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Featured Alumni

2020

Wunpini Mohammed completed a Ph.D. in Mass Communications with a minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and an African Studies concentration in 2020. Wunpini is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.
J. Logan Smilges received a dual-title Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies in 2020. They are currently an assistant professor of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia.
Leslie Sotomayor received a dual-title Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s Studies in 2020. She is an assistant professor of art education at Kutztown University.
Tiffany Tsantsoulas received a Ph.D. in Philosophy with a WGSS minor in 2020. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University, Bakersfield.

2019

Meredith Field received a dual-title Ph.D. in Rural Sociology and Women’s Studies in 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Alfred University.
Lauren Golder
Lauren Golder received a dual-title Ph.D. in History and Women’s Studies in 2019. She is currently a lecturer in Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Anya Wallace
Anya Wallace received a dual-title Ph.D. in in Art Education and Women’s Studies in 2019.
Hannah Whitley
Hannah Whitley received a dual M.A. in Rural Sociology and Women’s Studies in 2019. She is currently the Assistant Director of Grant Development and Management for Bridgeport Public Schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

2018

Kathryn Falvo received a dual-title Ph.D. in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in 2018. She is currently an assistant professor of history in the Department of Liberal Studies at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

2017

Sarah Abu Bakr
Sarah Abu Bakr received a dual-title Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in 2017. She in currently an assistant professor at Kuwait University.
Maria del Rosario Castro Bernardini
Rosario Bernardini recieved a dual-title Ph.D. in Rural Sociology and WGSS in 2017. She is currently a Senior Researcher and Evaluation & Learning Advisor on Livelihoods and Rights at Oxfam America in Boston.
Christopher Hayashida-Knight received a dual-title Ph.D. in History and Women’s Studies in 2017. He is currently the Chief Administration Officer at Citizen University.

2013

Brittany Bloodhart
Brittany Bloodhart received a dual-title Ph.D. in Psychology and Women’s Studies in 2013. She is currently an associate professor of psychology at California State University-San Bernardino.
Jessica Cundiff received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Social Psychology the summer of 2013. She is currently an associate professor of psychological science at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Catherine Jampel
She received her dual master’s degrees in Women’s Studies and Geography the summer of 2013. She is currently a freelance scholarly editor, writer, and researcher.
Nicole Laliberte
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography the summer of 2013. She is currently an associate professor of Geography, Geomatics and Environment at the University of Toronto-Mississauga.

2012

Mary Barby Badayos-Jover
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Rural Sociology the May of 2012. She is currently an associate professor in the Political Science Cluster of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of the Philippines Visayas.
Gregory Lankenau
He received his dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography the summer of 2012. He is currently a data scientist at the University of Phoenix.
Melissa Rock
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography the summer of 2012. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, as well as an affiliate faculty with the Asian Studies program, Asian American Studies minor and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department.
He received the dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Social Psychology in summer 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor of Health Psychology at University of California, Merced.

2011

Beth Bee
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography the fall of 2011. She is currently an associate professor of Geography, Planning, and the Environment at East Carolina University.
She received her Ph.D. in German Language and Literature with a minor in Women’s Studies in 2011. She is currently an Associate Director and Associate Research Professor at the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography May of 2011. She is currently an an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society and the Director of the Urban Studies program.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Art Education in May of 2011. She is currently an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Art Education in the School of Art and Design in the College of Fine Arts & Communication at Texas State University.
Stephanie Troutman
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Curriculum and Instruction the summer of 2011. She is currently an Associate Professor of Emerging Literacies in Rhetoric, Composition & the Teaching of English and the Department Head of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona.

2010

Yihuai received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Curriculum and Instruction in the Summer of 2010.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Psychology the summer of 2010 and she is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Art Education in the fall of 2010. She is currently an Associate Professor in and Chairperson of the Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education in the International MA Program in Studies of Arts and Creative Industries at Taipei National University of the Arts.

2009

She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Political Science in the spring of 2009 and is currently a Professor in and Chair of the Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography the summer of 2009 and is currently an associate professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectional Justice and the Chair of the department of Public Health at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
She received her dual-title Ph.D in Women’s Studies and Rural Sociology the spring of 2009 and is currently the Associate Director for Gender Initiatives in the Office of International Programs at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State.
She received her Master's dual degree in Women’s Studies and French in the spring of 2009. She is currently program manager for the Pan-Smithsonian Cryo-Initiative.
Cole Reilly
He received his Dual PhD in Women's Studies and Curriculum & Instruction the Summer of 2009 and is currently an associate professor of Elementary Education at Towson University.
She received her Master's dual degree in Women’s Studies and French in the spring of 2009.
She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a Minor in Women’s Studies in the spring of 2009 and she is currently a Professor of World Literature at the Central Michigan University.

2008

She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Curriculum and Instruction the summer of 2008 and is currently an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with a minor in Women’s Studies in the fall of 2008. She is currently a Deputy Director and Senior Research Advisor at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS) in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
She received her Ph.D. in Communications Arts and Sciences with a minor in Women’s Studies in the fall of 2008 and she is currently a teaching assistant professor and the Director of the Online Masters Program at The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.
Lissette Szwydky-Davis
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and History in 2008. She is currently the associate director of the Arkansas Humanities Center at the University of Arkansas., where she is also an associate professor of English and an affiliate faculty member of the Gender and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies programs.

2007

She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Psychology the summer of 2007. She is currently a professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Natalie Jolly
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Rural Sociology the summer of 2007. She is currently an associate professor of Social, Behavioral, and Human Sciences at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Political Science in the fall of 2007. She is currently an associate professor of Political Science and the Political Science Curriculum Coordinator in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography the spring of 2007 and is currently an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Social Psychology the spring of 2007. She is currently a professor of psychology at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

2006

She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Literacy Education in the fall of 2006 and is currently a lecturer in the Department of English at SUNY New Paltz.

2005

She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies with a minor in Women’s Studies in the spring of 2005. She is now a meditation teacher (who continues her practice), a tai chi/qiqong practitioner, a healer (RMT: Reiki Master Teacher in Usui Reiki and NORM Regulation Method student), a poet and a singer.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography the summer of 2005 and is currently a Professor of Geography and the Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Peeter Tammeveski
He received his Ph.D. with a minor in Women’s Studies in the summer of 2005 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota.
She received her Dual PhD in Women's Studies and Geography the spring of 2005 and is currently a Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia.

2004

She received her Ph.D. in History with a minor in Women’s Studies in the summer of 2004. She is currently an associate professor of history, the L.R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor, and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma.
She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a minor in Women’s Studies in the summer of 2004 and she is currently an associate professor of African American & African Studies and French & Italian at the University of Minnesota.
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Art Education the spring of 2004 and is currently the Chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The College of New Jersey.
Risa Whitson
She received her Ph.D. in Geography with a minor in Women’s Studies in the summer of 2004. She is currently the Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio University.

2003

They received their dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Art Education the spring of 2003. They are currently an associate professor in the Department of Arts, Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University, and they are an affiliated faculty member in the Disability Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization.
She received her Ph.D. in History with a minor in Women’s Studies in the summer of 2003. She is currently an assistant professor of History and the Director of Competitive External Scholarships at Texas Tech University.

2002

She received her PhD in English with a Minor in Women's Studies in the fall of 2002. She is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in St. John's College and a Professor of English at St. John's University.

2001

Erica Smith received her Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies with a minor in Speech Communication in May 2001 and her Master of Education from Widener University’s Center for Human Sexuality Studies in 2007. She is currently a sexuality educator and consultant.
Jamie Warner
She received her Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Women’s Studies in 2001 and is currently a professor of political science at Marshall University.
Beth Widmaier Capo
She received her Ph.D. in English with a Minor in Women's Studies in the fall of 2001. She is currently an Edward Capps Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Illinois College.

2000

Whitney Chirdon
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies and French with a minor in Women’s Studies in 2000. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.
Margaret Farrar
She received her Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Women’s Studies in the fall of 2000. She is currently a Professor of Political Science at John Carroll University.

1991

She received her Speech Communications Major with a Women’s Studies Minor in 1991. She is currently the director of library services at Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.