Deirdre Almeida
Contact information:
American Indian Studies, 359.2441, 002 IEC, dalmeida@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Course focus is on Native American and Indigenous social, political, historical and educational topics and concerns
- Contemporary Indigenous Women
- Contemporary Indian Issues
- Indigenous Education
Research interests:
Indigenous women and their historical and contemporary roles within their nations and communities, Indigenous education with an emphasis on teacher preparation and a focus on cultural and language revitalization and preservation, and education as atool for decolonization of Indigenous peoples.
Additional information:
Serves as the Director for the American Indian Studies Program at EWU and prior to coming Eastern was a faculty at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where she was an affiliated faculty with the Women's Studies Departments at UMass and mount Holyoke College
Lisa Avery
Contact information:
Social Work, 359.2277, 203 SNR, lavery@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Special Projects - Family Violence (WGST)
- International Social Work (SOWK)
- Research Methods (SOWK)
- Planning for Community Based Projects (SOWK)
- Data Analysis (SOWK)
Research interests:
Applied projects related to the needs of children and families
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x19186.xml
Karen Carlberg
Contact information:
Biology, 359.2388, 258 SCI, kcarlberg@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- BIOL/WMST 318 Biology of Women
- BIOL 332 Human Neuromuscular & Skeletal Systems
- BIOL 334 Human Visceral & Regulatory Systems
- BIOL 343 Biology of Aging
- BIOL 490 Senior Capstone/Animal Physiology
Research interests:
Effects of exercise on endocrine and reproductive systems
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x16859.xml
Robert Dean
Contact information:
History, 359.7953, 200 PAT, rdean@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Introduction to Historiography, graduate colloquium
- History capstone: American masculinities, undergraduate credit
- The American Experience, undergraduate credit
- U.S. Foreign Relations, 1898-present, upper division undergraduate credit
- U.S. History, 1945-present, upper division undergraduate credit
- Contemporary America, graduate colloquium
- Documents-based social science research methods, upper division undergraduate seminar
- Gender and the Century of Total War, upper division/graduate credit
Research interests:
20th Century U.S. History, Cultural History, Gender
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x32946.xml and http://www.ewu.edu/x17416.xml
Kristin Edquist
Contact information:
Government, 359.7460, 208 PAT, kedquist@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Introduction to International Politics
- International Organization(s)
- West European Politics
- Women, Gender, and European Politics
- Senior Capstone Seminar on Globalization
- Global Politics of States & Markets
- Advanced Industrial Societies
- Transnationalism
Research interests:
Governance, globalization, state-non-state relations through European Union social policy, and critical applications of international relations theory to mental health policy
Nancy Hathaway
Contact information:
Art, 359.7070, 140 ART, nhathaway@mail.ewu.edu
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x23633.xml
Kathleen Huttenmaier
Contact information:
History, 359.4824, 200 PAT, k.huttenmaier@mail.ewu.edu
Research interests:
Women's History, Social Studies Education
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x17428.xml
Kayleen Islam-Zwart
Contact information:
Psychology, 359.2380, 151 MAR, kislamzwart@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Psychology of Women
- Abnormal Psychology
- Psychology and the Legal System
- Cognitive Assessment
- Senior Capstone
Research interests:
Adjustment to Incarceration, Female Offenders, Malingering, Cognitive and
Neuropsychological Evaluation
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x6193.xml
Golie Jansen
Contact information:
Social Work, 359.6487, 203 SNR, gjansen@mail.ewu.edu
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x19211.xml
Nancy Nelson
Contact information:
African American Education Director, 359.6150, 204 MON, nancy.nelson@mail.ewu.edu
Doug Orr
Contact information:
Economics, 359.2424, 300 PAT, dorr@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- ECON 200 Introduction to Microeconomics (ECON 300 as a night class)
- ECON 201 Introduction to Macroeconomics (ECON 301 as a night class)
- ECON 421 Labor Economics
- ECON 427 Economics of Poverty
Research interests:
Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Urban and Regional, Political Economy, Labor Economics
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x6947.xml
Lavona Reeves
English, 359.7060, 250 PAT, lreeves@mail.ewu.edu
Beth Torgerson
English, 359.6038, 250 PAT, btorgerson@mail.ewu.edu
Nancy Wainwright
Accounting & Information Services, 359.7067, 316 KGS, nwainwright@mail.ewu.edu
Sue Wright
Sociology & Criminal Justice, 359.4817, 314 PAT, swright@mail.ewu.edu

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