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Women's Studies

WOMEN'S STUDIES FACULTY AND LEARNING AFFILIATES

Heather Albanesi
- Assistant Professor, Sociology Department: Sociology, Columbine Hall, Room 4013. Phone: 719.262.4137 E-mail: halbanes@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Kathryn Andrus
-Director of The Teaching and Learning Center and Assistant Professor Adjunct Department: Visual/ Performing Arts, Columbine Hall, Room 203B. Phone: 719.262.4108 E-mail: kandrus@uccs.edu.Areas of Specialization: Renaissance Art Specialist and Teaching and Learning Center Mentoring Associate.

Elissa Auther
- Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory Department: VAPA, Columbine Hall, Room 2007. Phone: 719.262.4612 E-mail: eauther@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: History of American and European art after 1970, feminist art and theory and film and the avant-garde. Current book project: Material That Matters: Art World Boundaries and the Elevation of Fiber in American Art of the 1960s and 70s.

Polly Cegielski
- Lecturer (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Women's Studies Columbine Hall, Room 1046. Phone: 719.262.4553 Email: pcegiels@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Gender and Technology

Minette Church
- Assistant Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Anthropology, Dwire Hall, Room 390. Phone: 719.262.3064 E-mail: mchurch@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Historical Anthropology; 19th/early 20th century U.S. Plains/Southwest Borderlands, and Belize, Central America; landscape archaeology; Ethnicity, gender and transnational spaces and places.

Michele Companion
- Assistant Professor ( Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Sociology, Columbine Hall, Room 4001. Phone: 719.262.4141 E-mail: mcompani@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Lynda Dickson
-Associate Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Sociology, Columbine Hall, Room 4011. Phone: 719.262.4142 E-mail: ldickson@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: African American Community, African American Family, Sociology of Family and Sociology of Poverty.

Abby Ferber
-Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Sociology, Columbine Hall, Room 1046. Phone: 719.262.4139 E-mail: aferber@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Women, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Theory and Right Wing Social Movements.

Lea Barbato Gaydos
-Assistant Professor Department: Beth El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, UH 114. Phone: 719.262.4422 E-mail: hlgaydos@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Holistic Nursing, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Community Health Nursing and a Visual Artist Who Tells Life Stories in Visual Art.

Linda Glick
-Adjunct Professor Department: Beth El College of Nursing , University Hall, Room 210. Phone: 719.262.4664 E-mail: lglick@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Marek Grabowski
-Associate Professor Department: Physics, Engineering Bldg, Room 216. Phone: 719-262-3189 E-Mail: mgrabows@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: Professor of Physics. Courses taught are PES/WMST/PHIL 131.Women's Studies Course: Women and Science - A Lab of Her Own.

Eve Gruntfest
-Professor Department: Geography / Environmental Studies, Columbine Hall, Room 2021. Phone: 719.262.4058 E-mail: ecg@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: Women in the developing world, economic and social status of women. Publications: "Geographic Perspectives on Women: A Status Report" Geography in America, edited by G. Gaile and C. Wilmott, Merrill Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio, 1989, pp. 673-683.

Andrea Herrera
-Director of Ethnic Minority Studies and Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: English, Columbine Hall, Room 1001. Phone: 719.262.4001 E-mail: aherrera@uccs.edu.. Areas of Specialization: Associate Professor of Literature with a special interest in U.S. Latina/o and Caribbean literature and Postcolonial literature and theory.

Abeer Ibrahim
-Visiting Adjoint Professor Department: Women's Studies, Columbine Hall, Room 1046. Phone: 719.262.4139 E-mail: aibrahim@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Women in the Arab Middle East and Gender and Islam.

Christina M. Jimenez
-Assistant Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: History, Columbine Hall, Room 2059. Phone: 719.262.4076 E-mail: cjimenez@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: Latin American History, Urban History and Modern Mexico.

Patricia Keilbach
- Assistant Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Political Science, Columbine Hall, Room 1039. Phone: 719.262.4043 E-mail: pkeilbac@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Mary Ann Kluge
-Associate Professor Department: Beth El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University Hall, Room209. Phone: 719.262.4468 E-mail: mkluge@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Rebecca Laroche
-Associate Professor Department: English, Columbine Hall, Room 1051. Phone: 719-262-4035 E-mail: rlaroche@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: English Renaissance Literature, Revisions of Literary History. Courses taught are English 498/Women's Studies 490, English 320/Women's Studies 320. Publications: -"Pamphilia Across a Crowded Room: Mary Wroth's Entry into the Literary Canon" *Genre* Winter 1997 -Laura at the Crossroads: *A Room of One's Own* and the Elizabethan Sonnet" Virginia Woolf Reading the Renaissance, Sally Green, ed. (Ohio University Press, 1999).

Stephen Linhart
-Deputy Chief Department: Offuce of Public Safety, DPS 219. Phone: 719.262.3924 E-mail: slinhart@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: RAD and Women's Self Defense

Aditi Mitra
-Assistant Professor Department: Sociology and Women's Studies, Columbine Hall, Room 4005. Phone: 719.262.4688 E-mail: amitra@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

LaVonne I. Neal
-Dean of Education Department: College of Education, Columbine Hall, Room 3023F. Phone: 719.262.4111 E-mail: lneal@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Dorothea Olkowski
-Professor/Co-Chair of Philosophy Department: Philosophy, Columbine Hall, Room 2039. Phone: 719.262.4086 E-mail: dolkowsk@uccs.edu.. Areas of Specialization:

Radha Pyati
-Assistant Professor Department: Chemistry, Science Building, Room 236. Phone: 719.262.3229 E-mail: rpyati@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis, Environmental Chemistry, General Chemistry.

Sara Honn Qualls
-Professor/Director Department: Psychology and Director of Gerontology Center, Columbine Hall, Room 4019 Phone: 719.262.4151 E-mail: squalls@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology. Aging and mental health; caregiving families; caregiving family therapy.

Judith Rice-Jones
-Senior Instructor/Reference Library Department: Library, El Pomar Center, Room 219. Phone: 719.262.3175 E-mail: jricejon@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization:

Dena Samuels
- Senior Instructor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Women's Studies, Columbine Hall, Room 1046. Phone: 719.262.4117 E-mail: dsamuels@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Race, gender and curriculum development. Leads diversity training workshops both on the UCCS campus and off.

Daniel L. Segal
-Associate Professor Department: Psychology, Columbine Hall, Room 4041. Phone: 719.262.4176 E-mail: dsegal@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Mental health and aging.

Harlow Sheidley
-Associate Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: History, Columbine Hall, Room 2051. Phone: 719.262.4080 E-mail: hsheidle@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: Jacksonian America. Teaches American Women's History, 1607-1877 for Women's Studies. Publications, books and articles are about elite Massachusetts men in the early to mid-19th century. Currently, Professor Sheidley is researching the life of Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams and the formidable grandmother mentioned by Henry Adams.

Sonia Tanner
-Assistant Professor Department: Philosophy, Columbine Hall, Room 2041. Phone: 719.262.4085 E-mail: stanner@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization: Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Ethics.

Susan Taylor
-Associate Professor/Chair English Department: English, Columbine Hall, Room 1049. Phone: 719.262.4036 E-mail: sbtaylor@uccs.edu. Areas of Specialization: British Romanticism, Women Writers, Critical Theory. Research relevant to women's studies include articles on Elizabeth Hamilton, Thomas Moore, Charlotte Bronte and contributions to the Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory.

Laura Tesman
- Assistant Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: VAPA, Columbine Hall, Room 2045. Phone: 719.262.4083 E-mail: ltesman@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Betty Trout-Kelly
- Adjunct Professor Department: Women's Studies, Main Hall, Room 310. Phone: 719.262.3203 E-mail: betty.trout-kelly@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Rhonda Williams
- Assistant Professor (Women's Studies Advisory Board Member) Department: Counseling and Human Services, Columbine Hall, Room 3019. Phone: 719.262.4167 E-mail: rwilliam@uccs.edu Areas of Specialization:

Teaching and Learning Center
Areas of Specialization: The Teaching and Learning Center is an instrument for the advancement of quality teaching and learning at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Through workshops, grants and other information dissemination processes, the Teaching and Learning Center supports the implementation of the values and principles of ethnic and gender diversity within teaching and learning at CU Colorado Springs. Department: Teaching and Learning Center, Columbine Hall Room 203. Phone: 262-4872. Website: Teaching and Learning Center at CU-Colorado Springs