LGBT: S.A.G.E. Center Faculty and Staff

DR. ROSALYN AMENTA: Director

amentar1@southernct.edu; (203) 392-5864

Rosalyn Amenta is the SCSU Director of Women's Programs. She 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 religious cultures.

Dr. Amenta has taught numerous graduate and undergraduate courses in Women's Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Honors College, 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, and currently serves as a member of the Women's Studies Steering Committee. Since 2005 when the SAGE Center was instituted officially at SCSU, Dr. Amenta has served as its administrative director.