Faculty of Arts & Science
Women & Gender Studies

Faculty Affiliates offer courses in their own departments of interest to Women & Gender Studies students, serve on Women & Gender Studies committees (such as hiring, speakers series, curriculum, advisory), and are a voice for women on campus and in the community.

The Faculty Affiliates:

Heidi MacDonald (History)

Dayna Daniels (Kinesiology)

Shelly Wismath (Math)

Catherine Kingfisher (Anthropology) Specializes in the anthropology of gender, specifically social and cultural constructions of gender; gender and personhood; gender, poverty and social policy; and gender and political activity. She also works on globalization; neoliberalism; language and discourse; and qualitative research methods, including discourse analysis, microanalysis, and interviewing. Dr. Kingfisher has published a number of articles and two books on gender and poverty. She has taught The Anthropology of Gender (2600), Anthropology and Feminism (4002), and includes gender content in her fourth year courses The Anthropology of Policy and Globalization.

Michael Stingl (Philosophy) Has taught courses in feminist theory, feminist ethics and feminist philosophy.

Goldie Morgentaler (English) Teaches courses on 19th Century Women Writer’s (Eng. 3700). She would be happy to direct independent studies projects on 19th century women writers, Jewish women writers, or representations of women in 19th century literature.

Claudia Malacrida (Sociology) The central framework of Dr. Malacrida's research can be loosely termed "Sociology of the Body". She is concerned with the ways that seemingly private and personal experiences are mediated through social processes and structures. Dr. Malacrida teaches Introductory Sociology (Soci 1000), Sociology of the Body (Soci 3850) and a senior seminar in Sociology of Sex, Gender and Sexuality.