Core Faculty

Ida M. Johnson, Ph.D. - Chair, Department of Women's Studies, Co-Director of the Women Involved in Learning and Leading (WILL) Program , Professor, Departments of Criminal Justice and Women's Studies
ijohnson@bama.ua.edu

Rhoda E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Women's Studies
rhodaj@bama.ua.edu

Carol J. Pierman, Ph.D., M.F.A. - Director of Graduate Studies
Professor, Department of Women's Studies
cpierman@bama.ua.edu

Jennifer Purvis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies
jpurvis@ua.edu

Graduate Adjunct and Participating Faculty

Natalie Adams, Ph.D. – Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Technology Studies: Gender Issues and Feminist Theory; Middle Level Education; Multicultural Education

Lynne M. Adrian, Ph.D. - Department of American Studies: American Hoboes; Women and Misdemeanors; Classical American Period

Patricia A. Bauch, Ph.D. - Educational Leadership: Women's Schooling, Curriculum and Instruction, Parent Involvement, Public School Choice.

Lisa Dorr, Ph.D. – Department of History: Gender, Race, and Sexuality; Women’s History; Dating Relationships in the South.

Nirmala Erevelles, Ph.D. - Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies

Bronwen Lichtenstein, Ph.D. - Criminal Justice: Women’s Health; HIV/AIDS; Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS; Stigma and STDs

Yolanda Manora, Ph.D. - English:  20th Century African American Women Writers, American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Southern Women Writers, Black Feminist Thought and Theory.

Elaine Martin, Ph.D. - Department of Modern Languages and Classics: Women's Writings on the Nazi Era and WWII; Contemporary German and French Women Writers; The Femme Fatale Image in Literature, the Visual Arts, Popular Culture, Film; Women’s Movements from an International, Comparative Perspective

Debra Nelson-Gardell, Ph.D. - Social Work: Child Sexual Abuse, Intimate Violence, Feminist Psychotherapy, Feminist Social Work Practice

Sharon O'Dair, Ph.D. - English: Shakespeare, Drama, Class and Popular Culture

Kathryn S. Oths, Ph.D. - Department of Anthropology, Medical Decision-making; Reproductive Health; Use and Status of Food; Gender, Ethnicity and Health; Domestic Violence

Catherine Roach, Ph.D. - She has a joint appoitment in New College and Religious Studies: Western Religions, Mother Earth Narratives, Ecology