Vivyan Adair came to Hamilton College in 1998. She earned a Ph.D. and master's degree in English from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests are studying representations of women on welfare, and analyzing the impact of welfare reform, education, and public policy. Adair was the founder and director of the ACCESS Project, a pilot program that assists disadvantaged parents in their efforts to earn college degrees. She is the author of From Good Ma to Welfare Queen, A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture (Garland 2000) and the co-editor of Women, Poverty and the Promise of Education in America (Temple University Press, 2003). She has also written articles that have appeared in Harvard Educational Review; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Feminist Studies; Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas; Pedagogy; Public Voices; Radical Teacher; On Campus with Women: Journal of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and as numerous book chapters. In 2000 Adair received the John L. Hatch Teaching Award, awarded each year to a Hamilton faculty member "who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to teaching." In 2002 she was appointed as the Elihu Root Peace Fund Professor in Women's Studies, and in 2004 she was named the CASE/Carnegie New York State Professor of the Year, the first women’s studies professor in the nation to receive this honor.
Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, received her Ph.D. in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University. Barry’s interdisciplinary research examines the connections between gender and environmental justice thought and praxis. She has published reviews and articles in Environmental Ethics, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Environmental Justice and The National Women’s Association Studies Journal. Barry’s scholarship has focused on coal extraction in West Virginia, and women’s involvement in the anti-MTR movement. Her book Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining will be published by Ohio University Press in 2012. Barry’s current research makes connections between resource extraction in Appalachian rural communities and global climate change while assessing how women respond to the environmental, social and cultural transformations created by climate change. Her work has received support from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Association of University Women foundations.
Lolita Buckner-Inniss is the Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies. She also holds the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. She has a Ph.D and a LLM with Distinction from Osgoode Hall, York University, a J. D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an A.B. from Princeton University. Inniss teaches property law, criminal law, and courses at the intersection of gender, race and law. She has published in the law reviews of Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Texas and the University of Pennsylvania, among others. Her current major research project is a book in progress titled The Princeton Fugitive Slave Case. Inniss served as a New York University-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique fellow in France for spring 2012, where she researched memory and memorialization in the context of slavery. She blogs at Ain't I a Feminist Legal Scholar Too?
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Women's studies at Hamilton is an interdisciplinary program, grounded in a wide range of fields and approaches. This broad focus challenges students to move beyond abstract and personal arguments and to think critically about the economic, educational, artistic, scientific, legal and policy implications of gender and class roles. The accomplished women's studies faculty includes a Carnegie Foundation New York State Teacher of the Year and a recipient of the College's prestigious Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
As an interdisciplinary program, women's studies offers a full range of courses at every level: introductory surveys; intermediate courses in feminist history, theory, practice and philosophy; and advanced seminars that focus on women and race, class, gender, sexuality, education, arts, science, religion, law and public policy. Classes are small and feature intensive student-faculty interaction.
The broad appeal, growing importance and versatile range of women's studies make it a valuable adjunct to other disciplines as well as a popular concentration. Students may major or minor in women's studies; they may combine it with another discipline to create their own interdisciplinary major; or they may work toward a double major. Students who don’t wish to major or minor in the field still find that introductory and intermediate women's studies courses provide useful tools to re-evaluate and gain perspective on traditional disciplines.
Women's studies graduates make excellent use of their Hamilton degrees by successfully entering careers and graduate study in a wide range of fields, including social work, education, public policy, law, science, medicine, art and business.
Women's studies at Hamilton is an interdisciplinary program, grounded in a wide range of fields and approaches. This broad focus challenges students to move beyond abstract and personal arguments and to think critically about the economic, educational, artistic, scientific, legal and policy implications of gender and class roles. The accomplished women's studies faculty includes a Carnegie Foundation New York State Teacher of the Year and a recipient of the College's prestigious Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
As an interdisciplinary program, women's studies offers a full range of courses at every level: introductory surveys; intermediate courses in feminist history, theory, practice and philosophy; and advanced seminars that focus on women and race, class, gender, sexuality, education, arts, science, religion, law and public policy. Classes are small and feature intensive student-faculty interaction.
The broad appeal, growing importance and versatile range of women's studies make it a valuable adjunct to other disciplines as well as a popular concentration. Students may major or minor in women's studies; they may combine it with another discipline to create their own interdisciplinary major; or they may work toward a double major. Students who don’t wish to major or minor in the field still find that introductory and intermediate women's studies courses provide useful tools to re-evaluate and gain perspective on traditional disciplines.
Women's studies graduates make excellent use of their Hamilton degrees by successfully entering careers and graduate study in a wide range of fields, including social work, education, public policy, law, science, medicine, art and business.
Women's studies at Hamilton is an interdisciplinary program, grounded in a wide range of fields and approaches. This broad focus challenges students to move beyond abstract and personal arguments and to think critically about the economic, educational, artistic, scientific, legal and policy implications of gender and class roles. The accomplished women's studies faculty includes a Carnegie Foundation New York State Teacher of the Year and a recipient of the College's prestigious Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
As an interdisciplinary program, women's studies offers a full range of courses at every level: introductory surveys; intermediate courses in feminist history, theory, practice and philosophy; and advanced seminars that focus on women and race, class, gender, sexuality, education, arts, science, religion, law and public policy. Classes are small and feature intensive student-faculty interaction.
The broad appeal, growing importance and versatile range of women's studies make it a valuable adjunct to other disciplines as well as a popular concentration. Students may major or minor in women's studies; they may combine it with another discipline to create their own interdisciplinary major; or they may work toward a double major. Students who don’t wish to major or minor in the field still find that introductory and intermediate women's studies courses provide useful tools to re-evaluate and gain perspective on traditional disciplines.
Women's studies graduates make excellent use of their Hamilton degrees by successfully entering careers and graduate study in a wide range of fields, including social work, education, public policy, law, science, medicine, art and business.
Women's studies at Hamilton is an interdisciplinary program, grounded in a wide range of fields and approaches. This broad focus challenges students to move beyond abstract and personal arguments and to think critically about the economic, educational, artistic, scientific, legal and policy implications of gender and class roles. The accomplished women's studies faculty includes a Carnegie Foundation New York State Teacher of the Year and a recipient of the College's prestigious Samuel and Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
As an interdisciplinary program, women's studies offers a full range of courses at every level: introductory surveys; intermediate courses in feminist history, theory, practice and philosophy; and advanced seminars that focus on women and race, class, gender, sexuality, education, arts, science, religion, law and public policy. Classes are small and feature intensive student-faculty interaction.
The broad appeal, growing importance and versatile range of women's studies make it a valuable adjunct to other disciplines as well as a popular concentration. Students may major or minor in women's studies; they may combine it with another discipline to create their own interdisciplinary major; or they may work toward a double major. Students who don’t wish to major or minor in the field still find that introductory and intermediate women's studies courses provide useful tools to re-evaluate and gain perspective on traditional disciplines.
Women's studies graduates make excellent use of their Hamilton degrees by successfully entering careers and graduate study in a wide range of fields, including social work, education, public policy, law, science, medicine, art and business.
