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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES FACULTY

Gender and Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary program with faculty from several departments.

 

Directors

Travis M. Foster
Associate Professor, English; Academic Director, Gender & Women's Studies
Kelly-Anne Diamond, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor of History and Faculty Advisor, OUS; Programming Director of Gender & Women's Studies
(610) 519-7404

Communication

Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Faculty Director, Program in Intergroup Relations (IGR)
(610) 519-6172
Heidi M. Rose, Ph.D.
Professor, Performance Studies
ASL Area Coordinator
(610) 519-6939

Economics

Cheryl J. Carleton, PhD
Associate Professor, Economics
(610) 519-4159

English

Ellen Bonds
Teaching Professor, Department of English
Director of the Writing and Rhetoric Program
(610) 519-4657
Alice Dailey
Professor
(610) 519-5929
Joseph Drury
Associate Professor & Vice Chair, Faculty Congress
Heather Hicks
Professor;
Chair
(610) 519-4645
Karyn Hollis
Associate Professor, English Department and Global Interdisciplinary Studies Department; Associate Director of Cultural Studies Program; Founder and Past Director Writing Center and Writing and Rhetoric Minor
(610) 519-7872
Brooke Hunter
Associate Professor
(610) 519-3950
Crystal J. Lucky, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Professor of English
(610) 519-7824
Jean Lutes
Luckow Family Endowed Chair in English Literature
(610) 519-5077
Evan Radcliffe, Ph.D.
Director, English Graduate Program; Associate Professor
(610) 519-4648
Lisa Sewell, Ph.D.
Professor
Luckow Family Chair in English, 2017-2021
Lauren Shohet
Professor,
Department of English

History

Hibba Abugideiri, PhD
Associate Professor of History

(610) 519-4683
Kelly-Anne Diamond, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor of History and Faculty Advisor, OUS; Programming Director of Gender & Women's Studies
(610) 519-7404
Judith Giesberg, PhD
Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities
Professor of History
Director, Last Seen Project
(610) 519-4668
Lynne Hartnett, PhD
Chair, Department of History
Associate Professor of History
(610) 519-7219
Elizabeth Kolsky, PhD
Associate Professor of History
Timothy McCall, PhD
Professor of Art History
Bernard Lucci Endowed Chair in Italian Studies
Director of Art History Program
(610) 519-3897

Philosophy

Sociology and Criminology

Rick Eckstein, Ph.D.
Professor and Sociology Program Director. Lindback Teaching Award, 1999; Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, 2012; Honors Program Mentoring Award, 2013; Gallen University Service Award, 2017.
(610) 519-4772
Heidi Grundetjern, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Criminology Program Director, Department of Sociology & Criminology
(610) 519-4778
Jill McCorkel, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology & Criminology
Program Faculty, Africana Studies Program
Program Faculty, Center for Irish Studies
(610) 519-8899
Ken Chih-Yan Sun
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology
(610) 519-4773

Theatre

Chelsea Phillips, MFA, PhD
Associate Professor; Associate Director for Villanova Theatre

Theology and Religious Studies

Stefanie Knauss, Th.D.
Professor, Systemic/Constructive Theology, Theories & Methods of Culture
Co-Director, Ph.D. Program - Programming & Advising
Rachel J. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Christian Spirituality Co-director, PhD program--Programming and Advising

Travis Foster, PhD
Director of Academics

Kelly-Anne Diamond, PhD
Director of Programming

Reagan Venturi
Graduate Assistant

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