Faculty Spotlight

The energetic publishing faculty of the Women’s Studies Department includes many researchers who are emerging into national prominence, as well as many who have long been leaders of their scholarly fields.  Our colleagues include the authors of such contemporary “classics” of women’s and gender studies as “The Traffic in Women,” “The Female World of Love and Ritual,” and “Toward a Feminist Strategy for Studying Women’s Lives.”

Other faculty have recently gained national attention with books on the impact of gay male composers on mainstream American music and the gendered marketing of pharmaceutical drugs.  Among our ranks are distinguished scholars who regularly appear before policy makers (including the U.S. Congress), lending their scholarly weight to debates on abortion, reproductive health, drug abuse policy, workplace discrimination, and women’s careers in science and engineering.

Their research is supported by a panoply of national funding agencies, including the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.  In recent years, the scholarship of Women’s Studies faculty has been recognized by awards or honorable mentions from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the Lesbian and Gay Caucus of the Modern Language Association, the National Jewish Book Award, and the American Psychological Association.

Because it is impossible to convey the breadth and range of all of our scholarly contributions, each term we throw the spotlight on the research of one faculty member to provide an in-depth view.

This term we feature Carol Boyd, Deborah J. Oakley Collegiate Professor of Nursing and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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