Karni Pal Bhati
Associate Professor of English and Asian Studies
B.A., University of Jodhpur
M.A., M.Phil., Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

M. Carmela Epright
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., St. Edward’s University
Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago
Courses taught: PHL 46, Philosophy of Gender
Research interests: Feminist Bioethics, Gender Issues in Psychological/Psychiatric Care, Women and Care-Taking Labor

Mary Fairbairn
Instructional Services/Reference Librarian
B.A. Occidental College (English and Comparative Literary Studies)
M.L.I.S. University of South Carolina
Research interests: Women and Food, Women in Literature

Vincent Hausmann
Associate Professor of English
B.A. English; B.A. Honors, Villanova University
M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Research interests: Theory: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Film, Disciplinarity

Mary Jean Horney
Professor of Economics
B.A., Agnes Scott College
M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Courses taught: ECN 33, Economics of Gender
Research interests: Gender differences in labor market outcomes

Sofia Kearns
Associate Professor of Spanish
M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Courses taught: SPN 56, Latin American literature by women
Research interests: Environment and women, eros, politics and women's activism through literature

Cynthia P. King
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
B.S., M.A., Auburn University
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Lisa I. Knight
Assistant Professor of Religion
B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Syracuse University
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Courses taught: REL A95, Women and Power in Hinduism
Research interests: Women and religion in South Asia

Jane Love
Director, Center for Collaborative Learning & Communication
Assistant Professor
B.A., English and Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
M. A., Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Ph.D., English, University of Florida
Courses taught: WGS 30, Issues in Women’s Studies
WGS 95, Women, Eating, Food
Research interests: Philosophy and sexual difference; gender and ethics; digital art and literature by women; women and food.

Angélica Lozano-Alonso
Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of Colorado
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Courses taught: SPN 95, Writing Women into Mexican History
Research interests: Latin American women writers, Representations of women in historical novels
Website: http://facweb.furman.edu/%7Ealozano-alonso/index.htm

Kristy Maher
Associate Professor and Chair, Sociology
B.A., Saint Michael's College
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Courses taught: SOC 42, Sociology of Gender
Research interests: Gender differences in health.
Website: http://facweb.furman.edu/dept/sociology/Faculty/Maher/MaherHome.htm

Shelly Matthews
Associate Professor of Religion
B.A., University of North Dakota
M.Div, Boston University
Th.D, Harvard University
Courses taught: REL 35, Feminist Biblical Interpretation
Research interests: Women in Early Christianity, Judaism, Greco-Roman religions; Feminist Biblical Interpretation; Feminist historiography
Website: http://facweb.furman.edu/~smatthews/

Savita Nair
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies
B.S. Carnegie Mellon University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Courses taught: HST A95, Gender in South Asia
Research interests: Global feminisms; women and empire; body politics

Nicholas F. Radel
Professor of English
Ph.D., Indiana University
Research interests: History of Sexuality, Sex and Gender in Early Modern England, Queer Theory

Elizabeth S. Smith
Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of North Carolina
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Courses taught: PS 29, Women and Politics
Research interests: Women's political participation and political ambition
Website: http://www.furman.edu/depts/ps/Faculty%20Smith-Liz.htm

Lynne Shackelford
Professor of English
B.A., College of William and Mary
M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Courses taught: WGS 95, Female Archetypes in American Literature
WGS 95, The Female Gothic
Research interests: Nineteenth-century American literature by women

Roger Sneed
Assistant Professor of Religion
B.A., M.A., University of Tulsa
M.Div., Emory University
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Marian Strobel
Professor of History
B.A., Mount Holyoke College
M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Courses taught: HST 22, History of Women in America

Alfons H Teipen
Associate Professor of Religion
Vordiplom, University of Tuebingen, Germany
M.A., Ph.D., Temple University
Courses taught: REL A95, Women in Islam
Research interests: Women in Islam, Religion and Gender

Victoria L. Turgeon
Associate Professor of Biology
B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Ph.D., Wake Forest University School of Graduate Arts and Sciences in the department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Courses taught: WGS 95, Women in Science
Research interests: Women in science (academic and research)

Helen Lee Turner
Professor of Religion
B.A., Wake Forest University
M.Div., D.Min., Vanderbilt Divinity School
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Courses taught: REL 38, Women and Religion
Course website
Research interests: Women in American Religious History, Feminist Theology
Website: http://facweb.furman.edu/~hlturner/

Diane C. Vecchio
Professor of History
B.A., State University of New York
M.A., Ph.D, Syracuse University.
Courses taught: HST 26, European Women's History
HST 95, Immigrant Women in America: Family, Life and Labor
Research interests: Immigrant women in America