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Administration

Sonya Ramsey, Ph.D.

Director, Women's and Gender Studies

sramse17@uncc.edu

Departments: History, Africana Studies

Areas of specialization: African American gender history, history of education, oral history, southern history, multicultural women’s studies

Shannon Bauerle, M.A.

Triota Faculty Supervisor, Part-Time Faculty

Cedar 46A
sbauerle@uncc.edu

Departments: Women's and Gender Studies, American Studies
Areas of specialization: Gender and religion, pop culture and feminism, comparative myth

Jennifer Byrd, M.A.

Director, Gen-X Learning Community; Lecturer

Barnard 206
jbbyrd@uncc.edu

Areas of specialization: feminist theory, activism and outreach, gender and literary criticism, third-wave feminism, ecofeminist studies, gender studies in early modern period

Kelly Finley, M.A.

Undergraduate Advisor, Senior Lecturer

Barnard 207
704-687-5102
kafinley@uncc.edu

Areas of specialization: female adolescent sexuality/virginity, feminist activism, body image, women and work
Faculty webpage

Elisabeth Paquette, Ph.D.

Graduate Program Director

Winningham 104B
epaquet1@uncc.edu

Department(s):Women's and Gender Studies, Philosophy
Areas of specialization: feminist theory, social political theory, decolonial theory

Faculty

Gretchen Alterowitz, M.F.A.

Faculty Affiliate

Robinson 377
704-687-0221
galterow@uncc.edu

Department: Dance, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: Gender and performance, feminist pedagogy

Mary Layton "Mel" Atkinson, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 435E
704-687-7055
matkin29@uncc.edu

Department: Political Science, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: Public opinion, issue framing, agenda setting, women in American politics

Judy Aulette, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 476C
704-687-4298
jraulett@uncc.edu

Department: Sociology Areas of specialization: African women; gender; families; activism; HIV

Kathleen Bradley-Volz, M.A.

Part-Time Faculty

kvolz1@uncc.edu

Areas of specialization: sociocultural anthropology; power, subjectivity, and agency using postmodern theories; gamification; intersectionality; representations of gender, sexuality, masculinity, and femininity; educational technology

Kent L. Brintnall, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Macy 202A
704-687-5189
kbrintna@uncc.edu

Departments: Women's and Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Film Studies Areas of specialization: queer theory, psychoanalytic theory, literary theory, religion & sexuality, Georges Bataille Faculty webpage

Robert J. Cramer, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

CHHS 354
704-687-6022
rcramer4@uncc.edu

Department: Public Health Sciences
Areas of specialization: hate crimes; violence prevention; suicide prevention; LGBTQ+ identity and health; measurement development; program evaluation

Ann Dils, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Robinson 361
704-687-80224
adils@uncc.edu

Department: Dance, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: history of dance, movement analysis, feminist theory and research methods, cultural studies

Emek Ergun, Ph.D.

Women's and Gender Studies; Global Studies

Associate Professor

Macy 108A
704-687-5181
eergun@uncc.edu

Departments: Women's and Gender Studies; Global Studies
Areas of specialization: Transnational feminisms, feminist theory, feminist translation studies, border studies, cultural globalization, feminist body/sexuality politics, feminist pedagogies

Faculty Webpage

Rachael Forester

Office of Identity, Equity, and Engagement

Faculty Affiliate

rforest3@uncc.edu

Catherine Fuentes, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Barnard 250
704-687-5100
cfuente4@uncc.edu

Department: Anthropology Areas of specialization: Medical anthropology; Hispanic immigrants; violence and women

Stephanie N. Galloway, Ph.D.

The William States Lee College of Engineering; Women's and Gender Studies

Associate Graduate Faculty

Duke Centennial 316
704-300-0613
sgallow9@uncc.edu

Areas of specialization: Qualitative research methods, assessment, evaluation, underrepresented students in STEM, and identity.

Javier García León, Ph.D.

Spanish, Latin American Studies

Faculty Affiliate

COED 485
javier.garcialeon@uncc.edu

Departments: Languages and Culture Studies, Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: Critical Discourse Analysis; Queer Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Languages in Contact; (LGBTIQ+) Latin American Cultural and Media Studies; Second Language Teaching.

Ruth Groenhout, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Women's and Gender Studies A

Faculty Affiliate

Winningham 109C
707-687-5423
R.Groenhout@uncc.edu

Areas of specialization: Healthcare ethics, gender and medicine

Felecia Harris, Ph.D.

American Studies

Part-Time Faculty

IDST 320
FeleciaHarris@uncc.edu

Departments: Africana Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Jennifer Hartman, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Colvard 5073
704-687-0748
jhartman@uncc.edu

Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology Areas of specialization: Gendered Violence, hegemonic masculinity, evaluation research, best practices for CBT

Katie Hogan, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 250C
704-687-0388
khogan14@uncc.edu

Departments: English Areas of specialization: place, sexuality, and gender; queer ecologies/LGBT literature of environmental justice; critical university studies; girl studies; feminist pedagogy; gender, race, and AIDS Faculty webpage

Susan Johnson, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Colvard 4007
704-687-2025
skjohnso@uncc.edu

Department: Psychology Areas of specialization: health psychology and neuropsychology; psychosocial factors in chronic illness; neurocognitive performance and functioning

Peta Katz, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Hickey 44B
704-687-8480
pakatz@uncc.edu

Department: Anthropology Areas of specialization: socio-cultural anthropology, Africa, gender

Lorelei Kitrick, M.A., MSW

Part-Time Faculty

Fretwell 320
lpkitric@uncc.edu

Departments: American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: Violence against women awareness and prevention, intimate partner violence, theories of violence and conflict resolution

Amber Knight, Ph.D.

Political Science and Public Administration

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 450F
aknigh23@uncc.edu

Areas of specialization: critical disability theory, contemporary political philosophy, bioethics, feminist political thought

Erica Lennon, Ph.D.

Counseling & Psychological Services

Faculty Affiliate

Price Center
704-687-0311
EricaLennon@uncc.edu

Janaka Lewis, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 265M
704-687-0026
j.lewis@uncc.edu

Departments: English, Women's and Gender Studies Areas of specialization: 19th century African American literature, African American women writers, black feminist theory

Fatma Mili, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Woodward 443
fmili@uncc.edu

Department: Computing and Informatics

Areas of specialization: Technology and gender

Rosie Molinary, M.F.A.

Part-Time Faculty

rmolinar@uncc.edu

Departments: Honors College, Women's and Gender Studies Areas of specialization: body image, self-acceptance, media literacy and women in the media, ethnic identity

Jennifer Munroe, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 245C
704-687-3072
jamunroe@uncc.edu

Department: English Areas of specialization: early modern English literature, women writers, literature and the environment, literature and science, gender and film

Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

COED 457
704-687-8784
mlottman@uncc.edu

Department: Languages and Culture Studies Areas of specialization: early modern Hispanic literature and culture, theater and performance studies, gardens and landscape architecture

Malin Pereira, Ph.D

Faculty Affiliate

Levine 190
704-687-7198
mpereira@uncc.edu

Department: English, Honors College Areas of specialization: African American literature, American literature and poetry, black women writers

Heather Perry, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Garinger 214
704-687-5151
hrperry@uncc.edu

Department: History Areas of specialization: modern Germany; medicine and war; gender, technology, and the body; disability history; World War I

Andrea Pitts, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Winningham 105C
704-687-5208
apitts5@uncc.edu

Departments: Philosophy, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: Feminist Philosophy; Philosophy of Race; Latin American and U.S. Latina/o Philosophy; Social Epistemology; Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies

Margaret M. Quinlan, Ph.D.

Health and Medical Hummanities

Faculty Affiliate

quinlan.margaret@uncc.edu

Areas of specialization: Health Communication

The nexus of public perceptions of science, technology and medicine
Women’s health, especially reproductive health, social media, motherhood, parenting
Practitioner-patient communication, medical expertise
Narrative and aesthetics approaches to health, disability and illness

Alan Rauch, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 290L
704-687-0391
arauch@uncc.edu

Departments: English, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: cultural studies of science, knowledge in the 19th century

Theresa Rhodes, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Atkins 158
704-687-0329
trhodes@uncc.edu

Department: The Counseling Center Areas of specialization: LGBTQ concerns and identity development, psychology of women, childhood trauma-effects and treatment

Zeenat Sabakada

Women's and Gender Studies

Part-Time Faculty

zsabakad@uncc.edu

Desireé T. Self, M.A.

Women's and Gender Studies

Part-time Faculty

dtself@uncc.edu

Intellectual interests include (but is not limited to): Black Feminist Theory, Affect, Identity, Queer Theory, Activism, Human Sexuality, Philosophy of Sex, Feminist Philosophy, Black Aesthetics, Poetics, Audre Lorde, June Jordan

Katherine S. Stephenson, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

COED 441
704-687-8751
ksstephe@uncc.edu

Department: Languages and Culture Studies Areas of specialization: feminist theory, French feminist philosophy, language and gender, sexuality studies, 20th-21st century French women writers

Shannon Sullivan, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Winningham 103
704-687-5418
SSullivan@uncc.edu

Departments: Philosophy, Health Psychology, Africana Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Areas of specialization: feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, continental philosophy (phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, genealogical philosophy), American pragmatism

John Szmer, Ph.D., J.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 435K
704-687-3941
jjszmer@uncc.edu

Departments: Political Science and Public Administration Areas of specialization: judicial behavior, constitutional law, gender and law

Laura Tamberelli, M.A.

Part-Time Faculty

latamber@uncc.edu

Department: Women's and Gender Sutides
Areas of specialization: reproductive justice, women and media, gender performativity, health/fitness

Annette Teasdell, Ph.D.

Part-Time Faculty

Garinger 113
704-687-5111
ateasdel@uncc.edu

Departments: Africana Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of specialization: African American feminist theory, feminist theory in African American women's literature, gender and hip hop, African American literature and culture, Gullah/Geechee culture

Aaron Toscano, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 280F
704-687-6562
atoscano@uncc.edu

Department: English Areas of specialization: technical & professional communication; science, technology, and society studies; rhetoric/composition; popular culture studies; new media studies

Sarah Valvo, M.S.

Sociology, Political Science

Faculty Affiliate

Fretwell 460L
704-687-7830
svalvo@uncc.edu

Lori Van Wallendael, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Colvard 4020
704-687-1360
lrvanwal@uncc.edu

Department: Psychology Areas of specialization: cognition, human decision-making, hypothesis testing strategies, juror decisions, eyewitness/earwitness memory, false memories

Lisa Walker, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Colvard 2330
704-687-7825
Lisa.Walker@uncc.edu

Department: Sociology Areas of specialization: group dynamics, social psychology, sociology of gender

Jan Warren-Findlow, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

CHHS 427B
704-687-7908
jwarren1@uncc.edu

Department: Public Health Sciences Areas of specialization: older women's health, gender disparities in health, health disparities, chronic illness self-care

Coral Wayland, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Banard 220
704-687-5093
cwayland@uncc.edu

Department: Anthropology Areas of specialization: medical anthropology, Brazil, medicinal plants, childbirth

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Administration

Sonya Ramsey, Ph.D.

Director, Women's and Gender Studies

Shannon Bauerle, M.A.

Triota Faculty Supervisor, Part-Time Faculty

Jennifer Byrd, M.A.

Director, Gen-X Learning Community; Lecturer

Kelly Finley, M.A.

Undergraduate Advisor, Senior Lecturer

Elisabeth Paquette, Ph.D.

Graduate Program Director

Faculty

Gretchen Alterowitz, M.F.A.

Faculty Affiliate

Mary Layton "Mel" Atkinson, Ph.D.

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Judy Aulette, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Kathleen Bradley-Volz, M.A.

Part-Time Faculty

Kent L. Brintnall, Ph.D.

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Robert J. Cramer, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Ann Dils, Ph.D.

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Emek Ergun, Ph.D.

Women's and Gender Studies; Global Studies

Associate Professor

Rachael Forester

Office of Identity, Equity, and Engagement

Faculty Affiliate

Catherine Fuentes, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Stephanie N. Galloway, Ph.D.

The William States Lee College of Engineering; Women's and Gender Studies

Associate Graduate Faculty

Javier García León, Ph.D.

Spanish, Latin American Studies

Faculty Affiliate

Ruth Groenhout, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Women's and Gender Studies A

Faculty Affiliate

Felecia Harris, Ph.D.

American Studies

Part-Time Faculty

Jennifer Hartman, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Katie Hogan, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Susan Johnson, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Peta Katz, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Lorelei Kitrick, M.A., MSW

Part-Time Faculty

Amber Knight, Ph.D.

Political Science and Public Administration

Faculty Affiliate

Erica Lennon, Ph.D.

Counseling & Psychological Services

Faculty Affiliate

Janaka Lewis, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Fatma Mili, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Rosie Molinary, M.F.A.

Part-Time Faculty

Jennifer Munroe, Ph.D.

Faculty Affiliate

Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, Ph.D.