| Susan Shaw, Ph.D. Director Associate Professor Phone: 541-737-3082 E-mail: sshaw@oregonstate.edu Susan Shaw's Vitae |
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| Janet Lee, Ph.D. Professor Phone: 541-737-6132 E-mail: jlee@oregonstate.edu Janet Lee's Vitae |
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| Patti Watkins, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: 541-737-6135 E-mail: pwatkins@oregonstate.edu Patti Watkins' Vitae |
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| Lisa M. Lawson Office Manager Phone: 541-737-2826 E-mail: llawson@oregonstate.edu |
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Faiza Al-Saaidi, Ph.D., Instructor
I am interested in the examination of women's status and role worldwide with particular emphasis on Muslim and Arab women as well as the social, cultural, economic, gender relations and political activities of women.
Kryn Freehling-Burton, MS, Instructor
Madronna Holden, Ph.D., Instructor of Extended Education
I am the author of the play, The Descent of Inanna, produced 22 times and selected as part of the Women in Theater festival in Eugene. Its collaborative production was the subject of a full length OPB documentary. I have also contributed half a dozen articles to Parabola and authored articles for the Journal of American Folklore and Dialectical Anthropology, in addition to many reviews, conference talks, and published poems.
I thrive on the learning partnership between teacher and student. The links between women's power and nature, culture, healing, and justice intersect in my personal heritage. I come from a Czech family in which venerable female shamans (on my grandfather's side) gain their healing power from "speaking with the earth", and women and men of burgomaster families (on my grandmother's side) jointly use their authority to care for the well-being of their communities.
Deborah John, Ph.D., Asst Prof, Dept of Health and Human Perform,Plymouth State Univ, NH.
I earned my Ph. D. from Oregon State University in Exercise and Sport Science, Sport and Exercise Psychology, with an integrated minor in Women Studies and Sport Pedagogy. My research interests have included investigations into the psychological influence of women's physical activity behaviors, an exploration of the lived experiences of midlife women, perceptions of personal control, and exercise involvement during the menopause transitional period. Dr. John taught introductory and upper level undergraduate as well as graduate level courses in the Women's Studies Program as a GTA and contract faculty at Oregon State. She feels privileged to be included as teaching faculty in the Oregon State University Women's Studies Program and is developing new special topics courses, such as Women, Age and Aging Issues. John states, “Through women centered courses, it is my hope that women will become active agents, developing individual responsibilities that include personal control over their bodies, physicality, and health, as well as collective efficacy to promote broader societal transformation.”
David Peterson del Mar, Ph.D., Instructor of Extended Education
David Peterson del Mar lives in Northeast Portland with his partner and child and a lot of soccer balls. Since leaving his tenured position in British Columbia in 1999, he has specialized in teaching older students, often in fully online courses. He is the author of a dozen articles and five books, including What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives, published by Harvard University Press, and Oregon's Promise: An Interpretive History, Published by OSU Press. He is slowly working (through reading and living) on a history of the tension between freedom and family. He is a board member of Uniting to Understand Racism and has long volunteered with children and was the first single foster father in Clatsop County, Oregon.
Janet Lockhart, M.A.I.S., Instructor of Extended Education
Janet Lockhart is a licensed speech-language pathologist as well as a teacher and a writer. Her greatest interest is in finding ways to empower women and children through the use of language, which can be used not only as a tool to reinforce systems of oppression, but also as a way to resist oppression and to create new, more holistic systems.
Her publications are mostly works with "heart," such as Writing for Change: Raising Awareness of Difference, Power, and Discrimination, co-written with Dr. Susan Shaw (Director of the Women Studies program); The Power of Words: Examining Language of Ethnic, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Bias for Teaching Tolerance; and "Writing-to-Learn and Writing for Change," in Teaching to Change: The Difference, Power, and Discrimination Model, due out in December.
Beth Rietveld, Director, Women's Center
Beth serves as Director of the Women's Center and her responsiblitiies include supervision of student staff members, interns, and practicum students; management of Center programs and services; fundraising and grant-writing for Center initiatives, and liaison to the OSU and Corvallis communities. Beth has been involved in working with women's issues at OSU since the Faculty Women's Network formed in 1986. She has had responsibility for the Women's Center since 1992.
Beth serves on the leadership Team of the President's Commission on the Status of Women, is Secretary-Treasurer of the Faculty Women's Network, Instructor for Women's Studies 499/599 (Women and Leadership), Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program Advisory Board, Sexual Assault Response Network (Co-Chair), OSU Child Care Liaison with Kindercare and Growing Oaks Child Development Center, Child Care Advisory Committee and Child Care Friendraisers.
Beth's contributions to State and National Associations include serving as the Oregon State Coordinator for the American Council on Education Office of Women in Higher Education and serving on the Planning Committee for the Oregon Women in Higher Education Conference. She is also a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the National Women Studies Association, and the Oregon Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force Campus Response Committee.
Terryl J. Ross, Ph.D., Director, Community Diversity
Terryl Ross has worked and volunteered in a variety of settings. He has been a college student body president, DJ, head football coach, documentary filmmaker, small business owner, Army intelligence officer, consultant, and leader in local and national political campaigns. Terryl is currently the Director of Community and Diversity for Oregon State University.
Terryl completed his Ph.D. in Educational Communications and Technology at the University of Washington. His dissertation topic was, "MOSAIC: The Case Study of a diversity-based, E-learning Community." He received his MA from Syracuse University in Public Relations and he double-majored at Eastern Washington University in Government and Commercial Recreation.
He has served as the board president of the Multicultural Alumni Association (MAP) at the University of Washington, and he has been awarded as the Volunteer-of-the-Year by the University of Washington Alumni Association. Terryl has also been featured in the Seattle Times for his commitment to empowering diverse communities via the use of emerging technologies. Terryl is best known for his role as the founder and president of MOSAIC (Multicultural Organization of Students Actively Involved in Change), which promotes diversity at the UW and abroad. He is a member of Oregon's 2006 American Leadership Forum.
Ann C. Schauber, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Diversity Consultant
Ann began her career in 1973 with the University of Delaware Extension Service as a youth community development agent. she moved to Oregon in 1978 and retired from Orgegon State University in July, 2006. Her career at OSU included youth development work in Marion County, community leadership and administration in Yamhill County, the Statewide Extension Diversity leadership on the OSU campus, and Director of the MAIS and other graduate Interdisciplinary Programs at OSU.
Her research interests have been in assessing organizational diversity climate as a key to organizational change with follow-up planning and training as a means of creating more inclusive organizations. Her passion is about creating environments which allows the voices, gifts, and talents of all people to come forward and thrive. Ann is currently a diversity consultant with Caracolores, LLC.
Mehra Shirazi, Ph.D., Instructor
Mehra Shirazi completed her Ph.D in Public Health and Women Studies at Oregon State University. Mehra is currently an Instructor with the Department of Women Studies and will teach Global Women in the Movies (winter, 07) and International Women (spring, 07). She has taught courses on Feminism in Muslim Societies, Women and Breast Cancer, Immigrant Muslim Women in the United States, International Women, and Public Health Programming and Evaluation as a graduate teaching assistant while completing her doctoral program. Her areas of research interest include Immigrant Women's Health, Transnational Feminist Studies, Immigration and Diasporic identities, and Iranian Women and political leadership. Her research examined socio-cultural barriers and attitudes that Iranian immigrant women have with respect to breast care and access to breast health services in the United States. As the External Coordinator of the Women's Center at OSU from 2004-2005, she worked to reach out to minority students on campus through successful programs that aimed at dispelling stereotypes against Muslim women, prevent discrimination and hate crimes, and focused on the difficulties faced by women of color in academia. Outside of the OSU community, Mehra has assisted in humanitarian efforts with Afghan and Iraqi refugees. She also designed and implemented a local literacy program for low-income women and girls in Tehran, and helped create a Women's Studies program. In 2003, Mehra was the recipient of the Judy Mann Distefano Scholarship, and in 2005 she was awarded the Woman of Achievement Award.
Pam Vanlondon, MIS, MAIS, Instructor of Extended Education
Pam Van Londen woke up to life at age 12 when she began to draw. She studied art and photography in high school and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art at Western Oregon State College (now Western Oregon University) in 1983. For her Master's Degree field study, she created a laserdisc-enhanced learning module to teach the elements and principles of art. For 20 years, she has provided marketing assistance and graphic design services to small and medium business as a marketing assistant and sole proprietor, winning awards from Apple Computer and the Society for Technical Communication (STC). For the past 11 years she has focused on developing an online presence for many clients. For 3 years, she built online courses for the Oregon State University's distance education program. In 2002, she and her production team won the Distance Learning Community of Practice Meritorious Award for the development of WS 223, Women, Self, and Society, written and taught by Dr. Susan Shaw. She began teaching about technology for the Women Studies department in 2005 and continues to teach Web Authoring courses for the Computer Science department. Her current passion is to paint and teach online while traveling by motorhome.