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Faculty

Tenured and Tenure Track


Susan Cayleff

Professor
Office: AL 321
Phone: 619-594-5943
E-mail: cayleff@mail.sdsu.edu
Women in American History; Women, Health, and Medicine; Autobiography/Biography; Body Politics


Anne Donadey

Professor
Office: BA 308
Phone: 619-594-0815
E-mail: adonadey@mail.sdsu.edu
Francophone post-colonial literature by women, feminist theory


Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

Professor and Department Chair
Office: AL 346A
Phone: 619-594-3046
E-mail: ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu
Transnational Feminist Theory, Women in Cross-cultural Perspective, Women in Muslim Societies, Women, War and Peace, Travel Study Abroad Programs


Sara Giordano

Assistant Professor
Office: AL 342
Phone: 619-594-6460
E-mail: sgiordano@mail.sdsu.edu
Teaches: Gender, Science and Technology; Feminist Science Studies. Research: Feminist science studies, democratization of science and scientific accountability, synthetic biology and bioethics.


Anh Hua

Assistant Professor
Office: AL 313
Phone: 619-594-7146
E-mail: ahua@mail.sdsu.edu
Teaches: Women and Literature; Women and Violence. Research:  Asian and black women’s contemporary literature and film, diaspora studies, memory studies, cultural studies and critical race feminism.


Irene Lara
Associate Professor
Office: AL 353
Phone: 619-594-7151
E-mail: ilara@mail.sdsu.edu
Socialization of Women; Women, Health and Medicine; Latinas in the Americas


Doreen Mattingly
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Office: AL 315
Phone: 619-594-8033
E-mail: MATTINGL@mail.sdsu.edu
Women and Work; Sex, Power and Politics; Feminist Political Economy


Kimala Price
Associate Professor
Office: AL 344
Phone: 594-8442
E-mail: kprice@mail.sdsu.edu
Women, Law & Policy; Gender, Race and Class; Reproductive Health Policy; Feminist Activism


Esther Rothblum

Professor and Graduate Advisor
Office: AL 313
Phone: 619-594-6662
E-mail: erothblu@mail.sdsu.edu
Advanced Seminar in Sexuality; Gay and Lesbian Identities in the Modern World; Lesbian Lives and Cultures; Methods of Inquiry in Women's Studies; Psychology of Women; Women, Madness and Sanity

 

Lecturers

Shogofa Abassi           
E-mail: sabassi@mail.sdsu.edu

Danielle Bauer           
E-mail: dcbauer505@gmail.com

Dae Elliott              
E-mail: delliott@mail.sdsu.edu

Jerrica Escoto
E-mail: jerricaescoto@gmail.com


Sue Gonda
Phone: 619-644-7875 
E-mail: sue.gonda@gcccd.edu
Women in American History

Jacki Leak
Phone: 619-594-8439
E-mail: jleak@rohan.sdsu.edu
Psychology of Women; Women: Madness and Sanity

Jessica Nare
E-mail: jlnare@gmail.com

Janet Roberts
Phone: 619-594-8441
E-mail: profjmroberts@cox.net
Women: Images and Ideas; Self, Identity and Society; Women in Literature

Geneva Darcuiel Robinson 
Email: neevablack@ymail.com

Lisa Weir                
Email: weir.sdsu@gmail.com

 

Emeritus


Oliva Espin

Professor Emerita
E-mail: oespin@mail.sdsu.edu
Psychology of Women; Women: Madness and Sanity; Women, Race, and Class; Privilege and Oppression; Immigrant Women; Women of Latin America; Feminist Understandings of the Lives and Writings of Selected Women Saints


Patricia Huckle

Professor Emerita
Fulbright Advisor
Office: AL 338
Office Hours: by appointment only
Phone: 619-594-1561
E-mail: huckle@mail.sdsu.edu


Kathleen Jones
Professor Emerita
E-mail: kjones@mail.sdsu.edu
Feminist Theory; Sex, Power and Politics

Janet Kohen
Associate Professor Emerita
E-mail :kohen@mail.sdsu.edu
Socialization of Women; Life Cycles of Women; Methods of Inquiry in Women's Studies


Bonnie Kime Scott
Professor Emerita
E-mail: bkscott@mail.sdsu.edu
Women Writers, Women in Culture and the Arts, Women and the Environment, Transnational Feminisms, Women in Modernism and Modernity, Feminist Theory


Barbara Watson
Professor Emerita
E-mail: mbwatson@mail.sdsu.edu
Women and Food; Women, Relationships and Social Policy; Women: Mythology and Ritual; Women and International Development; Cross Cultural Perspectives

Bonnie Zimmerman
Professor Emerita
E-mail :Bonnie.Zimmerman@sdsu.edu
Women in Literature; Lesbian Lives and Cultures; Advanced Feminist Theory; Gender, Culture, and Representation
Note: Professor Zimmerman is in SDSU Administration