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Faculty
Core Faculty |
Dr. Ramona Liera-Schwichtenberg
Dr. Ramona Liera-Schwichtenberg is Associate Professor of
Women's Studies. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Communication
Studies, and has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the
University of Georgia.
She has published widely in the areas of post modern theory,
cultural criticism and media (film/TV). She teaches The American Woman in
Popular Culture, Latinas in Culture and Society, Theories of Feminism, and
various film topics classes. She is working on a book on fashion and
representation. She is active in Communication Studies on the national
level and in the Latina community.
ramona.liera-schwichtenberg@wichita.edu
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Dr. Deborah Gordon
Dr. Deborah A. Gordon
is Associate Professor of Women's Studies. She received her Ph.D. in the
History of Consciousness with an emphasis in Feminist Theory from the
University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published widely on issues
in feminism and the anthropological practices of ethnography and fieldwork.
Her research now concerns feminism and nationalism among
Palestinians struggling for independentstatehood in the occupied territories
of Israel. Debbie teaches Gender, Race and Knowledge, Women in Society:
Cultural Images,and Theories of Feminism.
deborah.gordon@wichita.edu
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Dr. Chinyere Grace Okafor
Dr. Chinyere Grace Okafor, poet, playwright and short story writer, is
an Associate Professor of Literature and Women's' Studies, Wichita State
University, Kansas. She has taught at the University of Southern Maine,
Portland, ME, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD and at the University of Benin,
Benin-City, Nigeria among other places. Her areas are gender and cultural
studies and she has taught literature, theater and women's studies.
She is presently the Vice President of the Association of African Women
Scholars; Board member, Global Learning Center; Board member, Museum of
African Tribal Arts.
Chinyere Okafor has published widely in both academic and
creative writing journals. She is a poet and playwright and has won awards
for her creative writing. Her current research area is on gender and African
masking.
chinyere.okafor@wichita.edu
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Dr. Doris Chang
Dr. Doris Chang is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Wichita State University.
She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of History at The Ohio State University in 2002.
Her areas of specialties include East Asian history and the history of women's movements in Asia and
the United States. Recently, she contributed an article about the Taiwanese women's movement in the
post-martial law era to an edited book entitled Engendering the Taiwan Miracle. Currently,
she is working on a book manuscript titled Recreating Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan.
In addition, Dr. Chang did extensive research on the New Feminism of Ms. Hsiu-lien Annette Lu,
the Vice President of Taiwan. Her courses include Women in World Religions; Women in Society: Social Issues,
and Asian Women in Modern History. She is also the coordinator of Women's
History Month.
doris.chang@wichita.edu
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Religion Faculty |
Stuart Lasine
Stuart Lasine is Professor of Religion in the Ransom-Butler Department
of Religion at WSU. Dr. Lasine joined the WSU Religion Department in 1984.
He had previously taught biblical studies, comparative literature, classics,
and interdisciplinary humanities at The Ohio State University, Western
Washington University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and The University
of Michigan. From 1996-1999 Dr. Lasine served as Graduate Coordinator
for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program here at WSU.
Dr. Lasine is the author of over thirty articles on biblical studies
and comparative literature, as well as the 2001 book Knowing Kings:
Knowledge, Power and Narcissism in the Hebrew Bible. In addition to
making scholarly presentations throughout the United States and Europe,
he has appeared on two A & E network series, Biography and Mysteries of
the Bible. He is currently working on a commentary to the biblical book
of 1 Kings, as well as several articles on biblical prophets and the meanings
of death in the Hebrew Bible.
stuart.lasine@wichita.edu
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Wes Bergen
Wes Bergen is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion.
He holds a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the University of Toronto. His
dissertation, Elisha and the End of Prophetism, was published by Sheffield
Academic Press. He has also published articles on women and the Bible,
literary theory, and ritual in the Bible. He is currently writing a book
on ritual in Leviticus.
Wes teaches New Testament-
both introduction classes and classes on Jesus. He is also a pastor at
New Creation Fellowship in Newton, KS.
wbergen@sbcglobal.net
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