People
Mary Renda, Chair of Gender Studies
Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2567
Office: 311 Shattuck Hall
U.S. women’s and gender history; the history of U.S. imperialism and anti-imperialism; the United States and the Caribbean; Haitian history and politics; racism and anti-racism; feminist theory
Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2567
Office: 311 Shattuck Hall
U.S. women’s and gender history; the history of U.S. imperialism and anti-imperialism; the United States and the Caribbean; Haitian history and politics; racism and anti-racism; feminist theory
Cynthia Meehan
Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 413-538-2257
Office: 109 Shattuck Hall
Senior Administrative Assistant
Phone: 413-538-2257
Office: 109 Shattuck Hall
Faculty
Martha Ackmann (on leave fall 2009)
Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2564
Office: 313 Shattuck Hall
Women athletes, women in aviation and space, women in national politics, U.S. women’s movements, Emily Dickinson; narrative non-fiction; journalism; media; women’s public voices
Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2564
Office: 313 Shattuck Hall
Women athletes, women in aviation and space, women in national politics, U.S. women’s movements, Emily Dickinson; narrative non-fiction; journalism; media; women’s public voices
Ana Croegaert
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-3369
Office: 310 Shattuck Hall
Cultural anthropology; migration/immigration/refugees; social networks; discourse analysis; ethnography; cities; race/ethnicity in the United States; political economy; feminist theory
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-3369
Office: 310 Shattuck Hall
Cultural anthropology; migration/immigration/refugees; social networks; discourse analysis; ethnography; cities; race/ethnicity in the United States; political economy; feminist theory
Christian Gundermann
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2410
Office: 122 Ciruti Center
Twentieth-century Latin American, specifically Argentine, film and literature; post-dictatorship studies; queer theory; queer culture and politics in regional and global contexts
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2410
Office: 122 Ciruti Center
Twentieth-century Latin American, specifically Argentine, film and literature; post-dictatorship studies; queer theory; queer culture and politics in regional and global contexts
Chaia Heller
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2955
Political ecology; science and technology studies; feminist anthropology; food and agriculture in a global context; anthropology of social movements; women’s roles in transnational indigenous and peasant movements
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2955
Political ecology; science and technology studies; feminist anthropology; food and agriculture in a global context; anthropology of social movements; women’s roles in transnational indigenous and peasant movements
Karen Remmler
Professor of German Studies
Phone: 413-538-3066
Office: 305 Shattuck Hall
Gender, memory and space; contemporary German and Austrian women writers; German Jewish studies; transnational studies of memory and proper burial, politics of postwar memorialization in German and Japanese cultures
Professor of German Studies
Phone: 413-538-3066
Office: 305 Shattuck Hall
Gender, memory and space; contemporary German and Austrian women writers; German Jewish studies; transnational studies of memory and proper burial, politics of postwar memorialization in German and Japanese cultures
Sarah Richardson
Five College Assistant Professor of Feminist Science Studies
Phone: 413-538-3460
Five College Assistant Professor of Feminist Science Studies
Phone: 413-538-3460
Erika Rundle
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Phone: 413-538-2658
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Phone: 413-538-2658
Eleanor Townsley
Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2803
Office: 201 Merrill House
The sociology of intellectuals; cultural sociology; sociology of gender; history of sociology; research methods; social theory; the public sphere
Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-538-2803
Office: 201 Merrill House
The sociology of intellectuals; cultural sociology; sociology of gender; history of sociology; research methods; social theory; the public sphere
Elizabeth Young (leave fall 2009)
Professor of English and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-886-2326
Office: 202 Shattuck
Women writers; feminist theory; film; American literature; American studies; visual culture
Professor of English and Gender Studies
Phone: 413-886-2326
Office: 202 Shattuck
Women writers; feminist theory; film; American literature; American studies; visual culture