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Affiliated Faculty
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Adele Logan Alexander
Assistant Professor of History
Phillips Hall, Room 315 / Phone:
202-994-6528
E-mail: alalex@gwu.edu
Interests: African-American and women's history
Selected Publications:
- Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in
Rural Georgia,
1789-1879 (University of Arkansas Press, 1991).
Patricia Chu
Associate Professor of English, English
Department
Rome Hall, Room 750 / Phone: 202-994-1405
E-mail:pattychu@gwu.edu
Interests: Asian American literature and cultural studies;
20th century American literature; women's writing; 19th century British
literature; 20th century British literature.
Selected publications:
- "'The Invisible World the Emigrants
Built': Cultural Self-Inscription and the Antiromantic
Plots of The Woman Warrior" Diaspora: A
Journal of Transnational Studies 2 (1): 95-116, 1992.
- "Tripmaster
Monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese Heroic Tradition" Arizona
Quarterly, Fall 1997.
Jeffrey Cohen
Asst. Prof. of English and
Associate Director, Human Sciences Program
Rome Hall, Room 760 / Phone: 202/994-5338
E-mail:jjcohen@gwu.edu
Interests: Gender and identity theory; Foucault and Deleuze, Kristeva.
Selected Publications:
- Becoming Male in the Middle
Ages, ed. (Garland Press,
1997).
Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
Saida Erradi
Visiting Lecturer. Women's
Studies
Ph.D. American Studies,
The George Washington University
Ph.D. British Studies, Toulous
Le-Mirail
University
E-mail: Mcgerrad10@aol.com
Interests: Women in the Middle
East, Arab Americans, Middle Eastern cultures, cross-cultural
communication, comparative study (Middle East
and U.S.
cultures) and travel literature.
Selected publications
and presentations:
- "Two American Female
Writers' Perceptions of Moroccan Women: Edith Wharton and
Elizabeth Fernea" (Dissertation, The
George Washington University, 1995.)
- "Multicultural Education
as Practiced in Three Comprehensive Schools in London" (Dissertation, Toulous Le-Mirail
University, 1985.)
- "The Arab Family and the
Effects of Social Transformation" (Hassan II University,
Casablanca, 1998).
- "Race in the United States"
(World Net TV, Casablanca, 1996)
Molly Spitzer Frost
Assistant Adjunct Professor in East
Asian Languages and Literature and in Women's Studies
Department of East Asian Languages and
Literatures Rome Hall, Room 462 / Phone: 202-994-7106 / E-mail: msf@gwu.edu
Interests: Chinese women in myth; literature and film;
prehistoric Chinese matriarchy; traditional Chinese culture; modern Chinese
film.
Selected publications:
- "The Place of Place in Chinese
Fiction," Annals of the SEC/AAS, January 1987.
Alf Hiltebeitel
Professor of Religion and Director,
Human Sciences Program
Phillips Hall, Room 412 / Phone:
202-994-7034
E-mail: beitel@gwu.edu
Interests: Hinduism; goddesses
studies; textual and ritual theory.
Selected publications:
- The Cult of Draupadi
I (University of Chicago
Press, 1988).
- The Cult of Draupadi
II (University of Chicago
Press, 1991).
- "Dying Before the Mahabharata War:
Martial and Transsexual Body-Building for Aravan"
Journal of Asian Studies 54 (2):447-473, 1995.
- Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian
Cultures, co-editor (State
University of New York
Press, forth- coming).
Anne Kasper
Associate Professorial Lecturer in
Women's Studies, Women's Studies Program and Adjunct Professor, University of
Illinois at Chicago, Center for Research on Women and Gender
Funger Hall, Suite 506-I / Phone: 202-994-6942
E-mail: ASKasper@aol.com
Interests: Women's health and social policy; public policy.
Selected Publications:
- "A Feminist, Qualitative Methodology:
Women with Breast Cancer," Qualitative Sociology,
1994.
- "The Social Construction of Breast Loss
and Reconstruction," in Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior
and Policy, 1995.
- "Women's Agenda for Action: From UN
Conferences to U.S. Priorities," co-author (Alternative Women in
Development, 1996).
- Textbook of Women's Health. Associate Editor (Lippincott-Raven, 1998)
- Breast Cancer as a Social Problem. Co-editor (St. Martin's
Press, Spring 2000)
Joel Kuipers
Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
Building X, 201 / Phone: 202-994-6545
E-mail:kuipers@gwu.edu
Interests: Linguistic anthropology; performance; gender;
nationalism; Southeast Asia.
Selected publications:
- "Talking About Troubles: Gender
Differences in Weyewa Speech Use" American
Ethnologist 13:448-462, 1986.
- " 'Medical Discourse' in Anthropological Context:
Views of Language and Power" Medical Anthropology Quarterly 3(2):99-123,
1989.
- Power in Performance: The Creation of
Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech (University of Pennsylvania Press,
1990).
Ami Lynch
Lecturer in Women's Studies and
Sociology; Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy with a concentration in gender
and social policy
837
22nd St. NW,
Room 203/Phone: 202-994-1259
Email: amilynch@gwu.edu
Interests: sociology of sex and gender, hate crime, sexual
violence, masculinity studies, segregation, social construction of race,
class, gender, sexuality, disability and beyond, gendered border
patrol/control.
Sharon Lynch
Associate Professor of Teacher
Preparation and Special
Education
Graduate School of School
of Education and Human
Development Room 402 / Phone: 202 994-6816 / E-mail: slynch@gwu.edu
Interests: Women/girls in science and non-traditional
careers; equity and science education reform; emminent
women; women in Central Europe.
Melani McAlister
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Building P / Phone: 202-994-6073 / E-mail: mmc@gwu.edu
Interests: Feminist theory, women and culture; gender and foreign
policy; first and third world feminisms; feminist film theory.
Selected Publications:
- Staging the American Century: Race, Gender
and Nation in U.S.
Representations of the Middle East, 1945-1992 (University
of California Press,
in press).
Barbara Miller
Associate Professor of Anthropology and
International Affairs
Associate Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs
Lisner 640/Phone: 202-994-6034/E-mail: barbar@gwu.edu
Interests: Women and international development; health of
girls and women in India;
intrahousehold discrimination; population and
health policy; South Asia.
Selected publications:
- The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female
Children in Rural North India (Cornell University Press, 1981; 2nd
edition, Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Sex and Gender Hierarchies, editor, (Cambridge University Press,
1993).
- "Social Class, Gender, and Intrahousehold Food Allocations to Children in South Asia" Social Science and Medicine
44(11): 1685-1695, 1997.
- "The Disappearance of the Oiled Braid:
Indian Adolescent Female Hairstyles in the United States" in
Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures (State University of
New York Press, 1998).
- Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures, co-editor, (State University of New York
Press, 1998).
- Cultural Anthorpology
(Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1999)
Faye Moskowitz
Associate Professor of English
Rome Hall, Room 658 / Phone: 202-994-6180
E-Mail:jakemos@aol.com
Interests: Jewish mothers and daughters.
Selected publications:
- Leak in the Heart (Godine Press,
1985).
- And The Bridge is Love: Life Stories (Beacon Press, 1991).
- Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on
Mothers and Daughters
(Beacon Press, 1994).
- Whoever Finds This: I Love You (Godine Press,
1997).
Teresa Murphy
Associate Professor of American Studies,
Chair of American
Studies Building P, Room 102/ Phone: 202-994-6071
E-mail:tmurphy@gwu.edu
Selected publications:
- Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and
Gender in Early New England (Cornell University Press, 1992).
Catherine J. Pickar
Associate Professor of Music
Phillips Hall, Suite B-144 / Phone:
202-994-6338
E-mail: cpickar@gwu.edu
Selected publications:
- Editor, Women and Music: A Journal of
Gender and Culture.
Judith Plotz
Professor of English
Rome Hall, Room 662 / Phone: 202-994-6180
E-mail:jplotz@gwu.edu
Interests: 19th century British romanticism; especially
romanticism of childhood; literature of childhood; Anglo-Indian and Indo-Anglian literature; postcolonialism.
Selected publications:
- Idea of Decline of Poetry (Garland,
1987).
- Editor, Children's Literature,
Vol.20.
Paul Poppen
Associate Professor of Psychology
Building GG, Room 418 / Phone: 202-994-6324
E-mail: pjp@gwu.edu
Interests: Sexual behavior; self-protective behavior and
sexual risk-taking; psychology of sex differences; survey research methods.
Selected publications:
- "Adolescent Contraceptive Use and
Communication: Changes over a Decade" Adolescence 29:503-515,
1994.
- "Heterosexual Behaviors and Risk of
Exposure to HIV: Current Status and Prospects for Change," co-
author, Applied and Preventive Psychology 3:75-90, 1994.
- "College Women and Condom Use:
Importance of Partner Relationship," co-author, Journal of
Applied Social Psychology 25:1485-1498, 1995.
- "Gender and Patterns of Sexual
Risk-taking in College Students," Sex Roles 32:545-555,
1995.
- "The Nature of Partner Relationship and
AIDS Sexual Risk Taking in Gay Men," co-author, Psychology and
Health 11:541-555, 1996.
- "Perception of Risk and Sexual
Self-Protective Behavior: A Methodological Critique," co-author,
AIDS: Education and Prevention 9, 1997.
Ann Romines
Professor of English and Director of
Graduate Studies
770 Rome Hall / Phone: 202-994-6901
annrom@gwu.edu
Interests: American women's writing 1850-1950; women's writing and domestic
cultures; gender and children's literature, especially Laura Ingalls Wilder; writing and place; how women writers'
careers end.
Selected publications:
- The Home Plot: Women, Writing and Domestic
Ritual (University of
Massachusetts Press, 1992).
- Constructing the Little House: Gender,
Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997). Winner,
Children's Literature Association Prize for Best Scholarly Book on
Children's Literature
Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays
on Cather and Southern Culture. Editor
(University of Virginia, 2000)
Linda Bradley Salamon
Professor of English
Room 762 Phillips / Phone: 202-994-0943 /
Email: lbs@gwu.edu
- Interests: Women in early modern Europe,
employment discrimination, women in large organizations.
Isabel Vergara
Associate Professor of Spanish,
Department of Romance Languages
Phillips Hall, Room T-513F / Phone:
202-994-6786
E-mail: vergara@gwu.edu
Selected publications:
- El Mundo Sat’rico
de Gabriel Garc’a Marquez (Editorial Pliegos, 1991).
- Colombia: Literatura
y Cultura del Siglo
XX, editor (Organization of
the American States, 1995).
- Revista de Estudios Colombianos. Director and Editor 1995 to present
Gayle Wald
Assistant Professor of English
Rome Hall, Room 661 / Phone: 202-994-6936
E-mail:gwald@gwu.edu
Interests: Feminist cultural theory; African-American
women's literature; women and popular culture.
Selected publications:
- "Just a Girl?:
Rock Music, Feminism and the Cutural
Construction of Female Youth." SIGNS, Spring 1998
- Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S.
Literature and Culture (Duke University Press, 2000).
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