Faculty



Deborah Blizzard.  Department of Science, Technology and Society, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies. BA Smith College (independent study aboard, University of Edinburgh, Scotland); MS, PhD. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Teaching areas: sociocultural constructions/studies of science, technology, and medicine, biomedical issues/bioethics, women’s studies.  Research specialties: development of in utero fetal surgery/fetoscopy, high-risk multiple gestations, new ethnographic approaches in medical anthropology.  dlbgsh@rit.edu


Mary Lynn Broe.  Department of Language and Literature. B.A. St. Louis University; M.A. and PhD. University of Connecticut.  Teaching areas: modern and contemporary novel, poetry, autobiography.  Research areas: feminist revisions of modernism; twentieth century literatures and culture. mlbgsl@rit.edu

Jeff Burnette : Description Pending


Kijana Crawford.  Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Associate Professor, Chair Minority Relations Concentration.  MSW, Atlanta University, MA in Higher Education Administration from the University of Rochester, Doctor of Education from the University of Rochester.  Areas of interest: Mentoring, Women, Work and Culture, Minority Relations, African-American Culture.  drcgss@rit.edu 

Jean Douthwright. Biology Department, College of Science. jadsbi@rit.edu

Rebecca Edwards.  History Department, Assistant Professor, Modern American History. BA, College of the Holy Cross; PhD. University of Rochester.  Teaching areas: Modern American History, American Women’s History, Deaf History.  Research specialty: American Deaf History.  rregsm@rit.edu
Lisa Hermsen.  Department of Language and Literature. lmhgsl@rit.edu

Kris Hinesely. Executive Director of the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley
Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Adjunct
MS Ball State University in Wellness Management
Teaching areas: Gender and Queer Studies; Fund raising and development for non-profit organizations

Diane S. Hope.  Department of Communication. William A. Kern Distinguished Professor in Communications.  B.A. SUNY Brockport, MS and Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo.  Teaching areas: Rhetoric and social change.  Research specialties: Visual Rhetoric of Social Movements, Women's Rights, Environment, Consumerism.  General Editor of Women's Studies Quarterly, 2001-03.  dshgpt@rit.edu


Christine Keiner.  Science, Technology, and Society Department, Assistant Professor, History of Science.  BA, McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College); Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.  Teaching areas:  History of Women in Science and Engineering; Science, Technology, and Values; History of Environmental Sciences; Introduction to Environmental Studies.  Research specialties: Environmental history, history of biology and ecology, science and politics.  cmkgsh@rit.edu

Christine Kray.  Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Assistant Professor.  BA, New Mexico State University. PhD., University of Pennsylvania.  Teaching areas: Latin America, globalization, international migration, social movements.  Research specialties: Mexico, global capitalism, religious change, self and identity.  cakgss@rit.edu


Tina Lent.  Department of Fine Arts, Associate Professor. BA and MA, UCLA; Ph.D., University of Rochester.  Teaching Areas: American Film History, Women and the Arts; Women's Studies.  Research specialties: American film comedy; women in painting and film.  tnlgsh@rit.edu


Jessica Lieberman: Description Pending


Uli Linke. Coordinator of International Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology. B.A. in Anthropology, Sociology, and International Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul; M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Teaching Areas: Cultural Anthropology, Mass Media, Global Cities, Bodies and Culture, Gender and Sexuality. Research specialties: political anthropology, gender and difference, cultural politics of memory, visual culture and violence, racism and nationalism, political anthropology of the body, political technology of the senses in modern states; Germany, Europe, United States. uhlgss@ad.rit.edu


Elizabeth Mazzolini. English Department. Assistant Professor
PhD Penn State University 2006
Teaching areas: science writing, cultural studies, women and science, biographies of scientists
Research interests: rhetoric and cultural studies of science, cultural theory, modernity


Melissa Nicolas: Department of English. Assistant Professor
Writing Program Director
Ph.D. in English (rhetoric and composition) 2002 Ohio State University
Research and Teaching interests:  Composition, writing center, and writing across the curriculum, theory, practice, and administration; feminist epistemology, philosophy, and pedagogy; historiography; nineteenth-century women's rhetoric; history and philosophy of education; qualitative research

Naomi Anne Orwin.  School of Film and Animation, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor, Scriptwriting.  BA, University of Chicago; MA, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.  Teaching areas: Scriptwriting, Women's Films, Dramatic Structure in Film and Television.  Research specialty: Teaching creativity. asopph@rit.edu 

Judy Porter: Description Pending


Cyril Reade. Department of Fine Arts. Assistant Professor
BFA, Universite Laval, Quebec; MFA, Concordia University, Montreal; MA and Ph.D., University of Rochester. 
Teaching areas: art appreciation, contemporary issues in art, African-American art.  Research specialties: contemporary art and criticism, German art.

Laura Tubbs. Chemistry Department, College of Science. letsch@rit.edu 

LaVerne McQuiller Williams.  Department of Criminal Justice, Assistant Professor.  B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology,  J.D., Albany Law School, M.S., Buffalo State University.  Teaching areas: Law, Criminal Justice, Women's Studies.  Research Specialties: victimization of women, women offenders, therapeutic justice.  llmgcj@rit.edu


Janet Zandy.  Department of Language and Literature, Professor.  BA, Montclair State College; MA, University of Rochester; Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo, in American Studies.  Teaching areas: American Literature, American Studies, Writing, Documentary Studies and Oral History, Women's Studies, Working-Class Studies. General Editor of Women's Studies Quarterly, 1997-2001. jnzgsl@rit.edu 

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