The Hazel Gates Woodruff Senior Scholar Program

The program began in the Fall of 2003 and consists of senior tenured faculty and professional exempt senior administrators who are most distinguished in their fields and have had a history of teaching and/or a record of substantial scholarship/research in women, gender and sexuality studies. The current list of Senior Scholars includes: Peter Boag, History; Bud Coleman, Theater and Dance; Jane Garrity, English; Deborah Haynes, Fine Arts; Janet Jacobs, Sociology; Thomas Riis, Music; Elizabeth Robertson, English; Joanna Silverstein, Civil/Env & Arch Engin; Mimi Wesson, Law.

To become a Senior Scholar, a faculty member fills out an application form and submits it to the Women and Gender Studies Director. The Director and the coordinator of the Senior Scholars Program review the application and consults with current Senior Scholars. Once approved, the application is then forwarded to the Associate Dean, Social Sciences who then sends a formal letter of invite to the faculty member and to the unit's chair. It is expected that Senior Scholars will:

1. Teach one course per semester for WMST. In most instances, these scholars already teach courses in women, gender, and sexuality in their home departments. It is expected that if these courses are not already cross-listed with WMST that these scholars will take the necessary measures to secure such an arrangement.

2. Fulfill his or her service responsibilities to the Program by participating in one standing committee (e.g., Curriculum (Undergraduate and eventually Graduate) and Executive) or an Ad-Hoc Committee such as Faculty Grievance and Ethics. This should not exceed their regular service commitment to the campus.

3. Attend faculty meetings and participate in the governance of the Program.

4. Add immeasurably to the rigor and vitality of the WMST Program and will help to provide direction and wide visibility through the initiatives in the Strategic Plan as well as other initiatives that they would develop.

Hazel Gates Senior Scholars in Women and Gender Studies

Lee Chambers, Ph.D., specializes in diplomatic history, history of South Asia, British Colonial history.
Office: Hellems 222
Telephone: 303-492-6183
E-mail: Chambers@Colorado.EDU

Bud Coleman, Ph.D. specializes in musical theater; gay and lesbian studies.
Department of Theatre and Dance
Office: Hellems 125
Telephone: 303-492-5809
E-mail: bud.coleman@colorado.edu

Jane Garrity, Ph.D. specializes in 20th-century British literature; modernism and empire; cultural studies; feminist theory; Anglo-American lesbian literature and theory
Department of English
Office: Hellems 125
Telephone: 303-492-3399
E-mail: garrity@stripe.colorado.edu

Deborah Haynes, Ph.D. specializes in the intersections of ethics and aesthetics vis-à-vis the visual arts, function of the arts in contemporary society, moral philosophy of M. M. Bakhtin
Department of Fine Arts
Office: C102B
Tel: 303-735-0991
Email: deborah.haynes@colorado.edu 

Janet Jacobs, Ph.D. specializes in religion and feminism, women, ethnicity and the social psychology of identity formation.
Department of Sociology
Office: KTCH 218A
Tel: 303-492-3202
Email: jacobsjl@colorado.edu

Thomas Riis, Ph.D. specializes in Musical Theatre and writes and lectures frequently on many topics in 19th and 20th century American music.
Department of Music
Office: MUS N139
Tel: 303-492-7540
E-mail: Riis@colorado.edu

Elizabeth Robertson, Ph.D. specializes in medieval literature and feminist theory
Office: Denison 235
Telephone: 303-492-7608
E-mail: roberte@spot.colorado.edu

Joann Silverstein, Ph.D. specializes biological water/wastewater treatment
Telephone: 303-492-7211
E-Mail: Joann.Silverstein@Colorado.EDU
Home Page: http://spot.colorado.edu/~silverst/

Mimi Wesson, J.D. specializes in criminal law, evidence, trial advocacy, and law and literature. She is also a novelist, writing fiction that explores legal and jurisprudential themes..
Office: 415 Fleming Law Building, Rm. 401 UCB
Phone: 303-492-7547
E-mail: Marianne.Wesson@colorado.edu