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.
Audrey Mouser
Elegbede, Lecturer
Audrey Elegebede earned her doctorate in Cultural
Anthropology from Brown University. Her areas
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