Off-campus callers, our area code is 845 and our prefix is 257-
Location: Southside House
FULL TIME FACULTY
Karl Bryant
Assistant Professor of Sociology and
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Office: JFT504
Phone: 3035
E-Mail: bryantk@newpaltz.edu
Karl Bryant, Ph.D. (University of California-Santa Barbara) is an Assistant Professor in both Sociology and Women’s Studies. His research is in the overlapping areas of gender, sexuality, childhood studies, science studies, and the sociology of knowledge. His has published in Deviant Behavior, Journal of Sex Research, Nature Nanotechnology, Sexualities, and Sexuality Research & Social Policy, and is currently completing a book length history of the psychiatric diagnosis “Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood.” Since coming to New Paltz, Professor Bryant has begun new projects on the scientific wing of “ex-gay” movements and emerging discourses concerning transgender childhood. He teaches courses on sexuality, gender, queer studies, and social inequalities.
Kathleen Dowley
Associate Professor of Political Science and
Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program
Office: JFT920/Coordinator's Office, Southside House
Phone: 3558/2978
E-Mail: dowleyk@newpaltz.edu
Heather Hewett
Assistant Professor of English and
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2978
E-mail: hewetth@newpaltz.edu
Heather Hewett is an Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies. Professor Hewett teaches undergraduate courses on postcolonial, migration and diaspora literatures; Anglophone African literature; and women's literature in the English department. In the Women’s Studies Program, she teaches introductory Women’s Studies and transnational feminism. She received her B.A. (English) from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. (English Literary Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a minor in Cultural Studies and a Certificate in African Studies. She joined the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in 2005.
Professor Hewett’s research examines the
intersection(s) of gender, narrative, and globalization, with special interests in women's writing, African literature, mothering and motherhood, public writing and the media, and autobiographical writing. Her work has been published in journals such as Women's Studies Quarterly, MELUS, English in Africa, The Scholar and Feminist Online, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering and several edited collections, including Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction, Mothering in the Third Wave: Contemporary Feminist Journeys, and Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image. She also writes for mainstream and feminist publications, including The Washington Post, Women's Review of Books, and the feminist blog Girl w/Pen.
Amy Kesselman
Professor of Women's Studies
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2977
E-mail: kesselma@newpaltz.edu
Amy Kesselman, Ph.D. is the full time faculty member based in the Women's Studies Program. She joined the New Paltz faculty in 1981 after attending a doctoral program in history at Cornell University and a Master's program in history at Portland State University. She was an activist in the early women's liberation movement in Chicago and is currently working on a research project on women's liberation in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the author of Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion and the editor, with Lily Mc Nair and Nancy Schniedewind of Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology which is now in its second edition. She teaches History of Women in the United States, Feminism in the United States and Women: Images and Realities.
Edith Kuiper
Assistant Professor of Economics and
Assistant Professor of Women Studies
Office: JFT 806
Phone: 2378
Email: kuipere@newpaltz.edu
Dr. Edith Kuiper received a Ph.D. in February 2001 from the University of Amsterdam in Economics. Currently, she is a feminist economist at the State University of New York at New Paltz in the United States. Her research is in the field of history and philosophy of economics. Among other things, she co-edited (with Drucilla Barker) Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (Routledge, 2003) and the Routledge Major Works Series Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts (January 2010).
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Emily Caigan
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2975
E-mail: caigane@newpaltz.edu
Emily Caigan, MFA (Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College), is an adjunct instructor teaching Women: Images and Realities, Feminist Art and Culture and special topics courses. As an educator she focuses on feminism, performance and art as interdisciplinary subjects. Her research examines these topics in relation to social activism, the artist's process and cultural change. Her previous faculty appointments include New York University, Tisch School for the Arts and Skidmore College. Recent publications include Depth of Place, an Interview with Carolee Schneemann, 2010, SUNY Press, for the catalog Within and Beyond the Premises, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.
Robert R. Haskins
Adjunct Faculty
Office: 845-471-4455
Phone: 2975
E-mail: haskinsr@newpaltz.edu
Robert R. Haskins, J.D. (Syracuse University) is an adjunct professor, teaching Reproductive Law and Policy. The former Board President of Planned Parenthood in the Mid-Hudson Valley and former board member of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, he is also a partner in the law firm of Steinberg & Symer and Platt in Poughkeepsie. Bob has made presentations on Reproductive Law at Oxford University, Vassar College and Marist College and has been the Keynote Speaker for the state convention of the New York NOW.
A graduate of New Paltz, with a BA in Political Science, Bob has previously worked for the New York State Assembly and the New York State Attorney General.
Suzanne M. Kelly
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2976
E-mail: suzmkelly@aol.com
Suzanne M. Kelly, Ph.D. (Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University), M.A. (Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, The New School for Social Research) is an Adjunct Instructor in Women’s Studies teaching Feminist Theory, Women, Love and Sex, Women and Popular Culture and Women: Images and Realities. Her interdisciplinary research draws on Feminist Philosophy, engaging themes of materiality and constructions of rationality, specifically with respect to the desiring body, the dead body, and the environment. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including the edited collection Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy and more recently and The Chronicle Review. She is currently working on a book entitled Dead Bodies that Matter.
Denise Oliver-Velez
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2975
Email:dolivervelez@hvc.rr.com
Denise Oliver-Velez is a cultural anthropologist specializing in medical anthropology. She was a member of the Young Lords and the Black Panther
Parties and a former executive director of the Black Filmmakers Foundation. She currently is a front page political writer for Daily Kos.
Peri L. Rainbow
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2976
E-mail: rainbowp@newpaltz.edu
Peri L. Rainbow is a noted clinician and educator with 20 years of experience in the field of psychological trauma. She currently provides clinical supervision and consultation to individuals and agencies throughout the Hudson Valley and New York State. She is the director of sexual assault services at Bard College, Annandale, NY, and has been a member of the faculty of SUNY New Paltz since 1991. Peri teaches classes in the Women's Studies Program, the Psychology Department, and the Department of Humanistic/Multicultural Education. Peri is the author of "Making Sense of the Experience of Incest Survivors" in Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology, second & third editions (Mayfield Publishing Co., 1999, McGraw Hill, 2002), and is co-author of The Trauma Safety Drop-In Group, A Clinical Model of Group Treatment for Survivors of Trauma (NYSOMH 1998). She has received recognition for her pioneering work in the field of psychological trauma and was recognized in 1999 as the Outstanding Teacher of the Year at S. U. N. Y. New Paltz. Peri is listed in the 2002 edition of Who's Who of American Teachers. Peri co-chairs the Ulster County Sexual Assault Task Force and the Dutchess County Task Force against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. To achieve balance, Peri spends precious time with her family, cheers for the Mets, and takes the Grateful Dead with her wherever she goes.
Abigail Robin (Retired)
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2975
E-mail: robina@newpaltz.edu
Abigail Robin teaches Freshman Composition and runs Writing Workshops for EOP students. As an instructor in the English Department, she has been instrumental in developing co-requisite curricula for Modern World and Freshman Art Seminar; she has taught English as Second Language students and Supplemental Writing Workshop sections. She also has an interest in writing across the curriculum and has participated in Writing Board Activities. She is a member of UUP New Paltz Chapter Women's Right and Concerns Committee, and Member of Women's Studies Conference Planning Committee since 1998.
Katherine Sarno
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2976
E-mail: ksarno@optonline.net
Kathy Sarno was born and raised in Peekskill, NY and did her undergraduate studies at Colgate University, majoring in Philosophy & Religion and minoring in Women's Studies. Feeling that her knowledge was lacking, she attended graduate school at Sarah Lawrence College, where she received an M.A. in Women's History. Kathy has been a part-time instructor of Women's Studies at SUNY New Paltz for over ten years. She recommends Women's Studies to all students and feels it can be life changing.
Amy Kate Silvestro
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2976
E-mail: amysilvestro@gmail.com
Amy Kate Silvestro, CSW-R, has been a social worker and therapist for over 20 years. Amy trained in feminist therapy while at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work has concentrated chiefly on violence against women. Professionally she has worked with women and children who have been sexually abused and served for eight years on the Board of Directors of the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault. When working with teens at a local Alternative School Amy developed the "Bridge Program" in partnership with the Women's Studies Program. For eight years students at risk of dropping out of high school had the opportunity to participate in "Women: Images and Realities". A part time faculty member of the Women's Studies Program for more than 15 years, Amy is dedicated to engaging students about issues related to rape and violence against women at SUNY New Paltz.
Affiliate Faculty
Sunita Bose, Sociology
Peter D. G. Brown, Foreign Languages
Mary Christensen, Foreign Languages
Elisa Davila, Foreign Languages
M. Stella Deen, English
Judith Dorney, Educational Studies
Kathleen Dowley, Political Science
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Geography
Anita Gonzalez, Theatre Arts
Katherine French, History
Kristine Harris, History
Melanie Hill, Psychology
Nancy Johnson, English
Benjamin Junge, Anthropology
Mary L. Kahl, Communication & Media
Nancy Kassop, Political Science
Susan Lewis, History
Rachel Mattson, Secondary Education
Katherine McCoy, Educational Studies
Gowri Parameswaran, Educational Studies
Fiona Paton, English
Jerry Persaud, Communication & Media
Anne Roschelle, Sociology
Nancy Schniedewind, Educational Studies
Patricia Sullivan, Communication & Media
Vicki Tromanhauser, English
Sarah Wyman, English
Administratives Services
Concetta M. (Cookie) Chandler
Secretary 1
Office: Southside House
Phone: 2975
E-mail: chandlec@newpaltz.edu
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