Gender Studies
Faculty and Staff
Deborah Heath, Director of Gender Studies and
Associate Professor of Anthropology
GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
GEND 440 Feminist Theory
SOAN 395 Anthropology of the Body
GEND 445 Gender in the City Internship
department: Sociology and Anthropology
office: 350 J.R. Howard
phone: 503-768-7663
email: heath@lclark.edu
Kimberly Brodkin, Director of Gender Studies Symposium and Director of Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium; Visiting Assistant Professor of History
GEND 200 Women & Men in American Society
ETHS 400 Personal & Political Identities
I regularly teach Gender Studies 200 and am the faculty director of the annual Gender Studies Symposium. My own research examines gender and politics, particularly in the United States.
department: Gender Studies
office: 418 Miller Center
phone: 503-768-7678
e-mail: kbrodkin@lclark.edu
Nancy Hugg, Administrative Assistant
department: Gender Studies
office: Third Floor, Miller Hall
phone: 503-768-7378
e-mail: hugg@lclark.edu
Sponsoring Faculty
Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, Professor of French
Katja Altpeter-Jones, Assistant Professor of German
GERM 230 German Literature in Translation
Linda Isako Angst, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective;
SOAN 324 Anthropology of Violence;
SoAn 273 Japanese Culture: Gender & Identity;
GEND 440: Feminist Theory
Stephanie Arnold, Professor of Theatre
Nora Beck, Professor of Music
MUS 363 Topics in History and Music II
Rachel Cole, Assistant Professor of English
ENGL 450 Senior Seminar Emily Dickinson
Janet Davidson, Associate Professor of Psychology
PSY 230 Infant and Child Development, which covers gender differences and similarities in physical, cognitive, and social development in humans.
Isabelle DeMarte, Associate Professor of French
GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression
FREN 230 French Literature in Translation
I have an article forthcoming on 18th-century French playwright Olympe de Gouges and her use of gendered discourse. I work on the epistolary form. In the Spring of 2009, I taught a captstone course, FREN 450, on letter-writing as a bridge between communication and creation. Gender is central to our discussions as, historically, essentially through the development of the epistolary novel, the epistolary form has been an authorized territory for women. At the same time, however, the epistolary form can also be viewed as a medium intrinsically linked to the shaping of individual consciousness, in particular as it applied to the idea of human, un-gendered, rights.
Susan Glosser, Associate Professor of History
HIST 311 History of Family and Gender in China examines the ideals and realities of family, gender, and sexuality throughout Chinese history, but with an emphasis on the past one hundred years. My research tends to deal with the ways in which gender and family practices and expectations intersect with politics in twentieth century China.
Daena Goldsmith, Professor of Communication COMM 330 Communication and Culture;
COMM 352 Gender in Public Communication
Gloria Gonzalez, Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology
SOAN 225 Race/Ethnicitty: Global Perspective;
SOAN 261 Gender/Sexuality Latin American
Karen Gross, Assistant Professor of English
Eng 298 Medieval and Renaissance Women Writers
Andrea Hibbard, Adjunct Faculty of English
GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression
ENG 243 Women and Literature
In 2005, I edited Catherine Frances Gore's "Cecil: Or, the Adventures of a Coxcomb, an 1841 novel proffered as the memoirs of a Regency dandy". Gore's novel constitutes a
daring act of narratorial drag and a dramatic departure from the constraints of female propriety. More recently my research has explored intersections among law, literature, and gender.
Reiko Hillyer, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
HIST 231 US Women's History 1600-1980;
HIST 330 Race & Ethnicity in American History
Jane Hunter, Professor of History/Associate Dean of the College
I am currently serving as associate dean of the college, so am not teaching. However, my research has focused on the history of women--including a book on women missionaries in China--and the ways that gender influenced the way that Chinese and Americans regarded each other. I also have a book entitled "How Young Ladies Became Girls" that pays attention (among other things) to the impact of coeducational high schools in changing expectations for women I have taught U.S. Women's History, and courses in American social and cultural history that include gender as critical to understanding the past.
Oren Kosansky, Assistant Professor of Anthropology SOAN 285 Culture and Power in the Middle East (Colonialism, Gender, and Religion in the Middle East). Three of the five ethnographies in this course are about gender, as are many of the articles.
Uri McMillan, Mellon Post-doc Fellow, Ethnic/Gender Std
GEND 298 Intro to Queer Studies
ETHS 298 Black/Latino/a Pop Cultures
Timothy Mechlinski, Assistant Professor of Sociology
SOAN 275 Africa: Social/Cultural Perspective;
SOAN 350 Global Inequality
Susanna Morrill, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
RELS 340 Women in American Religious History.
My research focus is trying to find women in American religious history. I focus particular attention on Mormon women.
Claudia Nadine, Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities
FREN 350 Gender and Identity in 19th Century France
FREN 230 The Beautiful Beast: Metaphorical Monsters in French Literature
Core Vamps and Vampires (Exploration and Discovery)
Tatiana Osipovich, Associate Professor of Russian
GEND 300 Gender and Aesthetic Expression
RUSS 290 Russian Fairy Tales In 2003 I received the Fulbright Lecturing award and taught gender studies courses at the Nevsky Institute at St. Petersburg, Russia. At present, I continue to research gender issues in Russian literature and culture.
Will Pritchard Assistant Professor of English
ENG 333 Major Figures My teaching and research both center on gender in 17th- and 18th-century British literature and culture. I wrote a book called “Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London”.
Maureen Reed Adjunct Professor of Humanities
GEND 231 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Jean M. Ward, Professor Emerita of Communication
GEND 200:Women and Men in American Society I continue to follow my passion for research and writing on the rhetorical and historical accomplishments of nineteenth--and twentieth--century Pacific Northwest women. My teaching interests for Gender Studies include Gender 200 and Communication courses with a gender focus.
Kristi Williams, Instructor of English,and
Coordinator of Academic Advising
Rishona Zimring, Associate Professor of English
Faculty Friends of Gender Studies
Jane Monnig Atkinson, Professor of Anthropology, and Provost of the College
Andrew Bernstein, Associate Professor History
Mary Clare, Professor of Counseling Psychology
John M. Fritzman, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Curtis Johnson, Professor of Political Science
Susan Kirshner, Senior Lecturer in Humanities
Joanne B. Mulcahy, Assistant Professor in the Northwest Writing Institute
Dawn Odell, Assistant Professor of Art History, Asian Art
One of my research areas is on the role of Indonesian women in defining national and ethnic identity in the Dutch colony of Batavia (Jakarta).
Paul R. Powers, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Cara Tomlinson, Assistant Professor of Art
Contact Us
The Gender Studies Program is located in Miller Center for the Humanities.
email gender@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7378
fax 503-768-7379
Director Deborah Heath
Symposium Director Kimberly Brodkin
Administrative Assistant Nancy J. Hugg
Gender Studies Program
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 63
Portland, Oregon 97219
