Co-editor with Dorothea Olkowski (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).   
Thinking the Limits of the Body, Co-editor with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (SUNY Press, 2003).  
Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality (Routledge Press, 1999).  
Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture,Co-editor with Honi Fern Haber (Routledge Press, 1999).

Sharon Wolchik
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Stuart Hall, Room 401 / Phone: 202-994-7524
E-mail: wolchik@gwu.edu

Interests: Women in politics; Central and Eastern Europe.

Selected publications:

Czechoslovakia in Transition: Politics, Society, and Economics (London: Pinter Publishers, 1991)
Women and Democracy. Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), co edited with Jane S. Jaquette
Women, State and Party in Eastern Europe (Duke University Press, 1985).
"The Repluralization of Politics in Czechoslovakia" Communist & Post-Communist Studies 26(4):412- 431, 1993.
The Social Legacy of Communism, co-editor (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Trying Democracy, co-editor (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

Alyssa Zucker
Associate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies
837 22nd St NW, #202 / Phone: 202-994-1260
azucker@gwu.edu
webpage: home.gwu.edu/~azucker

Interests: Feminist identity; women’s health

Selected publications:

Zucker, A. N., Ostrove, J. M., & Stewart, A. J. (2002). College-educated women's personality development in adulthood: Perceptions and age differences. Psychology and Aging, 17, 236-244.
Bay-Cheng, L. Y., Zucker, A. N., Stewart, A. J., & Pomerleau, C. S. (2002). Linking femininity, weight concern, and mental health among Latina, Black, and White women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 36-45.
Zucker, A. N., Harrell, Z. A., Miner-Rubino, K., Stewart, A. J., Pomerleau, C. S., & Boyd, C. J. (2001). Smoking in college women: The role of thinness pressures, media exposure, and critical consciousness. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25, 233-241.