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Diversity Researchers
Women's and Gender Issues
| NAME | RESEARCH DESCRIPTION | CONTACT INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|
Anderson, Kim M. | Adverse consequences of domestic violence, rape, and poverty experienced by women | School of Social Work 884-8077 AndersonKi@missouri.edu |
| Anzaldo, Demetrio | Twentieth Century Mexican Literature; Mexico City Urban and Gender Studies | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-4063 AnzaldoD@missouri.edu |
| Aubrey, Jennifer | Impact of media exposure on body images and the sexual self-concept; pregnancy and parenting in the academy | Communication 882-0739 AubreyJ@missouri.edu |
| Beck, Mary M. | Family violence; child adoption law; putative father registry law | School of Law 882-7872 BeckM@missouri.edu |
| Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth | Media's effects on stereotyping, identity and body image, in relation to gender, race and sexuality | Communication 882-9786 BehmMorawitzE@missouri.edu |
| Bettencourt, B. Ann | Intergroup processes; stereotype violations; social identity and well-being; women's well-being; meta-analysis and aggression | Psychological Sciences 882-8065 BettencourtA@missouri.edu |
| Black, Cheryl | Women's theatre and feminist theatre | Theatre 882-0530 BlackC@missouri.edu |
| Bloom, Tina | Intimate partner violence and violence prevention interventions, maternal-child health, collaborative and community-based research; developing and testing effective violence interventions that decrease exposure to intimate partner violence, decreasing the negative impact that violence exposure has on their health. | Sinclair School of Nursing 882-0264 BloomT@missouri.edu |
| Click, Melissa | Gender, race, class and sexuality in media texts | Communication 884-4694 ClickM@missouri.edu |
| Colaner, Colleen | Family communication and religious identity; how parental communication influences the development of religious identities as well as the communicative management occurring when parents and children have differing religious orientations; the intergenerational transmission of mothering, feminist, and generativity identities via gender socialization in mother-daughter dyads | Communication 882-3522 ColanerC@missouri.edu |
| Dingo, Rebecca | Feminist rhetorical theory; transnational feminism; critical policy analysis; visual cultural studies | Women's and Gender Studies 884-6254 DingoR@missouri.edu |
| Dougherty, Debbie | Organizational power especially as it relates to sexual harassment; emotion in organizations; feminist standpoint theory | Communication 882-0300 DoughertyD@missouri.edu |
| Dougherty, Thomas W. | Mentoring and networking behavior and career outcomes: differences for men and women; gender, race, and perceived similarity | Management 882-4412 DoughertyT@missouri.edu |
| Finfgeld-Connett, Deborah | Women and resolution of alcohol problems | Sinclair School of Nursing 884-7255 FinfgeldD@missouri.edu |
| Frisby, Cynthia | Effects of idealized images on perceptions of body esteem among African-American women | Strategic Communication 882-6232 FrisbyC@missouri.edu |
| Gallimore, Rangira (Béa) | Francophone literature; 20th-century French literature; theoretical linguistics; issues of gender in post-genocide Rwanda | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-4372 GallimoreR@missouri.edu |
| Gibson, Maya | Interconnections and inter-relationships among Afro-American music (especially jazz), popular music, and issues concerning race, gender, and sexuality; Black American gospel and blues | Music 882-0648 GibsonMC@missouri.edu |
| Glick, Elisa | Sexuality and gender studies; critical theory and cultural criticism; queer dandyism and its relation to the sphere of the commodity in modern literature and culture | Women's and Gender Studies, English 882-9716 GlickE@missouri.edu |
| Gordon, Matthew | Sociolinguistics; language and gender; American dialectology; language change | English 882-8590 GordonMJ@missouri.edu |
| Gregory, Rabia | History of Christianity; medieval women's religious literature from Germany and the Low Countries; manifestations of religion in virtual worlds | Religious Studies 882-5505 GregoryRa@missouri.edu |
| Halstenson, Nancy | Women's issues; domestic violence; depression; eating disorders; adolescent female sexual offenders | Psychiatry 882-2511 HalstensonN@health.missouri.edu |
| Harper, Casandra | Multiracial college students; cross-racial interactions; origins of the gender gap; different effects of student-faculty interaction on college outcomes for women and men | Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis 882-2818 HarperCas@missouri.edu |
| Hart, Jennifer L. | Campus climate; gender issues within academe; MizzouADVANCE; diversity in higher education curriculum and pedagogy | Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis 882-4225 HartJL@missouri.edu |
| Heflin, Colleen | Welfare and poverty policy; social stratification; health inequality; women and work | Truman School of Public Affairs 884-4872 HeflinCM@missouri.edu |
| Heppner, Mary | Women's career development; career transitions; multicultural/cross-cultural issues in counseling | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 882-8574 HeppnerM@missouri.edu |
| Heppner, Puncky P. | Multicultural and gender issues; coping issues across cultures | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 882-3523 HeppnerP@missouri.edu |
| Hermsen, Joan M. | Gender inequality in the labor market | Sociology 884-1420 HermsenJ@missouri.edu |
| Hoberek, Andrew | 20th-century American literature and culture; liberal anti-liberalism: gender politics of the middle-class ressentiment | English 882-1801 HoberekA@missouri.edu |
| Hudson-Weems, Clenora | Black studies; Africana Womanism | English 882-2783 HudsonWeemsC@missouri.edu |
| Karthas, Ilyana | Modern European intellectual and cultural history; aesthetics; women's and gender history | History 882-9462 KarthasI@missouri.edu |
| Keiser, Lael R. | Social welfare policy and education; gender, race and representative bureaucracy; Social Security Disability program | Political Science 882-8282 KeiserL@missouri.edu |
| King, Wilma | African American history; experiences of free African American women before the general emancipation in 1865 | History 882-4612 KingW@missouri.edu |
| Len-Rios, Maria | Underserved audiences and marginalized groups with regard to health reporting, health communication campaigns and crisis communication; representation of women in news and photos; obesity frames in black newspapers and mainstream newspapers | Strategic Communication 884-0111 LenRiosM@missouri.edu |
| Looser, Devoney | British women's writings of the Restoration, 18th and early 19th century and history of the novel | English 884-7791 LooserD@missouri.edu |
| Marra, Rose M. | Gender equity in engineering and science education | School of Information Science and Learning Technologies 882-2877 Marra@missouri.edu |
| Martinez, Rebecca | Mexican immigration to the U.S.; Chicana feminist studies; medical anthropology | Women's and Gender Studies 882-0680 MartinezR@missouri.edu |
| Meisenbach, Rebecca | Identity negotiation; organizational ethics; stigma management; the female breadwinner and gendered identity in work-family spaces | Communication 882-0747 MeisenbachR@missouri.edu |
| Moore, Megan | Gender in Old French literature and culture, with special emphasis on how gender impacts the creation and exchange of culture | Romance Languages and Literatures 882-3633 MooreMegan@missouri.edu |
| Morris, Michelle | Early U.S. women's history; sex and family in Massachusetts, 1660-1700 | History 882-4380 MorrisMary@missouri.edu |
| Mueser, Peter | Labor economics; analysis of Food Stamp Program; welfare-to-work; women's economic returns from obtaining a GED | Economics 882-6427 MueserP@missouri.edu |
| Neitz, Mary Jo | Gender and religion; sociology of culture; qualitative methodologies and feminist theories | Women's and Gender Studies 882-4572 NeitzM@missouri.edu |
| Nicholson-Crotty, Jill D. | Women's health care in Missouri | Truman School of Public Affairs 882-2320 NicholsonCrottyJ@missouri.edu |
| Oliveri, Rigel C. | Fair housing; employment discrimination; civil procedure; pretrial litigation; sexual harassment; gender and the Law; reproductive rights | School of Law 882-5068 OliveriR@missouri.edu |
| Osborne, Victoria | Substance abuse in women; American Indian youth behavior | School of Social Work 884-2336 OsborneV@missouri.edu |
| Reeder, Linda | Modern European women's history; gender, sexuality and national belonging through notions of female insanity in late 19th century Italy | History 882-5856 ReederLS@missouri.edu |
| Rymph, Catherine | 20th-century U.S. history; U.S. women's history; Republican women: feminism and conservatism from suffrage to the rise of the New Right | History 882-4320 RymphC@missouri.edu |
| Sable, Marjorie R. | Maternal and child health; WIC Program needs assessment among hispanics; improving family planning services and outreach to hispanic immigrants | School of Social Work 882-0914 SableM@missouri.edu |
| Schatz, Enid | Social demography with a focus on gender, aging and AIDS in southern Africa | Women's and Gender Studies, Occupational Therapy 882-7196 SchatzEJ@missouri.edu |
| Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie | Legislative representation; gender and politics; women's representation in Latin American Legislatures | Political Science 882-7268 Schwindt@missouri.edu |
| Scott, Rebecca R. | Gender; race and class formations; cultural studies; environmental inequality; nature and society; feminist ethnography | Sociology 884-7644 ScottRR@missouri.edu |
| Shonekan, Stephanie | Ethnomusicology; the evolving parallels that exist in the literature and music of Africa and the African Diaspora; black women and life writing; | Music ShonekanS@missouri.edu |
| Thornburg, Kathy | Relations among maternal racial identity, maternal parenting behavior and child outcomes in low-income urban black families; understanding parenting stress among young, low-income, African-American first-time mothers | Human Development and Family Studies 882-9998 ThornburgK@missouri.edu |
| Whites, LeeAnn | Civil War and reconstruction; women, 19th-century South; sexual politics of the union military; Civil War women | History 882-9469 WhitesL@missouri.edu |
| Wise, Kevin | Differences in the way men and women read news | Missouri School of Journalism 884-0146 WiseKR@missouri.edu |
| Worthington, Roger | Diversity issues in higher education; multicultural counseling competencies; sexual identity; lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues; and scale development | Educational, School and Counseling Psychology 882-8360 WorthingtonR@missouri.edu |
| Yu, ManSoo | Health disparities among ethnicity/race, gender and social class; vulnerable and underserved populations | School of Social Work 882-4363 YuMa@missouri.edu |
| Zanetti, Lisa A. | Organizational dynamics; moral theory; gender; citizen participation | Truman School of Public Affairs 884-0953 ZanettiL@missouri.edu |
