Women's and Gender Studies
Executive Board
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Dr. Joseph Barjis, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology Dr. Barjis completed his post-Doctorate in Information Systems, Department of Information Systems, Delft University of Technology; PhD “Summa Cum Laude” in Computer Science from Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics; BSc and MSc “Summa Cum Laude” from Tashkent University of Information Technologies. Prior to that, Dr. Barjis worked or studied in United Kingdom , Netherlands , Russia , and Afghanistan (place of birth). He also studies Politics, Poetry, Literature, Philosophy, and Women's & Gender Studies He is also an active member of international professional organizations (ACM, AIS). Other memberships include: Program committees in different international conferences; Organizer/co-founder of a number of international conferences; Annually serving in numerous review committees (international conferences, PhD examinations, internal and external grant reviews); Frequently invited reviewer for International Journals. He has published over 80 works: 3 edited books, 2 college hand books, 6 book chapters, 5 journal articles, over 60 papers in fully peer refereed international conference proceedings. Contact: JBarjis@GeorgiaSouthern.edu Tel.: 1 (912) 486 7756 / Fax: 1 (912) 486 7883 Web: http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jbarjis/ |
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Trent W. Maurer, Assistant Professor of Child & Family Development I earned my B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Psychology & History and my M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Human Development & Family Studies. My research covers many areas including: identity; social perceptions and social norms; parenting/fatherhood; collegiate alcohol use; romantic relationships; interpersonal violence, especially in the context of relationships; men's studies generally, and issues for men in female-dominated fields specifically; and the scholarship of teaching & learning. Check out my website to learn more about me and my research interests (including some great collaborative research with WGST students!):http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~tmaurer/ |
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ElDonna Hilde, BSN, MSN, WHNP, SANE, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Ms. Hilde is an experienced Registered Nurse and an educator and a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. She received her BSN in Nursing from Union College, Lincoln, NE, and her MSN from the Medical College of Georgia in 1979. She pursued post-Masters work at the Medical College of Virginia, receiving her Nurse Practitioner Certificate in Obstetric/Gynecology from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, in 1980. Ms. Hilde's work experience includes more than 21 years of teaching experience as a member of the Faculty, School of Nursing, Georgia Southern University in the graduate and undergraduate programs teaching women's health content. She also has a concurrent clinical experience at Ogeechee Ob-Gyn, P.C. . She joined the Clinical Staff of the Health Services in 2000, where she has worked as an Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, serving concurrently as supervisor of the Women's Health Department. |
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Dr. Donna Hodnicki, Professor of Nursing Dr. Hodnicki is a family nurse practitioner who has been active in health care issues for almost 40 years. As a nurse she has provided care to women, men, and children across the lifespan in a variety of diverse contexts. Her dissertation on the "Experiences of Homeless Women Living in a Shelter" used ethnography within a feminist methodology. For over 4 years, in conjunction with nurse researcher colleagues, she conducted a longitudinal study on the "Experiences of African American Mothers and Grandmothers Who Were Caregivers to HIV Positive Children or Grandchildren". She has been Director of the Graduate Nursing Program at Georgia Southern since 1993 and is active nationally in the health care field. She is the Co-editorial Director for the national publication, American Journal for Nurse Practitioners. |
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Fayth M. Parks , Assistant Professor of Counselor Education Dr. Parks became a member of the Georgia Southern faculty in 2003. She teaches graduate courses in assessment, models and techniques in counseling, and student services in higher education. A licensed psychologist, she has research interests in ethno-psychology and folk psychology. One primary interest is to understand the way diverse cultures and belief systems contextualize idioms of distress and healing to prevent misdiagnosing culturally endorsed behaviors as psychopathological symptoms. Her articles appear in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice and Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment . She has also published chapters in several books, including an essay entitled Standing Their Ground: Black Women's Sacred Daily Life (In Stepping Forward: Black Women in the African Diaspora, Higgs, et. al. (Eds.), 2002). She is Hurston/Gullah project director. The national multidisciplinary consulting scholars and production team is developing a documentary entitled Spirit of a People that explores the legacy of Harlem Renaissance writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographic fieldwork in Gullah/Geechee communities in South Carolina and Georgia . |
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Alison Scott, Assistant Professor, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Dr. Scott holds her PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where her research explored the intersections of HIV, poverty, gender, and abuse amongst HIV-positive women in different US cities. She also holds an MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins and an MS in Medical Microbiology and Immunology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is interested in HIV and other infectious diseases, as well as the social experience of living with illness, especially amongst those who are marginalized because of gender, race, or class. She is interested in community-based research that involves ethnographic and visual approaches. She is looking forward to teaching and conducting research that explores links between gender and health in rural Georgia. |
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Dr. Anastatia Sims, Professor of History Dr. Sims's research interests focus on the history of women in the American South. She has been particularly interested in several themes that intersect in southern women's history: ideals of femininity and how they shape women's lives; the ways in which women achieve power and influence; the significance of women's voluntary associations; and the intertwining of ideas about race and gender. She is the author of The Power of Femininity in the New South: Women's Organizations and Politics in North Carolina , 1880-1930. Currently she is working on a biography of Juliette Gordon Low, the Savannah native who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA contact: 681-0181, asims@georgiasouthern.edu |