People
The WGSS program has several “in-house” staff and employees, including two tenure-track professors, a senior lecturer, a program administrator and a full-time director, usually “borrowed” from another department for a period of 3-5 years. Along with the graduate director and undergraduate director (when the people in these positions are not already “in-house”), these WGSS people make up the administrative team, and meet once or twice a month to deal with administrative decisions.
Administrative Team
Tiffany Holland
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professional-Track Faculty, Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Lisa Levenstein
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
WGSS Director and Professor of History
Danielle Bouchard
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Standing & Cross-Appointed Faculty
Standing Faculty
Danielle Bouchard
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sarah Jane Cervenak
Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/African American Studies
Professional-Track Faculty
Tiffany Holland
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professional-Track Faculty, Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Cross-Appointed Faculty
Cross-appointed faculty are those with an interest in issues of women, gender, sexuality and related topics, who have officially joined the WGSS program through an individualized MOU between their department chair and the WGSS director. These program faculty are empowered to make decisions, particularly in votes on promotion and tenure, and usually serve on WGSS committees, teach WGSS classes and classes that carry the WGSS marker. Their appointment term is four years. If you are interested in becoming a cross-appointed faculty member, please e-mail the current director and program administrator, or [email protected].
Chelsea Hilding
MFA, School of Dance, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Heather Brook Adams
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor, Department of English
Risa Applegarth
Professor and Director of College Writing, Department of English
Silvia Bettez
Professor, Department of Education Leadership and Cultural Foundations
Ben Clarke
Associate Professor, Department of English
Sarah E. Colonna
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Faculty Chair, Grogan College
Jenny Dale
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Professor and Head of Research, Outreach, and Instruction Liaison to Classical Studies, English, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, UNC-Greensboro University Libraries
Jennifer Feather
Associate Professor, Department of English
Lalenja Harrington
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations (ELC) Department
Ana Paula Höfling
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Dance
Gwen Hunnicutt
Professor, Department of Sociology
Cybelle McFadden
Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Noelle Morrissette
Director of AADS & Professor of English
Anne Parsons
Associate Professor, Department of History
Emilia Phillips
Pronouns: They/Them/Their
Associate Professor, Department of English
María Sánchez
Associate Professor, Department of English
Faye Stewart
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor of German, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Joan Titus
Professor in Musicology/Ethnomusicology
Amy Vetter
Professor, Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education
Amy Vines
Associate Professor, Department of English
Student Staff
Alyssa Cavalieri
Senior Graduate Assistant
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Alyssa is a second-year Master’s student in the WGSS program. She graduated with her BA in English; Philosophy; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in December 2021 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Alyssa is interested in researching the presence of and reactions to women and other marginalized groups in comics and comic-related media. Her other interests include the experience of death anxiety in the US and how it relates to the various facets of identity across different populations, the increasingly gendered nature of death care, and advocacy for the adoption of environmentally friendly body disposition techniques. Alyssa enjoys creating fun makeup looks, listening to music, gaming, and reading in her spare time.
Sope Kahn
Sope is a second year MA student in the WGSS program. They graduated from Appalachian State University in 2020 with a BFA in Art Education K-12 and a BA in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. Sope completed their first three years of beginning teaching at the elementary school level, teaching students in grades K-5. Sope’s research interests include methods of decolonizing the classroom, humanimal relations, and bodily politics in relation to clay/ceramics (all separate interests currently). In their free time, Sope enjoys collecting Pokemon cards, spending time with animals, and doing crossword puzzles.
Megan Guzman
Junior Graduate Assistant
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Megan is a first year MA student in the WGSS department at UNCG. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with her BA in Women’s and Gender Studies with a double minor in Latina/o Studies and Social and Economic Justice. Megan’s research interests include interrogating the Wellness Industrial Complex as it relates to gender, race, class, and anti-fatness. She also has a research background in Latina Feminism, Latina Literature, and Queer Families. In her free time, Megan enjoys running, powerlifting, camping, hiking with her dog Max, and going to concerts.
Bree Kromah
Junior Graduate Assistant
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Bree is a first-year MA student in the WGSS department. She graduated from UNCG with her BA in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and International & Global Studies in May 2023. Bree is deeply interested in transnational feminist perspectives that encompass the scholarship of women & queer people of color with a special focus on issues centering on Black and Indigenous voices. Bree’s other academic interests include queer history, collectivism, and structural deconstruction. In her free time, Bree enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, and spending time with friends and family.
Claudia Stakoe
Senior Graduate Assistant
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Claudia is a double major in WGSS and History with a concentration in Public History. Her research interests are focused on early American women’s and LGBTQ+ history. Claudia is graduating Spring 2024, with hopes to enter a masters program beginning in the following fall. This spring, she will be doing an independent study project with Dr. Mandy Cooper about lesbian history in Greensboro. She plans to create a public exhibit piece that showcases her research on this topic. Claudia has a background working in various youth-oriented nonprofits and political campaigns. She interned for the North Carolina Democratic Party in both the 2016 and 2018 elections. When not working or at school, Claudia enjoys reading, cooking, and playing with her cat, Suzanne.
Affiliate Faculty
Affiliate faculty are those with an interest in issues of women, gender, sexuality and related topics and sometimes teach classes that carry the WGSS marker. These affiliated faculty do not participate in decision-making, though they may choose to serve on committees, or be involved in the program in other ways. Faculty may serve as cross-appointed for a time, then step back to affiliate status to make time for other commitments, or vice versa. If you are interested in becoming an affiliate faculty member, please e-mail the current director and program administrator, or [email protected].
African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Michael Cauthen
[email protected] - Dr. Frank Woods
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Anthropology
- Dr. Donna Nash
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Art
- Dr. Patricia Wasserboehr
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Biology
- Dr. Amy Adamson
[email protected] - Dr. Karen Katula
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Business Administration
- Dr. Holly Buttner
[email protected] - Dr. Channelle James
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
- Dr. Robert Mayo
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Communication Studies
- Dr. Cerise Glenn
[email protected] - Dr. Loreen Olson
[email protected] - Dr. Roy Schwartzman
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Consumer, Apparel, & Retail Studies
- Dr. Nancy Nelson-Hodges
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Counseling & Education
- Dr. Dianne Borders
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Dance
- Duane Cyrus
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Education
- Jill Anne Chouinard
[email protected] - Ann Grimaldi
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Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations
- Dr. Glenn Hudak
[email protected] - Dr. Leila E. Villaverde
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English
- Dr. Denise Baker
[email protected] - Dr. Sallyann Ferguson
[email protected] - Dr. Karen Kilcup
[email protected] - Dr. Karen Weyler
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Graduate School
- Dr. Laura Chesak
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Human Development and Family Studies
- Dr. Cheryl A. Buehler
[email protected] - Dr. Heather Helms
[email protected] - Dr. Andrea Hunter
[email protected] - Dr. Sudha Shreeniwas
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History
- Dr. Richard Barton
[email protected] - Dr. Jodi Bilinkoff
[email protected] - Dr. Charles Bolton
[email protected] - Dr. Tom Jackson
[email protected] - Dr. Colleen Kriger
[email protected] - Dr. Anne E. Parsons
[email protected] - Dr. Lisa Tolbert
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Institute for Community and Economic Engagement
- Sonalini Sapra
Intercultural Engagement
- Elliott Kimball
[email protected] - Augusto “Gus” Peña
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International & Global Studies
- Yvonne Matlosz
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Kinesiology
- Dr. Donna Duffy
[email protected] - Dr. Diane Gill
[email protected] - Dr. Karen Poole
[email protected] - Dr. Sandra Shultz
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Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
- Dr. Veronica Grossi
[email protected] - Dr. Ana Hontanilla
[email protected] - Dr.Carmen SotoMayor
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Media Studies
- Dr. Emily Edwards
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Music
- Sarah Dorsey
[email protected] - Dr. Kailan Rubinoff
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Philosophy
- Dr. Insa Lawler
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Religious Studies
- Dr. Alyssa Gabbay
[email protected] - Dr. Ellen Haskell
[email protected] - Dr. Sherife Ayla Samli
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School of Nursing
- Dr. Betsy Lehman
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Social Work
- Dr. Jacalyn Claes
[email protected] - Dr. Judith Leitch
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Sociology
- Dr. Shelly Brown-Jeffy
[email protected] - Dr. Dana Dunn
[email protected] - Dr. Stephen Sills
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Student Health Services
- Dr. Jeanne Irwin-Olson
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Theatre
- Rachel Briley
[email protected] - Dr. Christine Morris
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Undergraduate Education
- Dr. John Sopper
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University Libraries
- Dr. Kathleen Crowe
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Warren Ashby Residential College
- Dr. Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
[email protected] - Dr. Will Dodson
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