If you are a University of South Carolina faculty member whose research and teaching intersect with Women's and Gender Studies, please fill out our online application form [doc]. Learn more about the Women's and Gender Studies Department's current affiliates on our Affiliate Faculty page.

Explore our faculty directory for the full list of program instructors.

Want to learn more about the research profiles of WGST's faculty? Review our research profile document here.

Faculty 

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  Mary Baskin-Waters, Teaching Faculty

  Research areas: Civic responsibility, service-learning, Archiving South Carolina Women Collection

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  Annie Boiter-Jolley, Teaching Faculty

  Research areas: gender and politics, inclusion and representation, political, feminist, and democratic theory, social movements, the gender politics of the US South

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  Dawn Campbell, Senior Instructor and Undergraduate Director

  Research areas: Gender representation in media and pop culture, contemporary feminist social movements

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  Kathryn Luchok, Senior Instructor

  Research areas: Global women's health, gender and health, reproductive health, health equity, diversity and inclusion

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  Ed Madden, Professor

  Research areas: Sexuality studies & Irish studies, Irish masculinities, gay rugby, Irish literature, poetry

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  Emily Mann, Associate Professor and Associate Chair

  Research areas: Gender and sexuality studies, feminist studies of health and medicine, reproductive justice, LGBTQ health, qualitative methods

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  Leah McClimans,  Professor

  Research areas: Feminist philosophy, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics

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  Stephanie Mitchem, Professor and Interim Chair

  Research areas: African-American/diasporan women and spirituality, black feminist theory, gender and religion

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  Lauren Sklaroff, Professor and Graduate Program Director

  Research areas: relationship between culture and the construction of racial and ethnic identities

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  Suzanne Swan, Professor

  Research areas: Interpersonal and dating violence, sexual violence,  drugging

• Rebecca Weissman, Teaching Faculty

  Research areas: intersectionality, critical literacy, multicultural education, the history of white supremacy in education in the south

 

Women's Well-Being Initiative 

 

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  Olga Ivashkevich, Director of the Women's Well-Being Initiative

  Research areas: girls' studies, intersectionality, feminist criminology, social justice and feminist pedagogies, and children's and youth digital media-making as creative resistance  

 

Administrative Support Staff

 

Rebecca Dobson, Program Coordinator

Responsible for business manager duties, coordination of course scheduling, managing administrative assistant and management for undergraduate and graduate programs (including GA hiring.

• Email
• 803-777-4200

Helen Long, Administrative Assistant

Responsible for HR; WGST programming and events; website and social media, newsletters and promotional materials, work-study student management, Close-Hipp office suite management.

• 803-777-5695