2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Gender and Women’s Studies
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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
ProgramsBachelor of ArtsCertificateNon-Degree
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