Core Faculty
Debra Liebowitz
- Title: Director of Women’s and Gender Studies;
Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies - Office: Smith House 203
- Phone: (973) 408-3139
- Email: dliebowi@drew.edu
- Education: B.A. University of Oregon, 1988; M.A. Rutgers University, 1996; Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2000
- Biography: Debra J. Liebowitz is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science at Drew University in New Jersey, USA and is also Director of the Drew Semester on the United Nations. Dr. Liebowitz has worked for the past nine years doing gender and human rights related-training and research at the United Nations, both in New York and Geneva. She has worked closely with IWRAW Asia Pacific, a Malaysia-based international women’s human rights organization and is a member of their International Program Management Team. In 2007 she was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center Grant and is working on a book that stems from this grant on The Uses of CEDAW to Redress Violations of Women’s Human Rights. She is the author of a report (Respect, Protect, Fulfill: Raising the Bar on Women’s Rights in San Francisco) evaluating the city of San Francisco’s efforts to implement their local women’s human rights ordinance. She has published articles in journals like the Feminist International Journal of Politics and Women’s Studies Quarterly and in books like Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives, (2008) edited by Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen. Dr. Liebowitz was the President of the Women & Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association in 2008-9. She is currently on the board of the New York City Urban Justice Center’s Human Rights Project.
Wendy Kolmar
Title: Department Chair and Professor of English;
Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Office: Sitterly House 107
Phone: 973-408-3632
Email: wkolmar@drew.edu
Education: A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1972; Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992
Biography: Wendy Kolmar is Professor of English and of Women’s and Gender Studies. She teaches courses on feminist theory and the history of feminist thought, Victorian literature, women and literature, gothic and supernatural literature, film and literary criticism. She serves regularly as a consultant and reviewer for women’s and gender studies programs around the country and also served for many years on various governing bodies of the National Women’s Studies Association. Her publications include Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women (with Lynette Carpenter ‑‑ 1991); Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Source Book from the New Jersey Project (edited with Ellen G. Friedman, Charley B. Flint, and Paula Rothenberg — 1996); A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Ghost Stories by British and American Women Writers (with Lynette Carpenter –1998); Feminist Theory: A Reader ( with Fran Batkowski, now in its second edition.) and a special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly, entitled Looking Across the Lens: Women’s Studies and Film.
Affiliated Faculty
| Instructor | Department | Course(s) | Contact |
| Di Bai | Chinese | x3427 dbai@drew.edu |
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| Lisa Brenner | Theatre Arts | THEA 175: Community Theatre | x3998 lbrenner@drew.edu |
| Frances Bernstein | History | HIST 190: Disease in History HIST 190: History of Sexuality HIST 135: Women in Modern European History |
x3542 fbernste@drew.edu |
| Jill Cermele | Psychology | PSYC 108: Abnormal Psychology | x3849 jcermele@drew.edu |
| Roxanne Friedenfels | Sociology | SOC 19: Sociology of Inequality SOC 29: Sociology of Aging SOC 105: Social Change |
x3642 rfrieden@drew.edu |
| Maliha Safri | Economics | ECON 136: Political Economy of Race, Class and Gender | x3202 msafri@drew.edu |
| Caitlin Killian | Sociology | SOC 25: Sociology of Gender | x3183 ckillian@drew.edu |
| Marc Boglioli | Anthropology | x3363 mbogliol@drew.edu |
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| Joslyn Cassady | Anthropology | x3343 jcassady@drew.edu |
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| Sarah Wald | English | ENGL 37: Latina/o Literature | x3127 swald@drew.edu |
| Shakti Jaising | English | x3915 sjaising@drew.edu |
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| Jinee Lokaneeta | Political Science | x3430 jlokanee@drew.edu |
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| Lillie Edwards | History | x3013 ledwards@drew.edu |
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| Kim Rhodes | Art History | ARTHIST 144: Gender, Sexuality and Victorian Visual Culture | x3757 krhodes@drew.edu |
| Christina McKittrick | Biology | x3742 cmckittr@drew.edu |
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| Traci West | Theological | x3082 twest@drew.edu |
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| Susan Rosenbloom | Sociology | x3335 srosenbl@drew.edu |
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| Catherine Keller | Theological | x3268 ckeller@drew.edu |
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| Jesse Todd | Theological | x3847 jtodd@drew.edu |
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| Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre | Theological | x3823 mjohnso@drew.edu |
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| Virginia Burrus | Theological | x3099 vburrus@drew.edu |
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| Rosemary McLaughlin | Theatre Arts | THEA 65: Women and Theatre | x3249 rmclaugh@drew.edu |
| Leslie Sprout | Music | x3950 lsprout@drew.edu |
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| Jim Hala | English | x3297 jhala@drew.edu |
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| Kesha Moore | Sociology | SOC 131: Engendering Prison | x3170 kmoore@drew.edu |
| Nadine Ollman | English | ENGL 32: Women and Literature ENGL 132: Women’s Literary Tradition ENGL 174: Eighteenth Century Women Writers |
x3300 nollman@drew.edu |
| Jennifer Olmsted | Economics | ECON 138: Gender and Globalization | x3417 jolmsted@drew.edu |
| Ada Ortuzar-Young | Spanish | SPAN 115: Individual and Society in Spanish American Literature | x3386 aortuzar@drew.edu |
| Marie-Pascale Pieretti | French | FREN 50: Francophone Literature in Translation: Women Novelists | x3506 mpierett@drew.edu |
| Sharon Sundue | History | HIST 126: American Women’s History | x3171 ssundue@drew.edu |
| Lisa Brenner | Theatre Arts | THEA 62: African-American Theatre | x3998 lbrenner@drew.edu |
| Youngok Lim | Economics | ECON 62: Poverty and Policy | x3832 ylim@drew.edu |
| Karen Pechilis | Religious Studies | REL 35: Religions of China and Japan | x3124 kpechili@drew.edu |