Graduate Certificate Alumni

 

Deborah Al-Najjar, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Professional Coach; DesireCompass Coaching

 

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Joanne Altschuler, PhD
 

Dissertation

• Interplay and Meaning of Paid and Unpaid Work among Older Women

Current Position and Organization

• Clinical Social Worker at Joanne Altschuler, PhD, LCSW

• Professor Emerita; California State University, Los Angeles

Selected Publications: 

• 2017: Altschuler, J. “Midlife and Older Women’s Experiences and Advice About Sex with Men, Risk Behaviors and HIV Prevention Education.” Journal of Women & Aging, 29(1), 63-74.

• 2015: Altschuler, J. & Katz, A. “Of course it’s relevant”: A Focus Group Study of Older Adults’ Perceived Importance of HIV/AIDS Prevention Education.  Qualitative Social Work, 14(5), 687-701.  

• 2015: Altschuler, J. & Rhee, S. “Relationship Power, Sexual Decision Making and HIV Risk Among Midlife and Older Women”  Journal of Women & Aging, 27(4), 290-308. 

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• California Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Faculty Mentor, 2016-2017

• Outstanding Student Organization Advisor, CalStateLA Center for Student Involvement (CSI), 2015-2016

• Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, CalStateLA University, 2004-2005

 

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Heidi Amin-Hong, PhD

 

Dissertation

• A Contaminated Transpacific: Ecological Afterlives of the Vietnam War

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara

 

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Connie Anderson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Visions of Involved Fatherhood: Pro-Feminists and Promise Keepers

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor and Director of the Post Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Autism Studies; Towson University

Selected Publications

• Zablotsky, B., Bradshaw, C., Anderson, C., & Law, P.A. (2013). Risk factors for bullying among children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/1362361313477920

• Anderson, C., Law, J.K., Daniels, A., Rice, C., Mandell, D., Hagopian, L., & Law, P. (2012). Occurrence and family impact of elopement in children with autism spectrum disorders. Pediatrics, 130(5), 870-877.

• Daniels, A.M., Rosenberg, R.E., Anderson, C., Law, J.K., Marvin, A.R., & Law, P.A. (2012). Verification of parent-report of child autism spectrum disorder diagnosis to a web-based autism registry. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(2), 257-265.

 

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Jennifer Ann Ball, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Before and After Reform: The Effects of Structural Adjustment on Women's Employment in Latin America

Current Position and Organization

• Interim Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, Washburn University

Selected Publications

• “Women Farmers in Developed Countries: A Literature Review,” forthcoming in Agriculture and Human Values.

• “Paying for Undergraduate Business Education: Recent Trends in Tuition, Income, Institution Choice, and Debt,” with Kanalis Ockree, Journal of Education for Business, 2017.

• “She Works Hard for the Money: Women in Kansas Agriculture,” Agriculture and Human Values, 2014.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Ned Fleming Excellence in Teaching Award, Washburn University, 2010

• Dicus Excellence in Teaching Award, Washburn University School of Business, 2009

• Beatrice Research Chair, Washburn University School of Business, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017

 

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Antoinette M. Ardis, JD, MBA

 

Current Position and Organization

• Director of Administrative Services; Harrison Homes, Inc.

Additional Information

• Harrison Homes, Inc. operates four therapeutic residential group homes and an alternative school for at-risk teens in central California.

 

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Diana Arterian, PhD

Dissertation:

• Migratory Wounds: Relayed Trauma in Contemporary Poetics (critical); Seiche (creative)

Current Position and Organization:

• Director, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Robin Coste Lewis' Poetic Truths & Reconciliation Commission

Selected Publications:

• “In A Sand Book, Ariana Reines Finds Ecstasy in Chaos,” New York Times Book Review, 2019.

• Playing Monster :: Seiche, Editors Selection for the 1913 Press First Book Prize, 2017.

Selected Awards/Fellowships:

• The Order of Arête Graduate Student Recognition Award, University of Southern California 

• Louise Kerckhoff Prize for Best Graduate Essay Related to Gender Studies for “The Traumatized Androgynous Body and Chaotic Asexual Reproduction in William Blake’s The Book of Ahania,” University of Southern California

• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Student Recognition Award, University of Southern California   

 

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Crystal Baik, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies; UC Riverside

 

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Kristen Barber, PhD

 

Dissertation

• When Women Groom Men: Interactive Service Work in Men’s Beauty Salons

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of Sociology; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Selected Publications

• Ronald E. Hallett and Kristen Barber. 2014. “Ethnographic Research in a Cyber Era.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 43(3): 306-320.

• Kristen Barber. 2014. Book Review of "Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World," by Bob Pease. Men and Masculinities 17(1): 90-92.

• Kristen Barber and Kelsy Kretschmer. 2013. “Walking Like a Man?” Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds 12(2): 40-45.

 

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Christina Belcher, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Backward: Queer Rurality in American Popular Culture 1920 to the Present (2016)

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Writing and Gender and Sexualtiy Studies; University of Southern California

Selected Publications

• #WeToo: Sex Work in the Wake of a Movement. Editor. The Feminist Press. Forthcoming in 2020.

 

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Melissa Bird, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Life Coach and Public Speaker; Bird Girl Industries

 

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Shawn Marie Boyne, JD

 

Law Review Note

• Women in Prison with AIDS: An Assault on the Constitution?

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Law; Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University

Selected Publications

• The German Prosecution Service: Guardians of the Law (Springer 2014)

• The Many Faces of Objectivity: A Look at German Sexual Assault Cases, 67 Wash. & Lee. L.R. 1287 (2010)

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Trustee's Teaching Award, Prestigious External Award Recognition

 

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Lara Bradshaw, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Program and Communication Specialist; USC Shoah Foundation

 

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Evan Brody, PhD

 

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Nathaniel Burke, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Coordinater, Campus Climate and Inclusion Initiatives; UC Santa Barbara

 

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Vanessa Carlisle, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Consultant and Coach; Self-Employed

 

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Megan Carroll, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Carroll, Megan. 2018. “Managing without Moms: Gay Fathers, Incidental Activism, and the Politics of Parental Gender.” Journal of Family Issues 39(13): 3410-3435.

• Carroll, Megan. 2018. “Gay Fathers on the Margins: Race, Class, Marital Status, and Pathway to Parenthood.” Family Relations 67(1): 104-117.

• Carroll, Megan. Forthcoming. “Asexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent Families.” In LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice [Second Edition], edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine R. Allen. Springer.

 

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Jonathan Cicoski, MA

 

Current Position and Organization

• PhD Candidate, Performing and Media Arts; Cornell University

 

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Chris Coffman, PhD

 

Dissertation

• “Insane Passions”: Psychosis and Female Same-Sex Desire in Psychoanalysis and Literary Modernism

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Selected Publications

Articles

• Article:  “Queer Theory.” 7,500 words. Invited contribution to The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf, ed. Anne Fernald. Oxford University Press. On Woolf’s Orlando, Nawal El Saadawi, Iqbalunnisa Hussain, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Jeanette Winterson. 

• Article:  “Žižek’s Antagonism and the Futures of Trans-Affirmative Lacanian Psychoanalysis.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 4.3-4 (November 2017): 472-496. 

• Article:  “Reading Stein’s Genders: Transmasculine Signification in the 1910’s and 1920’s.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 59.1 (Spring 2017): 1-27. 

• Article:  “Visual Economies of Queer Desire in Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Arizona Quarterly 70.4 (Winter 2014): 49-83. 

• Article:  “The Migrating Look: Visual Economies of Queer Desire in The Book of Salt.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 56.2 (Summer 2014): 148-180. 

• Article:  “The Unpredictable Future of Fantasy’s Traversal.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 18.4 (December 2013): 43-60. 

• Article:  “The Sinthomosexual’s Failed Challenge to (Hetero)sexual Difference.” Culture, Theory, and Critique 54.1 (2013): 56-73. 

• Article:  “Queering Zizek.” Postmodern Culture 23.1 (September 2012). Available online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v023/23.1.coffman.html 

• Article:  “Woolf’s Orlando and the Resonances of Trans Studies.” Genders 51 (2010).

• Article:  "'The Missus is Master:' Fetishism and Masochism in Ulysses." Literature and Psychology 48.3 (2002): 56-76.

• Article:  "The Papin Enigma." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5.3 (June 1999): 331-359.

• Article:  "Bureaucracy and 'Homosexual Panic' in Franz Kafka's Der Prozess." The Journal of the Kafka Society of America 22.1-2 (1998): 20-29.

Books

• Book:  Gertrude Stein’s Transmasculinity.  Edinburgh UP, 2018 (hardback) and 2019 (paperback).Book:  Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film. Wesleyan University Press, December 2006.

Selected Awards / Fellowships

• Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum and the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, March-June 2019.

• National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on “Modernist Paris” in Paris, France, in Summer 2006.

Leadership Positions Held

• Organizational Vice President for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, United Academics, July 2015-June 2018.

• Coordinator of Academics, College of Liberal Arts, University of Alaska Fairbanks, January 2014-May 2015.

• Coordinator, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2009-2011.

 

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Jennifer Conary, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Beautiful Lost Causes: Quixotic Reform and the Victorian Novel

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of English; DePaul University

Selected Publications

• “‘Whether we like it or not’: Bleak House and the Limits of Liberalism.” Dickens Studies Annual 45 (2014): 28 pp. Forthcoming.

• “‘Things of the heart and mind’:  Gender and Philanthropy in George Gissing’s Thyrza.”  Victorians Institute Journal 39 (2011): 293-315.

• “‘Dreaming over an unattainable end’:  Disraeli’s Tancred and the Failure of Reform.”  Victorian Literature and Culture 38.1 (2010): 75-87.

 

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Gino Conti, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Lecturer, Department of Liberal Studies; Cal State LA

 

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LaToya Council, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Her Work, His Work, Their Work: Time and Self-Care in Black Middle-Class Couples

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Lehigh University

 

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April Davidauskis, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Part-Time Lecturer, Writing; University of Southern California

 

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Mary Ann Davis, MFA, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Useful Dangers: The Erotics of Form, Sadomasochism, Victorian Narrative

Current Position and Organization

• Visiting Lecturer in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Scripps College

 

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Jennifer DeClue

 

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Study of Women and Gender; Smith College

 

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Susan Jean de Gaia, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Instructor; Central Michigan University

Selectied Presentations

Selected Publications

Editor

• Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2018 (e-book) 2019 (hardcover). Winner of Best Reference Award 2018/19, Library Journal.

Articles

• "Advocating Respect for Goddess." Feminismandreligion.com. May 2019. Access at https://feminismandreligion.com/2019/05/30/advocating-respect-for-goddess-by-susan-de-gaia/ 

• “Books for Women (Confucianism).” In Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, edited by Susan de Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019: Vol. 1, pp. 282-284.

• “Dance of Tara (Buddhism).” Co-authored with Phyllis Moses. In Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, edited by Susan de Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019: Vol. 1, pp. 108-111.

•  “Ecofeminism (Spirituality).” In Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, edited by Susan de Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019: Vol. 2, pp. 321-326.

•  “Laywomen (Jainism).” In Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, edited by Susan de Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019: Vol. 2, pp. 108-109.

• “Mary Magdalene (Christianity).” In Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, edited by Susan de Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019: Vol. 1, pp. 216-220.

• “Meditation (Spirituality).” In Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, edited by Susan de Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019: Vol. 2, pp. 335-337.

• “Mystics (Christianity).” Co-authored with Amanda Haste. In Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, edited by Susan de Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019: Vol. 1, pp. 239-242

  

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Tisha Dejmanee, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Communication and Dramatic Arts; Central Michigan University

 

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Shari L. Dworkin, PhD

 

Dissertation

• “Holding Back”: Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women’s Strength

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Nursing; University of California, San Francisco

Selected Publications

• Dworkin, S.L. (Forthcoming). Men at Risk: Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Prevention. New York: NYU Press.

• Horton, K. & Dworkin, S.L.(Forthcoming). Empowerment impacts of a community-led property rights model in rural Kenya. In: (In)Justice and In Health: At the Intersection of Women's Health and Empowerment. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• Dworkin, S.L., Hatcher, A., Colvin, C., & Peacock, D. (Forthcoming). Impact of a gender-transformative HIV and anti-violence program on masculinities and health. In: (In)Justice and In Health: At the Intersection of Women's Health and Empowerment. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2010 Distinguished Scholarship Award, North American Society for Sociologists of Sport

• 2012 Research Mentor Award, UCSF School of Nursing

• 2013 Academic Senate, Distinction in Mentoring Award

 

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Kyunghee Eo, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Politics of Purity: The Making of Girlhood in South Korean Literature

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of Korean, University of Colorado Boulder

 

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Jill Fields, PhD

 

Dissertation

• The Production of Glamour: A Social History of Intimate Apparel, 1909-1952

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of History and Founding Coordinator, Jewish Studies Certificate Program; California State University, Fresno

Selected Publications

• Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists, editor (NY: Routledge, 2012).

• An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie & Sexuality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).

• “Was Peggy Guggenheim Jewish?: Gender, Modern Art, and Jewish Identity in Post-War Venice,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues (Fall 2013).

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Western Association of Women Historians Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra 2008 Book Prize for An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie & Sexuality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)

• Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Program, 2011-2014

• Provost Research Award, CSU Fresno (multiple academic years)

  

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Glenda M. Flores, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Latina Teachers in Los Angeles: Navigating Race/Ethnic and Class Boundaries in Multiracial Schools

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology; University of California, Irvine

Selected Publications

• Flores, Glenda M. and Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2014. "The Social Dynamics Channeling Latina College Graduates into the Teaching Profession." Gender, Work and Organization (forthcoming)

• Flores, Glenda Marisol. 2011. “Racialized Tokens: Latina Teachers Negotiating, Surviving and Thriving in a White Woman’s Profession.” Qualitative Sociology, 34: 313-335.

• Flores, Glenda M. 2011. “Latino/as in the Hard Sciences: Increasing Latina/o Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Related Fields.” Latino Studies, 9: 327-335.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Hellman Fellow

• UC/ACCORD Grant

• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow, National Science of the Academies Spencer Foundation Fellow for Research Related to Education

 

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Amy Flowers, PhD

 

Dissertation

• The Fantasy Factory: An Insider’s View of the Phone Sex Industry 

Current Position and Organization

• President, Analytic Insight, a consultancy specializing in strategic planning, needs assessments, program evaluation and survey research.

Selected Publications

• Flowers, A. (2003). The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry, University of Pennsylvania Press. 

• Flowers, A. (2008). Entries for "Disclosure" and "Privacy". In the Encyclopedia of Social Science Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Flowers, A. (2007).  [Review of the book Probabilities: The Little Numbers that Rule Our Lives, P. Olofsson].  Journal of Official Statistics, 23(4), 593-602.

• Flowers, A. (2003). The Manufacture of Fantasy. In P. Adler (Ed.), Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing 

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Invited presentation at the Center for Excellence on Disability Research National Conference, Washington, DC.

 

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Sarah Fried-Gintis, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Elevated: Ballet and Culture in the United States, World War II to the National Endowment for the Arts

Current Position and Organization

Presented Papers

• “When ‘Common’ Comes to Campus: Preserving the Authenticity of Vernacular Forms in Elite Spaces,”  paper presentation for the Dance Studies Association (August 2019).

• “WiSE Choices in Diversifying Faculty Searches,” presentation for the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN); June 2014

• “The man with ‘a lion’s head and a panther’s grace:’ Rudolf Nureyev and Masculinity in the United States,” paper for the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians; May 2014

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2013 USC Mellon Culture of Mentoring Award

 

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Linda Gallahan, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Academic and Interpersonal Achievement: An Examination of College Students’ Orientations and Behaviors

Current Position and Organization

• Adjunct Instructor; Portland State University

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Multiple grants and fellow awards with previous employer: tenured faculty, Pacific University, 1993-2004

 

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Emilie Garrigou-Kempton, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Visiting Assistant Professor, French Studies; Scripps College

 

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Nora Gilbert, PhD

 

Dissertation

• The Joy of Censorship: Strategies of Circumvention in Novel and Film

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty Member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program; University of North Texas

Selected Publications

• Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship, Stanford University Press, 2013

• “Thackeray, Sturges, and the Scandal of Censorship,” PMLA, May 2012

• “‘She Makes Love for the Papers’: Love, Sex, and Exploitation in Hitchcock’s Mata Hari Films,” Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Nov. 2011

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• UNT Research Initiation Grant

• UNT Research Enabling Grant

• UNT Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship

 

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Gloria González-López, PhD

 

 

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Kai Green, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Williams College

 

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Max Greenberg, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Lecturer; Boston University

 

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Liora Gubkin, PhD

 

Dissertation

• You Shall Tell Your Children: Remembering the Holocaust in American Passover Haggadot

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean, Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, CSU Bakersfield; Director, Institute for Religion, Education, and Public Policy

Selected Publications

• “Holy Crap! Counting our Blessings” book chapter, Jewish Voices in Unitarian Universalism, Leah Hart-Landsberg and Marti Kells, eds. (Boston, MA: Skinner House Books, 2014)

• “Anne Frank, A Guest at the Seder” book chapter, Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, eds. (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2012)

• You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover Ritual (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007)

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• CSUB Mid-Career Fellow, Winter 2013

• Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Writing Cohort 2011-12

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Silberman Follow-up Grant, Summer 2010

 

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Maurice Hamington, PhD

 

Dissertation

• The Re-Negotiation of Religious Imagery: Mary and Catholic Feminist Ethics

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Portland State University

Selected Publications

• Hamington, Maurice and Ce Rosenow, Care Ethics and Poetry, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

• Hamington, Maurice. The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams, University of Illinois Press, 2009.

• Hamington, Maurice. Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Ethics, University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

 

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Nikita Hamilton, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Staff Writer; The Bold Type

 

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Susan Corban Harris, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Relative Strangers: Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the Los Angeles County Child Welfare System

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Director of Research & Academic Affairs for USC Joint Educational Project; University of Southern California

Selected Publications

• Bengtson, V. L., Putney, N. M., & Harris, S. C. (2013).  Families and faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations.  New York: Oxford University Press.

• Putney, N. M., Lam, J. Y., Nedjat-Haiem, F., Ninh, T-H, Oyama, P., & Harris, S. C. (2013).  The transmission of religion across generations: How ethnicity matters.  In M. Silverstein & R. Giarrusso (Eds.). Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society:From Generation to Generation. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.

• Harris, S. C. and Irazábal, C. (2011).  Transforming Subjectivities: Service that Expands Learning in Urban Planning.  In Service-Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries (T. Angotti, C. Doble & P. Horrigan, Eds.).  Oakland, CA: New Village Press.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Named an Associate Editor of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (2013-)

• Received several USC University Neighborhood Outreach grants (supporting JEP’s “Peace Games” and “Supporting Foster Youth in Transition to Adulthood” programs)

• Finalist, Digital Media + Learning Competition (“Badges for Lifelong Learning”) (2012)

 

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Tae Hart, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer: Functional Limitations, Appraisal and Emotional Distress

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Psychology; Ryerson University

Selected Publications

• Hart, T.L., Coon, D., Kowalkowski, M., Zhang, K., Hersom, J., & Latini, DM. (2014).Changes in Sexual Roles And Quality of Life for Gay Men After Prostate Cancer: Challenges for Sexual Health Providers. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 11, 2308–2317. doi: 10.1111/jsm.12598.

• Bryson, M., Taylor, E., Boschman, L., Hart, T.L., Gahagan, J., Rail, G., & Ristock, J. (2019). Awkward choreographies from Cancer’s Margins: Incommensurabilities of biographical and biomedical knowledge in sexual and/or gender minority cancer patients’ treatment. Journal of Medical Humanities, 1-21.

• McGarragle, K,, Aronson, M., Semotiuk, K., Holter, S., Hare, C., Ferguson, S., Cohen, Z.,Hart, T. L. (2019). Patient-physician relationships, health self-efficacy, and gynecologic cancer screening among women with Lynch syndrome. Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice, 17(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13053-019-0123-7

  

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Melanie Heath, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Fighting for Marriage: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in the Contemporary U.S. Marriage Movement

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of Sociology; McMaster University

Selected Publications

• Heath, Melanie. 2019. "Espousing Patriarchy: Conciliatory Masculinity and Homosocial Femininity in Religiously Conservative Families.” Gender & Society https://doi-org.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/10.1177/0891243219857986.

• Heath, Melanie, Jessica Braimoh, and Julie Goulewoos. 2016. “Judging Women's Sexual Agency: Contemporary Sex Wars in the Legal Terrain of Prostitution and Polygamy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42(1): 199–225.

• Melanie Heath. 2013. “Sexual Misgivings: Producing Un/Marked Knowledge in Neoliberal Marriage Promotion Policies.” The Sociological Quarterly 54(4): 561–583.

• Melanie Heath. 2012. “Making Marriage Promotion into Public Policy: The Epistemic Culture of a Statewide Initiative.” Qualitative Sociology 35(4): 385-406.

• Book: 2012. One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America. New York: New York University Press.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Melanie Heath (PI). 2012-2016. Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $287,779. “Harm or Right? Polygamy's Contested Terrain Within and Across Borders.”

 

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Gretchen Heidemann, PhD, MSW

 

Dissertation

• Successful Reentry Among Formerly Incarcerated Women: A Mixed Methods Analysis

Current Position and Organization

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, USC School of Social Work; University of Southern California

Selected Publications

• Heidemann, G., & Cederbaum, J. (In Press). “We walk through it together”: The importance of peer support for formerly incarcerated women’s success. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.

• Heidemann, G., & Cederbaum, J. (In press). Wounded healers: How formerly incarcerated women help themselves by helping others. Punishment & Society.

 

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Paula Helu-Brown

 

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology; Mount Saint Mary's University

 

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Lucia Hodgson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Nature, Nurture, Nation: Race and Childhood in Transatlantic American Discourses of Slavery

Current Position and Organization

• Co-Editor, Critical Childhood Studies: A Long 19c Digital Humanities Project (https://ccsproject.org/)

Selected Publications

• “Age and Consent in Charlotte Temple.” Studies in American Fiction. Forthcoming in special issue, “Critical Approaches to Age.” Eds. Sari Edelstein and Melanie Dawson. 

• “Infant Muse: Phillis Wheatley and the Revolutionary Rhetoric of Childhood.” Early American Literature 49.3 (2014): 663-682.

• “Childhood of the Race: A Critical Race Theory Intervention into Childhood Studies.” The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities. Ed. Anna Mae Duane. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

 

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April Hovav, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Practical Ethics; UC San Diego

 

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Yetta Howard, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Co-director, LGBTQ Research Consortium; San Diego State University

Selected Publications

Editor

• Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan (The Ohio State University Press, 2020).

Author

• Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground (University of Illinois Press, 2018).

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Chelsea Johnson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• "Each New Curl Howling a War Cry": Black Women, Embodiment, And Gendered Racial Formation

Current Position and Organization

• User Experience Researcher- Trust and Discovery Research, LinkedIn 

Selected Publications

 

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Perry Johnson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• How the Light Gets In: Sexual Misconduct and Disclosure in America’s Music Industries

Current Position and Organization

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Media at Risk & Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program, University of Pennsylvania

 

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Victoria E. Johnson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Camelot, Hooterville, or Watts?: American Network Television and the Struggle for National Identity, 1946-1974

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies; University of California, Irvine

Selected Publications

• Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (New York: New York University Press, 2008)

• “Television Units Viewers.” The New York Times Opinion Pages, Room for Debate (3 April 2014)

• “Monday Night Football: Brand Identity.” How to Watch Television: Media Criticism in Practice, eds. Jason Mittell and Ethan Thompson (NY: New York University Press, 2013), 262-270

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Awarded the University of California, Irvine, School of Humanities Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education for 2011-2012

• Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (NY: NYU Press, 2008) was awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Film and Media Studies' academic society) Field Book Prize, the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award (2009)

• Appointed (Dick) Wolf Chair in Television Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for Spring 2009

 

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Valerie Karno, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Legal Topographies

Current Position and Organization

• Interim Director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies with a Joint Appointment as Associate Professor of English; University of Rhode Island

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Teaching Excellence Award, University of Rhode Island

 

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Sachiko Kawai, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Harvard University

 

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Janice Kaye, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Certain Tendencies in Canadian Cinema: Temporary Insanity and the National Tax-Shelter Masquerade

Current Position and Organization

• Self-Employed

Selected Publications

• 2010: J. Kaye and C. H. Davis. “‘If It Ain't on the Page, It Ain't on the Stage’: Screenwriting, National Specificity and the English-Canadian Feature Film.” Journal of Screening, Intellect Books, www.intellectbooks.co.uk, Volume 2, Number 1

• 2009: C.H. Davis and J. Kaye. “International Production Outsourcing and the Development of Indigenous Film and Television Capabilities – the Case of Canada,” in G. Elmer et al, eds., Locating Migrating Media. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.

• 2007: “Runaway Film and Television Production in Canada: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Foreign Location Production.” Creative Economy in Transition: Arts and Culture in Domestic and Global Markets, Conference Board of Canada, Gatineau, Québec

 

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Greg Knotts, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Confronting Harassment in a California School: Gender, Sexual Orientation, and the Implementation of the Student Safety & Violence Prevention Act (AB537)

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of Elementary Education and Coordinator of the Queer Studies Program; California State University, Northridge

Selected Publications

• Rivas, T., & Knotts, G. (2013). Keeping aBreast with liberal arts and science through STEAM. The STEAM Journal, 1(1).

• Johnson, P. E., & Knotts, G. Developing stewards of practice in an educational leadership doctoral program. Becoming a Global Voice, 92.

• Burstein, J. H., & Knotts, G. (2012). Elementary teachers’ strategies for integrating the arts into the social studies curriculum. International Organization for Social Science and Behavioral Research.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Blenda J. Wilson Award for fostering cross-cultural dialogue and cross-cultural research in education

 

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Cheryl Koos, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Engendering Reaction: The Politics of Pronatalism and the Family in France, 1919-1944

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of History and Interim Chair of Political Science; California State University, Los Angeles

Selected Publications

• Anthology Chapter: “Gender, the Family, and the Fascist Temptation: Visions of Masculinity in the Natalist-Familialist Movement, 1922-1940,” in The French Right between the Wars: Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism, Samuel Kalman and Sean Kennedy, ed., Berghahn Books, 2013.

• Article: “The Good, the Bad, and the Childless: The Politics of Female Identity in Maternité (1929) and La Maternelle (1933),” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques Vol. 35:2 (Summer 2009)

• Edited Anthology: The Human Tradition in Modern Europe, co-edited with Cora Granata, Rowman and Littlefield (2008)

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• NEH Summer Stipend (2011)

 

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Jackie Krasas, PhD

 

Dissertation

• It's Only Temporary?: The Reproduction of Gender and Race Inequalities in Temporary Clerical Employment

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs and International Initiatives; Lehigh University

Selected Publications

• Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace. Cornell University Press, 2000.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE grant at Lehigh University about gender and interdisciplinary scholarship in STEM fields, entitled “Lehigh ADVANCE: Building Community Beyond Departments”

 

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Regina F. Lark, PhD

 

Dissertation

• They Challenged Two Nations: Marriages between Japanese Women and American GIs: 1945 to Present

Current Position and Organization

• Owner; A Clear Path: Professional Organizing for Home, Work, Life

Selected Publications

• Lark, R. (2014), Psychic Debris, Crowded Closets: The Relationship Between the Stuff in Your Head and What’s Under Your Bed, (2nd Ed). Purple Books Publishing

• Lark, R. (2014), Before the Big O: Professional Organizers Talk about Life Before Organizing (Purple Books Publishing).

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• President, Board of Directors, National Association of Professional Organizers, Los Angeles, CA

 

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Lauren Levitt, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Sex Worker’s Networks of Support: Alternative Economic Practices and Kinship Structures

Current Position and Organization

• UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Riverside

 

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Alexis Lothian, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Deviant Futures: Queer Temporality and the Cultural Politics of Science Fiction

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Core Faculty, Design Cultures and Creativity. Affiliate Faculty, American Studies; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland College Park.

Selected Publications

• Alexis Lothian and Amanda Phillips. “Can Digital Humanities Mean Transformative Critique?” Journal of e-Media Studies special issue on “Computational Cultures After the Cloud.” April 2013.  doi:10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.425.

• Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. New York, NY: NYU Press. 2018.

• "From Transformative Works to #transformDH: Digital Humanitie as (Critical) Fandom." Special Issue: Toward a Critically Endangered Digital Practice" American Studies and the Digital Humanities. American Quarterly 70: 3 (2018). 371-393.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Invited speaker at Agents of Change: 40th Anniversary Celebration for the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, Eugene. November 9, 2013.

• Keynote address at Imagined Alternatives: A Graduate Symposium on Speculative Fictions. English Department, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. October 18-19, 2013.

 

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Anna Loup, MPD

 

Current Position and Organization

• PhD Candidate, Communication; USC

 

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Mark Masterson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Constitutive Exclusions, Practice, and Relations: Masculinity in the Fourth Century C.E. Roman Empire

Current Position and Organization

• Senior Lecturer of Classics and Director of the Classics Programme; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Selected Publications

• “Studies of Ancient Masculinity” in A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, Thomas K. Hubbard, ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). 17-30.

• “‘It’s Queer, It’s like Fate’: Tracking Queer in O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra,” Helios 38.2 [2011]: 9-25.

• “Erotics and Friendship in Emperor Julian’s Fourth Oration,” Scholia 19 [2010]: 79-110.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Paul Rehak Prize from the Lambda Classical Caucus of the APA for piece in The Boswell Thesis (2007)

 

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Robert Matera, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Lecturer, Department of Classics; University of Maryland, College Park

 

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Marci R. McMahon, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Contested Geographies: Chicana Domesticity as a Critical Discourse in U.S. Literature and Culture

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor, Literatures and Cultural Studies Department, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Selected Publications

• Advancing Women in Academic STEM Fields through Dual-Career Policies and Practices, co-edited with Marie Mora and Ala Qubbaj. Edited Book Volume. Work-Life Balance Series. Information Age Publishing (IAP). July 2018.

• “Oye, Oye: A Manifesto for Listening to Chicanx/Latinx Theater.” Co-authored with Patricia Herrera. In the Dossier on Chicanx/Latinx Teatro, ed. Brian Herrera for Aztlán: A Journal of Chicana/o Studies. 44.1 (spring 2019): 239-248.

• Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art, Rutgers University Press (Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States Series), July 2013. [Winner of the National Association for Chicana and Chicana Studies (NACCS) Tejas Non-Fiction Book Award (2014).]

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2019 NSF INCLUDES Faculty Fellow, Office of Faculty Success and Diversity (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

• 2018 Faculty Development Leave, Faculty Development Council and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

• 2013 UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, UT System Board of Regents (The University of Texas)

 

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Karen Monkman, PhD

 

 

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Lata Murti, PhD

 

Dissertation

• With and Without the White Coat: Southern California's Indian Immigrant Physicians

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of Sociology; Brandman University

Selected Publications

• Murti, L. With and without the white coat: The racialization of Southern California’s Indian physicians. Boca Raton, FL: Dissertation.com (forthcoming)

• Murti, L. 2012. “Who Benefits from the White Coat?: Gender Differences in Occupational Citizenship among Asian-Indian Doctors.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 35: 2035-2053.

• Murti, L. (2012, September 22). Early childhood education: No place for men? [Web log panel commentary]. Retrieved from http://workinprogress.oowsection.org/category/panels/panel-men-and-childcare/

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Elected by colleagues for two-year Member-at-Large position on Brandman University’s Faculty Governance and Appeals Committee

 

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Michela Musto, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Clayman Institute for Gender Research; Stanford University

 

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Kit Myers, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Sociology; Roanoke College

Selected Publications

• 2019 - Jenner, Brandy and Kit Myers. “Intimacy, Rapport, and Exceptional Disclosure via Skype: A Comparison of In-Person and Mediated Interview Contexts.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 22(2): 165-177.

• 2017 - Myers, Kit. “’If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right’: An Interview Study of Intensive Mothering Ideologies Among Childless Elective Egg Freezers.” Gender & Society. 31(6): 777–803.

 

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Line Nyhagen, PhD

Dissertation 

 

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Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Literacy as a Gendered Social Practice in Two Bilingual Classrooms

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Education; University of California, Los Angeles

Selected Publications

• Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (under contract). Immigrant Youth in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Literacy and Love. Routledge.

• Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (Forthcoming). Dialoging Across Differences: The Past and Future of Language Brokering Research. International Journal of Bilingualism (special issue on language brokering).

• Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2009). Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Distinguished Teaching Award, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, 2013

• President, Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association, 2013-14

• European Social Research Council/Social Science Research Council Collaborative Visiting Fellowship to the University of London, King’s College, 2008-2009

 

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Vanessa Ovalle Perez, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Latinx Literature, Department of English; Cal State San Bernardino

 

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Dru Pagliassotti, Ph.D

 

Dissertation

• Apparel and Attribute: The Social Construction of Status in New England Colonies and the United States

Current Position

 

• Professor, Communication Department, California Lutheran University

Selected Publications

• “Loving the Love of Boys: Motives for Consuming Yaoi Media” by Ágnes Zsila; Dru Pagliassotti; Róbert Urbán; Gábor Orosz; Orsolya Király; Zsolt Demetrovics. PLOS-One, June 14, 2018.

• “’People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical’”: Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics,” Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions, Brill, 2017.

• “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction,” Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Co, 2010.

 

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Andrea Pappas, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Mark Rothko and the Politics of Jewish Identity, 1939-1945

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Art and Art History; Santa Clara University

Selected Publications

• “No. 5/No. 22.” Yale Initiative for the Study of the Material and Visual Cultures of Religion. http://mavcor.yale.edu/conversations/object-narratives/no-5no-22

• “Seeing the Homeless: Photography and Self-Determination” essay in Changing the Face of Homelessness. De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University. July 29-December 4, 2011.

Publications in Preparation

• Embroidering the Landscape (book-in-progress)

Journals

• Editor’s introduction: “Configuring and Contesting Jewish Identities in the Visual Field.” Modern Jewish Studies: Special Issue on Jewish Art and Culture. March 2016.

• “‘Each Wise Nymph that Angles for a Heart’: the Politics of Courtship in the Boston ‘Fishing Lady’ Pictures.” Winterthur Portfolio 48, No. 1 (2015); 1-27. Recipient,

• “In Search of a Jewish Audience: New York’s Guild Art Gallery, 1935-1937.” Journal of American Jewish History 98, Vol. 4 (2014): 263-288. 

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2016 Robert C. Smith Award from the Decorative Arts Society for the best article published in English in 2015 on the decorative arts.

• NEH Long-Term Residential Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Gardens, and Library. Project: “Embroidered Landscapes: An Ecocritical/Environmental History Perspective.” August 15-December 15, 2015.

 

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Kirsten L. Parkinson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Home Work: Women, Accomplishments, and Victorian Constructions of Class

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of English and Director of the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature; co-coordinator, gender studies minor and film studies minor; Hiram College

Selected Publications

• “Where Else.” Creative Nonfiction. Confrontation Fall 2014: 181-191

• “Mrs. Rochester’s Story: Franco Zeffirelli’s Adaptation of Jane Eyre.” Literature/Film Quarterly 43.1 (2015): 18-33

• “The Pot Roast Is Political: Domestic Ideology in Victorian and World War II Cookbooks.” Midwestern Folklore 29.2 (2003): 12-24 

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Challenge Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities. December 2012. Award ($75,000) to support Lindsay-Crane Center’s community reading program and scholar-in-residence

• Big Read Grant, National Endowment for the Arts. May 2008, January 2010, May 2015. Award ($8000, $17,000, $15,000) to support county-wide community reading program

• Vencl-Carr Award for Teaching Excellence, Hiram College. September 2009

 

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Arunima Paul, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Spring 2018: Part-Time Lecturer, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Cal State LA

 

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Tal Peretz

 

Dissertation

• Dissertation Title: Black, Muslim, and Gay/Queer Male Allies: An Intersectional Analysis of Men’s Gender Justice Organizing

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor, Sociology; Auburn University

Selected Publications

Book

• Messner, Michael A., Max Greenberg, and Tal Peretz. (2015) Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women. Cambridge: Oxford University Press. Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology (Dragiewicz), Contemporary Sociology (Bridges), Gender & Society (Kitchen), Men & Masculinities (Leek), Social Forces (Sweet), Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (Mullin), Masculinities & Social Change (Schubert), *Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association

Refereed Publications

• Tal Peretz. (2018) “Seeing the Invisible Knapsack: Feminist Men's Strategic Responses to the Continuation of Male Privilege in Feminist Spaces.” Men & Masculinities OnlineFirst, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1097184X18784990.

• Tal Peretz. (2017) “Engaging Diverse Men: An Intersectional Analysis of Men’s Pathways to Antiviolence Activism.” Gender & Society, 31(4): 526-548.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award, Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society, Auburn University.

• 2016 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association, Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women. With Michael A. Messner, Max Greenberg

• 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 Meehan Feminism Fellowship, University of Southern California, Department of Sociology: $19,000

 

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Emily Perez, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Founder; Lodestar Consulting (provides college admissions consulting in the Bay Area)

 

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Keziah Poole, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Writing Resistance: Sex, Love and Feminine Protest in Moroccan Literature and Film

Current Position and Organization

• Adjunct Lecturer, Santa Clara University

 

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Demetrios Psihopaidas, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Senior Health Scientist, HIV/AIDs Bureau; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

 

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Sally Raskoff, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Volunteering To “Do Gender”: Adult Volunteers in Girl Scouts

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Sociology; Los Angeles Valley College

Selected Publications

• “Everyday Sociology Blog” www.everydaysociologyblog.com, W.W. Norton Publishing, 2008-present

• “Everyday Sociology Reader” Karen Sternheimer, editor. (Fractals, Theories, and Patterns; Stand by Our Man; Beyond Bowling Alone; Rehab, Labeling, and Deviance; The Disaster of Homelessness; Language, Gender, and Power; Does Finger Size Reveal Sexual Orientation; Generational Knowledge Gaps.) W.W. Norton Publishing, 2010.

• “Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Volunteering to Organizations: A Comparison of African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Whites.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, with Richard A. Sundeen and Cristina Garcia. Dec 2009; vol. 38: pp. 929 - 955.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Apple Award, ASU, LAVC 2008/09/10/11/12/13

• Above and Beyond Faculty, EOPS/Care, LAVC 2012/13

• Monarch Award, LAVC 2012

 

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Anthony Rodriguez, PhD

 

Current Position and Oganization

• Film and TV Research Consultant; Self-Employed

 

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Ana Rosenbluth, PhD

 

Dissertation

• The Interplay of Environmental Justice and Environmental Psychology in Environmental Conflicts: A Case Study of the La Farfana Water Sewage Treatment Plant and the Pudahuel Community in Santiago Chile

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Psychology and Academic Director; University Adolfo Ibáñez

 

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Lonnie L. Rowell, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Evolving Approaches to Feminist Counseling and Therapy

Current Position and Organization

• Retired, Associate Professor of Counseling & Marital and Family Counseling; University of San Diego

• President, Social Publishers Foundation

Selected Publications

• Rowell, L. L. (2019) Rigor in Educational Action Research and The Construction of Knowledge Democracies. In C. Mertler (Ed.). Wiley Handbook of Educational Action Research. (pp. 117-138). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

• Rowell, L. L., Bruce, C. D., Shosh, J. M., & Riel, M. M. (Eds.). (2017). Palgrave international handbook of action research. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rowell, L. & Hong, E. (2013). Academic motivation: Concepts, strategies, and counseling approaches. Professional School Counseling, 16, 158-171.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2014: Eduardo Flores Leadership Award – Action Research Network of the Americas

• 2008: Outstanding Faculty Award – Counseling Program, Graduate Student Association, School of Leadership & Education Sciences, University of San Diego

• 2007: H.B. McDaniel Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to the field of Counseling, H.B. McDaniel Foundation, Palo Alto, CA.

 

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Roxanne Samer, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Visual and Performing Arts; Clark University

 

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Thomas Sapsford, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Resident Fellow, Center for Ballet and the Arts; New York University

 

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Raffi Sarkissian, PhD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Full-Time Lecturer, Media Studies; Christopher Newport University

 

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Evren Savci, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Queer in Translation: Paradoxes of Westernization and Sexual Others in the Turkish Nation

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies; San Francisco State University

Selected Publications

• 2014: Savci, Evren. "Language and Social Knowledge," Ethnography, accepted for publication.

• 2013: "On Putting Down and Destroying: Affective Economies of a Women-Only Club in Istanbul" in Mapping Intimacies: Relations, Exchanges, Affects, eds. Yvette Taylor and Tam Sanger, London: Palgrave.

• 2012: "Queer Dil Meselesi: Istanbullu Queer Özneler Arasında Batılı Bilgi, Politik-Kültürel Sermaye ve Aidiyet" (The Issue of Queer Language: Western Knowledge, Politico-Cultural Capital and belonging Among Queer Subjects in Istanbul) in Türkiye Üzerine Queer Okumalar (Queer Readings of Turkey), eds. Cüneyt Çakırlar and Serkan Delice. Istanbul: Metis Yayinlari.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Exemplary Diversity Scholar, University of Michigan National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), 2013-2014

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN), 2011 – 2013

 

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Laura Schumacher, MA

 

Current Position and Organization

• PhD Candidate, Media and Cultural Studies; University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

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J.C. Sibara, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Imperial Injuries: Race, Disease, and Disability in North American Narratives of Resistance, 1908-2006

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of English; Colby College

Selected Publications

• “Disability and Dissent in Ann Petry's The Street." Literature and Medicine 36.1 (2018): 1-26.

• Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. Co-edited with Sarah Jaquette Ray. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

• “Disease, Disability, and the Alien Body in the Literature of Sui Sin Far." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 39.1 (Spring 2014).

 

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Julia M. Siebel, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Silent Partners/Active Leaders: The Association of Junior Leagues, the Office of Civilian Defense, and Community Welfare in World War II

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Vice President specializing in human service organizations and educational institutions; CCS Fundraising   

Selected Publications

• Book Review, Nancy Marie Roberton’s Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations and the YWCA, 1906 – 1946, in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 38 (2), April 2009, DOI: 10.1177/1054773804271935

• “Soldiers on the Homefront: Protecting the Four Freedoms for American Citizens Through the Office of Civilian Defense’s Office of Civilian War Services Division” in Howard, Thomas and Pederson, William eds., Franklin Roosevelt and Foreign Policy (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003)

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Junior League of Orange County, CA, Inc., Kathryn Raulston Award: 2009

• Fieldstone Foundation Emerging Leaders Learning Group, Orange County: 2009

• CHOC Children's Hospital: 2004-2008. Volunteer Program earned “Workforce Development Strength” recognition when CHOC was awarded the 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program – California Performance Excellence Award; and “The Best of Orange County” Awards, 2004 – 2008 from the Orange County Register

 

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Laura Elizabeth Sjoberg, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Gendering Just War: Feminisms, Ethics, and the Wars in Iraq, 1990-2003

Current Position and Organization

• British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations; Royal Holloway University of London.

• Professor of Political Science; University of Florida

Selected Publications

• Gender and Civilian Victimization (with Jessica Peet, Routledge, 2019)

• Women as Wartime Rapists (NYU Press, 2016)

• Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War (Columbia University Press, 2013)

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2020 International Studies Association Susan Strange Award

• 2019 British Academy Global Professorship

• 2018 Ole Holsti Distinguished Scholar Award

 

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Robyn C. Smith, JD

 

Law Review Note

• Female Circumcision: Bringing Women's Perspectives to the International Debate

Current Position and Organization

• Senior Attorney; Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

• Of Counsel; National Consumer Law Center

Selected Publications

• Ensuring Educational Integrity: 10 Steps to Improve State Oversight of For-Profit Schools (June 2014), available at: http://www.nclc.org/issues/ensuring-educational-integrity.html

• Going to School on Robo-signing: How to Help Borrowers and Stop the Abuses in Private Student Loan Collection Cases (April 2014), available at: http://www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org/advocacy/reports/

 

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Jeff Solomon, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Fabulous Potency: Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, Authorial Personae, and Homosexual Identity from the Wilde Trials to Stonewall

Current Position and Organization

• Lecturer; University of Southern California

 

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Melinda Stang, MA

 

Current Position and Organization

• PhD Candidate, American Studies and Film and Media Studies; Yale University

 

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Maryann Tebben, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Wordy Women: Conversation and Power in the Age of Louis XIV

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of French; Bard College at Simon’s Rock

Selected Publications

• Maryann Tebben, “Revising Manners: Giovanni Della Casa’s Galateo and Antoine de Courtin’s Nouveau traitéde la civilité”, New Readings (University of Cardiff, Wales), 2014 [forthcoming].

• Maryann Tebben, “French fries et identité française: la frite et les fries en tant qu’objets littéraires et culturels” in La Pomme de Terre de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes/Presses Universitaires François Rabelais de Tours, 2011.

• Maryann Tebben, “French Food Texts and National Identity: Consommé, Cheese Soufflé, Francité” in You Are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

 

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James Paul Rodriguez Thing, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Entre Maricones Machos, Y Gays: Globalization and the Construction of Sexual Identities among Queer Mexicanos

Current Position and Organization

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow; University of Arizona

Selected Publications

• Becker, D., Thing, J.P., Unger, J.B., Des Rosiers, S.E., Baezconde-Garbanati. L., Schwartz S. 2014. “The role of bicultural stress in sexual risk behavior among Hispanic immigrant youth.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

• Huh, J., Thing, J.P., Sami, M., Abramova, Z.S., & Unger, J.B. Forthcoming 2014. “Place Matters in Perceived Tobacco Exposure among Korean American Young Adults: A Mixed Methods Approach.” Substance Use and Misuse.

• Unger, J. Thing, J.P., Soto, D. W., Baezconde-Garbanati, L. 2014. “Associations between Ethnic Labels and Substance Use among Hispanic/Latino Adolescents in Los Angeles.” Substance Use and Misuse.

 

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Tracy Faye Tolbert, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Exploring the Facilitators and Barriers Affecting the Way Women Report Sex Crimes

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professorial Lecturer of Criminal Justice; California State University, Long Beach

Selected Publications

• Tolbert, T.F. (2014). Men. In Levine, Timothy, R., Golson, and J. Geoffrey (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Lying and Deception. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.

• Tolbert, T.F. (2013). Defense Industry Fraud. In L. M. Salinger (Ed). Encyclopedia of White Collar Crime. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.

• Tolbert, T.F. (2013). Street Crime in Los Angeles and Watts. In J. I. Ross (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Most Inspirational Professor, Senior Class of 2010, CSULB Alumni Association

• Featured: Who’s Who in Black Los Angeles (2009-2010)

• SCAC: Summer Stipend (2008), Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee, Office of University Research

 

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Dana Udall-Weiner, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Sexual Identity Development and Self-Esteem as Predictors of Body Image in Gay Men

Current Position and Organization

• Self-Employed Psychologist in Private Practice; Founder of ED Educate

Selected Publications

• Sexual Identity Development and Self-Esteem as Predictors of Body Image in a Racially Diverse Sample of Gay Men; Journal of Homosexuality, 56 (8), 2009

• My Very Own Dakota Fanning; Scripps Magazine, Spring 2011 (http://magazine.scrippscollege.edu/post-scripps/my-very-own-dakota-fanning)

• On Character, Cleavage, and Being Cool; Hip Mama (http://www.hipmama.com/features/character-cleavage-and-being-cool-dana-udall-weiner)

 

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Karen Orr Vered, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Schooling in the Digital Domain: Gendered Work and Play in a Computer Integrated Elementary Classroom

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of Screen & Media Studies; Flinders University (RETIRED)

• Swimming Instructer

Selected Publications

• 2017 "Barbie and the straight-to-DVD movie: pink postfeminist pedagogy,” co-authored with Christèle Maizonniaux, Feminist Media Studies, Vol 17, No. 2, 7:2, 198-214, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1178158

• 2012 “The Jazz Singer: Accounting for Female Agency and Reconsidering Scholarship,” Screening the Past, Issue 34, Sept:  http://www.screeningthepast.com/2012/08/the-jazz-singer-accounting-for-female-agency-and-reconsidering-scholarship (ISSN 1328-9756).

• 2011 “The Politics of Third Way TV: Supernanny and the Commercialization of Public Service TV,” co-authored with John McConchie. Camera Obscura, Vol 26, No. 77: 64-89.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2019 Endeavour Executive Leadership Program, Individual Award

• 2019 Visiting Scholar, King’s College London, School of Education, Communication & Society

• 2016 Australian Award for University Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for Leadership in Pedagogy that moves literacy development from the margins to the core of student learning experience and teaching practice – making writing ‘everyone’s business’

 

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Mary Ella Viehe, PhD, LMFT

 

Dissertation

• Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence Incidents: A Closer Look at Los Angeles County, 1995-1998

Current Position and Organization

• Marriage and Family Therapist in Private Practice in Indianapolis, IN

 

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Alice Villaseñor, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Women Readers and the Victorian Jane Austen 

Current Position and Organization

• Associate Professor of English, Interdisciplinary Studies Department; Medaille College

Selected Publications

• “J&A’s Most Excellent Austen Adventure.” JASNA News: The Newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America. 33.2 (Summer 2017): 7.

• Alice Villaseñor and Ruth Blandón: "Austen Masala: Bride and Prejudice." Pride and Prejudice: A Bicentennial Bricolage. Ed. Caterina Colomba. Udine, Italy: Forum University Press, 2016: 233-251. Print.

• “Downton Abbey & Jane Austen; Or, in Praise of Lady Mary.” Journal of Victorian Culture Online. 17 Feb 2013. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__myblogs.informa.com_jvc_2013_02_17_downton-2Dabbey-2Dausten_&d=DwIGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=dEj1f0kzi4cZKW4Tv1T0CA&m=5oY3Q8_spVhCxxoaCa9rXaN_sIoUyaJfcmauqvcVpOo&s=cIGrAP1LcsOemBWqGjyALAWZ4Uwd6mXpso_EnYh2bj4&e= >.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Humanities Connections Implementation Grant (Applied Ethics in Criminal Justice—Advisor for Learning Communities and Community-Based Learning), National Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 2018-Spring 2021.

• Brian R. Shero Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, Medaille College, October 2018.

• Medaille College Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scholarship Award, Medaille College, June 2013

 

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Faye L. Wachs, PhD

 

Dissertation

• The Impossibility of Not Doing Gender

Current Position and Organization

• Professor of Sociology; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Selected Publications

• Wachs, Faye Linda and Laura F. Chase. (2013). Explaining the Failure of an Obesity Intervention: Combining Bourdieu’s Symbolic Violence and Foucault’s Microphysics of Power to Reconsider State Interventions. Sociology of Sport Journal. 30:111-131

• Wachs, Faye Linda, Cheryl Cooky, Mike Messner and Shari L. Dworkin. (2012). Media Frames and Displacement of Blame in the Don Imus/Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team Incident: Sincere Fictions and Frenetic Inactivity. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 29:5 pp. 421-438

• Cooky, Cheryl, Wachs, Faye Linda, Dworkin, Shari and Michael Messner (2010) It’s Not About the Game: Don Imus, Sexism and Racism in Contemporary Media, Sociology of Sport Journal. 27:2

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2012 California State Polytechnic University Provost’s Award for Excellence in Service

• North American Society for Sport Sociology (NASSS) 2010 Distinguished Book Award for Body Panic: Gender, Health and the Selling of Fitness

• 2009-10 Cal Poly Pomona College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences Outstanding Advisor

 

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E. Susie Wendorff, JD

 

Law Review Note

• Employment Discrimination: Clergywomen and Title VII after Smith

Current Position and Organization

• Attorney; Adelson, Testan, Brundo, Novell & Jimenez

 

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Daniella Louise Widdows, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Removing the Body: Representations of Animal Skins in Ancient Greece

Current Position and Organization

• Director of Global Education and Study Abroad; Hampden-Sydney College

Selected Publications

• “Hide and Peek: Gazing at Epiktetos’s London E38”, Hephaistos 29, 2012, 69-86

• “Teaching Classical Texts That Include Rape at an All-Male College”, Cloelia, Fall 2011

 

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Terrion L. Williamson, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Marks of the Fetish: Twenty-First Century (Mis)Performances of the Black Female Body

Current Position and Organization

• Assistant Professor of English and Core Faculty for African American and African Studies and for the Center for Gender in Global Context; Michigan State University

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming book with Fordham University Press: Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• 2013: Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

• 2012: American Summer Research Publication Grant, AAUW

 

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Elizabeth Willis-Tropea, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Hollywood Glamour: Sex, Power, and Photography, 1925-1939

Current Position and Organization

• High School Dean of Students; Oakwood Secondary School, North Hollywood, CA

Selected Publications

• "Glamour Photography and the Institutionalization of Celebrity," Photography and Culture, Berg publishers, Vol. 4, Issue 3, November 2011

 

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Nancy Yaffe, JD

 

Current Position and Organization

• Partner; Fox Rothschild LLP

• Co-Chair; Women's Initiative, Fox Rothschild LLP

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Named a California Trailblazer by The Recorder (2019)

• Named among the Los Angeles Busines Journal's "Most Influencial Women Lawyers" (2019)

• Los Angeles Business Journal’s Women Making a Difference Award Nominee (2014)

 

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Akiko Yasuike, PhD

 

Dissertation

• Maternalism-Japanese Patriarchal Bargaining in the Era of Globalization: Corporate Transnational Wives and Shin Issei Women in Southern California

Current Position and Organization

• Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology; California Lutheran University

Selected Publications

• 2011: “The Impact of Japanese Corporate Transnationalism on Men’s Involvement in Family Life and Relationships” in Journal of Family Issues, December Issue, 32 (12).

• 2011: “Economic Opportunities and the Division of Labor among Japanese Couples in Southern California” in Sociological Inquiry, 81(3), 353-376.

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Diversity Professor of the Year in 2009

 

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Xiaoxin Zeng, PhD