Our Team
Elizabeth Sharp
Human Development & Family Studies
Women’s & Gender Studies
Elizabeth Sharp is the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies. Her research focuses on ideologies of gender and families. She recently engaged in a multi-year transdisciplinary research project, integrating social science data and live performance.
Dana Weiser
Human Development & Family Studies
Dana Weiser is an Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences and a faculty affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her work examines how family experiences shape young adults' later relationship experiences and sexual behaviors, with a particular focus on infidelity and sexual violence.
Don Lavigne
Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Don Lavigne is an Associate Professor of Classics and Affiliate Faculty Member in Women's and Gender Studies. His research concerns gender and sexuality in ancient Greek and Roman poetry in general and, in particular, the way gender is used to construct poetic voices.
Allison Whitney
English
Allison Whitney is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English. Her research focuses on the intersection of technological history with gender, race, and sexuality in genre cinema. She also conducts oral history research on the film culture of West Texas.
Michael Borshuk
English
Michael Borshuk is an Associate Professor of African American Literature in the Department of English, an Affiliate Faculty Member in Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of the Humanities Center. He is the author of Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature and the editor of the forthcoming Jazz and American Culture.
Christy Rogers
Human Development and Family Sciences
Christy Rogers is an Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences and a faculty affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Their work investigates how family relationships, such as siblings and parents, influence adolescent experiences, behavior, and well-being across time.
Jess Smith
English
Jess Smith is Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of English. Her work can be found in Prairie Schooner, Waxwing, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, and other journals. She received her MFA from The New School and is the recipient of scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center.