Tour Stops
Stephanie GilmoreAssistant Professor of Women's Studies (2008).Denny Hall Room 105gilmores@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1063
Amy E. FarrellProfessor of American Studies and Women's Studies (1991).Denny Hall Room 306farrell@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1869B.A., Ohio University, 1985; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1988; Ph.D., 1991.Her research includes 20th century U.S. culture, U.S. women's history, body politics, and the history of fat stigma. Her book FAT SHAME is forthcoming in fall 2010. She has also published a book on the history of Ms. magazine during the second wave of feminism, YOURS IN SISTERHOOD: MS. MAGAZINE AND THE PROMISE OF POPULAR FEMINISM.
Stephanie GilmoreAssistant Professor of Women's Studies (2008).Denny Hall Room 105gilmores@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1063B.A., University of Alabama, 1993; M.A., University of Memphis, 1997; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2005.Her research analyzes the nuances of grassroots feminist activism in the 1970s and early 1980s across the United States. Her first book is an edited collection of historical essays that examine the rich and diverse coalitions feminists formed in postwar America. She is currently at work on a book about NOW; a co-edited issue of Sexualities on sexual labors; and a new research project on women and LGBT students who negotiate sexual harassment on residential college campuses.
David M. BallAssistant Professor of English (2007).East College Room 401balld@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site(717) 245-1116B.A., Stanford University, 1998; M.A., Princeton University, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.His interests in questions of American modernism, popular culture, and minority and oppositional responses to the American experience have shaped his research on the meanings of success and failure in American prose literature. In the coming semesters, he plans to teach classes in contemporary literary theory, the American short story, graphic novels, and the shape of twenty-first-century American literature.
Susannah BartlowDirector of the Women's Center and Contributing Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies (2008).Landis House Room 9, 2nd Floorbartlows@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1966B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1999; M.A., University of Buffalo, 2004.
James G. Ellison (on leave 2009-10) Associate Professor of Anthropology (2005).179 W Louther St Room 5ellisonj@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1902B.A., Michigan State University, 1987; M.A., University of Florida, 1990; Ph.D., 1999.A broadly trained cultural anthropologist, Ellison researches political and economic transformations and culture in eastern Africa, focusing on colonialism, socialism, and "neoliberalism." His main fieldwork sites are in Tanzania and Ethiopia. He also co-directs a summer field school in Tanzania to teach anthropological research methods.
Susan M. FeldmanProfessor of Philosophy (1980).East College Room 211feldmans@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1226B.A., Case Western Reserve University, 1974; M.A., 1976; M.A., University of Rochester, 1978; Ph.D., 1980.Her interests include the history of modern philosophy, the problem of knowledge and skepticism, philosophy of science and ethics, both pure" and "applied" to such areas as the environment, the status of women, medicine and public policy."
Ann M. Hill (on leave Fall 2009) Professor of Anthropology (1986).Denny Hall Room 210hillan@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1659B.A., Columbia University, 1971; M.A., University of Iowa, 1974; Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982.Prof. Hill has conducted fieldwork in both Thailand and SW China. As a cultural anthropologist, Prof.Hill has focused on ethnicity, kinship and religion.Her current research is about inter-ethnic relations on China's frontiers in Yunnan Province, PRC.
Lynn JohnsonAssistant Professor of Africana Studies (2004).Althouse Hall Room G10johnsoly@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1394B.A., Salisbury University, 1996; M.A., Temple University, 1998; Ph.D., 2007.Her research interests are in 19th- and early 20th-century American Literature, African-American Literature, and African Aesthetics.
Elizabeth LeeAssistant Professor of Art History (2006).Weiss Center for the Arts Room 225leee@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1259B.A., Wake Forest University, 1990; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1993; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2002.Professor Lee teaches courses in modern, contemporary and American art. Her research explores the connections between turn-of-the-century American art and the history of the body, medicine and health. In 2004, she published "Therapeutic Beauty: Abbott Thayer, Antimodernism and the Fear of Disease" and she is currently working on a book-length project which examines how matters of health and illness inform artistic practice among Gilded-Age artists and collectors. She is also interested in the ways in which issues of gender and sexuality intersect with art, as indicated by recent publications in The Journal of American Culture and the SECAC Review.
Helene Kim LeeVisiting Assistant Professor of Sociology (2008).Denny Hall Room 301leehe@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1249B.A., Cornell University, 1997; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003; Ph.D., 2009.
Andrea B. Lieber (on leave 2009-10) Associate Professor of Religion, Sophia Ava Asbell Chair in Judaic Studies (1998).East College Room 106lieber@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1482B.A., Vassar College, 1989; M.A., Columbia University, 1993; M.Phil., 1995; Ph.D., 1998.Her courses explore the transformations of Judaism as a living religion and evolving culture from its origins in antiquity through its varied manifestations in the 20th century. Special interests include: Judaism and early Christianity, Jewish mysticism (kabbalah), women and gender in Jewish tradition.
Heather Merrill (on leave 2009-10) Associate Professor of Anthropology and Geography (2000).162 Dickinson Ave Room 4merrillh@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site(717) 245-1990B.A., New York University, 1981; M.A., Columbia University, 1985; M.A., University of Chicago, 1992; M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1995; Ph.D., 1999.Heather Merrill is a critical geographer whose research interests include feminist and postcolonial geographies, geographies of gender, race, identity, migration and diaspora. Her book, An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race, was a result of her engagement with feminist anti-racist politics in the northern Italian industrial city of Turin during the 1990s. The book concentrated on alliances between Italian feminists who are socially constructed as white and immigrant women of color and the difficulties in unifying across differences. Merrill has published numerous articles in geography journals, and in December 2007 her book was the subject of a themed review discussion of transnationalist feminist practice in Gender Place and Culture. Her current writing is on interculturality and Italian feminism, multiculturalism and race in European discourse, immigration and the production of surplus populations in Italy. She has recently begun a comparative project on African Diasporic politics in Turin and Bologna, and an archival study of how geographical imaginations of Europe and Africa produce gendered European subjectivities. Heather Merrill was Executive Director of the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College from 2006-08. She is currently the distinguished Jane Watson Irwin Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College.
K. Wendy MoffatAssociate Professor of English (1984).East College Room 408moffat@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site(717) 245-1499B.A., Yale University, 1977; M.A., 1979; M.Phil., 1981, Ph.D., 1986.She teaches modern British fiction, 19th century British literature, and literary theory. Her gay cultural biography of the British writer E.M. Forster will be published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and Bloomsbury in the UK.
Sharon J. O'BrienProfessor of English and American Studies, James Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures (1975).Denny Hall Room 201obrien@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site(717) 245-1497B.A., Radcliffe College, 1967; M.A., Harvard University, 1969; Ph.D., 1975.Sharon O'Brien teaches interdisciplinary courses in the American Studies and English Departments, looking at the multiplicity of American cultures through the lenses of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. The author of a biography of Willa Cather, she is now teaching and writing memoir and personal essay. Teaching and research interests include the politics of memory; illness and narrative; and lifewriting.
Jerry PhilogeneAssistant Professor of American Studies (2005).Denny Hall Room 16philogej@dickinson.edu (717) 254-8953B.A., New School University, 1989; M.A., New York University, 1993; Ph.D., 2009.Jerry Philogene specializes in 20th century African American and Afro Caribbean visual arts and cultural history. Her teaching interests include interdisciplinary American cultural history and black cultural and identity politics. Her research interests explore the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as articulated in contemporary visual and popular culture.
Susan D. RoseCharles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, Director of the Community Studies Center (1984).239 W Louther St rose@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site(717) 245-1244B.A., Dickinson College, 1977; M.A., Cornell University, 1982; Ph.D., 1984.She is interested in life course studies and systems of socialization (family, education, and religion), with a particular emphasis on comparative family systems and the interaction of gender, class, and race. Other areas of interest include: violence, religion, sex education, stratification, and social policy.
Regina M. SweeneyAssociate Professor of History (2001).Denny Hall Room 310sweeneyr@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1682B.A., Tufts University,1980; M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1986; Ph.D., 1992.
Vanessa C. TysonInstructor in Political Science (2007).Denny Hall Room 102tysonv@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1232B.A., Princeton University, 1998; M.A., University of Chicago, 2002.Professor Tyson focuses her research on interracial alliances in the House of Representatives, and what political dynamics these alliances create outside of more traditional issues regarding race. More broadly, she focuses on Congress and American Political Institutions, as well as race and gender as they operate as social constructs in the United States.
Karen J. WeinsteinAssociate Professor of Anthropology (2001).Denny Hall Room 109weinstek@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1281B.A., Washington University, 1991; M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1994; Ph.D., University of Florida, 2001.Human variation and adaptation, human osteology, human evolution with an emphasis on the evolution of body size and shape and postcranial anatomy in genus Homo, comparative primate skeletal biology, nutritional anthropology
Megan R. YostAssistant Professor of Psychology (2006).Kaufman Building Room 162yostm@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1357B.S., St. Lawrence University, 1998; M.S., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003; Ph.D., 2006.Megan Yost comes to Dickinson from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Feminist Studies. Her research examines the gendered nature of human sexuality from a social psychological perspective. She is interested in the ways in which traditional conceptualizations of masculinity and femininity impact sexuality, and how power operates within sexuality (both in terms of sexual aggression perpetration and also in terms of consensual sexual sadomasochism (SM)). Her interests lie in understanding the influence of gender on sexuality, preventing sexual violence, and learning more about people's lived experience related to gender expression, sexual orientation, and diverse sexual practices.