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Department Chair

Jodi Vandenberg-Daves  Profile of Jodi Vandenberg-Daves

Professor
4302 Centennial Hall
jvandenberg-daves@uwlax.edu
608.785.8346

Specialty areas:

women's history; social and cultural history; history of motherhood; gender, race, and leadership

Department Assistant

Alec Lass  Profile of Alec Lass  Office hours

Academic Department Associate
4301 Centennial Hall
alass@uwlax.edu

Department Faculty

Richard Breaux  Profile of Richard Breaux

Associate Professor
4307 Centennial Hall
rbreaux@uwlax.edu
608.785.8309

Specialty areas:

African American History; African American Studies; Black Students at PWIs; Black Feminist/Womanist Histories; African American Film, Literature and Music; Queer Black Studies; African American Sport History; Race and Mental Health in Media; Arab American History to 1965; Race and Public History; Race, Ethnicity, and Digital Humanities.

Andrea Hansen  Profile of Andrea Hansen

Self-Sufficiency Prgm Director
4306 Centennial Hall
ahansen@uwlax.edu
608.785.8733

Specialty areas:

Student parents and higher education; paid and unpaid caregiving; community engagement, organizing and activism.

Shuma Iwai  Profile of Shuma Iwai

Assistant Professor
4308 Centennial Hall
siwai@uwlax.edu
608.785.8311

Specialty areas:

World History, Asian History, Asian American Studies, Religion, Intercultural Studies, Race and Media

SONA KAZEMI  Profile of SONA KAZEMI

Assistant Professor
Centennial Hall
skazemi@uwlax.edu

Specialty areas:

Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies; Middle East; Theocracy; Iran; Race and Ethnicity Studies; Social Justice Education; Critical Prison Studies; State Violence; Human Rights; Qualitative Methods and Advocacy; Adult Education; Disability Studies; Global Studies; Transnationalism; Migration Studies

Jodi Vandenberg-Daves  Profile of Jodi Vandenberg-Daves

Professor
4302 Centennial Hall
jvandenberg-daves@uwlax.edu
608.785.8346

Specialty areas:

women's history; social and cultural history; history of motherhood; gender, race, and leadership

Anthropology

Elizabeth Peacock  Profile of Elizabeth Peacock

Associate Professor
432B Wimberly Hall
epeacock@uwlax.edu
608.785.6780

Specialty areas:

Sociolinguistics, youth identity and belonging, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, postsocialism, global communication, diasporas and homelands

Vincent Her  Profile of Vincent Her

Associate Professor
437I Wimberly Hall
vher@uwlax.edu
608.785.6632

Specialty areas:

Cultural Anthropology; Anthropology of Religion; Ritual and Mortuary Studies; Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia; Hmong/Hmong American Studies

Art

Sierra Rooney  Profile of Sierra Rooney  Meet with me  Office hours

Assistant Professor
315 Lowe Center For The Arts
srooney@uwlax.edu
608.785.8839

Specialty areas:

Art History

  • Art of the United States
  • Public Art, Monuments and Memorials
  • Museum Studies
  • Gender Studies

Communication Studies

Beth Boser  Profile of Beth Boser  Office hours

Associate Professor
4225 Centennial Hall
bboser@uwlax.edu
608.785.6702

Specialty areas:

Public Communication and Advocacy, Media Studies, Gender and Feminism

Sara Docan-Morgan  Profile of Sara Docan-Morgan

Professor
4229 Centennial Hall
sdocan-morgan@uwlax.edu
608.785.6711

Specialty areas:

interpersonal communication, family communication, Korean adoptees, race and culture

Economics

Lisa Giddings  Profile of Lisa Giddings  Meet with me

Associate Professor
2128 Wittich Hall
lgiddings@uwlax.edu
608.785.5297

Specialty areas:

Labor Economics, Transition Economies, Sports Economics and Economics of the Family with a focus on Same-Sex Households

Michael Haupert  Profile of Michael Haupert

Professor
2140 Wittich Hall
mhaupert@uwlax.edu
608.785.6863

Specialty areas:

economic history, economics of sports and entertainment

English

Susan Crutchfield  Profile of Susan Crutchfield  Office hours

Associate Professor
425T Wimberly Hall
scrutchfield@uwlax.edu
608.785.6943

Specialty areas:

Film Studies and Film Theory; Literature by Women; African American Literature; Drama; Disability Studies; The Woman's Film and Feminist Film Theory

Kate Parker  Profile of Kate Parker  Office hours

Professor
433A Wimberly Hall
kparker@uwlax.edu
608.785.8304

Specialty areas:

Restoration and Eighteenth-century European literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies

 

Global Cultures & Languages

Omar Granados  Profile of Omar Granados  Office hours

Associate Professor
311B Graff Main Hall
ogranados@uwlax.edu
608.785.5243

Specialty areas:

Contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and cultural studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, migration studies and literary translation.

Health Education

Keely Rees  Profile of Keely Rees  Meet with me  Office hours

Professor
418N Wimberly Hall
krees@uwlax.edu
608.785.8168

Specialty areas:

Women’s Health (pregnancy, exercise, maternal & child health, menstruation) Adolescent Health Behaviors; Health Policy and Advocacy; Motivational Interviewing, Grant Writing in Health and Human Services. 

History

Mark Chavalas  Profile of Mark Chavalas  Office hours

Professor
403D Wimberly Hall
mchavalas@uwlax.edu
608.785.8360

Specialty areas:

Ancient Near East, Classical, Biblical, archaeology

Gita Pai  Profile of Gita Pai  Office hours

Professor
403L Wimberly Hall
gpai@uwlax.edu
608.785.8352

Specialty areas:

regional and transnational history of South Asia; South Asian diaspora in the U.S.; religion and politics; material and visual culture; gender; global studies

on research leave until fall 2023

Víctor Macías-González  Profile of Víctor Macías-González  Office hours

Professor
138D Wimberly Hall
vmacias-gonzalez@uwlax.edu
608.785.8349

Specialty areas:

Latin American, Mexican, Latinx histories and history of gender and sexuality.  Latin Americanists study the history of nineteen different countries in the Americas, plus the Philippines, Spain, and the U.S.A.  I focus on nineteenth-century Mexico, especially the Porfiriato (1876-1911) and the U.S. Southwest. Research interests include diplomacy, transnational migration, Mexican diaspora, consumption and material culture, masculinity, Latin@s in the Midwest, the homophile movement, and LGBTQ history of the Midwest.    Service interests include development of outreach programs to increase Latino entry into higher education, graduate, and professional programs, as well as LGBTQ public history programs, and faculty promotion and retention programs.

Heidi Morrison  Profile of Heidi Morrison

Associate Professor
403N Wimberly Hall
hmorrison@uwlax.edu
608.785.8345

Specialty areas:

Modern Middle East History

History of Childhood

Oral History

 

Microbiology

Bonnie Bratina  Profile of Bonnie Bratina

Associate Professor
3029 Cowley Hall
bbratina@uwlax.edu
608.785.6994

Specialty areas:

Microbial ecology, Aquatic microbiology, Biogeochemistry

Philosophy

Sheryl Tuttle Ross  Profile of Sheryl Tuttle Ross

Professor
4111 Centennial Hall
stuttleross@uwlax.edu
608.785.8427

Specialty areas:

Philosophy of Art, Philosophy and Film, Feminist Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics

Pride Center

Willem Vanroosenbeek  Profile of Willem Vanroosenbeek

Student Affairs Director (C)
2214 Student Union
wvanroosenbeek@uwlax.edu
608.785.8887

Specialty areas:

LGBTQ+ Education 
Working with LGBTQ+ people in Health Care
The future is Queer and Nonbinary

Psychology

Grace Deason  Profile of Grace Deason

Associate Professor
335B Graff Main Hall
gdeason@uwlax.edu
608.785.8442

Specialty areas:

Social Psychology (political psychology, gender)
Berna Gercek Swing  Profile of Berna Gercek Swing  Office hours

Assistant Professor
341M Graff Main Hall
bgercekswing@uwlax.edu
608.785.5236

Specialty areas:

Social and Cross-cultural Psychology (self-construal, honor/dignity and self-esteem)

Ryan McKelley  Profile of Ryan McKelley  Meet with me  Office hours

Professor
341D Graff Main Hall
rmckelley@uwlax.edu
608.785.6879

Specialty areas:

Clinical/counseling psychology; men and masculinities; health psychology (stress, resilience; biofeedback; sleep); behavior modification; group counseling; psychopharmacology

Betsy Morgan  Profile of Betsy Morgan

Provost & Vice Chancellor
227 Graff Main Hall
bmorgan@uwlax.edu
608.785.8042

Specialty areas:

Social and Gender Psychology (attitudes, gender socialization, psychology as a major)

Additional information on scale development (SATA & LFAIS) 

Provosting stuff

Casey Tobin  Profile of Casey Tobin  Meet with me  Office hours

Associate Professor
341J Graff Main Hall
ctobin@uwlax.edu
608.785.6890

Specialty areas:

Clinical/Counseling Psychology; Child Abuse and Neglect; Sexuality (attitudes and experiences); Sexual Health; Sexual Abuse; Volunteer Experiences; Internship and Fieldwork Experiences

Sociology

Laurie Cooper Stoll  Profile of Laurie Cooper Stoll  Office hours

Professor
437H Wimberly Hall
lcstoll@uwlax.edu
608.785.8664

Specialty areas:

Social Inequalities in Education, Gender-blind Sexism, and Fat/Critical Weight Studies

Enilda Delgado  Profile of Enilda Delgado  Office hours

Professor
437B Wimberly Hall
edelgado@uwlax.edu
608.785.6776

Specialty areas:

Demography, Social Stratification, Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods

Carol Miller  Profile of Carol Miller  Office hours

Professor
437D Wimberly Hall
cmiller@uwlax.edu
608.785.6777

Specialty areas:

global issues, gender, policy, family, rural/urban communities

Violence Prevention

Blythe McConaughey  Profile of Blythe McConaughey

Violence Prevention Specialist
149B Graff Main Hall
bmcconaughey@uwlax.edu
608.785.5126

Specialty areas:

Violence Intervention, Awareness and Prevention

Intersectional Feminist Studies

LGBTQ Studies

Emeritus

Elise Denlinger, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Peg Doesch, Health Education
Deborah Hoskins, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Judith Green, English
Sandi Krajewski, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
James Parker, History
Bets Reedy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Joan Yateman, English
Lalita Hogan, English
Carol Oyster, Psychology
Sarah Shillinger, Ethnic and Racial Studies