Rita Cameron Wedding, PhD.Coordinator Office: AMD 561C Office Hours: T/Th 11-12 Tel: (916) 278-6817 |
social construction of gender, race, and class |
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Sujatha Moni, PhD. Office: AMD 560B Office Hours: Tu 4-5; Th 10:30-12:30 Th 10:30-12:30 Tel: (916) 278-6878 |
Postcolonial Studies
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Vicki Hall Office: AMD 560C Office Hours: MW 12-1 Tel: (916) 278-6806 |
motherhood, |
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Rita Cameron Wedding is the Chair of the department of Women’s Studies and a professor of Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento. In 2003 she co-edited Ethnic America: Readings in Race, Class and Gender. In 2004 she co-authored Institutions, Ideologies and Individuals: Feminist Perspectives on Gender, Race and Class. Her research and scholarship informs the numerous lectures and workshops she conducts on diversity for teachers, social workers as well as staff in business, government and non-profit agencies. In 2004 Dr. Cameron Wedding received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award for the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at CSUS. Also in 2004 as a Fulbright Scholar she participated in a six-week Diversity Seminar in South Africa. While there she lectured on the topic of diversity and was a guest on a national talk radio show in Cape Town, addressing the issue of affirmative action. Dr. Cameron Wedding is serving her second term as a Governor’s appointee to the California Commission on the Status of Women.
Vicki Hall received a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Los Angeles in 1971 and has been teaching in the Women’s Studies Department at California State University since1972. Prior to coming to our campus she worked with Judy Chicago at Fresno State University and taught at Stanford University as a Visiting Artist. Ms. Hall is one of the early contributors to the Feminist Performance Movement. She developed our first Feminist Theater classes and has been teaching Women in Art for more than thirty years.
Areas of interest:
Women artists and women’s art
Goddess/female imagery
Childbirth
Maternal roles
Courses taught:
WOMS 120: Mother Woman Person, WOMS 145: Feminism and the Spirit, WOMS 146: Women in Art
Sujatha Moni, PhD received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University, New Jersey in January 2006. Her dissertation focuses on the performance of desire and alterity in postcolonial drama. Her areas of research include: drama in South Asia; postcolonial studies; performance theory; women’s and gender studies; and psychoanalysis. She serves on the Advisory Board of My Sister’s House – a Sacramento based non-profit organization providing counseling services and shelter for victims of domestic violence, particularly from the Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Areas of interest:
Postcolonial Studies
Performance Theory
Courses taught:
WOMS 115: Introduction to Women's Studies, WOMS 110: Introduction to Women's Movements, WOMS 121: Women in the Middle East, WOMS 180: Seminar in Feminist Theory