Women’s Studies Department Consulting Faculty

Tamara A. Baker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Aging Studies,
Specialization: Chronic pain, disparities in chronic pain management among older community-dwelling adults, assessment of the psychosocial predictors and outcomes of chronic disease and pain in patients from diverse racial and ethnic populations.

Marion Becker, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy
Specialization: Principle Investigator and Co-PI on numerous outcome studies. Most recently she served as Co-PI, and Lead Evaluator for the Triad Women’s Project, a multi-million dollar, competitive federal grant designed to create and evaluate specialized interventions for women with alcohol, drug abuse and mental disorders who have histories of interpersonal violence.

Tempii Champion, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Specialization: Assessment and treatment of communication disorders among African American children (majority of the children in these studies are female), shifting paradigms of ethnic and linguistic communities from deficit-oriented models to difference-oriented models of strength

Karla Davis-Salazar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Specialization: Women and the environment, particularly how subsistence activities are shaped by gender

Sondra Fogel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Specialization: Gender, race, class and sexual orientation in Social Work research methods and practice

Kim Golombisky, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication
Specialization: Diversity issues (gender, race, sexual orientation) in Mass Communications including, representation, hiring and promotion practices, audiences, students of mass communications; feminist perspectives on qualitative research

Sara Green, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Specialization: Complexities of women caring for those with disabilities over the life span and the disability experience in the 21st century

Paula Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and American Studies
Specialization: 19th century art, literature, scientific discourse and difference embodied

Valerie Janesick, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Specialization: Feminist methods in social and educational research, race and performance based testing, inclusion of “outsider” voices in educational curriculum

Sandra L. Reynolds, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Assistant Director for Academic Affairs, School of Aging Studies
Specialization: Guardianship, advance directives, obesity and trends in health, disability, and biological risk factors, and active life expectancy with attention to gender, race, class and sexual identity.

Joan Pynes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Government and International Affairs
Specialization: Sexual orientation discrimination and gender equity in public administration

Steven Tauber, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Government and International Affairs
Specialization: teaching emphasis on feminist jurisprudence, trends in women’s voting behavior, and feminist approaches to the study of politics

Maya Trotz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Specialization: Environmental impact of mining in Caribbean and South America, particularly, how women are affected and how women in NGOs are responding to citizen’s concerns; Service focuses on HIV/AIDS Awareness in the diaspora called phiva.net; plans include empowering women and developing female Caribbean produces and musicians through and environmentally sustainable recording studio

Deanna Wathington, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine
Department of Family Medicine and Office of Curriculum and Medical Education
Specialization: Women’s Health, Health Disparities, Domestic Violence