ERS - Meet Our Faculty and Staff

Carol Oyster, PhD, Professor (Director)

Dr. Oyster is the director of the Institute from 2009-2012. She received her doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Delaware. Her area of interest and expertise is in the mechanisms and effects of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination on the targets of discrimination and society. She has written books on research design, group dynamics, and women and firearms; and book chapters on suicide-by-cop, suicide, and women and retirement. She is currently co-editor of the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World to be published by Sage.

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Sarah Shillinger, PhD, Assistant Professor
Sarah Shillinger has earned a doctorate in American History from the University of Pennsylvania.  She has also received the Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities.  She specializes in the American Indian Boarding School Movement and has extensive experience with contemporary American Indian issues.  She has developed courses in Contemporary American Indian issues and has done workshops on American Indian casinos.  Dr. Shillinger is working on a series of social studies units for elementary schools and is the author of A Case Study of the American Indian Boarding School Movement: An Oral History of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School published by Edwin Mellen Press.

ERS instructors: Audrey Elegbede & Tim Kullman.

Program Assistant:  Maureen E. Nelson, University Services Associate 1.