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ALLGOOD, SCOT M.
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 753-5895
FAX : 753-0371
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Wife/husband differences in perceptions of marriage problems and/or strengths; therapist's gender and how it influences communication in marriage and family therapy
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (FHD 5500) Interdisciplinary Workshop
SERVICE : Women's Studies Advisory Member, National Council on Family Relations (this group has a strong theoretical and applied emphasis and lobbying interest in the area of women's issues); private practice as a marriage and family therapist in Cache County

ASCIONE, FRANK R.
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Psychology (Adjunct in FHD)
UMC : 2810
PHONE : 797-1464
FAX : 797-1448
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Partner violence, effects on children, program and policy issues related to women's decisions to leave or stay; criminal abuse and domestic violence
SERVICE : Citizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse (CAPSA) board member.

AUST, ANN
POSITION : Trustee Professor
DEPARTMENT : Chemistry and Biochemistry
UMC : 0300
PHONE : 797-1629
FAX : 797-3390
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board; WGRI Steering Committee

AUSTIN, ANN M. BERGHOUT
POSITION : Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs/College of Family Life
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE :797-1527
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Socialization of young infants in gender specific ways; adjustment of young children from single parent (usually mother) poverty-level homes to family home day care and center day care; recruitment and retention of women students in the College of Family Life, especially after marriage.
SERVICE : Direct several projects designed to promote the quality of child care in day care homes through provider training and professionalism activities. Most (98%) of these providers are women who, heretofore, have been isolated in their home child care businesses. The projects bring the providers together for training and for socialization. From these activities providers have reported (and we have measured) a marked increase in providers' professional self-esteem and sense of overall professional worth. Project in Paraguay designed to encourage Mother's literacy while they learn about ways to promote their children's school readiness. Project in Box Elder County designed to promote leadership among Mexican American boys and girls.

AUSTIN, LEE
POSITION : Program Director, Utah Public Radio
UMC : 8505
PHONE : 797-3144
FAX : 797-3150
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board


 

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BAUMGARDNER, KANDY
POSITION : Professor; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs
DEPARTMENT : Biology; College of Science--Dean's Office
UMC : 4400
PHONE : 797-3509
FAX : 797-3378
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women and Gender Research Institute Steering Committee

BECK-DUDLEY, CARYN
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Management and Human Resources
UMC : 3555
PHONE : 797-2376
FAX : 797-1091
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Affirmative action; discrimination; legal issues for women

BERRY, E. H.
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE :797-1245
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Fertility; school-age fertility and fathers; women, children and community attachment

BUTLER, ANNE M.
POSITION : Editor, Western Historical Quarterly, Professor
DEPARTMENT : History
UMC : 0740
PHONE : 797-1297
FAX : 797-3899
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Women in the American West, 1865-1915, more specifically prostitution, women in male penitentiaries, and Roman Catholic nuns on the frontier; how the West as a region had an impact on the lives of these groups of women and how the women responded to western forces of race, class, and gender
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (HIS 4550) Women and the Family in American History
SERVICE : With Ona Siporin, "Uncommon Common Women," a presentation for civic and school groups.

BYRNES, DEBORAH A.
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Elementary Education
UMC : 2805
PHONE : 797-0396
FAX : 797-0372
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender discrimination; anti-bias curriculum; attitude change


 

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CALLISTER, RONDA
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Management and Human Resources
UMC : 3555
PHONE : 797-1905
FAX : 797-1091
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Expression of emotions in work organizations--both the expression of emotion and the response to the expression appear to vary according to gender.
SERVICE : Women and Gender Research Institute Steering Committee

CALLOWAY-GRAHAM, DIANE
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE : 797-2389
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender in relation to educational (i.e. retention, career development, etc.) and work place issues (i.e. pay equity, pink collar ghetto, comparable worth, etc.); the persistence of adult women in higher education; returning women in higher education;gender, culture, and higher education
SERVICE : Member, Bear River House Advisory Board

CHIU, M. ISELA
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Languages and Philosophy
UMC : 0720
PHONE : 797-1213
FAX : 797-1329
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Latin American women writers; Latina writers in the United States
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (Span 4910) Special Topics: Latin American Women Writers; (Span 4910) Special Topics: Contemporary Latin American Playwrights

COOPER, BRENDA
POSITION : Assistant Professor, Director of Women's Studies
DEPARTMENT : Journalism & Communication
UMC : 4605
PHONE : 797-3253
FAX: 797-3973
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Media representations of gender--particularly film; gender differences in how women/men communicate--the different uses women/men have for communication; ongoing research examining the translation of women's written works to film versions
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (COMM 5410) Gender & Media; (COMM 3400) Gender & Communication; (COMM 3410) Women, Film, and Feminism
SERVICE : Member, Feminist-Women's Studies Division, National Communication Association; member, Commission on Women, Association for Education in Journalism--Mass Communication; Faculty advisor, Feminist Majority, Director, Women's Studies at USU

CORBIN-LEWIS, KIM
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education
UMC : 1000
PHONE : 797-1302
FAX : 797-0221
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Voice physiology: explaining gender-related differences in laryngeal structure and function across the lifespan
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board

CRAPO, RICHLEY
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE : 797-1080
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Cross-cultural study of sexual orientation; the Berdache and berdache-like gender statuses; homophobia and heterosexism
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (ANTH 5100/6100) Anthropology of Sex and Gender

CRUMBLEY, PAUL
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-3797
FAX : 797-4099
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Emily Dickinson scholar; scholarship dedicated to nineteenth-century women's culture
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (ENG 5320) American Literature and Cultural Difference: Sentimental Culture in America
SERVICE : Secretary of the Emily Dickinson International Society


 

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DANCE, BETTY
POSITION : Reference Librarian
DEPARTMENT : Libraries
UMC : 3000
PHONE : 797-2681
FAX : 797-2677
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board

DAWSON, SUSAN
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE : 797-1287
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Nontraditional work and occupational and environmental health issues related to women.
SERVICE : Women and Gender Research Institute Steering Committee

DE LANCER JULNES, PATRIA
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Political Science
UMC : 0725
PHONE : 797-3889
FAX : 797-3751
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Public performance measurement and management; government reform in Latin America and the Caribbean
SERVICE : American Society for Public Administration; International Network for Public Adminisitration Education; consortium of US-Mexico Public Administration Schools and Colleges

DEVER, MARTHA T.
POSITION : Associate Professor and Interim Department Head of Secondary Education
DEPARTMENT : Elementary Education
UMC : 2805
PHONE : 797-0394
FAX : 797-0372
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The nature of environments of young children that circumvent gender role stereotypes and encourage healthy gender role development for both boys and girls

DORWARD, JAMES
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Elementary Education
UMC : 2805
PHONE : 797-0397
FAX : 797-0372
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Effect of biographical information about women scientists on attitudes and aptitude in science on prospective elementary teachers. Effects of hands-on investigative lab activities on attitudes toward science.

DOTY, MARY E.
POSITION : Director, Counseling Center and Adjunct Professor
DEPARTMENT : Psychology
UMC : 0115
PHONE : 797-1012
FAX : 797-0855
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Women's issues such as rape/interpersonal violence, childhood abuse, and eating disorders
SERVICE : USU Sexual Assault Response Coordinator


 

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EASTMOND, NICK
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Instructional Technology
UMC : 2830
PHONE : 797-2642
FAX : 797-2693
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Cross cultural communication issues, including gender-related communication
SERVICE : College of Education Multicultural Committee

ENDTER-WADA, JOANNA
POSITION : Director, Natural Resource and Environmental Policy Program
Associate Professor, Department of Environment and Society,
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resource
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
DEPARTMENT : Environment and Society
UMC : 5265
PHONE : 797-2487
FAX : 797-3526
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Natural Resource and Environmental Policy and Social Science Water Law and Policy Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Natural Resources Conservation Behavior


 

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FERGUSON, TAMARA
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Psychology
UMC : 2810
PHONE : 797-3272
FAX : 797-1448
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender construals of emotion, especially in terms of identifying claims
SERVICE : Women and Gender Research Institute Steering Committee.

FITZGERALD, KATHRYN R.
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-0235
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Composition and Rhetoric, a field well aware of its patriarchal history and current feminized status. The history of midwestern public normal schools and their effects on economic opportunity for rural women.

FUNDA, EVELYN I.
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-3653
FAX : 797-3797
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Willa Cather; Women's Western literature (fiction)
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : Not formally listed as W.S. Curriculum, but focus on gender issues : (ENG 4310) American Writers, (ENG 6330) Literature in Cultural Studies

FURSE, CYNTHIA
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Electrical and Computer Engineering
UMC : 4120
PHONE : 797-2870
FAX : 797-3054
E-Mail
SERVICE : Faculty advisor for SWE (Society for Women Engineers). Brownie Girl Scout leader and in the Girl Scout Mentor program


 

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GAST, JULIE
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
UMC : 7000
PHONE : 797-1490
FAX : 797-3759
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Adolescent girls and smoking issues--advertising, prevalence, psychosocial predictors of onset; body-image and self-esteem of adolescent and college women
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (HEP 5000) Race, Class, and Gender Issues in Health
SERVICE : Member, College of Education Diversity Committee; USU Women's Studies Steering Committee

GLASS-COFFIN, BONNIE
POSITION : Associate Professor and Anthropology Program Director
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE : 797-4064
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The influence of gender on illness etiology and therapeutic strategy for contemporary male and female shamans in Northern Peru; the impact of the Catholic Church and of "New-Age" spirituality on activities of and attitudes towards female healers in Peru and Ecuador from 16th Century-Present; the feminization of poverty among Latino and Hispanic women in the Andes and in the US; exploration of improved communication between schools and families as a strategy for reducing k-12 Hispanic drop-out rates in and around Cache Valley, Utah.

GRANT-DAVIE, KEITH
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-3547
FAX : 797-3797
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board

GRAULICH, MELODY
POSITION : Professor of English/American Studies
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-3855
FAX : 797-4099
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : American west
SERVICE : Prizes for contributions to Education Equity

GUENTER-SCHLESINGER, SUE
POSITION : Director, Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Office
DEPARTMENT : Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Office
UMC : 1475
PHONE : 797-1266
FAX : 797-0291
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Affirmative action; backlash to affirmative action; sexual harassment prevention training; sexual harassment prevention programs/policy; gender discrimination in higher education; gender discrimination in the military; impact of military culture on gender bias
SERVICE : Member, Defense Advisory Council on Women in the Services (DACOWITS); Executive Committee, Hispanic Center of Cache Valley; Member, Quality Improvement Board for Sunshine Terrace


 

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HARTMAN, CATHY L.
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Business Administration
UMC : 3510
PHONE : 797-4062
FAX : 797-2634
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Research on the experience of female entrepreneurs; identifying women's perspectives of their roles as entrepreneurs and as role models in the community; differences between rural-and urban-based businesses

HAWKS, LEONA K.
POSITION : Professor and Associate Dean of Extension in the College of Family Life
DEPARTMENT : Human Environments
UMC : 2949
PHONE : 797-1529
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender issues related to housing affordability, quality, and availability
SERVICE : Logan City Planning and Zoning Commission; housing counseling at the Family Life Center (information on how to purchase a home, foreclosure intervention, and home equity conversion mortgages)

HEDRICH, ANNE
POSITION : Reference Librarian
DEPARTMENT : USU Libraries
UMC : 3100
PHONE : 797-2165
FAX : 797-7475
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Family friendly work places (specifically libraries); experiences with bringing infants to the work place; child care issues
SERVICE : Treasurer, local La Leche League group; occasionally lead a session on working as a field worker for the US Forest Service for Expanding Your Horizons; campus contact for the Consortium for Utah Women in Higher Education; organized a group of library employees with small children

HUENEMANN, CHARLES
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Languages and Philosophy
UMC : 0720
PHONE : 797-0254
FAX : 797-1329
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Feminist epistemology, feminist ethics

HUERTA, GRACE C.
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Secondary Education
UMC : 2815
PHONE : 797-3946
FAX : 797-1441
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Focus on using oral history as an approach to social studies instruction for pre-service secondary teachers, particularly using an oral history model which highlights the experiences of Latinas living in Utah.
SERVICE : Mentor USU female students through the Multicultural Student Affairs Office; mentor Logan High ESL female students


 

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JANECKE, SUSANNE
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Geology
UMC : 4505
PHONE : 797-3877
FAX : 797-1588
E-Mail
SERVICE : Association of Women Geoscientists--on campus contact

JAPPINEN, ILONA
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Languages and Philosophy
UMC : 0720
PHONE : 797-1207
FAX : 797-1329
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The tortuous feminist perspectives of Friedrich Nietzsche in his friendships and intellectual exchanges with the 19th century feminists Malwida von Meysenbug, Resa von Schirnhofer, and Meta von Salis.
SERVICE : Supports and promotes visits to USU campus by prominent women in cultural and public affairs


 

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KAWAR, AMAL
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Political Science
UMC : 0725
PHONE : 797-1309
FAX : 797-3751
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Women and politics; Arab women
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (POLS 0319) Women, Power, and Politics

KENNEDY, JAMES J.
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Forest Resources
UMC : 5215
PHONE : 797-2573
FAX : 797-4040
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : How gender, professional or ethnically diverse students and entry-level employees struggle and succeed in finding productive, satisfying careers in public land management agencies (e.g., USDA--Forest Service, or USDI--Bureau of Land Management)
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (NR 1010) Human Use and Management of Earth Ecosystems; (NR 3000) Natural Resources Management; (FR 6350) Natural Resources Agency Administration

KIGER, GARY
POSITION : Professor & Department Head
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE : 797-1235
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Five-year federally funded research grant to study gender, work, and family (with Pamela Riley)

KING, BOB
POSITION : Program Specialist, Tooele Branch Campus
DEPARTMENT : Tooele Branch Campus
UMC : 5035
PHONE : 797-3606
FAX : 801-882-7577
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender as a factor in the experience in the American Southwest, especially 1890-1925; Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Charles Lummis, Zane Grey and the relations of the Southwest to modernity, gender, and identity
SERVICE : Presentations on a cultural history of the desert and on the literature of the Southwest, with gender a theme for Mary Austin, Willa Cather, and Zane Grey (through the Utah Humanities Council Speakers' Bureau)

KOYBAEVA, TAIRA
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Languages and Philosophy
UMC : 0720
PHONE : 797-3154
FAX: 797-1329
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Research specializing in cultural aspects of the U.S. Former Soviet Union Military and political negotiations; Advisor to the Committee on National Security in the House of Representatives; Fellow of Security Studies Program in the Center for International Studies; Work with the Congressional Budget office which is a non-partisan research arm of the Congress.

KUHNS, MICHAEL
POSITION : Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
DEPARTMENT : Forest Resources
UMC : 5215
PHONE : 797-4056
FAX : 797-4040
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Participation and experiences of women in urban forestry professions


 

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LEAVITT, MARY
POSITION : Director--Science/HASS Advising Center
DEPARTMENT : Science/HASS Advising Center
UMC : 0107
PHONE : 797-3883
FAX : 797-2096
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board; advise re-entry women students; Utah Girl Scout Council Board of Trustees

LEFFLER, ANN
POSITION : Professor; Director, Liberal Arts and Sciences Program
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology; Liberal Arts and Sciences Program
UMC : 0700
PHONE : 797-2039
FAX : 797-1092
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The gendering of leisure pursuits; gender in higher education
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (SOC 6420) Gender and Social Inequality

LI, JOSEPH K K
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Biology
UMC : 5303
PHONE : 797-1914
FAX : 797-1575
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Molecular biology, virology, immunology & biotechnology
SERVICE : Promote more woman scientists to be invited in internaitonal meetings

LINDAUER, SHELLEY
POSITION : Professor and Interim Department Head; Director, Adele & Daleb Young Child Development Laboratory
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 797-1532
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Development of gender roles; gender role stereotyping in young children; non-sexist curriculum and practices in early childhood education settings
SERVICE : Board of Directors Child and Family Support Center; WGRI Steering Committee

LOWN, JEAN
POSITION : Professor
DEPARTMENT : Human Environments
UMC : 2910
PHONE : 797-1569
FAX: 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Noncustodial fathers, economic support of children post-divorce, financial planning for women, bankruptcy and credit
SERVICE : Women and Gender Research Institute, Director; American Association of University Women; Financial Planning for Women monthly educational workshop; President's Diversity Board


 

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MANUEL-DUPONT, SONIA
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : English/Communicative Disorders/Civil and Environmental Engineering
UMC : 1000
PHONE : 797-1340
FAX : 797-0221
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Increasing the number of women in all fields of engineering; gender issues in the formulation of conversations; word origins/histories as they relate to gender usage and description
SERVICE : Faculty Advisor, Society for Women Engineers

McCUSKEY, BRIAN
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-0262
FAX : 797-3797
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Sexuality and the British Victorian novel; representation of domestic service in Victorian literature and culture.
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (ENG 4320) British Writers (Jane Austen)

MERRILL, ZAN
POSITION : Rehabilitation Counselor Education Project Manager
DEPARTMENT : Special Education & Rehabilitation
UMC : 2865
PHONE : 797-1439
FAX : 797-3572
E-Mail
SERVICE : Past president of the Bridgerland Business and Professional Women group and recipient of their 1997 Woman of the Year Award

MICHELFELDER, DIANE P.
POSITION : Professor and Department Head
DEPARTMENT : Languages and Philosophy
UMC : 0720
PHONE : 797-2889
FAX : 797-1329
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The connection between gender and ethics; how reflections on gender has, in recent years, led to both new perspectives in ethical theory and new outlooks on some of the moral debates taking place within American society today; moral theory, largely developed by women philosophers, known as the ethics of care; gender-related ethical issues such as sexual harassment and affirmative action
SERVICE : Prior to coming to Logan in August of 1997, served on The San Luis Obispo, California, County Commission on The Status of Women, and was a member of the Commissioner's Family Law Subcommittee

MILLER, BRENT C.
POSITION : Professor and Department Head
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 797-4055
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Antecedents and consequences of adolescent sexual intercourse and child bearing by gender; consequences of adoption for adolescents, by gender; effects of forced sexual intercourse on female adolescents

MILLER, KRISTINE
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-3646
FAX : 797-3797
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The representation of home-front experience in British fiction of the Second World War. Specifically, the way that writers negotiate the individual subject's relationship to class and gender ideologies

MONHARDT, REBECCA
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Elementary Education
UMC : 2805
PHONE : 797-0395
FAX : 797-0372
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Women in Science; Encouraging women (Elementary thru college level) in science.


 

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NEILSON, LEILAM
POSITION : Manager, University Inn
DEPARTMENT : University Inn
UMC : 4300
PHONE : 797-0018
FAX : 797-1580
E-Mail
SERVICE : President, Professional Employees Association (PEA); PEA is interested in supporting gender equity in all phases of employment at USU. We actively support the Women's Center and would be interested in providing other assistance where needed

NELSON, THORANA
POSITION : Associate Professor and Director Marriage and Family Therapy Program
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 753-5791
FAX : 753-0371
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender and substance abuse, treatment model for women substance abusers; gender in family therapy; gender in family therapy training and supervision
SERVICE : Psychotherapy with women; relationship therapy with women

NIEHUIS, SYLVIA
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 797-1696
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Mate selection and courtship processes; transition from courtship to marriage; marital relationships; divorce.

Nittrouer, Susan
POSITION : Director and Professor
DEPARTMENT : Division of Exemplary Services (Center for Persons with Disabilities) and Communicative Disorders
UMC : 6800
PHONE : 797-1985
FAX : 797-2044
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Speech and language development, production, and perception.

NORTON, MARIA C.
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 797-0613
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Seeking better understanding of the factors which place elderly women at significantly higher risk for major depression than elderly men; effects of marital transitions and stressful life events for elderly men and women as they relate to differential effects on risk for mortality and both physical and mental health outcomes, by gender. Local principal investigator of 12-year NIH funded study on aging.
SERVICE : Guest speaker on geriatric mental health to nursing home support groups.

NORTHERNER, SARA J.
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Art
UMC : 4000
PHONE : 797-1393
FAX : 797-3412
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Personal/professional art research directly related to gender issues; installations and photographic work evolving from phenomenological perceptions of self and society; utilizing the female form as a representation of body


 

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OPENSHAW, KIM
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2700
PHONE : 797-7434
FAX : 797-7220
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Juvenile Male and Female Sexual Offending, Resiliency of Victims of Sexual Abuse
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : Human Sexuality (FHD 3110), Adolescence (FHD 3530)
SERVICE : Juvenile Sex Offender Authority, Department of Psychiatry, Private Practice

OSBORNE, JANET
POSITION : Director of Women's Center/Re-entry Student Center and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology
DEPARTMENT : Women's Center/ Re-Entry Student Center; Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
UMC : 0185
PHONE : 797-1729
FAX : 797-3318
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender roles and issues for women and men; returning women in higher education.
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (SOC 2500) Sociology of Gender; (JCOMM 1010) Introduction to Women's Studies
SERVICE : Member, USU AA/EO Advisory Council; member, Consortium for Utah Women in Higher Education; representative, USU Tri-Council for Gender Programs; Sunshine Terrace Board of Directors


 

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PEAK, TERRY
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE : 797-4080
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Women as caregivers; health policy; quality of life of older women
SERVICE : Involvement with Sunshine Terrace Programs (caregiving tends to be a women's issue and nursing homes tend to be populated by women)

PEASE, TED
POSITION : Professor and Department Head
DEPARTMENT : Communication
UMC : 4605
PHONE : 797-3293
FAX : 797-3973
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Women in the mass media--employment, media content and effects; mass media and society. Edited 200 page journal on women and media, "The Media and Women without Apology," 1993

PIERCY, KATHLEEN W.
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Family & Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 797-2387
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Family Caregiving across the Lifecourse, Identity development in Mid-Late Life women, Divorce issues
SERVICE : Cache County Senior Center


 

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RECKER, MIMI
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Instructional Technology
UMC : 2830
PHONE : 797-2688
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Digital library resources in support of learning and teaching

RILEY, PAM
POSITION : Professor; Campus Coordinator of Women and International Development
DEPARTMENT : Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology
UMC : 0730
PHONE : 797-1256
FAX : 797-1240
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The impact of international rural and community development on women, especially effects of new technologies and women's access to agricultural extension; household labor distribution in U.S. (the interaction between work and family obligations and responsibilities); characteristics of family friendly workplaces
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (SOC 3010) Race, Class and Gender; (SOC 4730) Women in International Development; (SOC 6730) Gender and International Development; and (SOC 6420) Gender and Social Inequality.

ROGGMAN, LORI
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Family and Human Development
UMC : 2905
PHONE : 797-1545
FAX : 797-3845
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender as a factor in development and in parenting--more specifically, gender effects in parent\infant interaction, parent gender differences in family play, parenting stress

ROSENTHAL, CAROL
POSITION : Assistant Director, Academic Resource Center
DEPARTMENT : Academic Resource Center
UMC : 0120
PHONE : 797-4027
FAX : 797-1154
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board

ROSKELLEY, MARY LU
POSITION : Director of Alumni Relations and Development
DEPARTMENT : College of Natural Resources
UMC : 5200
PHONE : 797-2760
FAX : 797-2443
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board

ROUSH, JAN
POSITION : Associate Professor; Technology Liaison
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-2729
FAX : 797-4099
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Research in women's narrative voice, folklore and gender
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (ENG 3710) Folklore and Gender
SERVICE : Women's Section of the American Folklore Society; Women's Center Advisory Board


 

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SCHMIDT, ROBERT H.
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Environmental and Society
UMC : 5215
PHONE : 797-2536
FAX : 797-1871
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender issues within natural resoruce management
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Committee

SCHROEDER, TOM
POSITION : Principal Lecturer
DEPARTMENT : Intensive English Language Institute
UMC : 0715
PHONE : 797-1237
FAX : 797-4050
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender issues in employment in the field (TESOL), particularly part-time hire/adjunct; gender and language in oral discourse
SERVICE : Board of Somebody's Attic (supports CAPSA and CFSPS)

SCHVANEVELDT, NOREEN
POSITION : Director--Dietetics Program
DEPARTMENT : Nutrition and Food Sciences
UMC : 8700
PHONE : 797-2105
FAX : 797-2379
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Body image, weight issues in young women

SHIFRER, ANNE
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-2731
FAX : 797-3797
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Poetry written by women, especially in the 20th century; revision of 20th century period study with gender issues and the writing of women as a central focus; feminist pedagogy and feminist theory (especially construction of feminine subject in literature and culture and the nexus between theory and practice--what theorizing has to do with mitigating violence against women and with eroding the economic, political, and spiritual disempowerment of women)
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES :(ENG 3030) Perspectives in Literature; (ENG 5300) Literature and Gender
SERVICE : Support National Organization for Women, locally and nationally; belong to feminist discussion groups on network

SIMMONS, RANDY T.
POSITION : Professor and Department Head
DEPARTMENT : Political Science
UMC : 0725
PHONE : 797-1310
FAX : 797-3751
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The effects of institutional power on gender inequality
SERVICE : Study and research of gender issues as part of the Political Science Association and the Economic Science Association

SMART, JULIE
POSITION : Professor and Director Rehabilitation Counseling Program
DEPARTMENT : Special Education and Rehabilitation
UMC : 2865
PHONE : 797-3269
FAX : 797-3572
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Disability issues for women, especially racial/ethnic minority women; women in rehabilitation
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (REH 6120) Psychosocial Aspects of Disability (strong gender component)

STEIN, DAVID M.
POSITION : Professor, Department Head
DEPARTMENT : Psychology
UMC : 2810
PHONE : 797-3274
FAX : 797-1448
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Risk factors, assessment, treatment of eating disorders; risk factors, assessment, treatment of psychological and stress factors in miscarriage; risk factors, assessment, treatment, of drug/alcohol and other addictive behaviors
SERVICE : Assessment and treatment of eating disorders; consultation with Utah Vocational Rehabilitation (mostly single parents through divorce)

STRONG, CAROL J.
POSITION : Trustee Professor and Associate Dean for Research
DEPARTMENT : Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education and Dean's Office, College of Education
UMC : 2800
PHONE : 797-1471
FAX : 797-0200
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Language assessment and intervention for preschool children with language impairments; Narrative assessment; Literature-based language intervention; Emergent literacy


 

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Tinnemeyer, Andrea
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Department of English
UMC : 3200
PHONE : 797-3652
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Mexican, Mexican-American/Chicana women writers and historical figures; the feminist movement across the US/Mexico border; and identity politics
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES: ENGL 4370 Studies in Non-fiction Prose
SERVICE : Outreach liaison for the English Department with the Hispanic and Latino community

TSCHANZ, JOANNE T.
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Psychology, FHD
UMC : 4400
PHONE : 797-1583
FAX : 797-2499
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender differences in cognitive deficits in the elderly including differences in the prevalence/incidence of Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias as well as the interaction between dementia risk factors and gender. A recent area of exploration has been the use of estrogen replacement therapy to aid cognition in the elderly. Some evidence suggests that it may decrease risk of Alzheimer's Disease.
SERVICE : Clinical Director, Cache County Memory Study


 

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WALKER, ELIZABETH
POSITION : Writer/Editor
DEPARTMENT : News Services
UMC : 0500
PHONE : 797-1356
FAX : 797-1250
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women's Center Advisory Board

WEILAND, DAVID
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : History
UMC : 0710
PHONE : 797-3104
FAX : 797-3899
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Prostitution and sexuality in colonial Spanish America

WHITAKER, MARTHA
POSITION : Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT : Elementary Education
UMC : 2805
PHONE : 797-0393
FAX : 797-0372
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : The history of women in education; Non-traditional women students' experiences in higher education, particularly mothers who are enrolled in elementary teacher certification programs; The concept of professionalism--controlling or empowering a woman?; The evolving world-wide gendered division of labor as a context for understanding contemporary asymmetrical power relations; Maternal experience and classroom decisions.

WILLIAMS, NANCY
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Communication
UMC : 4605
PHONE : 797-3299
FAX : 797-3973
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender and media ethics; gender, power and community issues in virtual communities (Internet), particularly MUDS with a K-12 education mission (e.g., MicroMUSE at MIT's artificial intelligence lab)
SERVICE: Board member, CAPSA (Citizens Against Physical & Sexual Abuse); mentor, MicroMUSE (active in Women's Resource Center there); member, USU Women's Center Grants Review Committee

WOLCOTT, LINDA
POSITION : Associate Professor and Interim Department Head
DEPARTMENT : Instructional Technology
UMC : 2830
PHONE : 797-2687
FAX : 797-2693
E-Mail
SERVICE : Women and Gender Research Institute Steering Committee

WOLLIN, ERICA LIU
POSITION : Staff Therapist/ Psychology Resident
DEPARTMENT : Counseling Center
UMC : 0115
PHONE : 797-1012
FAX : 797-0855
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Gender and Multicultural issues, gender and religion
SERVICE : Psychotherapy with women, relationship therapy (couples, family) with women


 

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ZOMENO, FUENCISLA
POSITION : Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT : Languages and Philosophy
UMC : 0720
PHONE : 797-1976
FAX : 797-1329
E-Mail
RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY INTERESTS : Women writers in Spain
WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES : (Span 4900) Women Writers in the Spanish World