Faculty
Dr. Loretta Kensinger, Program Director/Chair
Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University
Area(s) of Expertise: Feminist Political Theory, Feminist Thought of Emma Goldman, Women's Social Movements, U.S. Politics
Loretta Kensinger is Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Women's Studies. Passionate about the field of Women's Studies, she is dedicated to building university campuses open and welcoming to all their diverse members. Loretta received her Ph.D. in1996 from Purdue University and joined the Women's Studies program in Fresno in 1998, after spending three years directing the Women's Center at Western Illinois University. In 2003 she was honored with the School of Social Science Outstanding Teacher Award. Her research interests focus on issues of inclusions and exclusions in feminist thought and feminist pedagogy. She is co-editor, with Dr. Penny Weiss, of the edited volume Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Samples of her other publications include: 2003 "Plugged in Praxis: Thoughts on Cyber-Technology, Feminism, and Solidarity with the Women of Afghanistan." Journal of International Women's Studies. 5 (November): 1 (28); and 1997 "(In)Quest of Liberal Feminism," Hypatia 12(4) 1997: 178-197. Friends, family, poetry, water-colors, gardening, good movies, and live music help make her life full and sweet.
Contact Info: loretta_kensinger@csufresno.edu
Phone: 559.278.8150
Dr. Roksana Badruddoja
Assistant Professor , Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Area(s) of Expertise: South Asian-American Diasporic Identities; Im/migration; Gender and Feminist Theory; South Asian and Urban American Studies; Ethnic and Cultural Studies; Globalization and Transnationalism; Critical Race Theory; Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies; Citizenship and Nationalism; and Qualitative Research Methods
Roksana Badruddoja, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. Dr. Badruddoja earned her Ph.D in Sociology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Badruddoja's research includes examining South Asian-American urban community formations through migration, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and cultural performance within the rapidly changing demographic landscape of America. Currently, Dr. Badruddoja is working on two book manuscripts entitled Brown Souls: The Not-So-Confused Voices of South Asian (North) Americans and Secrets of the Nation-State: South Asian-American Women and The Grammar of Identity. Dr. Badruddoja teaches Women of Color in the U.S., Feminist Research Methods, and Diversity in the U.S.
Contact Info: rbadruddoja@csufresno.edu
Phone: 559.278.8599
Curriculam Vitae
Dr. Kathryn Forbes
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, California
Area(s) of Expertise: Gender and Public Policy, Gender and Sport; Land and Land Use Issues in California; Gender Issues in South Asia; Narrative, Memory, and Oral History; Feminist Ethnography; Feminist Research Methods
Dr. Forbes earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Forbes' current research interests focus on exploring the articulations of gender in public policy in the United States, with particular attention to housing, labor, and education issues in California. She is now working on the ethnographic research project Disruptive Justice: Negotiating Title IX, Understanding Gender and Sport in a California Town which is situated at the intersection of cultural studies of gender and sport, quantitative studies of Title IX compliance, historical studies of the development of law, and ethnographic studies of public policy and bureaucratic culture. Dr. Forbes teaches Women and Work, Introduction to Women's Studies, and Representations of Women.
Contact Info: kathryn_forbes@csufreno.edu
Phone: 559.278.8150
Curriculam Vitae
Dr. Janet Trapp Slagter
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Southern Illinois University
Area(s) of Expertise: History of Western Philosophy, Women and/in the History of Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Contemporary Corporate and Grassroots forms of Globalization, Women's Organizing in the US, Guatemala, Kenya, Women and Aging
Dr. Slagter has published on the Cuban women's movement, femininity and alienation, and on contemporary activism in central California, and maintains a research interest in the politics of women's health. She is currently researching faculty roles in shaping university policies, with an article forthcoming on the topic of Women's Studies' role in developing Harassment Policy.
Dr. Slagter teaches course in Feminist Theory, Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women, a Seminar on Feminist Activism, Women and Aging, Women and the Environment, and Women's Bodies and has taught courses on Race, Class, and Gender Diversity in the US, Critical Thinking and Gender, and Women of Color in the US. She serves or has served on local boards of the Fresno Free College Foundation/KFCF independent radio station, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Fresno Community Alliance magazine.
Contact Info: janetsl@csufresno.edu
Phone: 559.278.7140