Kathy 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, Therapeutic Physical Activities of the World, Personal Health and Special Topics: Stress Management. E-mail: asheka@oneonta.edu 

Helga Hoyt Berliner, (D.A. Women's Studies, U. Albany). Research interests include feminist poststructuralist readings of the text of the Bronze Age Aegean; the ideology of female power in preliterate cultures; French feminist philosophy.  E-mail: helgab@dmcom.net

Karina Céspedes, (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) is an assistant professor of both Africana & Latino Studies as well as Women’s and Gender Studies. Professor Céspedes received her B.A from Rutgers University where she majored in Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and 20th Century American Literature. She completed her Masters and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. She has published a number of articles in journals and anthologies within these two fields. Currently, Prof. Céspedes is working on a book on Cuban tourism and sex work during the decade of the 1990s. She is also Executive Editor of Phoebe.  E-mail:cespedkl@oneonta.edu

Darwin Davis, (M.A., Ohio State University and M.A., Binghamton University).  She has been teaching at Oneonta State for 12 years in Women's and Gender Studies, Africana & Latino Studies as well as Sociology.  A student of Black dance and music, she has been studying African and African Caribbean drums for 30 years.  With Paul Bley and Giovanni Arrighi, she produced two albums by Hammond B-3 organist Jeff Palmer, one of which was nominated for a Grammy award in 1987.  She has studied with master drummers and dancers throughout the west African diaspora. Some of these include Abraham Rodrigues, Mor Thiam, Ladji Camara, Pablo Landrum, Mongo Santamaria, Xiomara Rodrigues, Los Munequito de Matanzas, and Patato Valdez.  She has spent years playing congas in bands.  Darwin is a sociologist.  Her teaching focuses on world inequality and the ways in which systems of domination uphold the capitalist world system.  She is also concerned about the ways that identity both individual and collective are formed by social constructions (race, class, gender, sexuality). E-mail: davisd@oneonta.edu 

Sallie Han, (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is an assistant 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.  A book manuscript, titled Making Babies in America: An Ethnography of Pregnancy Practice, is under contract with Berghahn Books. 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: hanss@oneonta.edu

Bambi Lobdell, (Ph.D.,  Binghamton) She is an adjunct professor of Women's and Gender Studies and English department.  Her focus is on Medieval literature, folklore, mythology, and feminist studies. She has recently created a new class for Women's and Gender Studies "Queer Theory and Culture". She has received several awards for excellence in teaching and academic excellence.
E-mail: lafemmesavage@aol.com

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

Robin Mitchell is a Ph.D. Candidate in Late Modern European History (in the Department of History), with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality from the Gender and Women’s Studies Department, at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Paris; the histories of women of the African Diaspora in France and the United States; Race, Gender, and Sexuality; and Representation and Popular Culture. She has an essay in the forthcoming anthology, Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot”, published by Temple University Press. She will complete her doctorate in May, 2010.  E-mail: mitcher@oneonta.edu

Enrique Morales-Diaz, (Ph.D., U. Albany) who is Associate Professor of Spanish, Ethnic & Gender Studies at Westfield State College, serves as adjunct professor of Women's and Gender Studies at SUNY Oneonta, and acts as assistant editor of Phoebe. 
E-mail: emoralesdiaz@wsc.ma.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: omarakk@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: sadowjb@oneonta.edu

Bianca Tredennick (Ph.D. University of Oregon) is an Assistant Professor in the English Department and specializes in nineteenth-century British literature. She teaches a course on Jane Austen and is developing a new course on Madness in Literature that will engage, among other things, with the concept of hysteria. Her current research includes work on the lesbian neo-Victorianism of Sarah Waters. E-mail: tredenbp@oneonta.edu

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