WIS&E is a series of brown bag lunch presentations and discussions
designed to provide Kent State University women the opportunity
to share their educational journey's and research with the KSU
community. Participation is open to all women including faculty,
students, academic staff, administrators and visiting scholars. WIS&E is co-sponsored with Professional Women of KSU, Women's
Studies-Kent and Trumbull campus and the Faculty Professional
Development Center.
The
aim of WIS&E is to:
- form a community of
scholars
- enhance and support women in
research
- explore a variety of disciplines
and types of scholarship and research
- encourage the development
of friendships, collaborations, and networks
- provide an avenue for sharing knowledge, human and material
resources
- raise participants knowledge of research issues and those
effecting women researchers through visiting speakers, informal
discussion, and workshops
- increase awareness of women's research and of women scholars
at KSU
Past Presentations
Spring 2003
Chris Cooney, Receptionist,
English - Trumbull
Whatever It Takes
Carol Robinson, Assistant Professor,
English - Trumbull
Neo in the Matrix of Medievalism
Spring 2002
Ruth Sitler, Associate Professor, School
of Technology
Learning to Fly: A Study of Gender Differences
Penny Bernstein, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences—Stark
Cat Behavior in the Home
Fall 2001
Leslie Heaphy, Assistant Professor, History—Stark
Researching the Negro (Baseball) Leagues
Spring 2001
Janice-Lessman-Moss, Professor, School of Art
Technology, Time and Tradition-My Work
in Weaving
Diedra L. Badejo, Professor and Chair, Pan-African Studies
Power and Authority in Yoruba Women’s
Oral Literature: Stories from the Field
Marilyn Norconk, Associate Professor & Graduate
Coordinator, Anthropology
Sexual Advertisement in Female Primates:
Behavioral and Physical Cues
Fall 2000
Molly Merryman, Assistant Professor,
Justice Studies-Trumbull
Removing Sex from Sex: Cultural Perceptions
and the Societal Impact of Feminist Articulations about Pornography
Valentina Uspenskaya, KSU Visiting Professor
Sociology Director, Center for Women’s
History & Gender Studies-Tver State
University
Feminist Questions of the Epoch: Democratic
Modernization in Russia
Laura Davis, Associate Provost for Planning
and Academic Resource Management
Damn Rocks and Hurricanes: Staying as
an Administrator-Scholar
Spring 2000
Elizabeth Mann, Assistant Professor, Physics
Of Soap Bubbles, Whipped Cream and Cell Membranes
Shirley Teresa Wajda, Assistant Professor, History
Bumps on the Head: Phrenology and Reform
in Nineteenth-Century America
Pamela Mitchell, Associate Professor,
Speech Pathology and Audiology
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