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Women's & Gender Studies Faculty

AsheKathy Ashe, (M.S. Ed., SUNY Cortland) earned a BA in sociology from SUNY Geneseo and a Masters of Science in Health Education from SUNY Cortland and is an adjunct instructor for both the Women's and Gender Studies Department and the Physical Education Department. Her courses include Gender, Power and Difference, Women's Health, Current Adolescent Health Issues, Current Health Issues and Problems, Personal Health and Stress Management. E-mail: Kathy.Ashe@oneonta.edu

Susan Bernardin, (Ph.D, University California, Santa Cruz) Chair of Women's and Gender Studies and Professor of English. A specialist in American Indian and American literatures, Dr. Bernardin has published articles and book chapters on foundational and contemporary Native writers, including Gertrude Bonnin, Mourning Dove, Louis Owens and Eric Gansworth. A forthcoming essay considers visual language in works by Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) artists Jolene Rickard, Shelley Niro, and Melanie Printup Hope. She is also a co-author of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940 (Rutgers University Press, 2003), an interdisciplinary study of white women who found personal and professional fulfillment working in embattled Native communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is currently working on a new edition of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, in collaboration with Karuk tribal members and non-Native scholars in northwestern California. She is a two-time recipient of Western Literature Association’s Don D. Walker Award for best published essay in Western American Literary Studies. Her courses include comparative indigenous literatures, gender and autobiography, American literatures (including Mark Twain), and Post-colonial Literatures of the Americas. E-mail: Susan.Bernardin@oneonta.edu

BrownMichael Brown (Ph.D., City University of New York) is a social-cognitive psychologist who is interested in how individuals make attributions and judgments when presented with novel, complex, and contradictory information. His research has primarily focused on individuals' decision-making processes, prototypes, impression formation, and attitudes – particularly as they apply to issues involving gender, sexuality, and the law.
Email: Michael.Brown@oneonta.edu

ChristieCharlene Christie (Ph.D., SUNY Albany) is a social psychologist who specializes in theories of social identity. Her primary research interests center around the manner in which individuals are evaluated as members of social groups. She specifically focuses on the impact of stereotypes, deviance, and intergroup relations on perceptions of ingroup and outgroup members, as well as their impact on evaluations of the self. Email: Charlene.Christie@oneonta.edu

Sallie Han, Sallie Han, (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is an associate professor of Anthropology. Her research has focused on ideas and practices of kinship, gender, and reproduction in everyday life in the United States. Currently, she is initiating research on parenting / mothering, children, and literacy. Her book, * Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US *, is due from Berghahn Books in July 2013. Her research on "belly talk" during pregnancy or communication directed to an imagined child in utero has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and on National Public Radio. Recent publications include a chapter on men's "belly talk" in the edited volume, Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction (Berghahn Books, 2009), and an article on "belly talk" and reproductive politics in Anthropology News (February 2009). Other publications include chapters on fetal ultrasound imaging in the edited volumes Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2009), and The Changing Landscape of Work and Family: Reports from the Field (Lexington Books, 2008). At Oneonta, Dr.Han teaches courses in cultural anthropology (including field methods and ethnographic writing), medical anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. A graduate of Williams College, where she majored in English with a concentration in women's studies, Dr. Han is a former staff writer for The Daily News in New York. E-mail: Sallie.Han@oneonta.edu

KlinkCynthia Klink (MA, Anthropology, University of California-Santa Barbara) is a New World archaeologist whose research interests include hunter-gatherers, environmental change, and gender in past societies.  She developed and teaches the course WMST 253:  Women and Gender in Prehistory". Email: Cynthia.Klink@oneonta.edu


 

LubdellBambi Lobdell, (Ph.D., Binghamton) received her doctorate in English from Binghamton University in 2007. She has taught a variety of courses in the English and Woman’s and Gender Studies departments of SUNY Oneonta for ten years. Courses she developed for Women’s and Gender Studies include WMST 212: Women of Resistance; WMST 214: Archetypes of the Wild Woman; and a Special Topics course titled Gay and Lesbian Literature. In 2009, Bambi worked with Dr. Amie Doughty to organize a conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer for a bit of academic fun. Dr. Lobdell has presented on the transgendered subject Lucy Ann/Joseph Israel Lobdell at UCLA, Fantasia Fair, and Scranton University, as well as SUNY Oneonta. Currently, she is transforming her dissertation on Lucy Ann Lobdell into a book for McFarland Publishers. E-mail: lasavagefemme@yahoo.com

Cindy MillerCynthia Miller, (Ph.D., U. Wisconsin) is a developmental psychologist whose research interests include gender identity and women's conceptions of power.
E-mail:
Cynthia.Miller@oneonta.edu





Kathleen O'Mara, (Ph.D., Columbia U) Chair & Professor of Africana and Latino Studies and History, is an historian of Africa and the Near East. Her teaching and research interests include Muslim women, women and slavery in Africa, gender and nationalism, and lesbian and gay history. She is also Executive Editor of Phoebe.
E-mail: Kathleen.OMara@oneonta.edu

Jonathan Sadow is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature who received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He teaches the class "Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers", along with other classes that emphasize shifting conceptions of gender, fiction, poetry, theater, print culture, philosophy, and empire. He is currently researching the novels of Eliza Haywood and the poetry of Charlotte Smith, and has presented papers on both authors at several conferences. His recent article "The Epistemology of Genre" is part of the book "Theory and Practice in Eighteenth Century Britain: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature", and explores the relationship between Lockean philosophy and eighteenth-century genre theory. He has also taught at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and Western New England College. E-mail: Jonathan.Sadow@oneonta.edu

Elizabeth Seale received her PhD from North Carolina State University in 2010. Her research and teaching interests include race, class, and gender; health and the human body; poverty and social welfare; and global inequality. She teaches sociology of women, theories in family studies, and other sociology courses.
E-mail: Elizabeth.Seale@oneonta.edu


Bianca Tredennick is an Associate Professor in the Department of English who has published on Dickens and Scott. She teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature, including a class on Jane Austen and another on Madness in Literature. She is currently developing a new course on the Haunted House in literature.
E-mail:
Bianca.Tredennick@oneonta.edu

WambuiBetty Wambui (Ph.D., Binghamton University), Assistant professor with a dual appointment in Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Latino Studies and received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Binghamton University and her M.A. from the University of Nairobi. Her areas of specialization within social and political philosophy include African philosophies, feminist philosophies, critical race theories and critical legal studies, social contract theory, and discrimination and morality. She is a member of the Women's Caucus of the African Studies Association and the executive board of the New York African Studies Association. Her most recent publication is "Testing Conversations: Women, children, goats and land" in Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy edited by Chike Jeffers (2011). She teaches courses including Intro to ALS; Race, Class, Gender, Culture; Race, Gender and Law; Gender, Power and Difference; and Transnational Feminisims, among others. E-mail: Betty.Wambui@oneonta.edu


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