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LeeRay M. Costa, (homepage) associate professor of anthropology and women's studies; B.A. University of California, San Diego; M.A. New York University; Ph.D. University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Professor Costa's teaching and research interests include women, activism and social justice, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, narrative methodology and feminist pedagogy. She is currently engaged in a collaborative research project with Hollins students entitled "Hollins Women Making Change" that focuses on the activist and social change work of Hollins alumnae. Her book, Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth, coauthored with her partner Andrew Matzner, was published in 2007 by Haworth Press.
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Susan L. Thomas, (homepage) associate professor of political science and women's studies; B.A. Calilfornia State Polytechnic University, M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.
Susan Thomas' academic interests include queer theory; critical theories of race and subjectivity; the intersectionality of women's rights and non-human animal rights; and the state's active complicity in the abuses of marginalized women living in poverty. Her work concerns the hidden power behind 'neutral' rules, the role of male heterosexual privilege in the construction of hierarchal rules and law-making processes, and the invisibility of those subordinated by the public/private divide. While her research focuses on contemporary U.S. culture and politics and their relation to political and economic forces, she addresses, more broadly, questions of gender, race, species and sexual identity in discourses and material practices of anthropocentrism, heteroarchy, and patriarchal capitalism. She is currently researching the politics and policy of civil union laws passed or under consideration in the United States.
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Michelle Abate, assistant professor of English; Sandy Boatman, professor of chemistry; Jennifer Boyle, assistant professor of English; Michael Gettings, associate professor of philosophy; Cathy Hankla, professor of English; Lori Joseph, associate professor of communication studies; Pauline Kaldas, assistant professor of English; Marilyn Moriarty, professor of English; Kathleen Nolan, associate professor of art; Julie Pfeiffer, associate professor of English; Kimberly Rhodes, associate professor of art history; Christina Salowey, associate professor of classical studies; Darla Schumm, associate professor of religious studies.
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