K-State Women's Studies Program
 

Faculty

 
 
Core Faculty
CARROLL, VALERIE, Instructor of Women’s Studies Department. BA 1994, University of Texas at San Antonio; MA 1997, PhD 2005, St. Louis University.  Research interests: Intersections of gender, race/ethnicity and class, environmental justice and environmentalism, gender and popular culture.

CHANCE-REAY, MICHAELINE, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Department. BS 1966, MA 1967 Ball State University; PhD 1984 Ohio State University. Research interests: First Ladies of K-State & their families, K-State building history and the Harvey Girls (Kansas Women History).

DÍAZ De SABATÉS, GABRIELA, Instructor of Women’s Studies Department. BS 1989, University of Buenos Aires; MA 1994, Harvard University. Research interests: gender, ethnicity and race; Latinas’ cultural and gender identity, academic achievement and oral stories.

DICKINSON, TORRY, Professor of Women’s Studies. BA 1975, Livingston College, Rutgers University; MA 1977, PhD 1983, State University of New York, Binghamton. Research interests: global sociology of women; women and work; women and public policy.

HUBLER, ANGELA, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies. BA 1985, College of Wooster; MA 1986, PhD 1992, Duke University.  Research interests: early 20th-century American women writers; adolescent girls’ reading and gender-role socialization.

JANETTE, MICHELE, Director of Women’s Studies. BA 1988, MA 1991, MPhil 1993, PhD 1997, Yale University. Research interests: Vietnamese American Literature and film; Asian American literature; cultural studies; film.

ROSHANRAVAN, SHIREEN, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies. BA 2000, Southwestern University; MA 2002, PhD 2007, Binghamton University. Research interests: Feminist of color theory, Asian American studies, critical race theory.

TUSHABE, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies. Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton, Philosophy, 2008,
Graduate Certificate in Feminist Theory, 2008. M.A., Texas Woman’s University, Women’s Studies, 2005.
Research interests: Global sexual identities, African cultures and philosophy, colonialism and post-colonial theories, critical race theory.

Associated Faculty

BAILLARGEON, TARA J., Head, Faculty & Graduate Services, Hale Library. BA 1999, University of Windsor; MLIS 2001, University of Western Ontario.

BAIRD, CHARDIE, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. Research interests: Youth and the Life course, gender and work; work and the family.

BRITTON, DANA, Professor of Sociology. BA 1987, MA 1989, University of Oklahoma; PhD 1995, University of Texas, Austin. Research interests: gender/sexuality and organizations gender and the labor force; social control.

BREEN, LOUISE, Associate Professor and Department Chair of History. Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1993. Research interests: Colonial American History, Puritanism, American Revolution.

COOPER, CORA, Professor of Music. BM 1978, University of Vermont; MM 1982, Eastman School of Music; DM 1992, Florida State University. Research interests; Violin music by women composers.

DINKEL, JANICE, Associate Professor and Director of Social Work. BSW 1976, MSW 1978, University of Kansas.

DODD, ELIZABETH C., Professor of English. BA 1983, Ohio University; MFA 1986, PhD 1989, Indiana University. Research interests: 20th-century American and British women writers; creative writing.

EARLES, BEVERLEY, Associate Director, English Language Program. DipTESL 1979, PhD 1989, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.

FRANCHITTI, ABBY, Graduate Faculty, English Language Prorgram. BA 1968, New York State University College at New Paltz; MA 1971, University of Tours, France; PhD 2006, University of Tours, France. Research interests: Women's Suffrage and anti-suffrage movements.

GONZÁLEZ, TANYA, Assistant Professor of English. BA 1995, Scripps College; MA 2000, PhD 2004, University California Riverside. Research interests: Chicana and U.S. Latina literature and popular culture.

HEDRICK, DONALD K., Professor of English. BA 1969, University of Kansas; MA 1972, PhD 1974, Cornell University. Research interests: Shakespeare and the Renaissance cultural studies; theories of language, gender, sociolinguistics; feminist criticism; film and popular culture.

JANKE, RHONDA R., Associate Professor of Hort., Forestry, and Recreation Resources, Ext. Spec., Sustainable Cropping Systems. BS 1980, Kansas State University; MS 1984, PhD 1987, Cornell University.

KANOST, LAURA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish.

KARLIN, KATHERINE, Assistant Professor of English. Ph.D. 2009, University of Southern California. MFA 2004, University of Pittsburgh.

KOZAR, JOY, Assistant Professor of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design. BS 1998, MS 2000, Kansas State University; PhD 2004, Iowa State University.

KNOBLAUCH, ABBY, Assistant Professor of English. PhD 2008, University of New Hampshire. Research interests: The Intersection of gender languague, and power; maverick rhetorics; and teacher development.

LEHEW, MELODY. Associate Professor of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design. B.S. in Textiles and Clothing, The Ohio State University, 1986. M.S. in Textiles and Clothing, The Ohio State University, 1989. Ph.D. in Retail and Consumer Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1996.

LONGMUIR, ANNE, Assistant Professor of English. MA 1996, PhD 2003, University of Edinburgh.

MARTÍNEZ-ORTIZ, MARÍA TERESA, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages. PhD 2001, Purdue University.

MATLOCK, WENDY, Assistant Professor of English. PhD 2003, Ohio State University. Research interests: medival studies and renaissance literature and humanities, British literature, and women in literature; the cultural significance of Middle English debate poems from the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries.

MCCREA, HEATHER, Assistant Professor of History. Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2002. Research interests: Colonial and Modern Mexico; Peasant and Indigenous Studies; History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease, and Environmental History

McELROY, MARY A., Professor of Kinesiology. BA 1974, Queens College, New York; MA 1975, Ohio State University; PhD 1978, University of Maryland. Research interests: sport and gender issues: sport and social class.

MUTURI, NANCY, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications. BA 1989, MA, 1998, University of Iowa; PhD 2002, University of South Carolina. Research interests: Gender and health communication with a focus on HIV/AIDS prevention, communication & social change.

NEL, PHILIP W., Professor of English. BA 1992, University of Rochester; MA 1993, PhD 1997, Vanderbilt University.

NELSON, BONNIE A., Associate Professor of English. BA 1965, City College of New York; MAT 1967, City University of New York; PhD 1981, Pennsylvania State University. Research interests: Feminism and the Enlightenment; Restoration.

NEYMOTIN, FLORENCE, Assistant Professor of Economics. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2006. Research interests: applied microeconomics with special focus on issues related to education.

SCOTT, SUSAN S., Director of Leadership Studies and Program; Associate Dean of Student Life; Associate Professor, Education. BS 1973, MS 1974, Emporia State University; PhD 1982, Kansas State University. Research interests: women’s leadership and women’s mental health.

SHAPKINA, NADIA, Assistant Professor of Sociology. MA, Saratov State Technical University (Russia), Ph.D., Georgia State University (USA).

SPEARS, JACQUELINE, Associate Professor of Education; Co-Director of Rural Clearinghouse for Lifelong Education and Development (1984). BS 1969, MS 1972, PhD 1988, Kansas State University.  Research interest: contextual issues in education, focus on gender, rurality and ethnicity.

TAKEMOTO, DOLORES, Professor of Biochemistry; Biochemist, Research and Ext. BS 1971, Ball State University; MS 1973, Colorado State University; PhD 1979, University of Southern California. Research interests: vision and problems with vision during diabetes, primary; women in science.

THURSTON, LINDA P, Assistant Dean and Professor of Education. BS 1967, Baker University; MS 1975, University of Texas; PhD 1977, University of Kansas.  Research interests: low-income families; rural issues; parent training, single parent families.

 WHEATLEY, ALISON E., Associate Professor of English, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences. AB 1974, Barnard College; MA 1980, PhD 1994, University of Virginia.

WILLIAMS, L. SUSAN, Associate Professor of Sociology. BA 1988, MA 1990, Texas Tech University; PhD 1997, University of Connecticut.

WOOD, NAOMI, Associate Professor of English. PhD 1991, Duke University. Research interests: children’s literature; Victorian studies; gender and feminist theory.

ZSCHOCHE, SUE, Associate Professor of History. BA 1970, Emporia State University; MA 1974, East Texas State, PhD 1984, University of Kansas. Research interests: American women’s history; history of female reform in the Progressive period; history of domestic violence.