Women's and Gender Studies Department
Faculty Profiles & Contact Info

WGS Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

WGS Faculty

Charlene Tung, Department Chair & Associate Professor

Office: Carson 32
Office hours: Th 10-Noon
Phone: 707.664.2086
email: charlene.tung@sonoma.edu

Courses: Gender and Globalization; Contemporary Feminist
Theory; Gender in Asian America; Gender, Race and Class; Gender, Sexuality and Family.

Dr. Tung's interests include gender and globalization, Asian American women's history/contemporary (im)migration, and gender and race-ethnicity in popular culture. Her publications include articles on Filipina migrant domestic workers employed as live-in eldercare workers in California. She has an M.A. (1996) and Ph.D (1999) from the University of California-Irvine. Charlene is on sabbatical until Fall 2009.

Don Romesburg. Assistant Professor

Office: Carson 11
Office Hours: Th 2 - 3:30 pm or by appointment
Phone: 707.664.2574
email: romesbur@sonoma.edu

Courses: Gender, Race and Class; Feminist Theory; Intro to Queer Studies; Men and Masculinity; Contemporary Feminist Theory; Queer Lecture Series

Dr. Romesburg's interests include sexuality and gender in U.S. history,childhood and adolescence, transgender studies, race and sexuality, and queer performance and popular culture. Subjects that his scholarly pubications address include male youth sex work, the social science and cultures of adolescence and homosexuality, the social history of queer performers, and male intimacy in popular culture. Don has an M.A. in history (2000) from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in history (2006) with an interdisciplinary Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lena McQuade. Assistant Professor

Office: Carson 31
Office Hours: Thursdays 10 - 12 pm
Phone: 664-2950
Email: mcquade@sonoma.edu

Courses: Women’s Bodies: Health and Image; Feminist Research Methods

Dr. McQuade’s research interests include reproductive politics, gender and race in U.S. public health, feminist interdisciplinary methodologies, U.S./Mexico border studies, and feminist, critical race, and queer theory. She has published on the history of parteras (midwives) in New Mexico, health along the U.S./Mexico border, and about the history of Jewish feminism and the bat mitzvah. She earned her B.A. from Sonoma State University majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and Liberal Studies (Hutchins). Her M.A. (2003) and Ph.D. (2008) are both in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Lena was a dissertation fellow in the Feminist Studies Department at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Adjunct Faculty

Suzel A. Bozada-Deas

Office: RCH 51
Office Hours: M: 2 - 3 pm
Email: bozada@sonoma.edu

Courses: Men and Masculinity; Gender and Work

Bozada-Deas is completing her sociology doctorate with a graduate certificate in Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation is entitled "The Making and Re-making of Masculinities among Men of Hispanic Descent: Relations of Gender, Race and Class in Rural South Texas." Suzel's academic interests include gender relations with an emphasis on masculinities; the intersections of gender, race, and class; Latino Studies; and the cultural production of social inequality. With Dr. Michael Messner, she has just published "Separating the Men from the Moms: The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports" in Gender and Society (2009).

Mary Churchill

Office: Carson 51
Office Hours: T/Th 12-1 pm
Phone. 707.664.3169
email: mary.churchill@sonoma.edu

Courses: Gender, Sexuality and Family

Dr. Churchill specializes in women’s/gender studies, ethnic studies and religious studies. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. (1997) in Religious Studies from UCSB. Published in leading journals and anthologies, her work focuses on gender, sexuality, and American Indian religious traditions. In 2001, Dr. Churchill held a prestigious Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Affiliated Faculty

Teresa Alfaro-Velcamp

Associate Professor, History
Ph.D. History, Georgetown Univeristy. Interests include: Mexico, Borderlands, Transnationalism & Gender.
Courses: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Barbara Bloom

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Ph.D. Sociology, UC-Riverside, 1996. Interest include: women/girls & criminal justice system; gender-responsive intervention & services.
Courses: Women and Crime

James Dean

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, SUNY-Albany. Interests include: sexuality, culture and social theory.
Courses: Sociology of Sexualities

Myrna Goodman

Associate Professor and Chair, Sociology. Director of Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide.
Ph.D. Sociology, UC-Davis. Interests include: Sociology of Genocide;
Courses: Sociology of Gender; Social Movements

Ada Jaarsma

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Phillosophy, Purdue, 2005. Interest include; queer theory, feminst theory.
Courses: Feminist Phillosophy

Patricia Kim-Rajal

Assistant Professor, Chicano Latino Studies
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Courses: Latina Feminisms

Elaine Leeder

Dean, School of Social Sciences.
Ph.D. Cornell University
Courses: Family Violence

Melinda Milligan

Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, UC-Davis. Interests include: Community and Urban Sociology
Courses: Sociology of Gender

Cindy Stearns

Professor of Sociology.
Ph.D. Sociology, UC Davis,1988. Interests include: sociology of reproduction, breastfeeding, gender and organizations.
Courses: Sociology of Reproduction

Elaine Wellin

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Interests include: Environmental sociology, gender, research methods.
Courses: Feminist Research Methods