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Women's Studies Faculty Page
* Denotes Women's Studies Program Advisory Board Member.
Director of Women's Studies
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Dr. Brenda Risch A.* Assistant Professor
LART Room 233
(915) 747-6132
brisch@utep.edu
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Women's Studies Lecturers
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Dr. Lee Ann Westman Visiting Professor
LART Room 233
lewestman@utep.edu
Dr. Lee Ann Elliott Westman holds a BA in Humanities from Brigham Young University, and a MA and PhD in Humanities from Florida State University. She was a Professor of Humanities at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI for nine years before coming to UTEP as a Visiting Professor in the Fall of 2007. Dr. Westman has a joint appointment in Humanities and Women's Studies at UTEP, and teaches courses that examine the connections between historical events and cultural production; she is particularly interested in the relationship between gender and cultural production and pursues that query in courses such as "Women and the Fine Arts" and "The Nude Body in Art and Popular Culture."
Dr. Westman's research focuses primarily on Mary Jane Holmes, a 19th-century American woman writer of domestic fiction. Her chapter, “How Mary Jane Holmes saved the New York Ledger, and Other True Stories,” is found in Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, a collection of essays edited by Earl Yarington and Mary de Jong (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). Her chapter focuses on Holmes and the 19th-century American literary marketplace. An essay on Holmes appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers as well. Currently, Dr Westman is working on a critical edition of Holmes's first novel, Tempest and Sunshine, to be published by Edwin Mellen Press. Dr. Westman has presented multiple papers on Holmes at academic conferences; most recently, she presented her research on Holmes’s novel The Merivale Banks at the November, 2007 M/MLA meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Westman is a member of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers as well as the National Association for Humanities Education (NAHE). She served on NAHE’s board for four years and has been the membership chair for the organization since 2003.
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Jess Weinberg Lecturer
LART Room 233
jweinberg@utep.edu
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DeAnna Varela Lecturer
LART Room 233
dkvarela@utep.edu
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College of Liberal Arts
African American Studies
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Dr. Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr. Associate Professor
LA Room 401
(915) 747-8650
mdailey@utep.edu
http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?=academcis.utep.edu/aasp
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Chicano Studies
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Dr. Dennis J. Bixler-Marquez Chicana/o Studies Director, Professor
GRA Room 104
(915) 747-5462
dbixlerm@utep.edu
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- Dr. Dennis J. Bixler-Marquez's primary areas of research are border security issues, educational sociolinguistics, language policy, multicultural education, immigration, and Vietnam War Latino issues. Read more
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Department of Communications
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Dr. Stacey Sowards* Associate Professor
QUI Room 205
(915) 747-8854
ssowards@utep.edu
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- Dr. Sowards' research interests include: rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist theories of communication, environmental communication and rhetoric, and intercultural communication and rhetoric.Read more
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Dr. Patricia Witherspoon, Director, Chair of Communications
COT Room 202
(915) 747- 6287
withersp@utep.edu
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Criminal Justice Program
- Legal Psychology: Eyewitness identification, memory and decision making; Lineup construction and fairness evaluation; Science and public policy development; Assessment of the policy readiness of scientific domains. Read more
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Department of English
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Dr. Meredith E. Abarca* Associate Professor
HUD Room 113
(915) 747-6249
mabarca@utep.edu
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- Dr. Abarca teaches courses in Chicana/o Literature, Mexican-American Folflore, Introduction to the 20th- Century U.S. Literature and special topics courses in the areas of literature and film of the Americas and Women Philosophers in the Kitchen. Read more
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- Course taught by Armitage include American literature surveys; contemporary literature; special topics including African-American Women Writers, Gender and Genre, postmodernism, arts and environment; and various interdisciplinary courses; Women's and Gender studies, and Honors classes. Read more
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Dr. Isabel Baca Assistant Professor
English
HUD Room 312
(915) 747-5731
ibaca@utep.edu
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- Assistan Professor Isabel Baca completed her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication at New Mexico State University. Her dissertation entitled entitled "English, Spanish, or Los Dos? Examinning Language Behavior among Four English/Spanish Bilingual Families Residing on the El Paso, Texas/Juarez, Mexico Border" sparked her interest in the research area of bilingualism, discourse analysis, and intercultural communication. Read more
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- Dr. Maryse Jayasuriya earned her MA and PhD from Purdue University and her BA from Mount Holyoke College. Her primary area of study is Postcolonial Literature and Theory. Read more
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- Courses taught by Dr. Gladstein include Graduate Seminar in Hemingway and Steinbeck, Graduate Seminar in Age of Satire, Graduate Seminar in Women Writers and Writing, Graduate Seminar in Biography and Autobiography of the Female Experience, Text and Cinema, and John Steinbeck. Read more
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Dr. Bruce Lawson Associate Professor
English
HUD Room 218
(915) 747-5519
blawson@utep.edu
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- Dr. Bruce Lawson, Associate Professor of Enlgish, has taught at UTEP since 1988. He has been Assistant Chair of the English Department and is currently Director of the University's Religious Studies Program. He earned an M.A. from San Diego State University and an MA and PhD from the University of Southern California. Read more
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Dr. Deane Mansfield-Kelley Assistant Professor
HUD Room 315
(915) 747-5222
deane@utep.edu
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- Courses currently taught by Dr. Mansfield-Kelley include Writing about Literature, Introduction to Fiction, 19th Century American Fiction, American Literature, Native American Literature, Detective Fiction and Young Adult Literature. Read more
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Dr. Lois Marchino* Associate Professor
English
HUD Room 219
(915)747-5137
lmarchin@utep.edu
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- Courses taught include Women and Literature, Introduction to American Fiction, Introduction to American Drama, British Literature Survey and Contemporary Women Writers. Read more
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Dr. Evelyn Posey Department of English Chair, Professor
HUD Room 113
(915) 747-6642
eposey@utep.edu
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- Evelyn Posey was first hired as a UTEP writing center tutor and then Coordinator while a graduate student in the Department of English in the late 70's. Because of her success with introducing computers into the center, she was subsequently asked to create two new centers on campus: The Liberal Arts Computer Laboratory and the Academic Development Center. Read more
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- (PhD, University of Notre Dame) U.S. Latino/a Literature, 20th Century American and Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures, Caribbean Literature, Literature of the Americas, Comparative Immigrant Literatures in the United States and the European Union.
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- Steven Varela is currently the editor of the Guide to First Year Composition, and teaches Composition courses, along with University Studies. Read more
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Department of History
- Sandra McGee Deutsch is professor of history, specializing in twentieth-century Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. She teaches courses on South America, Caribbean/Central America, Latin America women and gender, Latin-American Jews, and other post-independence topics. Read more
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Dr. Yolanda Chavez Leyva Professor
LART Room 311
(915) 747-7067
yleyva@utep.edu
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- Yolanda Chavez Leyva is a Chicana historian and writer. She has spent her life listening to and now documenting the lives of people who live on la frontera. Read more
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- Dana Wessell Lightfoot received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2005. Her research interests focus on women's and gender history in medieval and early modern Spain. She recently published an article in the Women's History Review entitled "Family Interests? Women's Power: The Absence of Family in Dowry Restitution Cases in Fifteenth-Century Spain." Read more
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Dr. Michael Topp Associate Dean College of Liberal Arts,
LART Room 315 Associate Professor
(915) 747-7053
mtopp@utep.edu
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- Michael Topp specializes in racial and ethnic history, working-class history, and the history of social movements in the United States. Read more
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Humanities
Department of Language & Linguistics
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Dr. Jane Evans Assistant Professor
LART Room 126
(915) 747-7029
jeevans@utep.edu
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- Dr. Evans is a specialist in Algerian literature written in French, as well as in French literature, film and language. Her dissertation analyzed the novels of Malika Mokeddem, an expatriate Algerian writer living in France. Besides her continued interest in fiction written by Algerian women...Read more
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Dr. Holly Jacobson Director of Translation and Interpretation Studies
LART Room 137
hejacobson@utep.edu
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- Holly E. Jacobson, PhD, is a specialist in the areas of Second Language Acquisition and Translation and Interpretation Studies. Read more
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Dr. Kirsten Nigro Department Chair
LART Room 137
(915) 747-5767
kfnigro@utep.edu
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- Dr. Nigro's Interests are in Latin American and Mexican theatre, Border studies, performance theory, Latin American women writers and translation. Read more
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Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Dr. Julia Bader Research Specialist, Lecturer
BEL Room 137
(915) 747-6965
jbader@utep.edu
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Department of Philosophy
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Dr. Jules Simons Chair of Philosophy
WOR Room 304
(915) 747-7912
jsimon@utep.edu
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- Jules Simon, born 1956 in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA); BA in English Literature with concentrations in Philosophy and Religion at Northwestern University in 1979; PhD in Philosophy of Religion in 1994 at Temple University with studies in Continental philosophy...Read more
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Department of Political Science
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Dr. Irasema Coronado Associate Dean College of Liberal Arts,
Associate Professor
BEN Room 308
(915) 747 -7980
icoronado@utep.edu
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- Irasema Coronado received her bachelor's degree in political science and a certificate of Latin American Studies from the University of South Florida. Read more
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- Kathleen (Kathy) Staudt is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement. Read More
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Dr. William Weaver Interim Director, Associate Professor
KEL Room 416
(915) 747-8867
wweaver@utep.edu
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- Dr. Weaver teaches mainly in the areas of judicial process, constitutional law, private law and public policy, and abuse of official power. Read more
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Department of Psychology
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Dr. John S. Wiebe Associate Professor
PSY Room 106
(915) 747-6563
jwiebe@utep.edu
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- My research has focused on adaptation to severe chronic medical conditions, such as end-stage renal disease and HIV infection. Read more
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Department of Socialogy and Anthropology
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Teresa Hibbert, M.A Guest Lecturer
MAI Room 314
(915) 747-5714
tdhibbert@utep.edu
http://faculty.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=faculty.edu/tdhibbert
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Dr. Guillermina Gina Nuñez-Mchiri* Assistant Professor of Anthropology
MAI Room 207
(915) 747-6529
ggnunez@utep.edu
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Center for Environmental Resource Management
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Patricia Juarez MPH Program Coordinator/Manager
BUR Room 216B
(915) 747-6649
pjuarez@utep.edu
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College of Business and Administration
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Dr. Pat Eason CPA, Associate Dean College of Business
Administration, Associate Professor
COBA Room 101
Ph: (915) 747-5241
Fax: (915) 747-5147
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- Dr. Pat Eason joined the Department of Accounting at UTEP in1995. A CPA, she received her BBA in Accounting (1981). Read more
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Dr. Frank Hoy Professor
Kelly Hall Room 104
Phone: (915) 747-7727
Fax: 747-8748
fhoy@utep.edu
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- Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management, Strategic Management, Family Business Management. Read more
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College of Engineering
Computer Science
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Dr. Ann Q. Gates Chair, Professor
CS Room 234
(915) 747-6952
agates@utep.edu
http://faculty.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=faculty.utep.edu/agates
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College of Education
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Dr. Elaine Hampton Department Chair, Associate Professor
Education Room 611
(915) 747-7679
ehampton@utep.edu
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- Research areas: Assessment, Equity In Science Education, Curriculum Impact of Globalization Read more
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Dr. Elena Izquierdo Associate Professor
Education Building Room 601
(915) 747-5426
ielena@utep.edu
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- Applied Linguistics and Bilingual Education Read more
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Maria Tabuneca - will be back on summer to teach La Chicana
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College of Health Sciences
- Professor Amaya's research has focused on environmental health problems affecting women and children on the border and prevention of lead exposure in children. Read more
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Dr. Robert L. Anders Dean, School of Nursing
HSB Room 102
(915) 747-8217
rlanders@utep.edu
http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=6302
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Dr. Tom Olson
CHS Room 407
(915) 747-7246
tolson@utep.edu
http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=16787
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Department of Health Promotion
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Dr. Brenda Smith, CHES Associate Professor
CHS Room 717
(915) 747-7296
sbrenda@utep.edu
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- Research Interests: Human Sexuality, Aging, Intimate Partner Violence, Health Behavior. Read more
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Dr. Joe Tomaka Director of the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
CHS Room 717 Ph.D. Program, Associate Professor.
(915) 747-7437
jtomaka@utep.edu
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- Research interests: Social psychology and health, Behavioral approaches to alcohol, risk reduction, stress, coping, and cardiovascular reactivity to stress. Read more
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- Research Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology and control especially tuberculosis, leishmaniasis and interestinal parasitism; nutritional and perinatal epidemiology; international/border health and nutrition. Read more
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College of Science
Biological Sciences
- My research employs in vivo, in situ and in vitro experimental methodologies to investigate endocrine, and other physiological, adaptations that occur in response to changes in the external environment. Read more
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- Nick Pingitore is an analytic and environmental geochemist...Read more
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Physics
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Dr. Rosa Fitzgerald* Associate Professor
PHS Room 215D
(915) 747-7530
rfitzgerald@utep.edu
http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=18638
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Insitute for Policy and Econmic Development
University of College
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Dr. Dorothy Ward Director Associate Dean University College,
Assistant Professor
ASB Room 218
(915) 747-8439
dpward@utep.edu
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Developmental English
Women's Resource Center
- Erika Portillo is the Coordinator for fascinating Women's Resource Center. Read more
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