Faculty and Supervisors
In keeping with the Department's interdisciplinary mandate, a number of feminist scholars from across campus have affiliation agreements with Women's Studies, and will be involved as members of the Women's Studies graduate programs for the purposes of teaching and supervision.
Chair: Tracy Isaacs, Ph.D. - tisaacs@uwo.ca
Graduate Chair: Katherine McKenna, Ph.D. - kmckenna@uwo.ca
Administrative Assistant: Betty Thompson - bthomps2@uwo.ca
Faculty Name
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Faculty |
Areas of Research |
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Abada, T. |
Sociology |
Gender and immigration, children of immigrants, ethnicity and social demography |
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Agocs, C. |
Sociology |
Gender and racial discrimination in employment, equality policy, organizational change, local government administration |
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Bauer, G |
LGBT health, public health ethics, community-based epidemiology, validity issues in observational studies, aetiology of vertical and horizontal STI transmission, methodologic and ethical issues in studying hidden populations |
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Belanger, D. |
Population and gender, feminist demography, critique of population studies from a feminist perspective, international politics around fertility and female bodies, abortion, reproductive health, women migrants |
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Applied labour economics including gender wage differentials, discrimination, displaced workers, long-run inequality and the economics of violence against women and children |
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Brennan, S. |
Feminist ethics and political philosophy, research expertise in family justice and children's rights, as well as in issues relating to sexual justice |
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Bruhm, S. |
Queer studies, gothic sexuality, dance and gender |
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Calcagno, A. |
19th and 20th century Continental philosophy; contemporary social and political philosophy; feminist early phenomenology; and French and Italian feminist thought |
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Clark, K. |
Historical anthropology of gender and state formation in Latin America; gender, public health, and social policy |
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Coates, N. |
Popular music and gender, cultural theory, identity and subjectivity, media industries, theories of performativity and performance studies |
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Connidis, I. |
Gender, aging and the family relations
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Coulter, R. |
Gender and education; history of the Canadian women's movement; feminist activism; feminist pedagogies |
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Darnell, R. |
First Nations, cross-cultural and cultural studies; ecosystem health; critical theory |
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Davies, L. |
Gender inequality in family relations and the consequences for women's well-being, intimate partner violence, family structure and mothering |
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Elliott, B. |
Gendering of artistic production and theory
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Emberley, J. |
Arabic diasporic literatures; Feminist theory and criticism |
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Farber, C. |
Feminist and critical theory, cross-cultural understanding between India and Canada, ethnographic approaches to software companies and the 3d virtual reality industries, pedagogical effectiveness of 3d immersion learning environments and museum/cultural industries |
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Fielding, H. |
Philosophy/ Women's Studies |
Twentieth-century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, bioethics |
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Greene, E. |
Roman Archaeology and social history, women in Roman society, Roman army, family in the Roman military community, Roman imperialism and provincial studies |
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Grzyb, A. |
Holocaust and genocide studies, social movements, social justice, African-American studies, homelessness |
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Halpern, M. |
19th and 20th Century Canadian and American women's history, Jewish history, social history |
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Herbert, C. |
Women's health, clinical health promotion, aboriginal health, and participatory research methodology |
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Hibbert, K |
Faculty of Education
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Scholarship of teaching and learning; the pedagogy of Multiliteracies; communities of professional practice; virtual learning environments; narrative inquiry; and participatory encounters with learners/patients. |
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Isaacs, T. |
Philosophy/ Women's Studies |
Feminist ethics, globalizing feminism, feminism and race, and feminist epistemology |
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Kellow, M. |
History of women and American antislavery, and slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World |
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Knabe, S. |
Women's Studies/ Information and Media Studies |
Queer and Feminist Theory especially epistemology; critical and cultural studies; culture of medicine; media studies; queer cultural production in relation to AIDS; genocide, subjectivity, memory affect and embodiment |
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Women's Studies |
Black feminist studies, critical ethnography, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist research methodologies |
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Lee, A. |
Literary and feminist theory
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Leipert, B. |
Qualitative approaches to women's health, rural and environmental issues |
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MacLachlan, B. |
Women's roles in ancient Greece and Rome, the poet Sappho and her successors |
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Magalhaes, L. |
Critical qualitative approaches with vulnerable and invisible populations with specific foci on gender, diversity, immigration, occupational justice, and culture; anti oppressive strategies to overcome social and health inequities |
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McKenna, K. |
History/ Women's Studies |
Women's and gender history, violence against women and children, international development |
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McKenzie, P. |
Unwaged work, everyday life, mothering, information seeking, documentation/recordkeeping, qualitative methodologies |
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McLeod, C. |
Feminist philosophy, moral philosophy and reproductive ethics |
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McMullin, J. |
Structural inequality in paid work and families by class, age, gender, ethnicity, and race |
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Mellamphy, N. |
Post-structuralism, post-humanism, social and political thought; critical political theories, and philosophies of biotechnology |
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Nolan, C |
Gender and musical modernism, feminist criticism and music theory
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Okruhlik, K. |
History and philosophy of science |
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Olson, K. |
Women, gender, sexuality and the family in Roman Antiquity
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Orchard, T. |
HIV/AIDS, sexuality, gender, health, youth, community-based research, and 'marginalized populations' (i.e., gay men, Aboriginal peoples, sex workers) |
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Pearson, W. |
Women's Studies |
Sexuality studies and queer theory; feminist and post-colonial theory; intersectionality, neoliberalism, and normativity; contemporary Canadian queer culture; gender and sexuality in science fiction; Indigenous film and questions of representation.
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Pennee, D. |
Canadian Literatures in English; Postcolonialism, Cultural Nationalism and Globalization in relation to Literary and Cultural Studies; History of Disciplines; Intersectional Gender Studies |
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Polzer, J. |
Women's Studies/Health Sciences |
Critical perspectives on health, gender and the body; biotechnology and women's health; medicalization, risk and governmentality; feminism and Foucault; social determinants of health; qualitative research methodologies |
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Randall, M. |
Nineteenth century Québécois women's history |
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Ratcliffe, M. |
Women in Spain especially in the medieval period, Spanish women's literature, particularity 18th Century colonial Mexico and the 19th Century novel. |
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Rezai-Rashti, G. |
Anti-racism and feminism, postcolonial studies and feminism, women in muslin societies, women and education, race, class, gender and sexuality |
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Roulston, C. |
French/ Women's Studies |
Queer theory, feminist theory, history of sexuality, eighteenth-century french and english novel, marriage and women's friendship in the eighteenth century |
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Rudman, D. |
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Women and aging; women, later life work and retirement, critical and cultural studies, social determinants of health, women's occupational lives |
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Schneider, A. |
Women, sport and embodiment |
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Schwerdtner, K. |
Twentieth-century and contemporary literatures (in particular the french novel and francophone women's writings), the concepts of alterity, errancy (errance) and endurance, representations of women, literary postmodernism, identity, literary theories |
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Smith-Fullerton, R. |
Gender and media, journalism ethics with a particular emphasis on diversity and representational issues |
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Solga, K. |
Gender, sex and the body in early modern and contemporary theatre in English, feminist performance theory, performance as social activism http://publish.uwo.ca/~ksolga |
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Sprengler, C. |
Contemporary art, new media, cultural memory and nostalgia, contemporary American cinema |
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Suksi, A. |
Gender in ancient Greek literature, mythology and drama, gender and textuality |
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Toswell, J. |
Feminist science fiction and fantasy, feminist medieval studies and feminist institutional history |
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Vainio-Mattila, A. |
Civil society, gender and participation in international development, community-based management of natural resources, international development interventions |
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Varpalotai, A. |
Gender, sexuality and feminism in education, physical and health education, rural/agricultural issues, youth organizations |
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Verwaayen, K. |
Women's Studies |
Feminist theory, particularly feminist literary theory and autobiography, feminist poststructuralism |
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