Core Faculty

Amy E. Farrell
Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies (1991).

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, American Studies and The Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, 1991; M.A. University of Minnesota, American Studies, 1988;  B.A., Ohio University, English Language and Literature, 1985.


Email: farrell@dickinson.edu

Her research includes 20th century U.S. culture, mass media, feminist theory, and U.S. women's history. Her first book was on the history of Ms. magazine during the second wave of feminism. She is currently working on a book on the history of U.S. cultural ideas about obesity and fat.

 

Susannah Bartlow
Director of the Women's Center (2008).

B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1999; M.A., University of Buffalo, English, 2004; Ph.D., University at Buffalo, English, expected 2009.


Email: bartlows@dickinson.edu

Using a coalitional model of educational activism, she is working to establish the Women's Center as an institutional, campus-wide resource for dialogue, leadership, service, and engagement on women's and gender issues.  Her research explores physical and spiritual healing as the necessary precursor for effective activism in the fiction and poetry of Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.

 

Stephanie Gilmore
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies (2008) .

B.A., University of Alabama, 1993; M.A., University of Memphis, 1997; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2005.


Email:gilmores@dickinson.edu

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-authored study of music and domestic violence; and a co-edited issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality on sexual labors.

 

Barbara L. Shaw
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and American Studies (2008) .

B.A., Colby College, 1991; M.A., University of Maryland at College park, 1995; Ph.D., 2007.


Email:shawb@dickinson.edu

 

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