WGS Faculty Affiliations
Dr. Barbara Bennett
Interests
Contemporary Literature
American Literature
Southern Literature
Women's Literature
Environmental Literature
Publications
Scheherazade's Daughters (Peter Lang Pub.,
2012)
Soul of a Lion (National Geographic Books,
2010)
Understanding Jill McCorkle (University of
South Carolina Press, 2000)
Comic Vision, Female Voices (Louisiana State
University Press, 1998)
Education
PhD in American Literature from Arizona State
University
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/babennet
http://www.Facebook.com/BennettAuthor
barbara_bennett@ncsu.edu
Dr. Chris Pierce
Interests
Ethics
Feminism
Gay Issues
Publications
IMMOVABLE LAWS, IRRESISTIBLE
RIGHTS: NATURAL LAW, MORAL
RIGHTS, AND FEMINIST ETHICS
(Kansas, 2000)
THE ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND
POLICY BOOK (Wadsworth, 2003).
http://ids.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/cpierce
chris_pierce@ncsu.edu
Dr. Karey Harwood
Interests
Bioethics
Feminist Ethics
Reproductive Technologies
Reproductive Freedom
Publications
The Infertility Treadmill: Feminist Ethics,
Personal Choice, and the Use of
Reproductive Technologies. Chapel Hill:
UNC P, 2007.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaharwoo/
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1
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karey_harwood@ncsu.edu
Dr. Sinikka Elliot
Interests
Family
Inequality
Gender
Sexuality
Feminist Theory,
Qualitative Research Methods
Publications
Elliott, Sinikka. 2012. Not My Kid: What Parents
Believe about the Sex Lives of Their
Teenagers. New York: New York University
Press.
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Education
PhD in Sociology from University of Texas at
Austin, 2008
MA in Sociology from University of Texas at
Austin, 2002
BA (with honors) in Sociology from
Dalhousie University, 1992
http://socant.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/sgelli
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sinikka_elliott@ncsu.edu
sinikka_elliott@ncsu.edu
Dr. Mary Wyer
Interests
Higher Education
Gender
STEM
Career Commitments
Faculty Women
Curriculum Innovation
Recent Publications
Wyer, M., Barbercheck, M., Giesman, D., Ozturk,
O.O., and Wayne, M. (Eds.) (2nd edition,
2009). Women, science and technology. New
York: Routledge.
Wyer, M. (2008). Feminism/feminist science
studies. In S. Rosser, ed.,Gender myths and
beliefs in scientific research. New York: ABCCLIO.
http://ids.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/mbwyer
http://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/mwyer.p
hp
mary_wyer@ncsu.edu
Dr. Amy Halberstadt
Interests
Socialization of emotional experience and
expression in the family, and embedded
within cultural cues.
Things I dislike: Sexism, racism, and chiggers.
Recent Publications
McElwain, N., Halberstadt, A. G., & Volling, B.
(in press). Mother- and father-reported
reactions to children’s negative emotions:
Relations to young children’s emotional
understanding and friendship quality. Child
Development.
Thompson, J. A., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2005).
Sibling jealousy and implicit beliefs. Social
Development.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~halbers/index.html
http://psychology.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/
aghalberstadt.php
Amy_Halberstadt@ncsu.edu
Dr. Deborah Hooker
Interests
Feminist Theory (economics, maternity, spirituality,
environmentalism)
Orality/Literacy & Gender
Fantasy Literature
Recent Publications
“Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton’s The Virgin and the
Swine: High Fantasy Meets the Female Social Protest Fiction of the
1930s” in Imagining Wales: Essays on Welsh Mythology in Popular
Culture. Eds. Audrey Becker and Kristin Noone. McFarland. Spring
2011.
“The Woman in the Race: Racing and Re-racing Tess in Thomas
Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Nineteenth Century Gender
Studies 7.1 (Spring) 2011.
http://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue71/issue71.htm
“Fl(orality), Gender, and the Environmental Ethos of Margaret
Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Twentieth Century Literature 52.3
(2006): 275-305.
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/dahooker
dahooker@ncsu.edu
Dr. Leila S. May
Interests
Nineteenth-century British novel and culture,
with a particular focus on gender issues and
women's roles and representations.
Publications
In ELH, Studies in English Literature,
Philosophy and Literature, Criticism,
Philological Quarterly and Modern
Language Review
Disorderly Sisters: Sibling Relations and
Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-Century
Literature. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP and
London: Associated University P, 2001.
The Paradox of Duplicity: The Dialectics of
Secrecy and Disclosure in the Victorian
Novel (In progress)
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature from University of
California, Berkeley, 1994
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/leila
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~leila/index2.htm
leila@ncsu.edu
Dr. Marcie Myers Fisher-Borne
Interests
LGBT youth and family issues
Community-Based Participatory Research
Health Inequalities/Social Determinants of Health
Cultural Humility/Social Justice
Qualitative Research
University/Community Partnerships
Education
PHD in Social Work from University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
MSW in Management and Community Practice
from University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 2004
MPH in Public Health Leadership, from University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
BA in Philosophy, from Louisiana State University,
1997
BA in Women and Gender Studies, from Louisiana
State University, 1997
http://socialwork.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/mm
fishe2
mmfishe2@ncsu.edu
Katherina Mellon-Charron
Interests
U.S. 20th Century,
Women's History
African American History
Southern History
Publications
Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Recollections of My Slavery Days by William Henry Singleton. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives
and History, 1999 ed. Charron, Katherine Mellen, and David S. Cecelski
“Septima Poinsette Clark: The Evolution of an Educational Stateswoman.” in South Carolina Women Their
Lives and Times, ed. edited by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, Valinda Littlefield, and Joan M. Johnson (UGA
Press, 2012)
“We've Come a Long Way: Septima Clark, the Warings and the Changing Civil Rights Movement.” in
/Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America/, ed. Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi
Woodard (New York: New York University Press, 2005) pp. 116-39
Education
M.A. in Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph. D. in U.S. History, Yale University, 2005
2006-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill
2010 NC State University CHASS Outstanding Teacher Award
http://history.ncsu.edu/faculty/view/katherine_mellen_charron
kmcharron@ncsu.edu
Dr. Ashley Simons-Rudolph
Interests
Reproductive health
Feminist economics
International women’s issues
Education
NC State Alumna
Ph.D in Gender and Social Policy from The George Washington
University in Washington DC
Currently, Director, NC State Women’s Center
http://oia.ncsu.edu/dice/person/view/personId/458
http://ids.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/apsimons
http://oied.ncsu.edu/womens-center/aboutus/staff/
apsimons@ncsu.edu
Dr. Heidi Grappendorf
Interests
Gender issues in sport management
Diversity
Career paths of female athletic directors
Role congruity theory
SWAs and leaders in sports
Publications
Grappendorf, H. (2010). Women in Intercollegiate Athletics. In
O’Connor, K (Ed.), Gender and Women’s Leadership: A
reference handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Editor. Hums, M.A., Bower, G., & Grappendorf, H. (Eds.)
(2007). Women as leaders in sport: Impact and Influence.
Reston, VA: National Association of Girls and Women in
Sport.
Education
University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, NM PhD
University of Northern Colorado; Greeley, CO MA
Dana College; Blair, NE BA
http://cnr.ncsu.edu/prtm/faculty/grappendorf.php
http://oied.ncsu.edu/womens-center/about-us/staff/
heidi_grappendorf@ncsu.edu
Dr. Laura Severin
Interests
Contemporary Scottish women poets
Publications
Poetry Off the Page: Twentieth-Century British
Women Poets in Performance. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004.
Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
Numerous articles on twentieth-century and
recent British literature.
Education
Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century British Literature
from Indiana University, 1989
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/lrs
laura_severin@ncsu.edu
Dr. Cat Warren
Interests
English
Journalism
Media
Gender Studies
Cultural Studies
Higher Education
Publications
Editor of Academe, the magazine of the American
Association of University Professors, 2009-12.
Reporter for several newspapers across the United
States, including the Hartford Courant.
What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of
Working Dogs (forthcoming, October
2013/Touchstone)
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/cwarren
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/
cat_warren@ncsu.edu