Director: Karen Stein
Professor of English and Women's Studies,
received her B. A. from Brooklyn College in 1962, her M.
A. from Pennsylvania
State University in 1966 and her Ph.D. from the University
of Connecticut in 1982. She was one of the co-founders of
the Women's Studies Program at URI. She has written and spoken
about women as writers and subjects of literature. Her current
research interests include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison,
American women poets, utopian fiction by women, and women
and science. Her recent book Margaret Atwood Revisited focuses
on the Canadian novelist, critic and poet. From 1995-97 she
served as Chair of the English Department at URI.
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Donna M. Hughes
Donna M. Hughes is a leading international
researcher on trafficking of women and children. She has
completed research on the trafficking of women and girls
for sexual exploitation in the United States, Russia, Ukraine,
and Korea.
She does research and writing on women's rights. Her topic
areas include: violence, slavery, sexual exploitation, Islamic
fundamentalism, and women's organized resistance to violence
and exploitation. She also works on issues related to women,
science and technology.
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Stephen D. Grubman-Black, Communicative Disorders-Women's
Studies
Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo (Department of Speech
Communication), holds a Joint Appointment as  Professor of Communicative
Disorders and Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island.
Currently Coordinator of the Bachelor of General Studies Degree
Program and the Academic Advising Program at URI's Alan Shawn
Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Steve divides his
work among administration, teaching, and scholarship. Steve
developed a section of WMS350 (Enforced Silences and Natural
Recovery from Childhood Sexual Victimization) which focuses
on challenging the heterosexist and patriarchal institutions
which continue to damage and kill women, girls and boys. He
is the author of Broken Boys/Mending Men, and offers training
for professional helpers as well as workshops for male survivors.
Current research focus is investigating and challenging the
lack of care and regard for disenfranchised and poor victims
of male violence in this rape culture in which we live. If
we're not part of a resolution and reconciliation, then we
are the problem!
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Jody
Lisberger
Jody Lisberger has a Ph.D. in English (Boston
University, 1991), with a specialty in feminist narrative
theory. She also has an M.F.A. in Writing (Vermont College,
1999), and a B. A. in anthropology (Smith College, 1975).
She has designed two new courses at URI-"Race, Class,
and Sexuality Seen Through Literature" and "Violence
and Nonviolence in Theory and Fiction: Feminist Alternatives." She
also teaches Feminist Theory and Methodology, with an emphasis
on
narrative, film, medicine, and law, and Introduction to Women's
Studies. In November 2006, she presented a paper called "DES
and
Diflucan: Pharmaceutical Marketing Choices--Why Women Should
Take Heed." She is also on the faculty of the brief
residency M.F.A. in Writing Program at Spalding University
in Louisville, Kentucky. Her stories have been published
in
Michigan Quarterly Review,
Fugue, Confrontation, Thema, and the Louisville Review.
She also has a new story collection, Remember Love, published
by Fleur-de-Lis Press.
Jenn Brandt, TA in the WMS Program Jenn Brandt has a BA in English from Drew University and
a MA in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University.
Currently she is working toward her PhD in English at the
University of Rhode Island.
Jenn's work
focuses on gender and cultural studies in popular film, literature, and television.
She has previously published articles about Sex and the City and
The
Da Vinci Code.
Affiliated
Professors
| Alexa Albert, Sociology
|
Barbara Luebke, Journalism |
| Sona
Aronian, Russian & Comparative Literature |
Helen Mederer, Sociology |
| Laura Beauvais, Management |
Jean Miller, Nursing |
| Winnie Brownell, Dean of Arts and Sciences |
Lynn Pasquerella, Philosophy |
| Josie Campbell, English |
Kathryn Quina, Psychology |
| Mary Cappello, English |
Nedra Reynolds, College Writing Program |
| Dorothy Donnelly, English |
Wendy Roworth, Art |
|
Wilfred Dvorak, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences |
James Starkey, Economics |
| Cynthia Hamilton, African and African American Studies |
Sharon Strom, History |
| Sandra Ketrow, Communication Studies |
Jean Walton, English |
| Carolyn Livingston, Music |
|
| Ann Danis, Music |
RosaMaria
Pegueros, History |
| Lynn Derbyshire, Communications |
Joelle
Rollo-Koster, History |
| Nancy Eaton, Mathematics |
Andrea
Rusnock, History |
| Susana De Los Heros, Languages |
Catherine
Sama, Italian and Film Studies |
| Valerie Karno, English |
Marie
Schwartz, History |
| Doris
Kirchner, Languages |
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Adjunct Faculty
| Barbara Barker, Biology |
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| Jane Berard, Women’s Studies |
Holly J. Nichols, Counseling Center |
| Noel-Anne Brennan, Sociology |
Laura Pisaturo, Esq., Day One RI |
| Gigi Edwards, Women’s Studies |
Jeannette Riley, Women’s Studies |
| N. Adria Evans, English |
Dawn Salgado, Psychology |
| Janet Hagen, Women's Studies |
Eugenia Wild, Counseling |
Emerita/us
WMS Faculty
| Judith Anderson, Communication Studies |
Albert J. Lott, Psychology |
| Sally Burke, English |
Bernice Lott, Psychology |
| Greta Cohen, Physical Education |
Marilyn J. Malina, English |
| Lois Cuddy, English |
Gwenneth Rae, Human Development & Family Studies |
| Ira Gross, Psychology |
Mary Ellen Reilly, Sociology |
| Mathilda Hills, English |
Karen A. Schroeder, Human Development & Family
Studies |
| Janet Hirsch, Nursing |
Gail Anne Shea, Sociology |
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