Gender Studies Leadership Team
Dr. Amy Von Lintel - avonlintel@wtamu.edu
Director of Gender Studies
Professor of Art History
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
Misty Gamble - mgamble@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of Art
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
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
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
Dr. Noah Franken - nfranken@wtamu.edu
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Areas of interest: interpersonal communication, identity, and family communication
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
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
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
Dr. Monica Hart - mhart@wtamu.edu
Professor of English
Areas of interest: feminist literary theory, British women writers, poetry, psychoanalytic theory, the Gothic
Dr. Alex Hunt - ahunt@wtamu.edu
Professor of English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages
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.
Dr. Bonnie Roos - broos@wtamu.edu
Professor of English
Research Director, College of Fine Arts and Humanities
Dr. Pat Tyrer - ptyrer@wtamu.edu
Professor of English
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
Dr. Matt Reardon - mreardon@wtamu.edu
Associate Professor of History
Music
Dr. Kimberly Hieb - khieb@wtamu.edu
Associate Professor of Music
Political Science and Criminal Justice
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
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
Sports and Exercise Science
Dr. Vanessa Fiaud – vfiaud@wtamu.edu
Associate Professor of Sports and Exercise Sciences
Areas of Interests: Gender differences in movements, balance/equilibrium assessments, effect of menopause on health and sports skills, evolution of Olympic Games.
