Women's &
Gender Studies

Faculty

Core Faculty Application Form
Affiliated Faculty Application Form

Core Faculty
Core Faculty teach courses in the Women's & Gender Studies minor or concentration, serve on committees relevant to their interests and desires, and assist with program planning and events.

 

Adamos, Maria
Core Faculty, Women and Gender's Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Literature and Philosophy
madamos@georgiasouthern.edu | 912- 478-5893

Research Interests: Women and emotions

 

Amy, Lori

Former Director (2002-2008), Women's & Gender Studies Program
Associate Professor, Department of Writing & Linguistics
lamy@georgiasouthern.edu, http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~lamy | 478-0625 / fax 871-1386
Research Interests: Narrative, Memory & Trauma; Cultural Studies, Globalization & Feminist Social Action; Feminist Psychoanalytic & PostColonial Theory.

Costello, Lisa

Former Director (2009), Women's and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Writing & Linguistics

lacostello@georgiasouthern.edu | 478- 0739
Research Interests: Gender and the holocaust; feminist rhetorics in politics, language, and genre, feminist pedagogy; cultural spaces/locations and feminist discourse

 

Daigle, Leah

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the Justice Studies Program
ldaigle@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-5790
Research Interests: Sexual victimization of college women, criminology and gender

 

Fisher, Donna

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, School of Economic Development
dkfisher@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-0533
Research Interests: Regional Economic Development, Water Resources, Gender Roles

 

Gossai, Hemchand

Core Faculty, Women's & Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Literature and Philosophy
hgossai@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-0222
Research Interests:

 

Graham, Beverly

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts
bgraham@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-0249
Research Interests:

 

Hackney, Amy

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
ahackney@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-5749
Research Interests: Gender and racial stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination; rape victim myths and juror decision making.

 

Hendry, Barbara

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
bhendry@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-5362
Research Interests: Gender and Ethnicity/ritual, Gender in Georgia Irish Communities

 

Malcom, Nancy

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Sociolgy and Anthropology
nmalcom@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-5443
Research Interests: Female athletes and their identity constructions, girls' and womens' sports, Southern U.S. mother/parenting techniques

 

Paige, Linda Rohrer

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Professor, Department of Literature and Philosophy
lpaige@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-0222
Research Interests: Women's Literature and Female Playwrights; Southern Literature; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transexual Literature; authors Zora Neale Hurston, Paula Vogel, Flannery O'Connor, Beth Henley, Pearl Cleage, Marsha Norman, Margaret Atwoodm Suzan-Lori Parks, and Naomi Wallace; rape; sexual harassment; and women in prison.

 

Peacock, Sandra

Director, Women's and Gender Studies
Professor, Department of History
Research Interests: European women's history, 19th and 20th centuries; women's intellectual history; women scholars

 

Pirro, Robert

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
rpirro@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-486-7297
Research Interests: the political uses of tragedy in theory, theater, and ordinary language use; German social and political thought; religion and politics

Schille, Candy

Former Director, Women's and Gender Studies (August 1992 to September 1998)
Associate Professor, Department of Literature and Philosophy
schille@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-0146
Research Interests: Dr. Candy B. K. Schille's original (and persistant) specialties are Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature, especially drama, but she has cultivated a wide interest in Gender Studies, and frequently combines all three in her scholarship and classes.  She was the founding director of the WGS program at GSU and remains committed to and excited about the expanding program.  WGS has also inspired Schille's recent spate of short stories and memoirs about "odd" women.  Published thus far are "Danger Dog and I Are Going In," "The Thing About Golden Balls Is," and "The Thread God."  Latest is "Redwoods like Great Unmarried Girls."

 

Shelton, Laura

Core Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of History
laurashelton@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-0558
Research Interests: Gender relations in Northwestern Mexico between 1750 and 1800.

 

Sims, Anastatia

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Professor, Department of History
asims@georgiasouthern.edu | 478. 0181

Research Interests: 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 .

 

Skidmore-Hess, Cathy

Core Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Research Interests
 

Affiliated Faculty

Affiliated Faculty maintain teaching and research interests in areas relevant to Women's & Gender Studies, serve on committees relevant to their interests and desires, and assist with program planning and events.

Butterfield, Elizabeth

Affiliated Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies

Assistant Professor, Literature and Philosophy

ebutterfield@georgiasouthern.edu     912-478.0182

Research interests:  Simone de Beauvoir; definitions of race and gender; maternal studies – maternal identity; ethics.

 

Crow, Angela

Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Writing and Linguistics
theorythis@yahoo.com | 912- 478-0153
Research Interests: Women and aging, technology concerns, South African AIDS crisis, and health literacy

 

Davis, Rebecca

Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Office of Pre-Law Advising
bdavis@GeorgiaSouthern.edu |
478-5765
Research Interests

 

Haberland, Michelle

Affiliated Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies

Associate Professor, History

mah@georgiasouthern.edu     478.1867

 

Research interests:  Gender and labor, and the ways in which they shaped the history of the American South in the 20th century.

 

Hurt, Nicole

Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Lecturer, Department of Communication Arts
nhurt@GeorgiaSouthern.edu | 478.5138
Research Interests: From a rhetorical perspective, I analyze the cultural construction of gender, bodies, and science through public discourse. In particular, I am interested in the political and feminist consequences of these rhetorics.

 

Kropp, Jerri

Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Hospitality, Tourism, Family, and Consumer Sciences
jkropp@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-5809
Research Interests: Attitudes and behaviors of preschoolers in relation to gender

 

Macarthy, Nailah

Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
nmacarthy @georgiasouthern.edu | 486-7909
Research Interests

 

Marina, Brenda L.H.

Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Leadership, Technology, and Human Development
bmarina@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-5600
Research Interests: Women and Leadership, Women in Higher Education, Women and Mentoring, The Marilyn Munster Syndrome

 

Maurer, Trent

Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Hospitality, Tourism, Family and Consumer Sciences
tmaurer@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-871-1522
Research Interests: Scholarship of teaching and learning, family economics, family violence

 

Milner, Laura A.

Affillated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Writing and Linguistics
lamilner@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-5263
Research Interests: Teaching writing as a method of discovery; how to use language carefully; integrating writing, critical thinking, reading, revising, talking, and listening into the learning process

Pennington, Martha
Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Professor, Department of Writing & Linguistics
Research Interests: Data-based research on gender differences in spoken and written discourse

 

Poole, Jocelyn

Affiliated Faculty, Women's & Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Zach S. Henderson Library
jpoole@georgiasouthern.edu |  912-486-7818
Research Interests: Oral History of Black Librarians

 

Price, Patricia

Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Writing and Linguistics
ptprice@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-0154
Research Interests

 

Rouse-Arnett, Marlo

Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Associate Professor of Child and Family Development
mrouse@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-5560
Research Interests: Marriage & Family Therapy, Women's Sexuality

 

Scott, Alison

Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
ascott@georgiasouthern.edu | 478.5079
Research Interests: The intersections of HIV, poverty, gender, and abuse amongst HIV-positive women in different US cities; 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; Community-based research that involves ethnographic and visual approaches.

 

Sipe, Stephanie
Affililated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Accountancy
ssipe@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-871-1223

Research Interests: Regional disparities in the interpretations of sexual harrassment laws

 

Tracey, Sharon
Affililated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Professor, Department of Political Science
stracey@georgiasouthern.edu | 478-5699

Research Interests: Regional disparities in the interpretations of sexual harrassment laws

 

Wiegand, Krista

Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
kwiegand@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-871-1401
Research Interests:

 

Yarbrough, Robert

Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geography
ryarbrough@georgiasouthern.edu | 912-478-0668
Research Interests: The mutual constitution of place and individual identities at multiple geographic scales; Intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and/or nationality among recent immigrants to the U.S. South; The politics of immigration in the U.S. South.