FACULTY
& STAFF
The Women's Studies Department collaborates with faculty,
departments, and programs across campus to offer a wide
variety of courses, both within the academic discipline
of Women's Studies as well as in related disciplines. In
addition to the Women's Studies faculty, Women's Studies
related courses are taught by faculty in such disciplines
as Sociology, Anthropology, Art, English, Biology, Social
Work, Health, and Psychology.
Our courses range from the arts and humanities to the natural
and social sciences and education. We also work in collaboration
with other area colleges and universities. Students may
cross-register at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and
the College of St. Scholastica to provide an even greater
diversity of course offerings.
- Kamau, Njoki - Department Head, Associate Professor,
H 475
mkamau@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-6781
Njoki M. Kamau, Associate Professor, has a Ph.D (OISE)
in Sociology from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her
fields of study include: Education, Sociology and Women's
Studies. Her research interests include: globalization
and women; women's lives; women in third world development;
race, class and gender in the United States. She is very
interested in HIV/AIDS in Africa. She teaches Women, Race
and Class; Third World Women and Introduction to Women's
Studies.
- Ritmeester, Tineke - Associate Professor, H 485
tritmees@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-6224
Tineke Ritmeester, Associate Professor, is a feminist
activist who joined the Women's Studies Department at UMD
in 1987 and was its chair 1996-1999. She grew up in Rotterdam,
The Netherlands and arrived in the USA as a domestic worker
in 1966. As an undergraduate she studied sociology at the
University of Missouri (St. Louis, 1972). She received a
master's degree in German Area Studies from Washington University
(St. Louis, 1975). She then spent several years studying
social philosophy in Germany and The Netherlands. She received
her doctorate from Washington University with a thesis on
Rainer Maria Rilke in feminist perspective (St. Louis, 1987).
Her teaching and research interests include peace and justice,
male violence against women, feminist cinema, political
women's autobiographies, lesbian culture, women and food,
communal living, liberation movements, transnational feminism,
women and music. Her primary goals in teaching are to internationalize
and raise consciousness. She has published in areas ranging
from Women's Studies to German to Queer Studies. Currently
she is a member of the Women's Music History Project and
is also working on the history of Chester Creek House, a
lesbian communal household of which she has been an active
member since 1994.
- Bartlett, Beth - Professor, H 481
bbartlet@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-8284
Beth Bartlett, Professor, was one of the "founding
mothers" of Women's Studies at UMD. She was a member
of the Political Science Department at UMD for 19 years,
though she had been an adjunct faculty member of Women's
Studies during that time as well. She became a member
of the Women's Studies Department in 1999, serving as
the Department Head since that time. She holds a BA in
Philosophy from the College of Wooster, an MA in Political
Science from Kent State University, and a PhD in Political
Science from the University of Minnesota. Her areas of
interest include feminist theory, feminist spirituality,
and peace and justice, and she teaches and researches
in these areas. Her publications include Sarah Grimke's
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays
(Yale, 1988); Liberty, Equality, Sorority: The Origins
and Interpretation of American Feminist Thought: Frances
Wright, Sarah Grimke, and Margaret Fuller (Carlson, 1994);
Journey of the Heart: Spiritual Insights on the Road to
a Transplant (Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1997); and Rebellious
Feminism: Camus's Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). She has been nominated to
Who's Who Among America's Teachers several times, and
is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts 2003-4
Teaching Award and the College of Liberal Arts 2003-4
Research Award. She shares her home with her husband and
teen-aged son, both musicians, as well as two dogs and
cats. She is involved in the peace and justice movement,
enjoys writing, walking in the woods, and kayaking, and
loves making music with her long-time women's music group,
Wild By Nature.
- Laura Stolle Schmidt- Department Secretary, H 494
lstolle@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-7953
Laura Stolle Schmidt has just joined the department as
secretary. She was an activist in the Duluth Women's and
GLBT communities in the 90's and has just returned from
a brief 8-year sojourn in Minneapolis. Her new life in
the Duluth area includes 40 acres and a tiny house with
two dogs, two very old cats, and eighteen chickens.
- Christian, Cindy - Assistant Professor, KPlz 138
alworth@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-8616
Cindy M. Christian, Assistant Professor, holds a PhD
in Political Science from Binghamton University in Binghamton,
New York. Her areas of interest include international
relations, international political economy, Latin American
politics, and women and politics. She has taught both
political science and women's studies courses over the
past 15 years. She has traveled to Honduras and Mexico
to study development programs and the impact of global
economic policies. She is currently the Program Associate
for UMD's Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International
Studies. She enjoys reading fiction and spending time
with her family which includes her partner, originally
from Iran and a Professor of Political Science at the
University of Wisconsin Superior; her six-year-old daughter,
Isabel (named after Isabel Allende); and her West-Highland
Terrier, Miss Jean Brodie.
- Nichols, Angie - Instructor, KSC 245
anichols@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-7300
Angie Nichols, Instructor, earned her B.A. in German
Studies, minor in International Studies from Winona State
University in 1996. She earned her M.S. degree in Education,
majoring in College Student Personnel in 1998 from the
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. She has been the
Director of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Services
at UMD since 2000, and has taught Introduction to Women's
Studies, Women Identified Culture and Introduction to
College Learning. Additionally, Ms. Nichols is a U.S.
Army veteran (1990-94).
- Woodward, Susana Pelayo - Instructor, KSC 233
swoodwar@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-8444
Susana Pelayo-Woodward, has worked at the University
of Minnesota Duluth since 1992. She has taught in the
Department of Women's Studies since 1996. She holds
Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International
Studies, a Masters Degree in Education from the University
of Minnesota Duluth. She is currently working on an
Educational Doctorate in Administration in Higher Education
from the University of Minnesota. Her areas of interest
include Feminist movements in Latin America, Chicana
Feminist, Latinos participation in education, and race,
class and gender in the United States. She has taught
the following courses for the Department of Women's
Studies: Women, Race and Class, Latin American Women:
Culture and Politics, Introduction to Women's Studies
and Women and Film. She is currently the Director of
the Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Learning Resource Center
and Women's Resource and Action Center. She oversees
academic and cultural programming, facilitates leadership
development and provides the campus and community with
diversity awareness and educational programming. She
is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts 2003-4
Teaching Award and the Commission on Women 2003-2004
Linda M. Larson Women of the Year Award. In 2002, she
received the University of Minnesota President's Award
for Outstanding Service. She shares her home with her
partner David and their two sons Marcos and Sebastian.
She has lead two delegations to Mexico to study the
impact of global economic policies in women and indigenous
communities. She is involved in human rights and peace
and justice movements, enjoys reading, and traveling
to Mexico to visit her family and friends.
- Joan Varney - Assistant Professor, MonH 109
jvarney@d.umn.edu,
(218) 726-8343
Joan Varney is a lesbian feminist activist
mother, and an Assistant Professor in Education, who earned
her degree from University of Wisconsin -Madison in Race,
Class and Gender Studies in Curriculum Theory with a minor
in in Women's Studies. She teaches Inroduction to Women's
Studies, as well as courses on multicultural education
and human diversity. My research interests include queer
Asian Americans and schooling, intergrating women of color
into the curriculum, effectiveness of urban school placements,
and changing institutional racial climates.
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