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Scott Morgensen is Assistant Professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. He is affiliated faculty in American Studies and International Studies at Macalester College, and he is a member and co-organizer of the Global Sexualities Research Collaborative at the University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Women's Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2001). His training as a scholar and teacher in women's studies, anthropology, and American studies structures his courses in WGSS, which are cross-listed in the American Studies, Anthropology, and International Studies Departments. His courses teach history and theory in queer and feminist studies, with special attention to the formation of social movements around race and sexuality, transnational activism, and HIV/AIDS. His scholarly profile is located on the cutting edge of current studies of race, sexuality, and gender; linking queer studies, Native studies, American studies, and global studies. His scholarship is published in the top journals and presses in these fields.

Morgensen's book, Welcome Home: Settler Sexuality and the Politics of Indigeneity is contracted with the University of Minnesota Press and is forthcoming in 2009.

His most recent articles include:

"Activist Media in Native AIDS Organizing: Theorizing the Colonial Conditions of AIDS," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32:1

"Ethnography's Queer Timing," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14:4

"Arrival at Home: Radical Faerie Configurations of Sexuality and Place," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 15:1 (in press; forthcoming fall 2008)

His articles also appear in the journals Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, American Ethnologist, and Journal of Homosexuality, with additional articles coming under review by Critical Indigenous Studies and Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry.

Currently he is co-editing a new anthology with colleagues in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and invited for review in 2008 by the University of Arizona Press, on current debates over sexuality in Native politics. He contributed a book chapter to the latest collection in an award-winning series of new work in lesbian and gay anthropology, Out In Public (E. Lewin, W. Leap, ed.). He also is a contributor to a forthcoming encyclopedia of queer studies, LGBTQ America Today (J.C. Hawley, ed.).

Morgensen's research projects have addressed: ethnography of whiteness in U.S. sexual minority politics; history of Native American community organizing around sexuality and AIDS; comparative history of the imagining of indigeneity in Native and non-Native sexual politics; and historical and cultural study of transnational AIDS activism. Since 2003 he has received multiple grants to initiate new archival research on the history of Native politics of sexuality and AIDS, and on its comparative historical relation to non-Native sexual politics. This new research provides the historical and theoretical framework for his forthcoming book, Welcome Home. He has studied in archives in the US and Canada, including the GLBT Historical Society of Northern California, the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and twice at the Cornell University Library Human Sexuality Collection. He is the first two-time recipient of the Zwickler Research Grant at Cornell University (2004, 2007). In addition, in 2007 he received grants from Macalester College and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest FaCE Program to study transnational AIDS organizing in South Africa and Indonesia, by comparison to his ongoing work on Native AIDS organizing, as a latest new research project initiated at Macalester.

He also has developed initiatives supporting faculty development in studies of sexuality, gender, and race, including a Mellon-funded 2003-04 Twin Cities faculty seminar and 2004 summer research institute entitled “Race, Sexuality, and the Transnational,” a Bush-funded 2007 Macalester faculty seminar, “Fostering Queer and LGBT Studies at Macalester College," and as co-organizer of the 2008 conference "Queer Motions" of the UM Global Sexualities Research Collaborative. He served on the Board of Directors and the Benedict Book Prize Committee of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, and he participates actively in the American Anthropological Association, American Studies Association, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and National Women’s Studies Association. E-mail: morgensen@macalester.edu

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Kulvinder Arora is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (PhD in Literature, UC San Diego; MA in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia U; BA in Psychology, NYU). Kulvinder is interested in researching and teaching how "Third World" or "traditional" cultural practices are affected by globalization and shape views of gender and transnational feminist networks in the study of literature, film, and cultural politics. She will be teaching courses that involve studying how gender is transformed by the proliferation of new technological media throughout the 19th and 20th centuries; the interaction of faith and gender politics in religious and also feminist discourses; the representation of gender in diasporic South Asian cultures; and the cultural production of transnational feminists. In her scholarship, she has studied 20th century United States immigrant groups to understand how cultural practices that are considered "traditional" are incorporated into progressive politics concerning issues of gender, race, religion and sexuality. Her scholarly publications include "The Mythology of Female Sexuality" in Women: A Cultural Review (17:2 Summer 2006) and "Mapping Religion, Culture and Education in the Production of South Asian Immigrant Space" Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism (5:2 Fall 1998). E-mail: karora@macalester.edu

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Rachel Raimist is a Visiting Instructor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Rachel is a Feminist Studies doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, working on issues of feminist media praxis. Since emerging as a powerful and insightful voice of hip-hop feminism with the award-winning documentary Nobody Knows My Name, she has established herself as a progressive force in the fields of academia, arts, and social justice movements. She is co-editor of the anthology Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology, and her video work has shown on VH1, BET, HBO, and toured internationally. She also teaches women of color feminisms and feminist media making at the University of Minnesota, and video production and digital storytelling for women at IFP Center for Media Arts. E-mail: rraimist@macalester.edu

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Affiliated WGSS Faculty include. . .

Devavani Chatterjea, is Assistant Professor of Biology in the field of Immunology. Her research areas include development of hematopoietic cells, and bone marrow stromal signalling. E-mail: chatterjea@macalester.edu

 

Adrienne Christiansen, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science. She specializes in communications via computer, war talk, feminism and the rhetoric of social movements. Most recently, she has been drawn to visual persuasion, particularly as manifested in editorial cartoons (of former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura ) and in political monuments in Cyprus. Christiansen has also studied and written about contemporary conservatism, AIDS activists and the Persian Gulf War. For example, she presented a paper on Race Traitors in Search of Credibility: Revisiting Aristotles Ethos with Ward Connerly, Linda Chavez and J.C. Watts. Christiansen teaches classes in American political communication: Rhetoric of Campaigns and Elections, Presidential Rhetoric, Womens Voices in Public Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Change, Digital Politics, Theories of Rhetoric, American Public Address, Freedom of Speech in a Mass Media Society, and The Politics of Public Space. E-mail: christiansen@macalester.edu

Beth Cleary, Chair, Associate Professor of Theater and Dance. Areas of special interest and training: American theater; political theater; plays by women, feminist theater; theater by, for and about communities of color; postmodern performance theory; Brecht; puppetry, history and practice; directing history; playwrighting; yoga and somatic inquiry. E-mail: cleary@macalester.edu

Paula Cooey, Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Christian Theology and Culture, Chair of the Religious Studies Department. Came to Macalester from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, in the fall of 1999. She teaches classes in Christian theology, Reformation thought, comparative ethics, and theory of religion. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of social theory with theology. Author of several books and articles, she is currently working on a book tentatively titled Jesus, Desire, and Dissent. E-mail: cooey@macalester.edu

Julie Dolan, Associate Professor of Political Science. An expert on American politics, Dolan’s research focuses on inter-governmental relations and policy making. She has published numerous articles and papers on the federal bureaucracy and on women and politics. She is the co-author of a series of American politics’ textbooks entitled Government in Action, each requiring students to role-play as various actors in American politics. E-mail: dolan@macalester.edu

Ruthann Godollei, Professor and Chair of Art, teaches Printmaking, Design and art theory, including Women in Art. Professor Godollei has shown art work across the country, incorporating political and social commentary in pieces with ironic humor from a feminist perspective. Godollei's work is in collections such as the Belgian Royal Museum of Fine Art, the Croatian National University in Rijek, Rutgers University, and the Weisman Art Museum. It is currently on tour with work from the Frans Masereel Print Center in Belgium and can be seen at Macalester in the Campus Center. E-mail: godollei@macalester.edu

Gitta Hammarberg, DeWitt Wallace Professor and Co-Chair, German Studies & Russian department. She is an expert in 18th and 19th century Russian literature and in recent Slavic literary theory. She has published a book on Russian Sentimentalism, From the Idyll to the Novel: Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and numerous articles on minor literary genres and gender in late 18th century literature. She is currently researching Russian spa culture. E-mail: hammarberg@macalester.edu

Duchess Harris, Associate Professor in American Studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in American Studies. Her general area of interest is Twentieth Century African American political history. She received her B.A. in American History and Afro-American Studies with an English minor from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and her Ph.D. in American Studies with a minor at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1997. She has conducted research for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and was a Constituent Advocate for the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone. Harris was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship during the 2001-02 academic year. She joined the faculty in 1998. E-mail: harris@macalester.edu

Judith Howard, Visiting Instructor of Theater and Dance. Areas of Special Interest and Training: Choreography, Mask, Hawkins Technique, Improvisation, Somatics and Bodywork (Craniosacral Therapy, Ortho-Bionomy, BMC), Dance Education K-12. Recent Macalester Shows: SNOW, a site-specific outdoor Dance/Theater performance (choreography, direction, production). E-mail: howard@macalester.edu

Lynn Hudson, Associate Professor of History. She teaches courses on slavery and abolition in the U.S., western history, social movements, and the history of gender and sexuality. She is a specialist in African American history and has been active in women's studies and ethnic studies programs. Her publications examine the lives of free black men and women during the age of slavery, and the possibilities for freedom in the U.S. West. Her recent research investigates the legal, cultural, and social manifestations of Jim Crow discrimination in California in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. E-mail: hudson@macalester.edu

Joanna Inglot, Associate Professor and Edith M. Kelso Chair of Art History. She completed her PhD in art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an expertise in Modern and Contemporary Art. She has been writing and lecturing extensively on the subject of contemporary art in Europe and the United States. Her book The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths, published by the University of California Press at Berkeley in 2004, examines the work of this pioneering fiber artist and sculptor in the context of a dynamic cultural and socio-political scene that developed under Communism in Poland and in the international context. Her second book, WARM: Feminist Art Movement in Minnesota, 1970s-1990s (Minneapolis: Frederick R. Weisman and University of Minnesota Press, 2007), which appeared in conjunction with the exhibition on the subject that she curated at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, analyzes the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) as a leading feminist art collective in the United States and is the first scholarly attempt to situate WARM in a larger feminist context. Dr. Inglot teaches courses in the area of modern and contemporary art, including 20th Century Art: Modernisms and Postmodernisms; Contemporary Art and Critical Theory; Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in American Art; Gender, Sexualities & Feminist Visual Culture, and Introduction to Art History II: from Renaissance to Modern.
E-mail: inglot@macalester.edu

Liz Jansen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology. She is a neuroscientist with expertise in the areas of neural transplantation, neural regeneration and plasticity, and neuroprotective drug therapies. She has employed behavioral, neurochemical and molecular biological techniques in her research on ischemic stroke. She teaches courses in Women, Health and Reproduction, Neuropharmacology and Neuroanatomy. E-mail: jansen@macalester.edu

Mahnaz Kousha, Professor of Sociology. She is a sociologist specializing in the intersection of gender, race, class and nationality. She has researched the changing status and image of women in Iran and the Middle East. She is the author of Nothing Can Stop This Tide: Iranian Women Speak and Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women. She has also published articles on life satisfaction and happiness among Iranians. In addition, she has researched labor relations between African American household workers and their white female employers during the first half of the 20th century. Kousha has served on the board of directors of Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East. E-mail: kousha@macalester.edu

Theresa Krier, Professor of English. Her teaching and research interests include Medieval and Renaissance literature, especially poetry, Shakespeare, ancient Greek and Roman poetry and myth, feminist and gender theory and psychoanalytic theory. Until recently she was editor of the journal The Spenser Review and continues to organize an occasional series of short articles on the careers of women scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature. Krier came to Macalester after two decades at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare, Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History (a co-edited collection, with Elizabeth D. Harvey), Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision and Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (an edited collection of essays). E-mail: krier@macalester.edu

Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, Professor and Chair of Educational Studies. She specializes in educational reform and philosophy. Her research interests include philosophic and policy analyses centered on the role of public education in addressing social justice, environmental and spiritual issues as well as a multinational study on education for democracy. She is also interested in ways to change the images, roles and conditions of young people. She teaches courses on social, philosophical and political issues in education. E-mail: kurthschai@macalester.edu

Mireille Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics. She specializes in ancient art and archaeology, in particular Greek sculpture and vase-painting. Her research focuses on constructions of gender in Greek visual and material culture, Greek dress, and the historiography of classical studies. E-mail: leem@macalester.edu

Teresa Mesa Adamuz, Visiting Instructor of Hispanic and Latin American studies. E-mail: mesat@macalester.edu

Karine Moe, Assistant Professor of economics, investigates the role women play in economic development. She teaches Economics of Gender, a course that uses both neo-classical and feminist economic theory to explore how gender differences lead to different economic outcomes for women and men, both within families and in the marketplace. E-mail: moe@macalester.edu

Lara Nielsen, Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance. She specializes in critiques of subjectivity, movement, and the state; globalization and cultural studies; contra-area studies Americas; gender and feminist criticism; orality, ethnography, and multimedia documentary methodologies. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota, with a minor in Feminist and Gender Studies, and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. E-mail: lnielsen@macalester.edu

Joan Ostrove, Associate Professor of Psychology, held the position of Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from 2006-2008. She completed her B.A. at Williams College, her Ph.D. in personality psychology and a certificate in women’s studies at the University of Michigan, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work focuses on the connections between psychology and social structure, and she has published in the areas of social class background and the college experience, social class and health, interpersonal implications of the social representation of disability, and women’s midlife personality development. She teaches a senior seminar that is cross-listed with WGS called Lives in Context: Psychology and Social Structure. She also teaches personality psychology, history and systems of psychology, health psychology, directed research, and introductory psychology. E-mail: ostrove@macalester.edu

Roopali Phadke, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Policy & Politics. Her research and teaching is at the nexus of environmental studies, international development and science and technology studies.   Her interests lie in the democratization of science and technology decision-making and the hybridization of technical expertise and local knowledge.   Her current research focuses on private and public development of water resources.  In addition to her water related work, she is developing new projects in the fields of wind energy and desalination. E-mail: phadke@macalester.edu

Peter Rachleff, Professor of History. He specializes in U.S. labor history (although he will be offering a new course comparing the U.S. and South African freedom movements in the spring of 2005). He is interested in the roles played by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in the making and re-making of the U.S. working-class. His course "Women and Work in U.S. History"; is his only cross-listed contribution to WGS, but students in all of his classes will find some serious engagement with gender both in historical content and the application of analytical theories. Peter is currently researching and analyzing the work of the Jubilee Singers of the Buffalo Historical Marionettes, a troupe of five African American men and three African American women who performed historically-inflected puppet shows in Buffalo, New York, in the 1930s. E-mail: rachleff@macalester.edu

Khaldoun Samman, Assistant Professor of Sociology. He specializes in world historical/comparative sociology, urban sociology, globalization, the sociology of religion and classical and modern sociological theory. His can talk about religion and classical and modern sociological theory and sacred space and nationalism in comparative perspective, particularly as it pertains to Rome (Italy), Mecca (Saudi Arabia) and Jerusalem (Israel). E-mail: samman@macalester.edu

Christopher Scott, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures. He is a Japanese literature and film specialist. His research interests are fundamentally interdisciplinary, bridging the fields of race, gender, and postcolonial studies, and highlighting both Japan?s place in Asia and Asia?s place in Japan. His dissertation, entitled ?Invisible Men: The Zainichi Korean Presence in Postwar Japanese Culture,? explores the representation of Korean residents of Japan (so-called zainichi Koreans) in postwar Japanese literature, film, and popular culture. More generally, he is interested in the intersections of race, gender, class, and nationality in postwar Japanese culture. During the 2006-07 academic year, Scott will teach two sections of Elementary Japanese I, The Fiction of Modern Japan (a modern Japanese literature course) and Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice. E-mail: scottcd@macalester.edu

Janet Serie, OT Walter Professor of Biology. Serie serves as the Director of Macalester's Center for Scholarship & Teaching which was established to encourage, promote and support the pursuit of excellence in scholarship and teaching within Macalester's distinctive urban liberal arts setting. She is an immunologist with additional interests in physiology, cell biology and neuroscience. She has won local and national awards for her teaching including being named the 1999 Minnesota College Science Teacher of the Year. Serie heads the Taylor Pre-Medical Internship Program as well as the Hughes Program for students interested in biomedical research. E-mail: serie@macalester.edu

Beth Severy-Hoven, Associate Professor and Chair of Classics. Severy-Hoven is a specialist on Rome in the Age of Augustus. She has taught at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, a study abroad program for American undergraduates run by an intercollegiate consortium, and is the director of the Classics Departments January in Rome Program. She has taught both the history of Greece and Rome, Greek and Latin languages for the department, Women in Antiquity, Art and Archaeology of the Greco-Roman World and Greek Myths from Troy to Hollywood. Severy-Hovens scholarly work includes a number of articles and her recent publication Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire, London: Routledge Press, 2003. E-mail: severy@macalester.edu

Dianna Shandy, assistant professor of anthropology, teaches courses on refugee migration and transnationalism, Africa, social science research methodology, and cultural anthropology. Her most recent research focuses on the resettlement of Nuer-speaking southern Sudanese refugees in the United States. Other work includes applied anthropological studies in the human services and health spheres. E-mail: shandy@macalester.edu

Clay Steinman, formerly of Communication and Media Studies and beginning in Fall 2004 professor of Humanities & Media & Cultural Studies, teaches about film/media/gender/race/culture/power. For Women's and Gender Studies, he teaches Feminism/Representation/Film. He co-authored Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture (Rutgers, 1999) and wrote about gender and "the popular"; for The Dictionary of Film and Television Theory (Routledge, 2001) and about male viewer sexualities for Men, Masculinity, and the Media (Sage, 1992). His most recent work, "Beyond Eurocentrism: The Frankfurt School and Whiteness Theory," will appear in Globalizing Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). E-mail: steinman@macalester.edu

Jaine Strauss, Professor and Chair of Psychology. She is a clinincal psychologist, and an expert on gender and mental health. Her research focuses on body image, eating disorders, mood and conceptions of self. Her study on the effect watching diet TV commercials has on dieters was published nationally. She recently wrote an article on the effects of the stimulant Ritalin on children with attention deficit disorder and oppositionality disorder for the American Psychological Association?s Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Strauss is interested in feminst approaches to clinical psychology. She teaches courses on personality, behavior disorders, community psychology, clinical and counseling psychology and gender and mental health. She received the Minnesota Psychological Association Walter D.Mink Award for outstanding teaching in undergraduate psychology in 1999 and Macalester's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001. E-mail: strauss@macalester.edu

Jöelle Vitiello, associate professor and chair of French, teaches all levels of the French language and 20th century French and Francophone literature and culture. She has researched and published on contemporary French, French-writing Caribbean and Lebanese women writers. She is studying representations of friendship in contemporary French literature written by women. E-mail: vitiello@macalester.edu

Karen Warren, professor of philosophy, has a special interest in ecological feminism and frequently leads workshops for audiences of all ages on topics such as feminism, environmental ethics, critical thinking, peace studies and feminist transformations of the curriculum. She has edited and authored books on ecofeminism and feminism and peace. E-mail: warren@macalester.edu

Wendy Weber, Visiting Instructor of Political Science. Her primary field is International Relations and her research interests include gender and global politics, international political theory, security studies and critical geopolitics. Her broader research agenda focuses on changing patterns of governance in the contemporary era, especially in the areas of international law and human rights. Weber has been the faculty advisor to the Amnesty International organization on campus and volunteers at the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis. E-mail: weberw@macalester.edu

Christine Willcox, Associate Professor of Art. She has had exhibitions in public art spaces and commercial galleries in both Canada and the United States. She has exhibited her paintings at the Soo Visual Art Center in Minneapolis in a show titled, "Abjectify." Her painted murals can be seen in venues such as the Toronto Zoo, and restaurants and businesses in Toronto, Winnipeg, Atlanta, Illinois and Georgia. She teaches courses and specializes in painting and drawing. Willcox is also interested in creating work that merges natural science and art. E-mail: willcox@macalester.edu

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