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WOMEN'S STUDIES
FACULTY
ADMINISTRATIVE
LIN, YI-CHUN TRICIA
Associate Professor/Director, Women's Studies; B.A., National Taiwan
Normal University; M.A., Tamkang University, Taiwan; Ph.D., State University of
New York at Stony Brook; .
liny4@southernct.edu;
(203) 392-6864;
(203) 392-6133
A fifteenth-generation daughter of Taiwan,
Yi-Chun Tricia Lin traveled oceans and continent, from her native island, to
pursue a doctoral degree in continental philosophy and literary theory. In the
process, she found ethnic studies and women’s studies. Her dissertation,
“Translating Cultures as Re-Writing Boundaries” (1997), is a study of selected
Asian American women’s cultural and literary productions. Since, her research
and teaching interests have gone intensely into ethnic studies, women’s studies
and post-colonial studies. Among her most recent projects is a comparative
cultural studies of women’s writing from the Caribbean and Pacific islands.
Before joining the Women’s Studies faculty in August 2004, Tricia Lin taught
writing & literature and Asian American literature full-time, from 1994-2004, at
City University of New York/Borough of Manhattan Community College.
DELLINGER-PATE, CHARLENE
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Undergraduate Advisor
dellingerpc1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5384
Charlie Dellinger-Pate is an
Associate Professor in Media Studies at SCSU and an advisor for the Women’s
Studies undergraduate program. She holds a Ph.D. from Ohio University in
Interpersonal Communication, an MA from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro in Organizational Communication, and a BA from Appalachian State
University in Rhetoric. Dr. Dellinger-Pate's interests are in critical/cultural
studies, where she studies the intersection between personal relationships,
media, and gender. Her publications include a number of pedagogical pieces
concerning how to teach gender and intercultural concepts and a book chapter on
gender analysis of popular television.
METAXAS, VIRGINIA A.
Professor, History/Women's Studies
Graduate Coordinator
metaxasv1@southernct.edu
Virginia Metaxas received her B.A. in American Studies/Women's Studies at SUNY
Old Westbury in 1977, and her Ph.D. in History at SUNY Stony Brook in 1984. She
teaches a variety of courses including U.S. Women's History, Hawaiian
History, and Feminist Research Methods. She's been active in the Women's
Studies program at SCSU since 1988, serving on various committees and teaching
in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She has published books and
articles on the history of childbirth in America and the history of occupational
therapy in America. In Spring 2003, she participated in a Rockefeller
Fellowship Program at the University of Hawai'i titled "Gender and Globalization
in Asia and the Pacific." At present, she is working on two writing projects: a
biography of Ruth A. Parmelee, an early twentieth century physician who served
in Asia Minor and Greece, and a social history of healers and epidemics in
nineteenth century Hawai'i.
DECROSTA, ANDREA-LYNNE
Secretary
The Women's Studies Steering Committee
Polly A. Beals
Carol Buch
Ilene Crawford
Andrea-Lynne DeCrosta, Secretary
Charlene Dellinger-Pate
Cynthia L. DiSano
Yi-Chun Tricia Lin
Virginia A. Metaxas
FACULTY
AMENTA, ROSALYN,
Adjunct, Anthropology and Women's Studies
amentar1@southernct.edu;
(203) 392-5864
Rosalyn Amenta received
her Ph.D. in the history of religions at Fordham University, and her Master of
Arts in Religion at Yale Divinity School. Her area of specialization is
comparative religious philosophy with an emphasis on the image, status and role
of women in world religions.
Dr. Amenta has taught numerous courses in Women's Studies, Anthropology,
Sociology, Religious Studies and Philosophy at Southern including the
team-taught interdisciplinary institutes, Woman, Heal Thyself and Women and
Professional Ethics. She served as Co-Coordinator of the Women's Studies
Program 1989-2002 and Graduate Coordinator of Women’s Studies 1999-2002.
ANTHIS, KRISTINE,
Assistant Professor,
Psychology; M.A. & Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Nebraska
anthisk1@southernct.edu
website:
http://www.southernct.edu/~anthis/
Kristine Anthis earned her Ph.D. in Psychology
from the University of Nebraska in 2000. She has been an assistant professor of
psychology at SCSU since 2001. Her publications concern the role that stressful
life events play in adolescent and adult identity development. She teaches the
Women’s Studies graduate course Psychology
of Women. She was the Graduate Coordinator for Women’s Studies during
the Spring 2003 semester.
APPLEBY, GEORGE A., Professor; B.A., University of Connecticut; M.S.W., University of North Carolina; D.S.W., Columbia University
applebyg1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6567
APPLEWHITE, HARRIET B., CSU Professor, Professor, Political Science; B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
applewhiteh1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5659
ARBOLEDA, CARLOS A., Professor, Foreign Languages; B.A., Universidad de Santiago De Cali, Columbia; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University
arboledac1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6754
BEALS, POLLY,
Associate Professor,History,
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Polly Beals received her Ph.D.
from Rutgers University where she concentrated in comparative women's history,
British history, and modern European history. She is engaged in a study of a
British socialist feminist organization, the Fabian Women's Group, from its
origins in the late 19th century up through its contributions to the second wave
of feminism in the 1960s. She has been a member of the SCSU Women’s Studies
program since 1992. She has taught in the graduate Women’s Studies program (History
of Feminist Thought and Research Methods) and supervised graduate
Women’s Studies teaching internships in her undergraduate Women in Modern
Europe course. She is currently a member
of the Women’s Studies Steering Committee.
BENNETT,
THERESE, Associate Professor, Mathematics; B.A., Temple University, M.A., Ph.D.,
University of Pittsburgh
bennettt1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6997
Terri Bennett is an
Associate Professor of Mathematics at Southern. She earned her Ph. D. in
Applied Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, where she wrote her
dissertation on a mathematical model of the optical finishing process for
telescope lenses. Since then, she spent a year’s sabbatical reviewing the
literature on women’s issues in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM), has written a review essay on bibliographic materials in this area, and
has given a talk on gender differences in spatial visualization skills. She is
currently working on an annotated bibliography and on the development of a
course on gender issues in mathematics and science.
Bier, Lisa,
Social Sciences Reference Librarian
bierl1@southernct.edu
Lisa Bier is an
Associate Librarian at SCSU's Buley Library. She is the librarian liaison for
the departments of Anthropology, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, and
Marriage and Family Therapy. Her book, American Indian and African
American People, Communities, and Interactions:
An Annotated Bibliography, was published in
2004 by Greenwood/Praeger Press.
BLACKMER, CORINNE, Associate Professor, English; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
blackmerc1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6715
Corinne E. Blackmer received her B.A. in English, her M.A. in Ancient and
Modern Rhetoric and, in 1991, her Ph.D. in American literature and language from
UCLA. She worked with Lillian Faderman and Paula Gunn Allen and, appointed a
Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA for two years, piloted a seminar in
pre-Stonewall Lesbian Literature and Culture as well as another course in
Culture, Ethics, and Sexuality. She was also actively engaged in ACT-UP and is
currently a speaker for Love Makes a Family, the non-profit Connecticut
organization dedicated to the legalization of same-sex marriage. At Southern,
she teaches American literature, "Gay and Lesbian Literature and Film," "Queer
Theory," and two university-wide literature requirements: "Sexuality and Ethics
in Contemporary Culture" and "Jewish American Literature." In addition, she
teaches "The Literature of the Hebrew Bible." Her course offerings and her
research emerge from her identities as a Jewish lesbian feminist. She has
published numerous articles on queer representations and authorship in American
and, on occasion, British literature, and her book "Sapphists, Suffragists, and
Streetwalkers" is under submission to U Mass Press. She has recently completed
the second draft of an ambitious project, tentatively titled, "The Exiled Word:
Meditations on Post-Holocaust Feminist Biblical Interpretation."
BLOCH, JON, Associate Professor, Sociology;
Ph.D., Indiana
University
blochj1@southernct.edu;(203) 392-5685
BRENY bontempi, Jean
M., Assistant Professor, Public Health;
MPH, San Jose State University;
PhD,
University of North Carolina
School of Public Health
brenybontej1@southernct.edu
Jean M. Breny Bontempi received her BA in Communications from Western
Connecticut State University in 1986, her MPH in Community Health Education from
San Jose State University in 1994, and her PhD in Health Behavior/Health
Education from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in
2000. She joined the Department of Public Health as an Assistant Professor in
2000 and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate-level community health
education courses. Dr. Breny Bontempi’s dissertation research was an
exploration into social and cultural factors that affect low-income African
American women’s ability to protect themselves from sexually transmitted
diseases. Her work with HIV/AIDS includes program planning and evaluation, HIV
behavior modification, and HIV medication adherence research. Dr. Breny
Bontempi’s current efforts focus on eliminating health disparities through
research and practice efforts that are participatory, community-based, and
culturally sensitive.
BUZZELL, JUDITH, Associate Professor, Education; M.A., University of Wisconsin; 6th Year, Columbia University.
buzzellj2@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6431
CONNORS, KATHLEEN, Professor, Art; B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art; M.E.D., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
connorsk2@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6659
CRAWFORD, ILENE W., Associate Professor, English; B.S.S., Cornell College; M.A., State University of New York; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
crawfordi1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-7051
DELLINGER-PATE, Charlene, Ph.D., Ohio University (Relational Communication, Related Area: Media Studies).
dellingerpc1@southernct.edu; (203) (203) 392-5384
Charlie Dellinger-Pate is an
Associate Professor in Media Studies at SCSU and an advisor for the Women’s
Studies undergraduate program. She holds a Ph.D. from Ohio University in
Interpersonal Communication, an MA from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro in Organizational Communication, and a BA from Appalachian State
University in Rhetoric. Dr. Dellinger-Pate's interests are in critical/cultural
studies, where she studies the intersection between personal relationships,
media, and gender. Her publications include a number of pedagogical pieces
concerning how to teach gender and intercultural concepts and a book chapter on
gender analysis of popular television.
DISANO, CYNTHIA L., Adjunct Professor, Sociology & Women's Studies, Ph.D. University of
Connecticut
disanoc1@southernct.edu; (203)
392-6168
Cynthia L. DiSano has
been employed at Southern Connecticut State University since September 1970.
She teaches Gender and the Law in Women’s Studies, Juvenile Delinquency and Introduction to
Sociology in the Sociology Department. She is currently a full time
administrator at Southern Connecticut State University as the Director of the
John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts. She also does risk management for the
University.
She received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership with a Concentration in School
and University Law from the University of Connecticut, her M.A. in Student
Personnel Services in Higher Education from New York University, and her B.A. in
Social Sciences/Secondary Education from Rhode Island College.
She was appointed by Governor Rowland to the State Insurance and Risk Management
Board for the State of Connecticut and served eight years. Additionally,
for the past four years she has been a member of the Board of Directors of CWEALF (Connecticut Women’s Education And Legal Fund), which advocates
development of women and girls in the state of Connecticut.
EMMELMAN, DEBRA S., Associate Professor, Sociology; B.A., Indiana University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California at San Diego
emmelmand1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5686
GARVEY, SHEILA, Associate Professor, Theatre; M.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., Indiana University.
garveys1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6102
GORNIAK-KOCIKOWSKA, KRYSTYNA, Associate Professor, Philosophy; Ph.D., Temple University.
gorniakk1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6784
GURR, BARBARA, Adjunct
Professor, Women’s Studies;
M.A., SCSU
gurrb1@southernct.edu
Barbara Gurr earned her Bachelor of Arts in Women’s
Studies immediately after earning her Bachelor of Arts in English, both from the
University of Connecticut. She came to SCSU in 1993 to earn her secondary
certification in English and Social Studies as well as her Master of Science in
English Education. She completed the requirements for the Master of Arts in
Women’s Studies from SCSU in May of 2003 with her thesis “Win Oye Ya – the
Women’s Way: an Examination of American Indian Women’s Responses of Resistance
to Colonization.” She has taught “Dynamics of Race, Class and Gender” and
“Native American Women.” Barbara was hired as the Interim Director of Women’s
Studies at SCSU this past August and is currently the Associate Director of
Women’s Studies at UConn, where she is pursuing a Ph.D.
HANLON, PATTI, Assistant Professor of English; A.A., American River
College; B.A., California State; M.A., Ph.D, University of Nevada at Reno
hanlonp1@southernct.edu
HAYMES, ELAYNE B., Assistant Professor; B.A., Hunter College; M.S.W., Adelphi University; Ph.D., Fordham University
haymese1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5685
HOLBROOK, SUE ELLEN, Professor, English; A.B., M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
holbrooks1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6740
JACKSON, SHIRLEY A.,
Associate Professor & Chair, Sociology; B.A., Wayne State University; M.A.,
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
jacksons1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5676
Shirley
Jackson’s area of specialization are race/ethnicity, gender, and social
movements. She also does work on African American women’s organizations, race
and class in Cuba, the United States, and Brazil. Dr. Jackson is an active
member of several professional sociology associations. Her most recent research
project has been with former SCSU graduate student, Dina Giovanelli. Their
project was a socio-historical exploration of U.S. and global themes of
race/ethnicity and gender in political cartoons during WWII and the Civil Rights
Movement and was presented at the American Sociological Association and Society
for the Study of Social Problems conferences in August 2004. Her research has
focused on race and class in Cuba since the Cuban Revolution. She is in the
process of developing a project that would permit faculty and students to travel
to Cuba. Additionally, she is working on the development of affirmative action
policies on education in Brazil. In addition, Dr. Jackson has conducted research
on mentoring programs for African American girls and empowerment in African
American women’s organizations.
KERR, AUDREY, Associate Professor, English; B.A., Rutgers: M.A.,
Ph.D., University of Maryland
kerra1@southernct.edu;
(203) 392-5114
Audrey Kerr received a BA
in Political Science from Rutgers, MA and PhD in English Literature from
University of Maryland and a MAR in Religion and the Arts from Yale Divinity
School (Gabriel Scholar, 1999-2001). She has been an Associate Professor of
English at SCSU since 2001, with a specialization in African American
Literature. She is also Chaplain and Spiritual Director at Leeway, Inc.,a
skilled nursing facility for people living with HIV and AIDS. Audrey joined
Women's Studies as Graduate Director in Fall 2004.
Dr. Kerr has published work in African American spirituality, African American
Women's Literature and Literature and AIDS. Her first book manuscript, titled
The Paper Bag Principle: Myth-Making and Rumor in the Growth and Development of
Black Washington, D.C., will be published later this year.
LAROCCO, STEPHEN M., Associate Professor, English, B.A., University of Massachusetts, M.A., Ph.D., Rice University
laroccos1@southernct.edu ; (203) 392-5494
LIN, YI-CHUN TRICIA
Associate Professor/Director, Women's Studies; B.A., National Taiwan
Normal University; M.A., Tamkang University, Taiwan; Ph.D., State University of
New York at Stony Brook; .
liny4@southernct.edu;
(203) 392-6864;
(203) 392-6133
A fifteenth-generation daughter of Taiwan,
Yi-Chun Tricia Lin traveled oceans and continent, from her native island, to
pursue a doctoral degree in continental philosophy and literary theory. In the
process, she found ethnic studies and women’s studies. Her dissertation,
“Translating Cultures as Re-Writing Boundaries” (1997), is a study of selected
Asian American women’s cultural and literary productions. Since, her research
and teaching interests have gone intensely into ethnic studies, women’s studies
and post-colonial studies. Among her most recent projects is a comparative
cultural studies of women’s writing from the Caribbean and Pacific islands.
Before joining the Women’s Studies faculty in August 2004, Tricia Lin taught
writing & literature and Asian American literature full-time, from 1994-2004, at
City University of New York/Borough of Manhattan Community College.
MACOMBER, MEGAN, Professor, English, A.B., Princeton University; M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
macomberm1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6724
METAXAS, VIRGINIA A., Professor, History/ Women's Studies
metaxasv1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5607
Virginia Metaxas received her B.A. in American Studies/Women's Studies at SUNY
Old Westbury in 1977, and her Ph.D. in History at SUNY Stony Brook in 1984. She
teaches a variety of courses including U.S. Women's History, Hawaiian
History, and Feminist Research Methods. She's been active in the Women's
Studies program at SCSU since 1988, serving on various committees and teaching
in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She has published books and
articles on the history of childbirth in America and the history of occupational
therapy in America. In Spring 2003, she participated in a Rockefeller
Fellowship Program at the University of Hawai'i titled "Gender and Globalization
in Asia and the Pacific." At present, she is working on two writing projects: a
biography of Ruth A. Parmelee, an early twentieth century physician who served
in Asia Minor and Greece, and a social history of healers and epidemics in
nineteenth century Hawai'i.
MINDELL, CONSTANCE L., Associate Professor, Social Work; B.S., M.S.S., Boston University, D.S.W., Yeshiva University
mindellc1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6533
NEVEROW, VARA, Professor and Chair, English Dept., Ph.D.,
New York University
neverowv1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6717
Vara Neverow received her Ph.D. from New York University. Her academic
research includes work on Virginia Woolf, feminist theory, composition theory
and pedagogy. Dr. Neverow is in her second term as President of the
International Virginia Woolf Society and is the editor of the Virginia Woolf
Miscellany. She is currently the chair of the English Department and
teaches classes at the undergraduate and graduate level.
OPPEDISANO, JEANNETTE, Professor & Chair, Management/MIS; B.A., M.A.,
State University of New York; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
oppedisanoj1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-7025
PALMA, GIUSEPPINA, Associate Professor, Foreign Languages; Ph.D., Yale University.
palmag1@southernct.edu (203) 392-6753
PENNISI, FRANCESCA A. Associate
Professor, Modern Languages, B.A., Comparative Literature, Columbia
University (1990); M.A., Ph.D., Yale University (1998).
pennisif1@southernct.edu
Francesca Pennisi's specialization is Giovanni Boccaccio and the Middle Ages.
She has completed a manuscript on the Boccaccio's Decameron, which is
currently under review. She also teaches courses in Women's Studies, Ancient and
Classic Texts and Italian Cinema.
RHODES, JAMES F., Professor, English, B.S.; Holy Cross College; M.A., University of Rhode Island; Ph.D., Fordham University
rhodesj1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6897
ROFUTH, TODD, Professor, Social Work; B.A., M.S.W., University of Minnesota; D.S.W., University of Pennsylvania
rofutht1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6557
Todd
Rofuth has been a professor at Southern since 1990 and was the Director of the
Urban Studies Program for 10 years. He has been the chairperson of the Social
Work Department since 2001. Prior to his current academic job at Southern, Dr.
Rofuth served as the Director of Welfare Employment for the State of Maryland
from 1987-1990, and as the Director of Client Rights for Pennsylvania's Mental
Health and Mental Retardation hospitals. From 2000-2002 he was the
Co-Coordinator with Vara Neverow for Southern's 10-year reaccreditation self
study for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. He has had 24
years of post MSW social work practice experience primarily in social welfare
policy analysis, research and supervisory positions in federal and state
government and private consulting. For the last 14 years he has provided
consulting services to state and local governments and non-profit agencies in
the areas of program evaluation, strategic planning, and the development of
goals, objectives and outcome measures.
SELVAGGIO, MARIE, Professor, Anthropology; B.A. Douglass College; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
selvaggiom1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5681
Marie Selvaggio received both
her Ph.D. & M.A. in Anthropology from Rutgers University and B.A. in
Anthropology & Archaeology from Douglass College. Her interest in Women’s
Studies dates back to her undergraduate days at Douglass, one of the oldest
women’s colleges in the nation. At Douglass, she focused on Native Americans and
Women’s Studies. As part of her undergraduate education, she excavated Native
American archaeological sites in the U.S. and in Latin America. Later, her
interest expanded to include African archaeology. Her Ph.D. research was
conducted in East Africa.
She is presently the co-director of SCSU's Tanzania Field School in
Anthropology. Her research has been published in Current Anthropology,
The Journal of Human Evolution, Archaeological Science and
other academic journals. Dr. Selvaggio is currently writing a book about women's
role in prehistory. She has been a member of the Women's Studies faculty at SCSU
since 1994.
SKOCZEN, Kathleen N., Associate Professor, Anthropology:
Ph.D., Syracuse University
skoczenk1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5679
Kathleen Skoczen received her M.A. and Ph.D.
in Anthropology with a certificate in Women's Studies from the Maxwell School of
Citizenship at Syracuse University. Her research focus is women, health,
tourism, development, identity and religion in the Dominican Republic. She has
spent more than 5 years living in the Dominican Republic since 1985. She has
published in several places including The Women's Health Journal and the
American Anthropology News, and presents at regional, national, and
international conferences regularly. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship,
National Science Foundation Award, Rockefeller Foundation Grant and other grants
for her continued research on Dominican women, health, tourism, development,
identity and religion. She teaches Global Women's Issues and the
Anthropology of Women and Health, as well as several courses through the
Anthropology Program.
SONNENSCHEIN, DANA L., Associate Professor, English, B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University
sonnensched1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6735
VOCISANO, CARINA, Assistant Professor, Psychology; B.A., Bennington College; M.A., PhD., California School of Professional Psychology
vocisanoc2@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5561
WORDEN, BARBARA, Associate Professor, Social Work; B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.S.W., University of Connecticut; Ph.D., Columbia University
wordenb1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-6563 |
