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Susan Haworth-Hoeppner, Sociology, Ph.D
Director, JHI Women's Studies Center
Phone: (616) 632-2974
E-mail: haworsus@aquinas.edu |
| Susan Haworth-Hoeppner is Associate Professor of Sociology at Aquinas College and Director of the Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center . She received her doctorate in Sociology from Wayne State University in 1996 in Detroit . Her areas of specialization are gender studies, medical sociology, social psychology, and qualitative methods and she has taught in these areas for over 15 years. She currently teaches (SY201) Social Psychology, (SY312) Social Stratification, (SY305) Sociology of Gender, (SY311) Sociology of Women, and (WS100) Introduction to Women's Studies. Professor Haworth-Hoeppner's research interests include body image, eating disorders, and women and leadership. She has published articles in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and Symbolic Interaction, among other scholarly journals, and she is currently working on a book on eating disorders. When not working on her book, she can be found digging in her garden in the summer. |
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Rebecca J. Coogan, Ph.D.
Phone: (616) 632-2833
E-mail: coogareb@aquinas.edu |
| As member of the English Department, Dr. Coogan teaches courses in her specialty areas of medieval literature and women's writing, as well as courses in fiction and composition. Her primary research interests are the Paston letters and Chaucer. A lover of travel, Dr. Coogan has studied in England and Austria and has enjoyed a semester as faculty director of the Ireland Program. Before coming to Michigan in 1989, she lived and studied in upstate New York. She has taught at Grand Valley State University and joined the Aquinas faculty in 1991. |
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Michael Cushion, Sociology, Ph.D
Phone: (616) 632-2079
E-mail: cushiw@aquinas.edu |
| Michael Cushion came to Aquinas from the State of Michigan , where he served as a caseworker and policy analyst in the Department of Social Services. Michael earned his doctoral degree in 1993 and joined Aquinas in 1996. His academic specialties are conflict and social change, gender and the family. He is currently working on a project studying the portrayal of technology in the science fiction television show Star Trek. He lives with his wife and daughter in Eagle, Michigan. |
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Jennifer Dawson, English, Ph.D
Phone: (616) 632-2828
E-mail: dawsojen@aquinas.edu |
| Jennifer Dawson earned her BA in English from the University of Michigan , and her MA from Michigan State University where she recently obtained her Ph.D. Her doctoral dissertation was on 19th century American women writers. She taught at Michigan State University and Grand Valley State University before joining Aquinas College 's faculty in 2001. Her main area of scholarly interest is American literature and culture with a special emphasis on women writers, conduct manuals, periodical literature, letter writing and nineteenth century history. She applies this knowledge to teaching American literature courses and various writing courses. When she is not teaching or writing, Dawson stays busy playing with her children, gardening, skiing and hiking. |
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Michelle DeRose, English, Ph.D
Phone: (616) 632-2826
E-mail: derosmic@aquinas.edu |
| Michelle DeRose joined the English Department full-time in August 1999 to use her specialty in post-colonial literature and theory to teach the world and African-American literature courses. She is also the director of the Insignis Program for Honors Students, advisor for the Novel Experience, and an active poet. Her publications include both original poetry and scholarly work on poetry. She earned her Ph.D. with a focus on Caribbean epic poetry from the University of Iowa in 1996, where she learned to imagine ocean waves in the undulations of the cornfields and to love bicycling alongside those cornfields. Besides teaching, writing, and bicycling, Michelle loves any outdoor activity that requires neither motor nor ball and spends most of her free time hiking, canoeing, backpacking, camping, or cross-country skiing with her husband Myron, son Parker and their two dogs. |
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Michaeleen Kelly, Philosophy, Ph.D
Phone: (616) 632-2839
E-mail: kellymic@aquinas.edu |
| Dr. Michaeleen Kelly is a professor of Philosophy with areas of specialization in Feminist Theory, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. She was the director of the Women's Studies Center at Aquinas College from 1994-95 and from 1998-99. She has also been an active member of the Women's Studies Advisory Board. Her article, "Rights and Power: A Feminist Re-Thinking of Liberal Rights," has been published in the Journal of Social Philosophy and her paper, "The Michigan Militia and the Emersonian Ideal of Self-Reliance," was presented in March 1999 at the National Conference for Criminal Justice. Her current research project centers on the question of the impact of computerization in academia on accountablility, relationships of power within academic institutions and on professional development. Most recently Professor Kelly spent several weeks in Ghana as part of a Fullbright study with Glenn Barkan, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Kurt Kaiser of the Art Department. |
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Molly Patterson, Political Science
Phone: (616) 632-2841
E-mail: pattemol@aquinas.edu |
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Molly
Patterson joined the Aquinas faculty in fall of 2005.
She is completing her graduate work in political science
at the University of California, Irvine. Her political
science interests include participatory forms of democracy,
citizen education and development, and issues of power
and social justice. She uses feminist theory in her
work on democracy because it provides some of the most
interesting insights for thinking about how power operates
and how identities and ideologies are formed and maintained.
Her class on Sexism and Power looks at different ways
that feminism has thought about the nature of sexism
and power in order to help students formulate their
own understandings of these concepts, critically reflect
on the role of gender in their own lives and values,
and develop their own visions of political change and
a more just world.
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Renee Beth Stahle, Communication, Ph.D.
Phone: (616) 632-2497
E-mail: stahlren@aquinas.edu |
Renee Stahle earned her BA in Sociology from Saginaw Valley State College, her MA in Sociology from Michigan State University, and a Dual Ph.D. in Communication and Sociology from Michigan State University. Renee is currently a Professor of Communication at Aquinas College where she teaches courses on family communication, gender communication, group communication, interpersonal communication and organizational communication. Her research interests include interpersonal conflict and men and women in cartoon humor. Renee is the author of a textbook on organizational communication. Her nonacademic life includes entertaining her cat, reading, tennis, cross country skiing and enjoying the winter, water wonderland that is the great state of Michigan.
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Deborah Wickering, Sociology, Ph.D.
Phone: (616) 632-2075
E-mail: wickedeb@aquinas.edu |
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Dr.
Wickering is a cultural anthropologist. Her research
among Bedouin women in the Sinai desert of Egypt lead
to her interests in gender, indigenous peoples, oral
culture and tourism. Dr. Wickering joined the faulty
of Aquinas College in 1999. She teaches anthropology,
women's studies, and writing.
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