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Women and Gender Studies Faculty

Dr. Mary Margaret Fonow

Professor and Director of Women and Gender Studies
marymargaret.fonow@asu.edu

My areas of teaching and research are women and work in the global economy, law, policy and social movements, and feminist methodology. My approach to teaching and research is multicultural and I seek to foreground how gender is shaped by other social categories of difference. My current research focuses on transnational labor rights advocacy. I am the author of Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America and with Judith A. Cook of Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research.
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Dr.Lisa M. Anderson

Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Theatre
lmanderson@asu.edu

My current research interests include contemporary black feminist theatre and drama, the performance of gender, and race and gender in popular culture. I am currently completing a book manuscript on black feminist aesthetics in contemporary drama; it is under review at University of Illinois Press. I am also writing articles about race and civil war films, and butch/femme embodiment in the US and México. I teach courses on film and performance in WGS; I am also part of the faculty of the Theatre of the Americas doctoral program in Theatre, where I teach courses on African American theatre and theatre semiotics.

Elizabeth Archuleta

Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies
Elizabeth.Archuleta@asu.edu

My background is in the humanities with a focus on Indigenous women's writing and its exploration of womanhood, violence, sexuality, identity, popular culture, social justice, feminism, family, women's traditions, and Indigenous legal systems. I have current and forthcoming journal publications in New Mexico Historical Review; Studies in American Indian Literature; American Indian Quarterly; UCLA School of Law Indigenous Peoples' Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance; Wicazo Sa Review; and a chapter in the edited volume, The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. In January 2007, I was selected as an Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, (http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6862.shtml). I serve on the advisory board for the Sequoyah Research Center/American Native Press Archives (http://anpa.ualr.edu/default.htm ). My current project, "Grandmothers' Voices Hold Me: Articulating Indigenous Feminisms," is under contract with University of Arizona Press.

Dr. Maria Luz Cruz-Torres

Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies
maria.cruz-torres@asu.edu

I am a socio-cultural anthropologist who specializes in environmental, applied and economic anthropology. My areas of teaching and research are gender and globalization; gender, sustainability and the environment; political ecology; women and work in the informal economic sector, impact of globalization upon local communities and households, and the environmental and social aspects of fisheries and aquaculture development. My geographic areas of interest are Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently I am conducting research on the topic of gender, globalization, and the environment in Mexico, and I am also involved in a National Science Foundation interdisciplinary, transnational collaborative research project focusing on the links between human and biophysical processes in coastal marine ecosystems in Baja California, Mexico. Some of my publications include: Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico, 2004, University of Arizona Press; Local-Level Responses to Environmental Degradation in Northwestern Mexico 2001, Journal of Anthropological Research; and "Pink Gold Rush:"Shrimp Aquaculture, Sustainable Development and the Environment in Northwestern Mexico 2001, Journal of Political Ecology.

Dr. Alesha Durfee

Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies
alesha.durfee@asu.edu

My work explores the ways that structural inequalities both constrain and are reinforced by individual behavior, and assesses the impacts of social policies implemented in an attempt to ameliorate these inequalities. I am particularly interested in how the status characteristics of individuals, such as gender, race, class, or sexuality, affect their interactions with the legal system, institutions, and other individuals. To date my research has focused on domestic violence and the justice system, child care utilization and policy, and welfare reform. My latest project, Domestic Violence in the Civil Court System, used both qualitative and quantitative methods to identify some of the mechanisms through which macro-level inequalities impact the ability of domestic violence victims to obtain a civil protection order.

Dr.Georganne Scheiner Gillis

Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies
georganne.scheiner@asu.edu

My research interests include girlhood and adolescence, and women in popular culture. I am the author of Signifying Female Adolescence: Film Representations and Fans 1920-1950 (Praeger, 2000). I have also published articles on such topics as Sandra Dee, fan clubs and the 1950s TV show, "Queen for a Day." I am currently at work on a book length manuscript, Haven for Hopefuls: The Hollywood Studio Club and Women in the Film Industry. The Studio Club was a residential YWCA facility in Hollywood for women working in the film industry, which operated between 1917-64, and I use the Club as a lens through which to study labor practices in Hollywood. I am also working on an oral history project with Xavier College Prep, the only same sex high school in Arizona, to document the history of the school. I was given the ASU Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award during the 2003-04 school year.

Dr. Yasmina Katsulis

Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies
yasmina.katsulis@asu.edu

As part of the faculty in the Women and Gender Studies Program, I teach about the impact of social and biological determinants of health at the local, national, and global levels. Much of my training as a medical anthropologist is based on field research done in the U.S. and in other countries. My primary research interests include risk and prevention related to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections among men and women. In 2006, my book manuscript related to my field research on prostitution, sex tourism, and occupational health risks in Tijuana, Mexico will be published through the University of Texas Borderlands Series. As part of my service to the scientific community, I work as a consultant for the CDC for the upcoming National Health Behavioral Surveillance study on HIV/AIDS risk among High Risk Heterosexuals. Currently, I’m designing a project to work with male offenders arrested for intimate partner violence in the Phoenix area. In the future, this will include an HIV/AIDS preventive intervention for male offenders that could make a positive change for both them and their partners.

Dr. Sally Kitch

Professor of Women and Gender Studies (Current Director of the Institute for Humanities Research)
skitch@asu.edu

Sally L. Kitch is the founding Director of the Institute for Humanities Research and College Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She is also Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies at Ohio State University, where she served as Professor from 1992-2006, Department Chair of Women’s Studies from 1992-2000, and Vice Chair from 2004-200.6 Professor Kitch specializes in feminist theory and epistemology, theories of transdisciplinarity, gender representation in visual and narrative culture, and the material effects of such representation on the lived realities of diverse women’s lives. She has written three books on feminism and utopianism and developed that as a sub-field of feminist theory. Her most recent book on that topic is Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2000). Other books (which have won national prizes) include: Chaste Liberation: Celibacy and Female Cultural Status (University of Illinois Press, 1989) and This Strange Society of Women: Reading the Letters and Lives of the Woman’s Commonwealth (Ohio State University Press, 1993).

Dr.Ann Hibner Koblitz

Professor of Women and Gender Studies
koblitz@asu.edu

I received my PhD in Russian Intellectual History from Boston University in 1983. I am the author of two books and several dozen research articles on Russian women in science, gender and science theory, and comparative aspects of women in science, technology and medicine. I am also director of the Kovalevskaia Fund for the encouragement of women in science, technology and medicine in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Dr. Karen J. Leong

Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies (currently Director of Asian Pacific American Studies)
karen.leong@asu.edu

In all aspects of my scholarship–research, teaching, and community engagement –I explore the overlapping and mutually reinforcing discourses of gender, race, class, and nation, and how these discourses have advantaged some and disadvantaged others in United States society. In my teaching and research I focus on United States cultural and social history with an emphasis on women’s experiences, the development and shifting of gender ideologies, racial identity formation, immigration policy and the formation of national identities. My book, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong Chiang and the Transformation of American Orientalism was published by the University of California Press in Spring 2005. I am currently working with JACL Arizona and members of the Japanese American community on an oral history project about Japanese Americans in Arizona.

Dr.Mary Logan. Rothschild

Professor Emerita of Women and Gender Studies and History
mary.rothschild@asu.edu

I specialize in the history of American women and feminism, women’s oral history and gender equity in education. In my teaching, I try to inspire students to critically evaluate the past with empathy and care. All of my teaching uses gender as a primary lens to analyze society and to understand the intersection of race and class in American society. I have written A Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the Southern Freedom Summers, 1964-1965 and Doing What the Day Brought: An Oral History of Arizona Women. Currently I am working on two research projects: "Girl Scouting and the Culture of American Womanhood, 1912-1982," which uses Girl Scouting as a window on American girlhood and womanhood in the Twentieth Century, and "Living U.S. Women’s History: Voices from the Field," which is an oral history project on the founding of the field of U.S. women’s history and a rich collection of fifty extensive interviews. Teaching at all levels is my passion and I have been awarded the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Quality Teaching Award, the ASU Alumni Association Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Arizona Humanities Council’s Scholar of the Year Award.

Dr. Rose Weitz

Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Sociology
rose.weitz@asu.edu

My research and teaching center on women, health, and the body. As a sociologist, I am particularly interested in the interrelationship between power, on the one hand, and stigma, identity, health or illness, and health care, on the other. My most recent book is Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair Tells Us About Women’s Lives (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004). I am also author of Life with AIDS (Rutgers, 1991) and of The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach (Wadsworth, 1996, 2001, 2004), co-author of Labor Pains: Modern Midwives and Home Birth (Yale University Press, 1988), and editor of The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Appearance, Sexuality, and Behavior (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Michelle McGibbney Vlahoulis

Lecturer in Women and Gender Studies
michelle.mcgibbney@asu.edu

My areas of teaching and research include feminist film criticism, women and popular culture, body image and social change. I am particularly interested in the ways in which representations of women in the popular discourse affect the lives of real women and their bodies and look for ways to combat these images or alternative forms of media that can help provide social change. I teach courses on women and society, women and popular culture, women and film and women and social change. I also serve as the department advisor as well as the internship coordinator. I received the Student Affairs Tribute to Faculty & Academic Professionals and the Commission on the Status of Women for Outstanding Group Award along with the ASU Body Pride Committee and have been nominated for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Advising Award.