PAULA AMAD
Cinema and Comparative Literature
Assistant Professor
EMAIL: paula-amad@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: W223 Adler Journalism Building
PHONE: 319/335-0329
INTERESTS: The intersection of film history and theory (with particular interest in early non- fiction cinema, the first French avant-gardes, and women in European silent film culture), in addition to postcolonial theory in the visual and literary fields, comparative theories of modernity and consumer culture, the relationship between photography and film, and contemporary and historical genealogies of globalization.
COURSES: 48:185 Modern and Postmodern Consumer Culture ; 48:108 History of Documentary Film: 1895-1950 ; 48:104 European Silent Cinema ; 48:615 Cinema and the Everyday
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
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CHRIS AFRICA
University Libraries
History and Social Sciences Bibliographer
EMAIL: chris-africa@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: Library Administration and Main Library
PHONE: 319/335-5017
INTERESTS: Feminist historiography; late medieval and early modern Europe.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Bibliography for the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
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CONSTANCE A. BERMAN
History
Professor
EMAIL: constance-berman@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 107 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2775
INTERESTS: Medieval women, especially in religious orders; current project on the contributions of women to economic development circa AD 1000.
COURSES: 16E:110 Medieval Civilization ; 16E:113 Economic & Social History of Medieval Europe ; 16E:117 History of Medieval Church ; 16:210 Readings in Medieval Woman ; 16:217 Source Criticism for Medieval Studies
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Medieval Religion: New Approaches, editor and contributor (London: Routledge, 2005); Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Order, editor and translator (Kalamazoo, MI, Medieval Institute Publications, September 2002) ; The Cistercian Evolution. The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
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FLORENCE BOOS
English
Professor
EMAIL: florence-boos@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 319 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-0434
INTERESTS: Victorian literature; expecially poetry and non-fiction prose; working-class Victorian poets; Victorian feminism, issues of class, race and gender; Pre-Raphaelitism, Victorian art, socialist writings of William Morris.
COURSES: 8:432 Victorian and Edwardian Women Poets ; 8:161 African-American Women Writers ; 8:188 Victorian Women Writers ; 8:139 African-American Poetry ;
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Boos, Florence S., ed. The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. 2 vols. New York and London: Routledge Press, 2002. “‘Meaning’ in the Life-Writings of Poor Women in the Nineteenth Century: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Campbell and Christian Watt,” in Erfaring og Forstaelse (Experience and Understanding), ed. Oystein Hide, forthcoming National Department of Higher Education, Oslo, Norway, 2005. "Class and Victorian Poetics," Blackwell's Literary Compass, Winter 2005.
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PAT CAIN
College of Law / Office of the Provost
Professor / Vice Provost
EMAIL: patricia-cane@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 111 Jessup Hall
PHONE: 319/335-3991
INTERESTS: Federal taxation, wills and estates, property, nonprofit organizations, feminist legal theory, and lesbian and gay legal issues.
COURSES: Intro to Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Studies.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Rainbow Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Movement. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000, 328 pages. "The Future of Feminist Legal Theory," Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, 1997; "Imagine There's No Marriage," Quinnipiac Law Review, 1996; "Taxing Lesbians," Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies, 1997.
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DIANA FRITZ CATES
Religion
Associate Professor
EMAIL: diana-cates@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 307 Gilmore Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2172
INTERESTS: Religious ethics; comparative ethics; feminist ethics; biomedical ethics
COURSES: 32:016 Religion & Liberation ; 32:071 Sexual Ethics; 32: 226 Religious Ethics ; 32:161 History of Religious Ethics ; 32:264 Readings in Religious Ethics (Feminist Ethics, Black and Womanist Ethics)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Choosing to Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1996); "Ethics, Literature, and the Emotional Dimension of Moral Understanding." Journal of Religious Ethics 2612, Fall 1998; "Imaging and Speaking of God," in Practice What you Preach, ed. James Keenan and Joseph Kotva. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1999.
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CAROLYN STEWART DYER
Journalism and Mass Communication
Professor
EMAIL: carolyn-dyer@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: W311 Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg.
PHONE: 319/335-3415
INTERESTS: The reporting of sex crimes, feminist perspectives on media law, and fostering reading among girls and women.
COURSES: 19:167 Gender and Mass Media ; 19:169 News Coverage of Social Issues
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Listening to Women's Stories: Or Media Law as if Women Mattered," Women in Mass Communication, Pam Creedon, editor., 2nd ed., Sage 1993; Rediscovering Nancy Drew, co-edited with Nancy Tillman Romalov (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1995).
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BARBARA ECKSTEIN
English
Associate Professor
EMAIL: barbara-eckstein@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 360 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-0449
INTERESTS: African American literature and culture at mid-century (1940's and 1950's) ; thinking about ethnicities and race, especially within the U.S., including structures and ideologies of the white race; international borderlands narratives; literature and culture of New Orleans.
COURSES: Women Writers of African Descent (Zora Hurston, Ann Petry, Lorraine Hansberry, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Sustaining New Orleans: Post-war Literature and the Fate of an American City (forthcoming from Routledge) ; Storytelling and Sustainability: Planning for Great American Cities, Co-edited with James Throgmorton, MIT Press, spring 2003 ; "Making Space: Analyzing Urban Narratives" in "Storytelling and Sustainability" (forthcoming MIT, 2003) ; "Planning Blues," Introduction to "Story and Sustainability, " with James Throgmorton (forthcoming MIT, 2003).
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MARY LOU EMERY
English
Associate Professor
EMAIL: mary-emery@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 353 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-0436/335-0454
INTERESTS: Modernist studies; Post-colonial studies, especially of the Anglophone Caribbean.
COURSES: 008:110 Selected Authors: Virginia Woolf ; 008:138 Introduction to Postcolonial Literature ; 008:235 Readings in Twentieth Century Literatures I: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group ; 008:248 Caribbean Literature: Writings from Exile
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: “The Politics and Performance of Ecstasy in the Writings of Wilson Harris,” The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 2000) ; "'Robbed of Meaning': The Work at the Center of To the Lighthouse," rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 101. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 2000 ; “C.L.R. James: Beyond a Boundary and Out of Sight,” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 1999) ; “The Poetics of Vision in Wilson Harris’s Writing,” Theatre of the Arts: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean, ed. Hena Maes-Jelenik and Bénédicte Lédent Amsterdam and N. Y. : Rodopi, Cross-Cultures Series, 2002 ; Jean Rhys at "World's End": Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
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LAURA GRAHAM
Anthropology
Associate Professor
EMAIL: laura-graham@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 114 Macbride Hall
PHONE: 319/335-0517
INTERESTS: Language and gender; semantics, Amazon Indians; and globalization.
COURSES: Language and Gender
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante of Central Brazil (Univ. of Texas, 1995); "The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco-Politics." Am Anthropologist 1995.
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SARAH HANLEY
History
Professor
EMAIL: sarah-hanley@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 170 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2330
INTERESTS: Early Modern France, 1500-1800 -- political culture, critical theory and interpretation.
COURSES: Society and Gender in Europe, 1750-present; Early Modern France and the French Revolutionm 1500-1800; European History in Text and Film, 1500-1945.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "La Loi Salique." In Encyclopeide, Politique et Historique des Femmes, ed. Christine Faure. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995; "Identity Politiacs in the French Monarchy: Female Political Place and the Fraudulent Salic Law in Christine de Pizan and Tenn De Montrevil." In Changing Identities in Early Modern France, ed. Michael Wolfe, Duke University Press, 1996; "Social Sites of Political Practice in France: Law, Litigation, and the Separation of Powers in Civil Society and State Government." American Historical Review, February 1997.
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NANCY R. HAUSERMAN
Business Administration
Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Program, and Williams Teaching Professor
EMAIL: nancy-hauserman@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: W160 Pappajohn Business Building
PHONE: 319/335-1037
INTERESTS: Sexual Harrassment
COURSES: Introduction to Law
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "New Values, New Conflicts: A Response to Williams Frederick's Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation," Business and Society (Spring 1999); "Comparing Conversions about Sexual Harassment in the United States and Sweden: print media Coverage of the Case Against Astra USA," Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, Vol. XIV, 1999; "Nature, Laws, Ethics, and Law: Exploring Nature's Place in Legal and Ethical Reasoning," American Business Law Association Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, Spring 1999:633-670.
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KAREN HEIMER
Sociology
Associate Professor
EMAIL: karen-heimer@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: W140 Seashore Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2498
INTERESTS: Gender differences in crime and delinquency; gender and the legal system
COURSES: Juvenile Delinquency; Sociology of Criminal Law and Punishment; occasional graduate seminar on gender and crime
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Changes in the Gender Gap in Crime and Women's Economic Marginalization." Criminal Justice 2000. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, in press; "A Model for Criminology in the Next Century." Theoretical Criminology, 4 (2):215-221, in press; "The Gendering of Violent Delinquency." Criminology. 37 (2):277-317.
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ELIZABETH HEINEMAN
History
Associate Professor
EMAIL: elizabeth-heineman@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 115 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2095
INTERESTS: History of women, gender, and sexuality in modern Europe.
COURSES: Gender & Society in Europe, 1750-present; Women, Men and War; Women, Men & Gender in Modern Europe
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: What difference does a husband make? Women and marital status in Nazi and postwar Germany (University of California Press, 1999); "Whose Mothers? Generational Difference, War, and the Nazi Cult of Motherhood," Journal of Women's History (forthcoming 2001); "Single Motherhood and Maternal Employment in Divided Germany: Ideology, Policy, and Social Pressures," Journal of Women's History (2000); "The Hour of the Women: Memories of Germany's 'Crisis Years' and West German National Identity," American Historical Review (1996).
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CHERYL HERR
English
Professor
EMAIL: cheryl-herr@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 350 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-3219
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KATHLEEN HIGGINS
History
Assistant Professor
EMAIL: kathleen-higgins@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 205 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2299
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KATHLEEN F. JANZ
Health and Sport Studies
Professor - Health Promotion
EMAIL: kathleen-janz@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: E130 Field House
PHONE: 319/335-9345
INTERESTS: Physical activity epidemiology and applied exercise physiology. Work has centered on validating technique to measure physical activity and physical fitness in children and adolescents and the subsequent use of these techniques to examine health-related outcomes.
COURSES: Exercise Testing and Prescription; Health Promotion Theory and Practice; Women as Leaders; Health Promotion and Epidemiology
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Do changes in children's physical fitness and physical activity influence their cardiovascular health during adolescence?" The Muscatine Study. International Journal of Sports Medicine, in press; "Predicting heart growth during puberty: The Muscatine Study." Pediatrics, 2000; "Tracking of fitness and activity during puberty: The Muscatine Study." Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 2000.
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KATHLEEN KAMERICK
History
Lecturer
EMAIL: kathleen-kamerick@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 172 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2286
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LINDA K. KERBER
History
May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History
President, Organization of American History
EMAIL: linda-kerber@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 117 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2303
INTERESTS: Gender and citizenship in US legal and social context, and in international context; US women's history; US legal intellectual history
COURSES: Gender and Constitutional History; History of women in the US, 1865-Present; Reading in the History of Women and Gender in the US; Feminist Theory: Historians' Perspectives
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998). Awarded the Kelly Prize in Women's History and the Littleton-Griswold Prize in legal history from the American Historical Association; Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essay by Linda Kerber (1997); Co-editor, Women's America: Refocusing the Past (5th edition 2000).
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JONI KINSEY
Art and Art History
Associate Professor
EMAIL: joni-kinsey@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: W140 Art Building
PHONE: 319/335-1781
INTERESTS: American Art History; art of the American West; landscape; women's art.
COURSES: Art of the American West; Landscape in American Art; National Images (American Art to 1830); American Visual Culture (American Art 1830-1900); The American Rennaissance and the Gilded Age.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie, (Smithsonian Institution Press 1996); "Cultivating the Grasslands: Women Painters in the Great Plains," Chapter in Independent Spirits: Women Artists in the American West 1890-1945 (Univ. of California Press 1995); Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992).
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KEVIN KOPELSON
English
Professor
EMAIL: kevin-kopelson@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 456 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-2081
INTERESTS: 20th-Century literature and culture; critical theory; queer theory; cultural Studies
COURSES: Introduction to Criticism and Theory; Queer Theory; British Literature 1914-1945; Types of Modern Criticism; Introduction to Cultural Studies.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: The Queer Afterlife of Vaslva Nijinksy (Stanford University Press, 1997); Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire (Stanford Univ. Press, 1996); Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics (Stanford Univ. Press, 1994); .
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J. KENNETH KUNTZ
Religion
Professor
EMAIL: ken-kuntz@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 313 Gilmore Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2169
INTERESTS: Portrayal of women in biblical and intertestamental literature, especially within narrative contexts; gynomorphic (feminine) images of deity within biblical texts; Problems relating to inclusive language in biblical translation; book of psalms as poetry.
COURSES: Religion and Women: Images of Women in the Bible.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Grounds for Praise: The Nature and Function of the Motive Clause in the Hymns of the Hebrew Psalter," in Worship and the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honour of John T. Willis, ed. by M. Patrick Graham, Rick R. Marrs, and Steven L. McKenzie; Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 284, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, pp. 148-183; "After the Crisis: Engaging Walter Brueggemann's Theology of the Old Testament," Proceedings of the Central States, Society of Biblical Literature and American Schools of Oriental Research, 2 (1999), pp. 17-27; "Biblical Hebrew Poetry in Recent Research (II)", Currents in Research: Biblical Studies, 7 (1999), Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 35-79.
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ROB LATHAM
Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor
EMAIL: rob-latham@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 455 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-0465
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SUSAN LAWRENCE
Biomedical Ethics/History
Associate Professor
EMAIL: susan-lawrence@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 206 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/353-2308
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JEAN LOVE
College of Law
Professor
EMAIL: jean-love@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 476 Boyd Law Building
PHONE: 319/335-9018
INTERESTS: Civil Rights; constitutional law; employment discrimination; remedies; gay and lesbian legal issues.
COURSES: Remedies, Torts, Employment Discrimination; Constitutional Law; Federal Courts, Orientation.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Leavell, Love, Nelson & Kovacic-Fleisher. Equitable Remedies, Restitution and Damages (G&S ed. 2000); Teacher's manual to previous book.
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HEATHER MACDONALD
Urban and Regional Planning
Associate Professor
EMAIL: heather-macdonald@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 349 Jessup Hall
PHONE: 319/335-0501
INTERESTS: Gender, employment, and commuting; Housing finance, financial sector restructuring; Lending discrimination.
COURSES: Women and the City; Land Use Planning
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Distance and Labor Force Participation: Implications for Urban and Rural Women." (with Alan Peters), in Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Women and Travel, February 1997; "Spatial Constraints on Rural Women Workers." (with Alan Peters) Urban Geography; "The Worktrips of Rural Non-metropolitan Women in Iowa." (with Alan H. Peters) Growth and Change 25 (3) (Summer 1994):335-351.
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TERESA MANGUM
English
Associate Professor
EMAIL: teresa-mangum@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 357 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-0323
INTERESTS: Victorian literature and culture; 19th-Century British women's history; Victorian representations of race and aging.
COURSES: Changing Concepts of Women in Literature: Women in Literature
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Married, Middle-brow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998; "Teaching the Patient Impatience: Art, Aging, and the Medical Consumer." The Lancet: Supplement, Literature and Aging 354 (November 1999): 25-28; "Little Women: The Aging Female Character in Nineteenth-Century British Children's Literature." Iin Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations, E. Kathleen Woodward, ed., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998: 59-87.
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KIM MARRA
Theatre Arts
Associate Professor
EMAIL: kim-marra@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 128 Theater Building
PHONE: 319/353-2402
INTERESTS: US Theatre history, especially gender and sexuality issues; Intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class in turn-of-the-century Broadway theater; Relationships between autocratic white male directors and iconic female stars, 1865-1914.
COURSES: American Women Playwrights, 1776-2000.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Taming America as Actress: Augustin Daly, Ada Rehan, and the Discourse of Imperial Frontier Conquest" in Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theatre, eds. Jeffrey Mason & J. Ellen Gainer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999; Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History, ed. Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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KAREN M. MASON
Iowa Women's Archives, UI Libraries
Curator
EMAII: karen-mason@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 3094 Library
PHONE: 319/335-5068
INTERESTS: US Women's history, particularly Iowa and the Midwest; archival theory and practice.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping: Women's Political Activism in Chicago, 1890-1920." In Midwestern Women: Work, Community and Leadership at the Crossroads, edited by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy and Wendy Hamand Venet. Indiana University Press, 1997; Introduction to Special Issue: Women's Club in Iowa (Winter/Spring 1997), 1-11; "The Case of the Missing Manuscripts: Doing Archival Research on Children's Series Authors." In Rediscovering Nancy Drew. Edited by Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov. University of Iowa Press, 1995.
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PAULA MICHAELS
History
Associate Professor
EMAIL: paula-michaels@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 160 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2287
INTERESTS: Russian/Soviet history
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003)
“Mobilizing Medicine: Medical Cadres, State Power, and Center-Periphery Relations in Wartime Kazakhstan,” in Provincial Landscapes: The Local Dimensions of Soviet Power. Donald J. Raleigh, ed. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001: 217-35.
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DEE MORRIS
English
Professor
EMAIL: dee-morris@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 460 English-Philosphy Building
PHONE: 319/335-0412
INTERESTS: Modern and contemporary experimental writing; Experimental writing by women; Feminist theory; feminist criticism, poetics.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Sound States: Acoustical Technologies and Modern and Postmodern Writings, forthcoming; "Surviving the Graduate Curriculum." In ADA Bulletin.
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RITA NOONAN
Sociology
Assistant Professor
EMAIL: rita-noonan@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: W140 Seashore Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2511
INTERESTS: Women in development; social movements; Latin America; domestic violence
COURSES: Women and Society; Social Problems
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: York W. Bradshaw and Rita. K Noonan. 1997. "Urbanization, Economic Growth, and Women's Labour Force Participation: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment." In Cities in the Developing World, ed. Josef Gugler. Oxford: Oxford University Press; "Women Against the State: Political Opportunities and Collective Action Frames in Chile's Transition to Democracy." Sociological Forum 10:81-111; York W. Bradshaw, Rita Noonan, Laura Gash and Claudia Buchmann Sershen. 1993. "Borrowing Against the Future: Children and Third World Indebtedness." Social Forces 71:629-656.
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CATRIONA M. PARRATT
Health and Sport Studies
Associate Professor - Cultural Studies
EMAIL: catriona-parratt@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: E112 Field House
PHONE: 319/335-9339
INTERESTS: Women; gender; working-class sport and leisure; 19th- and early 20th-Century England
COURSES: History of Sport in the Western World; History of Sport in the US; Women's Sport History; Seminar in Sport History.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Keep the 'Whoam' Fires Burning: Domestic Yearnings in Mid-Victorian Lancashire Dialect Poetry," In Ian Inkster, ed., The Golden Age c.1850-1870 (London: Ashgate, forthcoming 2000); "Making Leisure Work: Women and Rational Recreation in Late Victorian and Edwardian England," Journal of Sport History 26 (1999); "About Turns: Reflecting on Sport History in the 1990s," Sport History Review 29 (1998):4-17.
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ERICA PRUSSING
Anthropology
Assistant Professor
EMAIL: erica-prussing@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS:114 Macbride Hall
PHONE: 319/335-0528
INTERESTS: Medical anthropology, social epidemiology, psychological anthropology, gender studies, science studies, alcohol/drug studies; reproductive health disparities, children’s health, popular culture & health; Native North America, U.S. cultures, indigenous peoples.
COURSES: Anthropology of Women’s Health; Health of Indigenous Peoples; Culture, Health and Healing; Introduction to Culture & Society; Indians of North America; Psychological Anthropology; Graduate Seminar: Feminist Perspectives on Biology & Culture [Feminist Philosophies of Science]
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: “Prenatal HIV counseling and testing in California: Women’s experiences and health care providers’ knowledge and practices.” AIDS Education and Prevention 14(3), 2002; “Youth violence prevention in the aftermath of the San Diego East County school shootings: A qualitative assessment of community explanatory models.” Ambulatory Pediatrics 3(5), 2003; “The San Diego East County school shootings: A qualitative study of community level posttraumatic stress.” Prehospital & Disaster Medicine 18(4), 2003.
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LAUREN RABINOVITZ
American Studies/Cinema & Comparative Literature
Professor
EMAIL: lauren-rabinovitz@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 210 Jefferson Building
PHONE: 319/335-0315
INTERESTS: Women and cinema; Women and popular culture; feminist film theory; gender & silent cinema.
COURSES: Cultures of American Women: Women, Consumerism and Romance; Women and Television in American Culture; Gender and Film; Topics in Film Theory: Feminist Film Theory; Seminar in Advenced Film Theory: Feminism and Pornography.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. Rutgers University Press, 1998; Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays. Co-edited with Mary Beth Haralovich, Duke University Press, 1999; The Rebecca Project, a CD-ROM. Co-authored with Greg Easley. Rutgers University Press, 1995.
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CATHERINE O. RINGEN
Linguistics
Professor
EMAIL: catherine-ringen@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 564 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-0212
INTERESTS: Linguistics, philosophy
COURSES: Language & Gender
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Aspiration, Preaspiration, Deaspiration, Sonorant Devoicing, and Spirantization in Icelandic," Nordic Journal of Linguistics 22 (1999); "Variation in Finnish Vowel Harmony: An OT account." Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 17.2, 303-337, 1999; "Hungarian Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory," Phonology, 15.3, 393-416, 1998.
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REBECCA S. ROBERTS
Geography
Associate Professor
EMAIL: rebecca-roberts@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 317 Jessup Hall
PHONE: 319/335-0164
INTERESTS: Environment and society; feminist research; discursive construction of geographic scale.
COURSES: Gender and Environment; Environmental Social Movements; Nature-Society Theory.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Uneven Development and the Tragedy of the Commons: Competing Images for Nature-Society Analysis," Economic Geography; "Prairie Prospects: The Aesthetics of Plainness," Prospects: An Annual of American Studies; "Recasting the Agrarian Question: The Reproduction of Family Farming in the Southern High Plains" Economic Geography.
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MARCY ROSENBAUM
Family Medicine
Assistant Professor
EMAIL: marcy-rosenbaum@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 01290 Pomerantz Family Pavilion
PHONE: 319/335-8612
INTERESTS: Medical education, physician-patient communication, qualitative research, multi-cultural health
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LESLIE SCHWALM
History
Associate Professor
EMAIL: leslie-schwalm@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 173 Schaeffer Hall
PHONE: 319/335-2074
INTERESTS: Women's and African American women's history; slavery, war, and emancipation; race, gender, and US history; 19th-century social history.
COURSES: History of Women in the US, to 1865; African American Women's History
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: A Hard Fight For We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Univ. of Illinois Press. 1997); "Sweet Dreams of Freedom: Freedwomen's Reconstruction of Life and Labor in Lowcountry South Carolina," Journal of Women's History (Spring 1997).
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YVONNE "BONNIE" SLATTON
Health and Sport Studies
Associate Professor - Cultural Studies
EMAIL: bonnie-slatton@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: E117 Field House
PHONE: 319/335-4568
INTERESTS: Minorities/women & sport.
COURSES: Sport and the mass media; Philosophy of Sport.
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CLAIRE SPONSLER
English
Associate Professor
EMAIL: claire-sponsler@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 454 English-Philosophy Building
PHONE: 319/335-2789
INTERESTS: Medieval literature and culture; performance history; premodern constructions of gender and sexuality; popular culture.
COURSES: Women in Medieval Literature; Constructions of the Body in Medieval Culture; The Body in the Middle Ages.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England (University of Minnesota Press, 1997); East of West: Crosscultural Performance and the Staging of Difference (St. Martin's, 2000); "The King's Boyfriend: Froissert's Political Theatre of 1326," in Queering the Middle Ages, ed. Glenn Burger & Steven Kruger (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). |
BONNIE SUNSTEIN
English / Curriculum and Instruction
Professor
EMAIL: bonnie-sunstein@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: N266 Lindquist Center
PHONE: 319/335-5607
INTERESTS: Using ethnographic methodologies and methods to describe literacy sites and portray the people in them; Rhetoric and aesthetics of ethnographic text.
COURSES: Approaches to Teaching Writing.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research (Blair Press of Simon and Schuster, 1997); "Assessing Portfolio Assessment: Three Encounters of a Close Kind" in Voices in the Middle, Nov. 1996; "Culture on the Page: Experience, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics in Ethnographic Writing," Ethics, and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy, Kirsch, G. and Mortensen, P., eds., (Urbana: NCTE, 1996); Composing a Culture: Inside a Summer Writing Program with High School Teachers (Boynton/Cook, 1994); "'Reading' the Stories of Reading: The Nancy Drew Testimonial Lunch Session," Re-Discovering Nancy Drew, Dyer, C & Romalov, N., eds., (Univ. of Iowa Press, Spring 1995); "Ce Que J'eprove: Grainstacks, Writing and Open Spaces," Education and Culture 11(1):17-26, 1994; "'Teachers' Tales as Texts: Folklore and Our Profession," In Give a Listen: Stories of Storytelling in School, Trousdale, A., Woestehoff, S. and Schwartz, M., eds. (Urbana: NCTE, 1994) pp. 99-111.
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JANETTE TAYLOR
Nursing
Assistant Professor
EMAIL: janette-taylor@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 474 Nursing Building
PHONE: 319/335-7066
INTERESTS: Women recovering from domestic violence |
RACHEL MARIE-CRANE WILLIAMS
Art Education
Assistant Professor
EMAIL: rachel-williams@uiowa.edu
ADDRESS: 14 North Hall
PHONE: 319/335-3012
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