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2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Gender and Women’s Studies



Faculty

Director

Carole McCann
B.A., Temple University, 1978; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987

Professors

Carole McCann
B.A., Temple University, 1978; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987

Assistant Professors

Amy Bhatt
B.A., Emory University, 2002; Ph.D., University of Washington, 2011

Viviana MacManus
B.A., Occidential College, 2003; M.A., University of California, San Diego, 2007; C.Phil., 2007; Ph.D., 2011

Lecturer

Kathryn Drabinski
B.A., Barnard College, 1997; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2000; Ph.D., 2006

Affiliate Professors

Jessica Berman
A.B., Princeton University, 1983; M.A., The University of Chicago, 1986; Ph.D., 1993

Ilsa L. Lottes
B.S., Purdue University, 1965; M.S., 1967; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1986

James Smalls
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981; M.A., 1986; Ph.D., 1991

Constantine Vaporis
B.A., The Ohio State University, 1979; M.A., Princeton University, 1984; Ph.D., 1987

Affiliate Associate Professors

Gloria I. Chuku
B.A., University of Nigeria (Nsukka), 1986; M.A., University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria), 1989; Ph.D., University of Nigeria (Nsukka), 1995

Jean Fernandez
B.A., University of Madras (India), 1976; M.A., 1978; M.Phil., 1987; Ph.D., The University of Iowa, 2001

Amy Froide
B.A., University of San Diego, 1988; M.A.T., 1990; M.A., Duke University, 1992; Ph.D., 1996

Marilyn Y. Goldberg
A.B., Bryn Mawr, 1969; M.A., University of Cincinnati, 1972; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, 1977

Marjoleine Kars
B.A., Duke University, 1982; Ph.D., 1994

Christine Mallinson
B.A., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000; M.A., North Carolina State University, 2002; Ph.D., 2006

Denis Provencher
B.A., University of Vermont, 1992; M.A., The Pennsylvania State University, 1994; Ph.D., 1998

Michelle Scott
B.A., Stanford University, 1996; M.A., Cornell University, 2000, Ph.D., 2002

Anna M. Shields
A.B., Washington University, 1987; A.M., Harvard University, 1990; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1998

Orianne Smith
B.A., Bennington College, 1986; M.A., Loyola University Chicago, 1999; Ph.D., 2005

Shelly Wiechelt
B.A., California University of Pennsylvania, 1982; M.S.W., West Virginia University, 1985; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1999

Affiliate Assistant Professor

Rebecca Adelman
B.A., Oberlin College, 2001; M.A., Ohio State University, 2005; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2009

Dawn Biehler
B.A. Williams College, 1997; M.S. 2003; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 2007.

Nicole Else-Quest
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999; M.S., 2002; Ph.D., 2006

Claudia Galindo
B.A., Universidad Catolica del Peru, 1996; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2005

Brandy Harris-Wallace
B.S., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1998; M.A., 2001; M.S., Florida State University, Tallahassee, 2003; Ph.D., Florida State University, Tallahassee, 2006

Christine A. Mair
B.A., University of Florida, 2005; M.S., North Carolina State University, 2007; Ph.D., 2011

Susan McDonough
A.B., Princeton University, 1996; M.A., Yale University, 2001; Ph.D., 2005

Lisa Pace Vetter
B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1991; M.A., Fordham University, 1994; Ph.D., Fordham University, 2000

Affiliate Research Assistant Professor

Beverly Bickel
B.A., Alternative Education Systems, Duke University, 1976; M.A., ESOL/Bilingual Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1994; Ph.D., Language, Literacy and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2005

Affiliate Lecturers

Kathy Bryan
B.A., Drake University, 1979; M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 1981; Ph.D., 1991

Susan McCully
B.A., Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales, 1985; M.F.A., The Catholic University of America, 1989; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997

Eileen O’Brien
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1973; M.S., The Catholic University of America, 1977; M.A., 1984; Ph.D., 1987

Courses in this program are listed under GWST.

Gender and women’s studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that investigates how gender and sexuality operate as organizing axes of social, cultural, economic and political institutions, as well as in the everyday lives and cultural products of people who must live within them. Emphasizing the importance of historical and cross-cultural perspectives, the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at UMBC critically examines the intersections of gender and sexuality with other differences, including, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, and ability to make visible structures of power that otherwise remain hidden.

The Gender and Women’s Studies Program offers a major, undergraduate certificate, and two minors, Gender and Women’s Studies and Critical Sexuality Studies.

Career and Academic Paths

Each of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program options - the undergraduate major, the certificate, and the minor - reflects a deep commitment to the interdependence of theory and practice. In this way, the program equips students with the substantive knowledge and critical skills required to respond to rapidly changing environments in areas such as government, business, education, public service, the health professions, social services and the law, at local, national and global levels.

Academic Advising

Each student is assigned an academic advisor from the program’s faculty upon declaring gender and women’s studies as a major, certificate or minor. Students may also request to be assigned to a particular faculty member. Advisees are urged to consult regularly with faculty advisors, utilize information on the Gender and Women’s Studies Program Web site (www.umbc.edu/gwstudies), and to take part in program activities.

Special Opportunities

Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL). All students academically connected to the Gender and Women’s Studies Program through a declared major, certificate or minor are encouraged to Eileen O’Brien participate in the WILL program, a learning community that promotes academic excellence, leadership development and civic engagement. Through WILL, students have the opportunity to develop their leadership skills by planning and executing projects on campus and in the community, meeting with powerful activists and leaders from around the region, and attending co-curricular cultural events, all with other students similarly committed to diverse gender and social justice issues. In conjunction with WILL, the Gender and Women’s Studies Program sponsors a single-sex, living-learning floor in the residence halls. In addition, students have the opportunity to apply their gender and women’s studies course work in a wide variety of internship options available in the Baltimore Washington region, including such organizations as the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Organization for Women, Choice USA, Planned Parenthood and WMST-L, (the international electronic discussion forum for women’s studies based at UMBC). More information about gender and women’s studies at UMBC and elsewhere can be found at: http://www.umbc.edu/gwstudies

Programs

    Bachelor of ArtsCertificateNon-Degree

    Courses

      Gender and Women’s Studies