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Gender Studies Leadership Team

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Dr. Amy Von Lintel - avonlintel@wtamu.edu  
Director of Gender Studies
Professor of Art History

 

Kris Drumheller

Dr. Kristina Drumheller - kdrumheller@wtamu.edu
Associate Dean, Communication, Art, Theatre & Dance
Professor of Communication Studies
Areas of interest: social identity construction particularly as it relates to organizational communication and issues of work-life balance; the impact of identity in organizational crises or crises that occur with organizations directly related to issues impacting women and LGBTQIA communities

Faculty Across Campus

Art, Theatre, and Dance

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Misty Gamble - mgamble@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of Art

 

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Anne Medlock, MFA - amedlock@wtamu.edu
Professor of Theatre
Areas of interest: gendering of bodies in clothing and costumes throughout history; roles of gender and sexuality in theater performance

 

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Echo Sunyata Sibley. M.F.A., M.M. -  esibley@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Areas of Interest: Roles of gender and sexuality in theatre performance, feminism as applied to theatrical texts, female and LGBTQA+ playwrights, the history of women in clowning, silent films, devising, comedy and commedia dell’arte.

 

Business

Andrew Li

Dr. Andrew Li - ali@wtamu.edu
Williams Professor of Management
Associate Professor of Management
Areas of Interest: how gender impacts individuals' identification with their work and family roles and their ability to balance demands from different domains in life, and how gender identity impacts important work-life decisions

 

Communication

 

 

Noah Franken 

Dr. Noah Franken - nfranken@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Areas of interest: interpersonal communication, identity, and family communication

 

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Dr. George Pacheco, Jr. - gpacheco@wtamu.edu 
Associate Professor of Communication
Areas of interest: issues related to culture, Latinex identities, and first-generational college students

 

Counseling and Education

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Dr. Leigh Green - legreen@wtamu.edu
Associate Professor of Education
Areas of interest: Student-Veteran transition to campus, women veterans, rape culture on college campuses, feminist theory in counseling, LGBTQIA studies

 

English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages

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Dr. Matthew Harrison - mharrison@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of English

Areas of interest: the recovery and analysis of women's writing, feminism and queer theory as applied to early modern texts, gendered metaphors for writing

 

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Dr. Monica Hart mhart@wtamu.edu
Professor of English
Areas of interest: feminist literary theory, British women writers, poetry, psychoanalytic theory, the Gothic

 

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Dr. Alex Hunt - ahunt@wtamu.edu
Professor of English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages

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Dr. Laura J. Mueller lmueller@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Laura J. Mueller's research is on philosophy of culture, philosophy of education, and philosophy as a way of life. Her teaching and research in philosophy of culture includes matriarchal theory and mythic thinking as symbolic forms of knowledge and culture. She has contributed to collections such as Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life (Brill, 2022), The Cultural Power of Personal Objects: Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives (SUNY, 2021), and The Person at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Approach (Vernon, 2020). She is an editor for Eidos. A Journal of Philosophy of Culture. She is certified in Logic-Based Therapy through the Logic-Based Therapy and Consultation Institute.

 

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Dr. Bonnie Roos - broos@wtamu.edu
Professor of English
Research Director, College of Fine Arts and Humanities

 

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Dr. Pat Tyrer - ptyrer@wtamu.edu
Professor of English

 

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Dr. Rebecca Weir 
Assistant Professor of English
Areas of interest: film studies, multicultural American literature, memoir and life writing, global modernisms, LGBTQIA art & activism, literary theory, gender and cultural studies, feminist and queer theory 

 

History


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Dr. Matt Reardon - mreardon@wtamu.edu
Associate Professor of History

 

Music

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Dr. Kimberly Hieb - khieb@wtamu.edu
Associate Professor of Music

Political Science and Criminal Justice

Dawn Jordan

Dawn Marie J. Jordan, MA djordan@wtamu.edu    
Instructor of Criminal Justice
Areas of Interest: specialty in Community Corrections; research interests include human trafficking, female sex offender and serial killers; women involved in the mafia and gangs

 

 

Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work

 

Dr. Maxine DeButte - mdebutte@wtamu.edu
Associate Professor of Psychology

Dr. Kenneth Denton - kdenton@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of Psychology

 

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Dr. Nicole Kraus - nkraus@wtamu.edu 
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Areas of interest: social stratification and intersectional analyses that considers the importance of gender, class, and race.

 

Dr. Jenifer Kunz - jkunz@wtamu.edu
Professor of Sociology

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Contacts

Dr. Amy Von Lintel
Director of Gender Studies
806-651-2794
Mary Moody Northen Hall, 161
WTAMU Box 60238, Canyon, TX 79016
806-651-2777