Faculty
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Director: Sally Barr Ebest, Professor, English and Gender Studies. Ph.D., Indiana University. Sally Barr Ebest is a Professor of English, TA Coordinator for the Center for Teaching & Learning, and Director of the Gender Studies Program. Her teaching and research reflect these various positions. She offers courses in writing theory and pedagogy, teaching as a feminist, and Irish and Irish American women; she also teaches workshops for the Certificate in University Teaching. Her publications include Writing From A to Z (McGraw-Hill), Writing With: Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research (SUNY Press), Changing the Way We Teach (SIU Press), Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism (Notre Dame), and Too Smart to be Sentimental: The Writing of Contemporary Irish American Women (Notre Dame). Her most recent manuscript, The Banshees: Irish American Women Writers vs. the War on Feminism, is currently under review. |
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Program Advisor: Kathleen Nigro, Assistant Teaching Professor, English and Gender Studies. Ph.D., St. Louis University. Dr. Nigro' s research interests are gender and nature writing and St. Louis women writers. She teaches Women, Gender, and Culture, Feminism and Witchcraft, Women and Nature Writing, and 19th- century Spiritualism. |
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Teaching/Office Assistant: Bryonie Carter, M.A., The University of London. Bryonie assists the director of the Gender Studies academic program and performs teaching and grading duties. She also maintains the GS website and newsletter. |
Affiliate Faculty
Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program; consequently, we offer courses in nearly every discipline. Students can design their own major or a specialized certificate program reflective of their personal areas of interest.
| ANTHROPOLOGY | Sheilah Clarke-Ekong Elizabeth B. Eckelkamp |
| ART AND ART HISTORY | Ruth Bohan Associate Professor of Art History Ph.D., University of Maryland Jeanne Zarucchi Professor of Art History and French Ph.D., Harvard University |
| BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | Steven G. Bailey Malaika Horne |
COMMUNICATION |
Charlotte Perry Senior Lecturer M. A. Webster University |
| CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE | Kristin Carbone-Lopez |
| ECONOMICS | Anne Winkler Professor of Economics and Public Policy Administration Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana |
| EDUCATION | Judith Cochran Virginia Navarro, Associate Professor of Education |
| ENGLISH | Suellyn Duffey Kathy Gentile Colleen McKee Lynn Staley Nan Sweet Drucilla Mims Wall |
| FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE |
Maria Teresa Balogh Associate Teaching Professor in Latin Ph.D., Saint Louis University |
| GENDER STUDIES | Monica Swindle
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| HISTORY | Deborah Cohen Minsoo Kang Laura Westhoff |
| MUSIC | Barbara Harbach Diane Touliatos |
| PHILOSOPHY | Berit Brogaard Associate Professor Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo |
| PIERRE LACLEDE HONOR'S COLLEGE |
Kimberly K. Baldus Nancy Gleason Jill Evans Petzall |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE | Ruth Iyob Farida Jalalzai |
| PSYCHOLOGY | Deana L. Jefferson Zoë Peterson Jayne Stake |
| SOCIAL WORK | Lori Curtis Assistant Teaching Professor of Social Work M. S.W., Washington University Margaret Sherraden Professor of Social Work Ph.D., Washington University |
| SUE SHEAR INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE |
Vivian Eveloff Director M. A. Washington University Dayna M. Stock |
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