Women's Studies
at the University of Alabama-Huntsville
Faculty and Staff
The Women’s Studies Program is supported by many faculty and staff members at UAHuntsville. The Program Staff, consisting of a director, events coordinator, staff assistant, and student assistant, oversee planning and programming and day-to-day operations. A faculty Program Advisory Committee consults on curricular matters, chooses scholarship and award winners, and advises on vision and programming. Our Teaching Faculty includes numerous faculty members in several colleges at UAHuntsville who teach classes designated as Women’s Studies courses. Several additional faculty members oversee the POWER student club, the Harris paper competition, and the Colloquium on Women’s Studies (CWS) faculty research group.
Administrators
Program Advisory Committee
Teaching Faculty
Other Supporting Faculty
Women's Studies Administrators
DIRECTOR
Dr. Molly W. Johnson
Associate Professor of History
Teaching and Research Interests: nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history, German history, history of women and gender in Modern Europe, protest culture and citizens’ initiatives in postwar Germany.
EVENTS COORDINATOR
Dr. Rose Norman
Emeritus Professor of English
STAFF ASSISTANT
Erin Reid
STUDENT ASSISTANT
Charity Ethridge
Women’s Studies Program Advisory Committee
Ms. Ellise Adams
Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing Teaching and research interests: Clinical expertise in maternal-child nursing and advanced practice nursing; teaching responsibilities: Family Nurse Practitioner II Women’s Health, Professional Practice in Nursing II, Family-Centered Parent-Infant Nursing; research interests: non-pharmacologic pain management in the laboring patient, birth philosophy in intrapartum nursing, epistemology of intrapartum nursing.
Dr. Angela Balla
Assistant Professor of English Teaching and research interests: Early modern English literature and religion, especially Milton, early women writers, the history of persecution and toleration, ethical and political theory, poetics.
Ms. Ann Bianchi
Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing Teaching and research interests: Clinical expertise in maternal-child nursing and community health nursing, research interests in pain relief methods for laboring women, normal birth issues, teaching-learning strategies.
Dr. Sandra Carpenter
Professor of Psychology Past Director of Women’s Studies Teaching and Research Interests: Psychology of Women, Cross-cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Personality, Culture Change in Bonaire, Teamwork, Security in Pervasive Computing.
Dr. Nancy Finley
Associate Professor of Sociology Past Director of Women’s Studies Research and Teaching Interests: Sociological Theories of Gender, Alternative femininities and masculinities, and Gendered parenting, marriage and family, Introduction to Women’s Studies.
Ms. Jill Johnson
Associate Professor of Art Teaching and Research Interests: Painting, drawing, and Time-Based Media, Contemporary drawing practice, with a conceptual interest in psychoanalytical theory, French feminist criticism, particularly as these things apply to narrative, identity and the body.
Dr. Kathleen Leonard
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Teaching and Research Interests: environmental sustainability and women in STEM fields; recruiting of women and minorities into engineering through summer programs and middle school outreach.
Dr. Rose Norman
Women’s Studies Events Coordinator. Past Director of Women’s Studies. Emeritus Professor of English
Dr. Christine Sears
Assistant Professor of History Teaching and Research Interests: world history, Early American history with an emphasis on the early American republic, comparative slavery, history of gender, pirates and privateering.
Women's Studies Teaching Faculty
Dr. Mitch Berbrier
Associate Professor of Sociology
SOC 435 - Sociology of Social Movements
Dr. Laurel Bollinger
Associate Professor of English
EH 331 - Major American Writers from the Civil War to WWI
EH 332 - Major American Writers from WWI to WWII
EH 418 - Representative Texts by Women’s Writers
EH 431 - The American Novel
Dr. Sandra Carpenter
Professor of Psychology
PY/SOC 375 - Social Psychology
PY 406 - Psychology of Women
Dr. Andrew Cling
Professor of Philosophy
PHL 303 - Contemporary Philosophy
Dr. Julie Early
Associate Professor of English
EH 391 - Victorian Prose and Poetry
EH 418 - Representative Texts by Women’s Writers
EH 440 - Victorian Women Writers
Dr. Nancy Finley
Associate Professor of Sociology
WS 200 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
SOC 106 - Marriage and Family
SOC 306 - Sociology of Gender
Dr. Holly Flint
Assistant Professor of English
EH 333 - American Literature from World War II to the Present
EH 438 - African-American Literature
Dr. Alanna Frost
Assistant Professor of English
EH 435 - Native Women’s Literature
Dr. Eletra Gilchrist
Assistant Professor of Communications
CM 250 - Interpersonal Communication
Dr. Cynthia Gramm
Professor of Management
MGT 462 - Employment Law for Managers
Dr. Deborah Heikes
Associate Professor of Philosophy
PHL 202 - Introduction to Ethics
PHL 303 - Contemporary Philosophy
Dr. Molly W. Johnson
Associate Professor of History
HY 390 - Women in Modern European History
HY 485 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Dr. Nick Jones
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
PHL 202 - Introduction to Ethics
Dr. Lillian Joyce
Associate Professor of Art History
ARH 103 - Art in Non-Western Traditions
ARH 320 - Women in Antiquity
Dr. Philip Kovacs
Assistant Professor of Education
ED 430 - Applied Multiculturalism
Dr. Linda Maier
Associate Professor of Foreign Languages
FL 404 - Special Topics: Hispanic Women Writers
Dr. Brian Martine
Professor of Philosophy
PHL 202 - Introduction to Ethics
Dr. Sandra Mendiola
Assistant Professor of History
HY 483 - Women and Gender in Modern Latin America
Dr. David Neff
Professor of English
EH 403 - Literary Criticism and Theory
Ms. Marlena Primeau
Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing
NRS 425 - Human Sexuality
Dr. Clarke Rountree
Professor of Communications
CM 416 - Women Orators
Dr. Christine Sears
Assistant Professor of History
HY 482 - Comparative Slavery and Abolition
Honors HY 399 - When Men were Men and Women were Women: The Historical Construction and Meaning of Gender
Dr. Sandra Shattuck
Lecturer of English
WS 200 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
Dr. Bhavani Sitaraman
Associate Professor of Sociology
SOC 105 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
SOC 315 - Sociology of Globalization
Dr. Bruce Stallsmith
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
BYS 318 - Vertebrate Reproduction
Dr. David Stewart
Associate Professor of Art History
ARH 309 - Contemporary Art and Issues
Dr. Chad Thomas
Assistant Professor of English
EH 440 - Studies in Drama, Gender, and Sexuality
Dr. Aurora Torres
Assistant Professor of Psychology
PY/BYS 437 - Psychobiology of Stress and Illness
Dr. Stephen Waring
Associate Professor of History
HY 365 - American Labor History
Dr. William Wilkerson
Professor of Philosophy
PHL 202 - Introduction to Ethics
PHL 335 - Philosophy of Gender
PHL/PSC 438 - Contemporary Political Thought
Women's Studies Supporting Faculty
Coordinators for Harris Student Paper Competition
Dr. Anne Marie Choup
Associate Professor of Political Science
Dr. Angela Balla
Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Christine Sears
Assistant Professor of History
Faculty Contact for POWER, the Women’s Studies Student Organization
Dr. Alanna Frost
Assistant Professor of English
Coordinator for Colloquium on Women’s Studies (CWS) Faculty Research Group
Dr. Sam Thomas
Assistant Professor of History
Other Faculty with Teaching and Research Interests in Women and Gender Studies and Who Participate in and Support Women’s Studies Activities
Dr. Leslie Kaiura
Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages
Dr. Andree Reeves
Associate Professor of Political Science
Dr. Carolyn Sanders
Professor of Music
Ms. Roxie Veasey
Lecturer of Art and Art History
Other Staff who support Women’s Studies Program Activities
Ms. Cindi Brasher
Staff Assistant, Department of English
Ms. Marylyn Coffey
Staff Assistant, Department of Art and Art History
Ms. Lyndsey Torok
Staff Assistant, Department of English