Alison Case (English): BA: Oberlin, 1984; PhD: Cornell, 1991.
Professor Case has taught Literature by Women, Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Seminars in Victorian Literature. Her publications include, Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century British Novel, "Browning's 'Count Gismond': A Canvas for Projection", "Against Scott, the Anti-history of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge"

Julie Cassiday (Comparative Literature): B.A. (1986) Grinnell; Ph.D. (1995) Stanford
Professor Cassiday has taught the course Literary Studies 112: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Adultery and the Fallen Woman. She is interested in the status of women in Russian culture, especially in the first half of the twentieth century.

Ondine Chavoya (Art)

Kerry Christensen (Classics): B.A. (1981) Swarthmore; Ph.D. (1993) Princeton
Professor Christensen has taught several electives that address women's lives and history, gender and society, and male and female roles in ancient history and thought. She is interested in Greek and Roman concepts of the outsider and in the concepts' societal manifestations.

Phebe Cramer (Psychology): B.A. (1957) U. of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. (1962) New York University
Professor Cramer has taught a course of related interest, Psychology 232: Developmental Psychology. Her current research asks whether women and men differ in the coping mechanisms used to maintain self-esteem and whether these mechanisms are equally effective. Some of her current publications include "Anger and the Use of Defense Mechanisms in College Students," "The development of identity: Gender makes a difference" and "Correlates of Self-Worth in Pre-Schoolers: The Role of Gender-Stereotyped Styles of Behavior."

Andrea Danyluk (Computer Science): A.B. (1984) Vassar; Ph.D. (1992) Columbia
Professor Danyluk is aware of and sensitive to her position as a woman in the male-dominated field of computer science. She is happy and willing to discuss these and other issues with students.

William Darrow (Religion): B.A. (1970) University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D. (1981) Harvard *
Professor Darrow has taught the elective Religion 232/History 278: Women and Islam; as well as related interest courses. He is interested in gender in the Middle East and in the study of religion.

Peggy Diggs (Art): B.A. George Washington University, DC; M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art
Professor Diggs is an artist interested in using art as a social tool. She's been engaged with doing temporary public art projects on bar coasters, milk cartons, billboards, subway posters, newspaper inserts, scratch-off cards, and banners. Many of these projects have dealt with issues important to women: domestic violence ("The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project"); cosmetic surgery ("Body Buy-Back" at Florida Atlantic University, the result of interviews with surgeons, women who had had cosmetic surgery and those who refused to have it); homelessness ("Finding Home," a series of 12 large banners that hang in the courtyard of Deborah's Place, a facility for formerly homeless women in Chicago, resulting from discussions about their lives, The American Dream, and the edge many walk between being housed and not); and The Bride (in The Journal of Mundane Behavior, http://www.mundanebehavior.org/, which has a photo essay by Diggs called "The Bride, Off Duty"). Professor Diggs has taught WGST/ArtH 206: Gender and Race in Recent Art Practice and ArtS 313: Art of the Public, a tutorial. She has also co-taught (with Mark Reinhardt in Political Science) Art and Justice, an interdisciplinary class, and WGST/Political Science306: Practicing Feminism: A study of Political Activism (with Cathy Johnson in Political Science).

Susan Dunn (Romance Languages): A.B. (1966) Smith; Ph.D. (1973) Harvard
Professor Dunn has taught The Revolutionary Generation: Galaxy of Leaders, Sister Revolutions, The Female Prison, Between the Two World Wars, and Solitude and Solidarity. She is the author of The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination (Princeton University Press, 1994); Diversity and Citizenship: New Challenges for American Nationhood (co-edited with Gary Jacobsohn, Rowman and Littlefield, 1996); Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light (New York: Faber & Faber/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999);  The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America (co-authored with James MacGregor Burns, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001); Rousseau: The Social Contract and the Discourses (edited, translated, and with an introduction by Susan Dunn, Yale University Press, Rethinking the Western Tradition series, 2002);  Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 (Houghton Mifflin, 2004);  George Washington (co-authored with James MacGregor Burns, Times Books/Henry Holt, 2004); Nerval et le roman historique (Paris: Michel Minard, Les Lettres Modernes, 1981).

Steven Fein (Psychology): B.A. (1986) Princeton; Ph.D. (1991) University of Michigan
Professor Fein has taught the related interest course Psychology 341: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination. His research includes investigations of the interplay between self-esteem, social comparison, and stereotypes and prejudice. Issues like the role of media images in influencing women's self-esteem and gender stereotypes are relevant to his work.

Zirka Filipczak (Art): B.A. (1964) Barnard; Ph.D. (1973) Harvard *
Professor Filipczak has taught Art History 443: Baroque Art: Images of Men and Women. Her specific areas of interest are Renaissance and Baroque art. In recent years, she has written an article titled “Why Are There No Old Women In Heaven?” and produced an exhibit and catalogue about the theory of humors and 17th-century art in which gender issues played major roles.

Soledad Fox (Comparative Literature): B.A. Sarah Lawrence College , Ph.D CUNY
Professor Fox has taught Comparative Literature / WGST 254T: The Fallen Woman in Literature and Film, a WGST elective.  She has published articles on the 19th century Spanish poet Rosalía de Castro and is currently doing research on Spanish exiled women writers who left Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In particular she is looking at memory in the work of Merce Rodoreda, María Teresa León, and Constancia de la Mora. She is on leave Fall 2003 and Spring 2004.

Jennifer French (Romance Languages): B.A. William and Mary; Ph.D Rutgers
Professor French’s current research emphasizes environmental and economic issues in Latin American literature and she has a strong interest in exploring the work of Latin America’s women writers.

Steve Gerrard (Philosophy): Ph.D University Chicago
Professor Gerrard has taught Philosophy / WGST 205: Morality and Law, an elective.

Suzanne Graver (English): B.A. (1958) Queens, M.A. University of California at Berkeley (1960),C.U.N.Y.; Ph.D. (1976) University of Massachusetts *
Professor Graver has taught WGST 101, WGST 402, and an elective, English 430: The Brontes: The Making and Unmaking of Myths. Her current research involves gender, knowledge, and power with particular attention to Mary Wollstonecraft and the emergence of a women's movement in 19th c. England. She studies the splits, paradoxes, dissents, and subversions that characterized a ferocious and wide-ranging 19th-century debate on the nature and uses of "female mental power," as well as the forms that the debate has taken in our own time. Her publications include "'Incarnate History': The Feminisms of Middlemarch" and "Writing in a 'Womanly' Way and the Double Vision of Bleak House." Her book, George Eliot and Community, includes work on the 19th century "Woman Question."

Laurie Heatherington (Psychology): B.A. (1976) Miami University, Ohio; Ph.D. (1981) University of Connecticut
Professor Heatherington has taught WGST 101 and the related interest course Psychology 354T: Psychopathology and Social Interaction. Her research involves family therapy process, gender issues in psychotherapy, and gender and the self-presentation of one's achievement. Her publications include articles and book chapters in the psychotherapy and gender roles literatures.

Cheryl Hicks (History): B.A. (1993) University of Virgina; PhD. (1999) Princeton University
Professor Hicks has taught WGST/History 383: The History of Black Women in America.

Marjorie Hirsch (Music): B.A. Yale; Ph.D Yale
Professor Hirsch has taught an elective, Music 132 Women in Music.

Meredith Hoppin (Classics): B.A. (1972) Carleton; Ph.D. (1976) University of Michigan
Professor Hoppin has taught a variety of electives and courses of related interest to WGST, especially in Greek and Roman literature, myth, and religion. In her courses and research, she is particularly interested in the gendered construction of institutions in the archaic and classical Greek polis, issues of gender in Greek and Roman religious cults, and the poets’ and philosophers tendency to figure language as feminine. She approaches these areas chiefly through Greek and Roman drama, Greek epic and lyric poetry, and Augustan poetry.

Liza Johnson (Art): B.A. Williams College; M.F.A. U. California, San Diego
Professor Johnson has taught Arts 386T / WGST 385T: Sexuality and Media, an elective.

Robert Kavanaugh (Psychology): B.A. (1967) Holy Cross; Ph.D. (1974) Boston University
Professor Kavanaugh is interested in the development of imagination and reasoning in pre-school children.

Thomas Kohut (History): B.A. (1972) Oberlin; Ph.D. (1983) University of Minnesota
Professor Kohut has taught the elective History 338: Victorian Psychology. His long-term research project on Victorian psychology centrally involves the way women were viewed psychologically in Europe and America over the course of the 19th century. His current research project, an oral history of a group of Germans born around 1914, includes the experience of women over the course of the 20th century in Germany.

Sherron Knopp (English): BA: Loyola U., Chicago, 1971; PhD: UCLA, 1975.
Professor Knopp has taught Chaucer, Shakespeare, Arthurian Literature, Introduction to Medieval Literature,
Poetry and Magic, The Celtic Otherworld: From Myth to Romance, The Faerie Queene. Her selected publications are "Poetry as Conjuring Act: The Franklin's Tale and The Tempest" (Chaucer Review)
"Augustinian Poetic Theory and the Chaucerian Imagination" (The Idea of Medieval Literature)
" 'If I Saw You Would You Kiss Me?': Sapphism and the Subversiveness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando" (PMLA)
" Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Survey for Majors" (Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
"The Narrator and His Audience in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" (Studies in Philology)
"Artistic Design in the Stanzaic Mrote Arthur" (ELH)
Chaucer and the Dilemmas of Fiction (book in process).

Regina Kunzel (History): B.A. (1981) Stanford; Ph.D. (1990) Yale *
Professor Kunzel has taught the electives History 379: Women in the U.S. since 1870, and History 378: History of Sexuality in America, and the related interest courses History 477: History and the Body. She has also taught WGST 101 and serves on the Dively Committee. Her research interests include the history of gender and sexuality in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her publications include Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945, "Situating Sex: Prison Sexual Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8:3 (2002): 253-70 and "Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States."

Aida Laleian (Art): B.F.A. (1978) Art Institute of Chicago; M.F.A. (1980) U. California, Davis
Professor Laleian’s photographic art centers around herself as a woman. She is interested in discussing her work in a Women’s and Gender Studies context.

John Limon (English): B.A. (1974) Harvard; Ph.D. (1981) University of CA, Berkeley
Professor Limon has taught several courses of related interest in the past. He is interested in women and comedy, and war theory (including feminist war theory).

Peter Low (Art): B.A. University of Toronto; M.A. and Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University
Professor Low's research interests are Romanesque art and architecture, early medieval monastic art, text-image relationships in medieval art, and art and pilgrimage. He has taught Art History 321: Inventing Joan of Arc: The History of a Hero(ine) in Literature, Pictures and Film, a WGST elective.

Nancy Mowll Mathews (Art): B.A. (1968) Goucher College; Ph.D. (1980) NYU Institute of Fine Arts *
Nancy Mathews is the Eugenie Prendergast Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art. Her research focuses on women artists, gendered representations, and other feminist issues in late 19th and early 20th century art. She has published several books on Mary Cassatt and is currently working on a book on women of the Impressionist Group.

Kenda Mutongi (History): B.A. (1989) Coe College; Ph.D. (1996) University of Virgina
Professor Mutongi was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University during 2000-01. Some of her publications include: Worries of the Heart: Widows’ Lives in Twentieth Century Rural Kenya (Heinemann, 2002), “Dear Dolly’s Advice: Representations of Youth, Courtship, and Sexualities in Africa, 1960-1980,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 33, 1 (2000), 1-23.  Mutongi’s courses include, African Political Thought, South Africa and Apartheid, Gender and Society in Africa, Modern Africa, and Early African History Through the Era of the Slave Trade. She has also taught the elective History 308: Gender and Society in Modern Africa.

Gail Newman (German): B.A. (1976) Northwestern; Ph.D. (1985) University of Minnesota
Professor Newman teaches several related interest courses in Women's and Gender Studies, including COMP 340: Literature and Psychoanalysis, and GERM 301: German Studies 1750-1830. Her current research focuses on pregnancy and childbirth in late 18th- and early 19th-c. German literature.

Carol Ockman (Art): B.A. (1972) Stanford; Ph.D. (1982) Yale *
Professor Ockman regularly teaches WGST 101, in addition to undergraduate and graduate art history classes. Her research interests include modern representations of the body and stereotypes in art from the late 18th century to the present, feminisms since the 1970s, and mass cultural icons. Professor Ockman is currently preparing an exhibition entitled "Sarah Bernhardt Live!" that will open at The Jewish Museum in New York City in December 2005.

Julia Pedroni (Philosophy): B.A. Miami University; Ph.D Columbia
Professor Pedroni has taught Philosophy / WGST 212: Ethics and Reproductive Technologies, an elective.

Christopher Pye (English): B.A. (1975) Oberlin; Ph.D. (1985) Cornell University
Professor Pye teaches courses of interest to concentrators including: English 230: Introduction to Literary Theory, and English 373: Modern Critical Theory. His research focuses on gender issues in literary and cultural theory and Shakespeare.

Mark Reinhardt (Political Science): B.A. (1983) Wesleyan; Ph.D. (1991) University of California, Santa Cruz
Professor Reinhardt teaches various courses of related interest on modern and contemporary political theory, and American/cultural studies. He recently co-edited a book on the contemporary artist Kara Walker, and is currently completing a book about the case of Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave whose body and story became the objects of a political struggle in the 1850s. He is interested in the gendering of America's national narratives and in the complex ways in which gender and race are intertwined in images, stories, interpretive categories, and lived experience.

Nancy Roseman (Biology): B. A. (1980) Smith; Ph.D. (1987) Oregon State
Professor Roseman has served on the Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Committee and on the Dively Committee. She is interested in issues relating to women in science, and gender and performance. She is currently serving as Dean of the College.

Leyla Rouhi (Comparative Literature): B.A. (1987) Oxford; Ph.D. (1995) Harvard
Professor Rouhi has supervised independent studies and theses on the representation of Women in Islamic Literature as well in Peninsular and latino literature. She is currently doing substantial work on gender and sexuality in Islam and would be happy to discuss her research with interested students.

Karen Shepard (English): B.A. (1987) Williams College; M.F.A. (1992) University of Houston
Professor Shepard teaches courses in her primary fields of interest. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and the Mississippi Review, among other places. Her first novel, An Empire of Women, was published in 2000, and her second, The Bad Boy's Wife, will appear in 2004.

W. Anthony Sheppard (Music): B.A. (1991) Amherst; Ph.D. (1996) Princeton
Professor Sheppard teaches the related interest courses Music 106: Opera, and Music 111: Popular Music: Revolutions in the History of Rock. His research has been focused on the position of female performers and the representation of "exotic" women in modernist music theater. He is also interested in the treatment of the female voice in 20th century Euro-American art music.

Anne Skinner (Chemistry): B.A. (1961) Radcliffe; Ph.D. (1966) Yale
Dr. Skinner is interested in attending Women’s Studies events. She is also actively involved in pro-choice and reproductive rights work in Berkshire County.

Anand Swamy (Economics): B.A. University of Delhi; Ph.D Northwestern
Professor Swamy has taught ECON 502: Development Economics II, which has some discussion of gender bias.

Karen Swann (English): B.A. (1975) Oberlin; Ph.D. (1983) Cornell
Professor Swann has taught a variety of Women's and Gender Studies classes, including WGST 101 and previous Women's Studies senior seminars. She is interested in feminist theory, the "feminine" literary culture of 19th century Britain and its relation to canonical Romanticism, and the construction of a masculine poetic identity.

Bill Wagner (History): B.A. Haverford College; D.Phil. Oxford
Professor Wagner’s current research concerns the changing nature of female religiosity and religiously based social activism by women in imperial and early Soviet Russia. He has just published a collection of translated primary sources on the history of Russian Women, 1698 – 1917. He would be happy to discuss his research with interested students.

Carmen Whalen (History)*
Professor Whalen teaches the electives WGST/History 386: Latinas in the Global Economy: Work, Migration, and Households, and WGST/History 387: Community Building and Social Movements in Latino/a History. Her research interests include labor and migration history of U.S. Latina/o populations.

Alex Willingham (Political Science): Ph. D. (1974) University of North Carolina *
Professor Willingham has taught Political Science 213: Theory and Practice of Civil Rights Protest; and Political Science 239: Political Thinking About Race.

Chris Waters (History, Oxford): B.A. (1977) California State, Long Beach; Ph.D. (1985) Harvard
Professor Waters has taught the electives History 316: Class, Gender, and Race in Post-1945 Britain, and History 394: Comparative Masculinities: Britain and the United States Since 1800. He has chaired the Dively Committee. Professor Waters' work has involved "new woman" novelists and women in the socialist movement and working class culture inBritain. He is interested in the social construction of gender in 19th and 20th century Britain, the history of sexuality in Britain, constructions of masculinity, and the gay and lesbian movements in Britain. Professor Waters is currently working on a book: Queer
Treatments: The Rise and Fall of the Therapeutic Ideal in Twentieth-Century Britain. He will be the Director of the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford University from 2001-2004, then on leave for a year before returning to Williams.

K. Scott Wong (History): B.A. (1976) Rutgers; Ph.D. (1992) University of Michigan
Professor Wong has taught many courses of interest to WGST concentrators. His classes incorporate a considerable amount of material by and about women.

Non-Departmental Staff:

Kareem Khubchandani: Queer Life Coordinator/Assistant Director, Multicultural Center
Mr. Khubchandani works with the Queer Student Union (QSU) and Queer Peers, in addition to addressing Queer issues on the campus at large.

Donna Denelli-Hess: Health Educator, Health Center
Much of Ms .Denell- Hess's work at Williams and in the community focuses on women's health issues. She serves as an advisor and trainer for the students involved in Peer Health and the Rape and Sexual Assault Network. She is a member of the Sexual Assault Response Team and Eating Disorder Team. Other interests include counseling, disordered eating, and body image. She serves on the Women's and Gender Studies Advisory Committee and the LGBT Advisory Committee.

Joyce Foster: Director of the Academic Resource Center