Faculty Accomplishments 2020-2021

Heather Hill, Professor of English, published “From Mrs Noah’s ‘Rok’ to Absalom’s ‘Kultour’: The Trail of the Spinning Woman and the Great Rising of 1381” in Staging History: Essays in Late Medieval and Humanist Drama, Volume 16 (Brill, 2021). (See image on right.)

Hsiao-Lan Hu, Professor of Religious Studies, published “Networking as Equals? Engaged Buddhists’ Egalitarian Ideals and Hierarchical Habits” in Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic: In Search of a Common Morality (Routledge, 2021). Ze has been appointed to the Status of Women in the Profession Committee of the American Academy of Religion, invited to serve on the editorial board of Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elected Vice President of Sākyadhitā: International Association of Buddhist Women, the largest organization of Buddhist women in the world. Ze also received a grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion for a collaborative project with Dr. Sharon Suh of Seattle University and Dr. Tamara Ho of University of California, Riverside on “Asian American Feminist Guidebook to Teaching Buddhisms in America.”

Gail Presbey, Professor of Philosophy, published a review of African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women (Routledge/ Taylor and Francis) in Hypatia (2021), 1–9, doi:10.1017/hyp.2021.1 

Diane Robinson-Dunn, Associate Professor of History, published “Five Victorian women travelers in the Ottoman world, 1840-91” in Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History: Britain, the Netherlands and Scandinavia (Brill, 2021).

Mary Liz Valesano, Assistant Professor of Theatre, was awarded a WGS Feminist Teaching Grant in support of the development of a new WGS course “Survey of Theatre History.”

Genevieve Meyers, Associate Professor of Political Science, was awarded a WGS Feminist Teaching Grant in support of the development of a new WGS course “Women, Gender, and Development.”