Michael Addis, Ph.D. Professor, Hiatt School of Psychology Director of the Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology and Education; Chair of Psychology; Men’s mental health, masculinity, help-seeking behavior, lay theories of psychopathology and treatment
Tel: 1-508-793-7266 Email:
Kiran Asher, Ph.D. Associate Professor of IDCE Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the International Development and Social Change Graduate Program
Culture and power, political economy, gender studies, politics of biodiversity conservation, Latin American studies Tel: 1-508-421-3823 Email:
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology Urban anthropology, immigration, diaspora cultures, nationalism, cultural identities and global processes, new capitalism and markets Tel: 1-508-793-7599 Email:
Michael Butler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Government Comparative foreign policy, international organizations, the politics of the European Union, political violence and terrorism, and international relations theory. Tel: 1-508-793-7186 Email:
Marcia Butzel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Screen Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Director, Screen Studies Program International cinema, film criticism and theory, relationships between film and the other arts Tel: 1-508-793-7235 Email:
Judith DeCew, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy Chair of Philosophy; Director, Ethics and Public Policy concentration, Theoretical and applied ethics, philosophy of law, social and political philosophy Tel: 1-508-793-7326 Email:
Gino DiIorio, M.F.A. Associate Professor of Theater
Adjunct Associate Professor of English
Director, Theater Arts Program Program Director for Theater Arts, Acting in film and theater; writing plays and screenplays Tel: 1-508-793-7456 Email:
Jody Emel, Ph.D. Professor and Acting Director, Graduate School of Geography Resource/environmental geography, natural resources, feminist theory Tel: 508-751-4610 Email:
Patricia Ewick, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology Research methods, gender, law, deviance Tel: 1-508-793-7529 Email:
Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Modes of reasoning, personal epistemology and social location. Thought and societal discourses of knowledge. Feminist perspectives on mind, self, identity and development. Gender, self and thought. Psychology and society. Tel: 1-508-793-7262 Email:
William Fisher, Ph.D. Professor and Director, International Development, Community, and Environment Department Director of IDCE; Professor of International Development and Social Change
Anthropology, social movements, resettlement, ethnicity, political economy, South Asia Tel: 1-508-421-3765 Email:
Beth Gale, Ph.D. Associate Professor of French Tel: 1-508-421-3781 Email:
SunHee Kim Gertz, Ph.D. Professor of English
Director, Leir Center in Luxembourg Director of Graduate Studies; Western European literature of the late Middle Ages; semiotics and rhetorical theory Tel: 1-508-793-7126 Email:
Abbie Goldberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Gender, family, and work; contextual influences on development and mental health (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, social class); gay and lesbian families; risk/resilience in adolescents Tel: 508-793-7289 Email:
Janette T. Greenwood, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History Director of the History Graduate Program; American social history, African-American history, and history of the South Tel: 1-508-793-7286 Email:
Beverly C. Grier, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Government
Chair, Department of Government and International Relations Director of Race and Ethic Relations Concentration; African politics, international development, women’s studies. Tel: 1-508-793-7797 Email:
Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Ethnic and racial identities in twentieth-century American literature; science fiction Tel: 508-793-7145 Email:
Fern Johnson, Ph.D. Professor of English (On sabbatical, AY 2007-08) Sociolinguistics, with a special emphasis on gender, race, and ethnicity in discourse Tel: 1-508-793-7142 Email:
Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English (On sabbatical, AY 2007-08) Eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature Tel: 508-793-8593 Email:
Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Government Chair of the Government and International Relations Department and Director of Urban Development and Social Change Concentration; U.S. urban politics, suburban politics, women and politics. Tel: 1-508-793-7300 Email:
Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D. Professor of History; Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History Modern German and European History, including Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Racism, Gender and War Tel: 1-508-793-7523 Email:
Nina Kushner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History Early modern European social and cultural history, the history of women and gender, and the history of sexuality Email:
Deborah Martin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Geography Urban, social, political geography; qualitative research Tel: 508-793-7104 Email:
Winston Napier, Ph.D. E. Franklin Frazier Associate Professor of English African American literary culture and theory
Amy Richter, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History Co-Chair of Women's Studies; U.S. women's history; U.S. urban history Tel: 1-508-793-7216 Email:
Heather L. Roberts, Ph.D.
Writing and literature, literacy, school-university partnerships, collaborative currculum development, school reform Tel: 1-508-793-7146 Email:
Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Geography Political ecology, gender, forestry/agriculture/land use Tel: 508-793-7176 Email:
Paul Ropp, Ph.D. Professor of History
The Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein '64 Distinguished Professor Director of Asian Studies Concentration: Chinese social and intellectual history Tel: 1-508-793-7213 Email:
Robert Ross, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology
Director, International Studies Stream Director of the International Studies Stream; Urban studies, political sociology, political economy, social policy Tel: 1-508-793-7376 Email:
Laurie Ross, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of IDCE Assistant Professor of Community Development and Planning
Participatory action techniques, urban community planning, community and youth development Tel: 1-508-793-7642 Email:
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Government United Nations and international law, international political economy, and international relations Tel: 1-508-793-7684 Email:
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Government Post-Soviet and East European politics, comparative politics, social movement and collective action, women’s studies Tel: 1-508-793-7679 Email:
Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology
Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Concentration; Jewish studies, race/ethnicity, social stratification, gender, comparative genocide Tel: 1-508-793-7241 Email:
Alice Valentine, M.A.
Instructor in Japanese
Virginia Mason Vaughan, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of English Chair of English; Early modern English literature, especially Shakespeare and his contemporaries Tel: 1-508-793-7144 Email:
Kristen Williams, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Government Co-Chair of Women's Studies; International relations theory, arms control and international security, nationalism and ethnic politics, U.S. foreign policy Tel: 1-508-793-7446 Email:
Kristina Wilson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Art History Nineteenth and twentieth century painting, modern design and architecture, and the history of photography Email:
Research Faculty
Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Impacts of militarization and globalization upon the lives of women worldwide, feminist politics
Susan Hanson, Ph.D. Research Professor of Geography; Urban/social/economic geography, feminist geography Tel: 508-793-7323 Email:
Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D. IDCE Research Professor IDCE Research Professor
Local institutions, women and public policy, peasant-state relations, gender issues, non-governmental organizations Tel: 1-508-793-7454 Email:
