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Campus Diversity Resources

At Ohio University numerous faculty conduct research in areas of study related to diversity. Below are the links to the major categories in which the faculty conduct their research. For more information, click on the category of interest to obtain the faculty member's name, contact information, department, area of research, and the link to their website.

Age | Appalachian Culture | International | Race & Ethnicity | Sexuality & Orientation | Women & Gender

Age

Hatch, Laurie
hatchl@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology
Research: Aging, Gender and Race;
http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth/faculty/hatch.html

Appalachian Culture


Gilliom, John
gilliom@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Lower Income Appalachian Women;
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=34342

White, Julie
whitej@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Welfare Reform in Rural Ohio;
http://www.ohio.edu/lawcenter/faculty/white.html

 

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International

Barr-Melej, Patrick
barr-mel@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research: Chilean Counterculture;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Barr-Melej.cfm

 

Blessing, Benita
blessing@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research: Girls’ and Boys’ Gender and Socialization Under the Emerging East German Regime; German Cultural History;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Blessing.cfm

Brobst, John
brobst@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research: British Strategy in the Modern World;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Brobst.cfm

Ciekawy, Diane
ciekawy@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology
Research: Religion, Politics and Development Issues in Kenya;
http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth/faculty/ciekawy.html

Creary, Nicholas
creary@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  Cultural Nationalist Literary Movements Among African and Peoples of African Descent in the Atlantic World in the Early 20th Century;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Creary.cfm

Curp, David
curp@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Curp.cfm

Dantas, Mariana
dantas@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  Slaves and Freed Persons in Baltimore, Maryland and Sabara, Minas Gerais;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Dantas.cfm

Frederick, William
frederic@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  General History of Southeast Asia; Violence During the 1945-1949 Revolution in East Java;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Frederick.cfm

Freter-Abrams, AnnCorinne
freter@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology
Research:  Mesoamerican Archaeology; Mayan Domestic Economy;
http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth/faculty/freter.html

Frohne, Andrea
frohne@ohio.edu
College of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts
Research:  African Art History, African Diaspora Arts, post-colonial theory, diaspora studies;
http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/interarts/pages/fas/AndreaFrohne.htm

Ingram, Robert
ingramr@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  'A Wicked Confederacy': Religion, Radicalism and the Burden of History in the Eighteenth-Century English Atlantic World;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Ingram.cfm;
http://web.mac.com/robertgingram

Miner, Steven
miner@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  The Experiences of the Soviet Peoples Before and During the Second World War;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Miner.cfm

Quinn, Sholeh
quinn@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  Persian Historical Writing Under the Three "Gunpowder Empire" Dynasties:  the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Quinn.cfm

Richard, Patricia Bayer
richard@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research:  The Gender Gap in Political Participation in Latin America;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/richard.html

Schoen, Brian
schoen@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research:  How International Developments Shaped the Lower South’s Regional Perception, Commitment to Slavery, and Relationship to the Federal Union;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/schoen.cfm

Wangui, Elizabeth Edna
wangui@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Geography
Research:  Gender and Environment in Pastoralist Livelihoods in Kenya and Tanzania;
http://www-as.psy.ohiou.edu/Departments/Geography/bcvs/wangui_bcy.html

Weitsman, Patricia
weitsman@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research:  Political Science International Politics;
http://www.ohiou.edu/pols/faculty/weitsman.html

Whitson, Risa
whitson@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Geography
Research:  Geography and Women's and Gender Studies; Women and Gender in Argentina;
http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/Departments/Geography/faculty_staff.html

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Race and Ethnicity


Burgess, Susan
burgess@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science and Women's Studies
Research: Women, Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Context of Constitutional Interpretation and Popular Culture;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/burgess.html

Dantas, Mariana
dantas@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research: Slaves and Freed Persons in Baltimore, Maryland and Sabara, Minas Gerais;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Dantas.cfm

Frohne, Andrea
frohne@ohio.edu
College of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts
Research: African Art History, African Diaspora Arts, post-colonial theory, diaspora studies;
http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/interarts/pages/fas/AndreaFrohne.htm

Gillespie, Michael
gillespm@ohio.edu
College of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts
Research: Film theory and aesthetics, film blackness, visual historiography, genre studies, adaptation theory, hiphop modernism, free jazz, and the Japanese New Wave;
http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/interarts/pages/fas/Michael_Gillespie.htm

Hardison, Ayesha
hardison@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, English
Research: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in African American Literature;
http://www.english.ohiou.edu/directory/faculty_page/hardison

Hatch, Laurie
hatchl@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology
Research: Aging, Gender and Race;
http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth/faculty/hatch.html

Jungkunz, Vincent
jungkunz@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Intersections of Privilege Surrounding Race, Gender, and Sexuality;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/jungkunz.html

Little, Kim
littlek@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Women and Gender Studies
Research: Southern White Women in the Civil Rights Movement; CV;
http://www.ohio.edu/womenstudies/faculty.html

Muhammad, Robin D.
dearmon@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, African American Studies
Research: History of the Industrial Workers of African American Descent;
http://www.ohio.edu/aas/faculty/jenkins.html

Reynolds, Nicole
reynold@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, English and Women and Gender Studies
Research: Women, Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the Cultural/Historical Context of 19th Century England;
http://www.english.ohiou.edu/directory/faculty_page/reynolds/

Singh, Amritjit
singha@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, English
Research: History of South Asians in North America; Inter-Ethnic Paradigms: Parallels Between the Patterns of Internal Migrations within the Americas and Immigration of Europeans and Asians to the U.S. and Canada;
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~singha/; http://www.english.ohiou.edu/directory/faculty_page/singha/

Weston, Joan
weston@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, African American Studies
Research: The Alabama Black Belt and Globalization;
http://www.ohio.edu/aas/faculty/weston.html

White, Julie
whitej@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Race and Democratic Theory;
http://www.ohio.edu/lawcenter/faculty/white.html

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Sexuality and Orientation


Burgess, Susan
burgess@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Women, Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Context of Constitutional Interpretation and Popular Culture;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/burgess.html 


Jungkunz, Vincent
jungkunz@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Intersections of Privilege Surrounding Race, Gender, and Sexuality;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/jungkunz.html

Peck, Lynette
peck@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Women's and Gender Studies
Research:
http://www.ohio.edu/womenstudies/faculty.html

Reynolds, Nicole
reynoldn@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, English and Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Women, Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the Cultural/Historical Context of 19th Century England;
http://www.english.ohiou.edu/directory/faculty_page/reynolds/

Tadlock, Barry
tadlock@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: (taking a break from researching LGBT issues)
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/tadlock.html

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Women and Gender

Blessing, Benita
blessing@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History Research: Girls' and Boys' Gender and Socialization Under the Emerging East German Regime;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Blessing.cfm

Burgess, Susan
burgess@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Women, Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Context of Constitutional Interpretation and Popular Culture;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/burgess.html

Burnier, DeLysa
burnier@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Gender and Public Administration;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/burnier.html

Freter-Abrams, AnnCorinne
freter@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology
Research: Gender in Prehistory;
http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth/faculty/freter.html

Gidycz, Christine
gidycz@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Research: Psychology; Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Abuse Against Women;
http://www.psych.ohiou.edu/people/faculty/gidycz/gidycz.html;
 http://www.psych.ohiou.edu/labs/gidycz.html

Grant, Judith
grantj1@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Contemporary Feminist Thought;
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~grantj1/

Hatch, Laurie
hatchl@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology
Research: Aging, Gender and Race;
 http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth/faculty/hatch.html

Jellison, Katherine
jellison@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History
Research: US Women;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Jellison.cfm

Jungkunz, Vincent
jungkunz@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Intersections of Privilege Surrounding Race, Gender, and Sexuality;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/jungkunz.html

Little, Kim
littlek@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Southern White Women in the Civil Rights Movement; Gender and Popular Culture; CV;
http://www.ohio.edu/womenstudies/faculty.html

Peck, Lynette
peck@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Women's and Gender Studies
Research:
http://www.ohio.edu/womenstudies/faculty.html

Reynolds, Nicole
reynoldn@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, English and Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Women, Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the Cultural/Historical Context of 19th Century England;
http://www.english.ohiou.edu/directory/faculty_page/reynolds/

Richard, Patricia Bayer
richard@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science,
Research: The Gender Gap in Political Participation in Latin America;
http://www.ohio.edu/pols/faculty/richard.html

Shippen, Nichole
shippen@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Women and Time: This research focuses on domestic labor from an inter-generational feminist perspective and asks how shifts in the distribution of housework have deepened divisions along the lines of class, race, and immigration status. This is a part of a larger project: "The Colonization of Time: Production, Consumption, and Leisure."
http://www.ohio.edu/womenstudies/faculty.html

Sparks, Anne
sparksa@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Social Work
Research: Low-Income Single Mothers; Relationship and Family Issues for Low-Income Families;
http://www.socialwork.ohiou.edu/faculty_staff/info.php?pid=22&selected=Faculty

Wangui, Elizabeth Edna
wangui@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Geography
Research: Gender and Environment in Pastoralist Livelihoods in Kenya and Tanzania;
http://www-as.psy.ohiou.edu/Departments/Geography/bcvs/wangui_bcy.html

Weitsman, Patricia
weitsman@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science
Research: Sexual Violence in War;
http://www.ohiou.edu/pols/faculty/weitsman.html

Weston, Joan
weston@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, African American Studies
Research: Men and Masculinities;
http://www.ohio.edu/aas/faculty/weston.html

White, Julie
whitej@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Science, Political Sciences
Research: Feminist Ethics and Welfare;
http://www.ohio.edu/lawcenter/faculty/white.html

Whitson, Risa
whitson@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, Geography and Women's and Gender Studies
Research: Women and Gender in Argentina;
http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/Departments/Geography/faculty_staff.html

Wolf, Jacqueline
wolfj1@ohio.edu
College of Arts and Sciences, History College of Osteopathic Medicine, Social Medicine
Research: History of Women's and Children's Health and Medicine, with a Focus on Breastfeeding and Birth; History of Cesarean Section;
http://www.ohio.edu/history/facultystaff/Wolf.cfm

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