Loyola University Chicago

Kathleen M.

Professor in Anthropology

Kathleen Adams received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1988. She is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the inter-relationships between the arts, tourism, and identity among the Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia. She is also researching the construction of a pan-group identity on the ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse Eastern Indonesian Island of Alor. In 2001, she began new research on heritage, touristic pagaentry and community-building in the Mission town of San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Instructor in Chemistry
Teaching and research interests include: science and gender issues and feminism in science fiction, in particular the works of Ursula K LeGuin.                                                        

Associate Professor of English

Teaching and research interests include: Modern British Literature; Twentieth-Century Women's Literature; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Emotions and Literature; Shame in Literature; Trauma and Narrative; Feminist Theory; History of Feminist Criticism

Professor of French Language and Literature

Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. from Case Western University. http://www.luc.edu/modernlang/faculty/callahan.shtml

Professor of English and Director of the English Graduate Program

Teaching and research interests include: Modern British and American literature; African American literature and theory; postmodernism; feminist theory; women's studies; pedagogy.

Professor of Spanish

Ph.D. The University of Chicago (Romance Languages and Literatures), M.A. Middlebury College (Spanish),B.A. Brown University (History and Music)

Teaching and research interests include: 20th Century Peninsular Poetry, 20th Century Hispanic Prose, Latin American Poetry,Hispanic Women's Writing, Feminist Theory and Criticism, Translation

Professor of Economics

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, M.A., Vanderbilt University, B.A., Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey

Teaching and research interests include: Global development finance, gender, statistics and decision sciences

Associate Professor of English

Michael. Kramer is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.  Prior to graduating from Loyola, Michael worked as an engineer for nearly ten years with Motorola, Inc. and Los Alamos National Laboratory and is a co-inventor on three pending United States patents. Michael received his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, his masters degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Mexico.

Professor of Law

Prior to attending law school, Professor Cooper was an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and she received a graduate degree in anthropology. She was the legal literature editor of the DePaul Law Review. Following law school, she received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and then was associated with Winston & Strawn in Chicago.

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

She teaches a wide range of courses from introductory surveys of various periods of western art to courses focused on Renaissance, Baroque and Modern art, as well as courses on women and art, cross-listed with the Women's Studies Program.  Her areas of specialization include the Italian Renaissance and Baroque and issues of gender and art.  She is also a regular faculty participant in Loyola's Honors Program and serves on the Women's Studies Steering Committee.

Ph.D., University of Chicago, M.A., Villa Schifanoia (Dominican University, Florence, Italy), B.A., Muskingum College www.luc.edu/dfpa/facultystaff/DunnM.shtml

Professor of History

Teaching and research interests: U.S. Cultural and Social History, History of American Music, Culture, and Entertainment, History of Gender

Associate Professor of Sociology

Anne Figert came to Loyola University Chicago in 1991 after completing her Ph.D. at Indiana University at Bloomington. Her research interests include health, medicine, sociology of science, and gender. Much of Professor Figert's writing has been published in books and journals relating to framing of women's health issues, scientific authority, and teaching sociology. She has also been actively involved in community based research with HIV/AIDS organizations.

Associate Professor of History

Timothy J. Gilfoyle is professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American urban and social history.

Olympia

Graduate Program Director Modern Languages and Literature

Ph.D., Cornell University, B.A., Florida International University, B.A., University of Miami.

Interests: Golden Age Poetry, Cuban Poetry, 20th Century Peninsular Novel http://www.luc.edu/depts/modern_lang  

Professor of English

B.A., Smith College (1962); M.A. (1965), and Ph.D. (1968), Princeton University

Interests: Renaissance Drama; Shakespeare; Feminist and Gender Studies; Editorial Theory

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Two particular human groups are currently the focus of Dr. Grauer's research: human populations living in medieval England and human populations derived from 19th century cemeteries here in the United States. Macroscopic, microscopic, and radiographic assessment of skeletal remains has yielded information concerning the age at death and sex of members of the populations, the presence of specific diseases and trauma, nutritional conditions, and congenital pathologies within the groups. This data has provided insight into environmental and social conditions within these groups. It has also elucidated the conditions and lives of women and children who are commonly invisible in traditional historical records.

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Susan Grossman is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work. She joined the faculty in 1997 and teaches in the social policy and research sequences. Her research interests and publications focus on domestic violence and sexual assault, homelessness, service utilization, community organization and poverty policy. She is an associate faculty member of the Center for Urban Policy and Research and the Women's Studies program. She is the faculty liaison for the dual degree in social work and women's studies. http://www.luc.edu/socialwork/facultystaff/School%20and%20College_faculty_deploy_layout_8_25489_14137.sh 

Professor of History

She is currently doing research on the work done in Japan by Roman Catholic women from France in the nineteenth century and from Canada and the U.S. in the 20th century. The study includes issues of gender, imperialism, and religion. http://www.luc.edu/history/faculty/harrington.shtml 

Director of Women's Studies and Gender Studies Program

Professor of History

Betsy received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and she

works in the field of Russian women’s history.

ehemenway@luc.edu

Professor of Theology

Dr. Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies Program and Professor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches courses in Islamic Studies and the academic study of religion. She received her Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies. http://www.luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/hermansen.shtml

Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

Interests: Nonformal education in Latin America, Effects of globalization on traditional cultures in Latin America, Role of civil society in Latin American culture, Gender and development in Latin America, Religion in contemporary Latin American culture, Environmental issues in Latin America

Professor of History

Her research focuses on labor, work, and social structure. In a variety of projects she has examined how race, gender, and ethnicity interact at the workplace or in the city to structure mass organization and people's ability to make change or control their lives. Currently she is working on a history of Chicago in the twentieth century for a general audience. http://www.luc.edu/history/faculty/hirsch.shtml

Joseph

Associate Professor of English
B.A., Manhattanville College; M.A. and Ph.D., New York University

Interests: Pedagogy; Technology and Film; Writing Program Administration; Autobiography

Beattie

Associate Professor of Theology

Patti Jung is Roman Catholic Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago, where she has specialized in Christian sexual ethics and issues fundamental to moral theology since her arrival in 1995. She is particularly interested in the moral evaluation of sexual desire, sexual pleasure and various expressions of gender and sexual diversity. She earned her B.A. from Santa Clara University and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University.

Assistant Professor of History

Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1996

Interests: Modern European Social and Cultural History, Modern France, History of Religion and Popular Culture, Gender/Women's History http://www.luc.edu/history/faculty/kaufman.shtml

Associate Professor of Classical Studies

Interests: Late Antique History & Literature, Roman History & Literature, Women's History in the Classical World http://www.luc.edu/classicalstudies/faculty.shtml#Long

jlong@luc.edu

Elizabeth

Associate Professor of Communication

Her area of expertise is media studies and cultural studies. Her classes include Intercultural Communication, Communication Language and Gender, Naturalistic Methods in Communication Research and Communication Practices. She also teaches Media Theory and Criticism as part of the International Cinema Video and New Media Program, and Global Feminism for the Women's Studies program.

Associate Professor of Social Work

She teaches courses in both the M.S.W. and Ph.D. programs, and across the social work practice and HBSE sequences. She is an associate faculty member in the Women's Studies Program. Dr. Lundy's research and writing focus on women in families and family violence, including domestic violence, adult survivors of childhood abuse and non-offending parents in childhood sexual abuse as well as other types of intrafamilial abuse. Other research interests include clinical social work practice using an integrative multitheoretical, multisystemic model. Dr. Lundy has written several articles and a book entitled: Empowering Women in the Workplace. 

Professor of Physics

Dr. Mallow's research interests include theoretical atomic physics, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, physics pedagogy, and gender and science. He is author of the book "Science Anxiety" (H&H Publ.)

Harveen

Associate Professor of English

B.A., Government College, Chandigarh, India (1977); M.A., Panjab University, Chandigarh, India (1979); Ph.D. Purdue University (1986)

Interests: Postcolonial Studies; South Asian Studies; Third World Feminism http://luc.edu/english/faculty/mann.shtml  

Professor of Political Science

Professor Mezey's teaching and research interests include constitutional law, judicial process, judicial-legislative relations, administrative law, women and law and children's rights. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Politics, Western Political Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Rutgers Law Review, Publius, Women and Politics, and Policy Studies Journal. She is the author of No Longer Disabled: The Federal Courts and the Politics of Social Security Disability; In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Public Policy and the Federal Courts; Children in Court: Public Policymaking and Federal Court Decisons; and Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts.

Professor of Anthropology

Laura Miller is a Californio* who received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in linguistic anthropology and Japan studies, and has carried out field research in Japan and in Russia. Her research interests include linguistic ideology, folk models, popular culture, and gender representations in media and language, and writing systems. http://www.luc.edu/anthropology/faculty/miller_l.shtml

Graduate Program Director of Women's Studies
Professor of History

Degree: Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana, 1975 Specialization: Modern British History Research Interests:  Interested in women's and gender history and peace studies. Projects: The gendered context of peacemaking in Britian 1870-1920. Mundelein College History Project

Associate Professor of Communication

Bren Ortega Murphy has taught courses on nearly every aspect of communication in her 21 years at Loyola. She received the Sujack Award for teaching excellence in 1996 and has been recognized repeatedly by the Gannon Scholars for outstanding leadership. Most recently she has taught Ethics and Communication and Issues in Feminism, a course which is also part of the Women's Studies Progam.  http://www.luc.edu/soc/academics_facultystaff_murphy.shtml

Professor of History

Interests: Ireland and Irish-America, Modern Europe, Oral History http://luc.edu/history/faculty/nolan.shtml

Jennifer

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

She came to Loyola in 1997 after completing her Ph.D. at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario). Dr. Parks received her B.A. and M.A. from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario). Her areas of specialization include health care ethics (with a special interest in reproductive technologies), feminist theory (with a focus on feminist ethics), and social philosophy. She is currently working on the ethical issues involved in home health care. http://www.luc.edu/philosophy/faculty_parks.shtml

Associate Professor of Theology

Tracy Pintchman holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California in Santa Barbara (1992). She specializes in the study of Hinduism, with a focus on gender issues, Goddess traditions, and Hindu women's rituals. http://www.luc.edu/theology/facultystaff/faculty_layout_15_35939_33838.shtml

Hannah

Associate Dean of the School of Communication

Hannah Rockwell's area of expertise is in the philosophy of dialogue. She teaches courses in communication theory and methods, including Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, Contemporary Culture and Critical Ethnography. http://www.luc.edu/soc/academics_facultystaff_rockwell.shtml

Professor of Theology

Ph.D., University of Chicago
Specialty: Systematic, Feminist, Sacramental Theology
Research Interests: Feminist theology; Theological anthropology; Feminist ethics

David

Professor of Philosophy

Dr. Schweickart's primary areas of research are social and political philosophy, philosophy and economics, and marxism. He also has major interests in feminist theory, existentialism, critical theory, and race and racism.

Loretta

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice

Loretta J. Stalans is Professor of Criminal Justice, a full member of the graduate faculty, and an affiliated Professor of Women?s Studies at Loyola University Chicago.  She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois Chicago in 1990, and has taught at Loyola since 1994.  Before coming to Loyola, she was an assistant professor of Criminal Justice and Center Fellow at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Georgia State University (1991 to 1994) and a Collaborating Scholar of the American Bar Foundation (1990-1999).

Associate Professor of Business Management

Ph.D., Syracuse Univeristy, 1993. Major : Organization & Management. Minor : Social Psychology.

Interests: Organizational justice, Team Dynamics, Gender and Diversity, International aspects of organizations

K.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

She specializes in ancient philosophy and topics in feminism. She has published Feminism and Ancient Philosophy  (Routledge, 1996), and Philosophers on Race, co-edited, T. Lott (Blackwell, 2002), as well as papers in Aristotle's psychology, metaphysics, and ancient skepticism. She also pursues an interest in the philosophical thought of Simone de Beauvoir and critical race theory. She has completed a book on Aristotle's dialectic and science, and plans to work next on the concept of nature in Plato and Aristotle. http://luc.edu/philosophy/faculty_ward.shtml 

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

She graduated magna cum laude from Lewis Clark College in her home town of Portland, Oregon. Having earned her Ph.D. at Northwestern University, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago before coming to Loyola in 1993. She is a board member and editor of the newsletter for the Midwest Art History Society (MAHS). She is also chair of the MAHS scholarly meeting to be held in Chicago April 2-5, 2008.

Graduate Program Director, Sociology

Ph.D. in sociology at Northwestern University She helped to establish the Women's Studies Program at Loyola in 1979. She teaches courses in qualitative methods, families, gender, social theory and popular culture at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has also worked with numerous community groups and agencies, including the Center for Impact Research, Women Employed, the Center for Cultural Understanding at the Field Museum, Hull House Feminist Advocates, Girls' Best Friend Foundation, the West Humboldt Park Family and Community Development Council, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (UCSF), Women United for a Better Chicago, United Way of Chicago and the Illinois Council on Teenage Pregnancy. She has taught ethnography and gender workshops in Ile Ife, Nigeria, San Salvador, El Salvador, Kaunas, Lithuania, as well as in Chicago . http://www.luc.edu/sociology/faculty/wittner.shtml

Associate Professor of Sociology

Professor Wright is an Associate Professor of sociology having received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1985. His research interests have ranged from the comparative studies of homeless social movements and city redevelopment policies, to examining the impact of consumption, niche marketing and advertising on everyday life, media stereotyping and the semiotics of the built environment. In addition, he is also engaged in exploring the relationship between cultural sociology, social inequality, media and digital entertainment, sociological theory and social space.