Coordinating Committee Members

Governance of the program in Gender and Women’s Studies is vested in an interdisciplinary Coordinating Committee consisting of faculty, associate staff, and students, under the general supervision of the Director of Gender and Women’s Studies.

Faculty

Rebecca Adelman, Associate Professor, Media & Communication Studies
adelman@umbc.edu

Jessica Berman, Professor, English and Director, Dresher Center for the Humanities
jberman@umbc.edu

Amy Bhatt, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies
abhatt@umbc.edu

Beverly Bickel, Clinical Associate Professor, Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program
bickel@umbc.edu

Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
dbiehler@umbc.edu

Gloria Chuku, Professor, Africana Studies
chuku@umbc.edu

Kate Drabinski, Senior Lecturer, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Director of WILL
drabinsk@umbc.edu

Nicole Else-Quest, Associate Professor, Psychology
nmeq@umbc.edu

Amy Froide, Professor, History
froide@umbc.edu

Lindsay Johnson, Lecturer, Music
lmjohnson@umbc.edu

Marjoleine Kars, Associate Professor, History, and Chair of History
kars@umbc.edu

Christine Mair, Associate Professor, Sociology
christine_mair@umbc.edu

Christine Mallinson, Professor, Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program
mallinson@umbc.edu

Carole McCann, Professor and Chair, Gender and Women’s Studies
mccann@umbc.edu

Susan McDonough, Associate Professor, History
mcdonoug@umbc.edu

Liz Patton, Assistant Professor, Media and Communication Studies
epatton@umbc.edu

Bryce Peake, Assistant Professor, Media and Communication Studies
bpeake@umbc.edu

Michelle Scott, Associate Professor, History
mscott@umbc.edu

Orianne Smith, Associate Professor, English, and Chair, English
osmith@umbc.edu

Lisa Pace Vetter, Associate Professor, Political Science
lvetter@umbc.edu

Brandy Harris Wallace, Associate Professor, Sociology
bhwalla@umbc.edu

Ex-Officio Member

Jess Myers, Director,  Women’s Center
jess.myers@umbc.edu