Faculty and Staff

Barbara J. Howe, Ph.D., Director, Associate Professor of History, barbara.howe@mail.wvu.edu
Barbara J. Howe received her B.A. in history and B. S. in secondary education from the University of Cincinnati, her M.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and her Ph.D. in history from Temple University.  She joined the WVU faculty in 1980 as a visiting assistant professor of history and coordinator of the public history option.  She served as chair of the Department of History from 1995 to 1998, when she became interim director of the Center for Women's Studies.  Howe became director of the Center for Women's Studies in July 2000.  She teaches the History of American Women course, in addition to courses in women's studies. She is co-chair of the advisory committee for the Status of Women in West Virginia report that the Institute for Women's Policy Research published in November 2002 and is secretary of the Community Coalition for Social Justice.  Howe's research interests focus on West Virginia women's history.

Judith Gold Stitzel, Ph.D., Founding Director of the Center for Women's Studies and Professor Emerita of English, goldstitzel@yahoo.com.

Kasi Jackson, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor, kasi.jackson@mail.wvu.edu.
Dr. Jackson received her B.A. with honors in biology and studio art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. She received a graduate certificate in women's studies from the University of Kentucky in 2000 and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Kentucky in 2003. Her dissertation was entitled "Science and categories: Representations of mating behavior convict cichlids (Archocentrus nigrofasciatum)." For the past two years, she has held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Houston's Women's Studies Program. Dr. Jackson joined the WVU Center for Women's Studies faculty in August of 2005, and teaches WMST 150: Women in Movies, WMST 170: Introduction to Women's Studies, WMST 330: Feminist Theory, WMST 630: Feminist Theories, WMST 494: Capstone Seminar, and WMST 794: Seminar.

Cathy Jasper, Administrative Associate, cjasper2@wvu.edu

 

Susan D. Rumer , Website Administrator, rumer.wmst@gmail.com
Susan is currently working on updating other areas of the website, and will insert a biographical paragraph in this space at a later date.

 

 

Fall 2006 Work Study Students

Kelly DeLucy        Marzieh Nahari

 

 

2006-2007 Graduate Teaching Assistants

• Whitney Braham
• Kylie Evans
• Mindy Graham
• Kayla Kreitzer
• Karolina Wozniak