Faculty

Director: Mary Alice Morgan

201 Willingham
phone: (478) 301-2571
email: morgan_ma@mercer.edu

Secretary: Carmen Hicks

201 Willingham
phone: (478) 301-2562

Margaret Dee Bratcher, Professor of Christianity

Education: B.A., Wake Forest University; M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Mary Ann Drake, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

Education: B.A., M.A., Pacific Oaks College; Ph.D., The Fielding Institute

Darlene Flaming, Associate Professor of Christianity

Education: B.Hum., Oklahoma Baptist University; M.A. and Ph.D., The University of Notre Dame
Interests: Church history, John Calvin, Women in the history of Christianity, feminist hermeneutics, history of historiography

Tia Gafford, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies

Education: B. A., University of Arkansas at Little Rock; M.A. University of Central Arkansas; Ph.D. Temple University
Interests: 19th century African American women's literature, African American literature, African literature

Sarah Gardner, Associate Professor of History

Education: B.A., Miami University of Ohio; Ph.D., Emory University
Interests: U.S. women's history, cultural and intellectual history of the American South, feminist theory, intellectual history of feminism

Cynthia Gottshall, Chair/Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts

Education: B.A., University of South Florida; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University

Robert John Hargrove, Professor of Chemistry

Education: B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of Utah; M.P.H., University of Alabama at Birmingham
Interests: Organic chemical contamination of the environment, analysis of pesticide residues, environmental health issues, organic reaction mechanisms

Linda Hensel, Associate Professor of Biology

Education: B.S., University of Washington; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Interests: Genetics, plant molecular genetics, immunology, microbiology

Eimad Houry, Chair/ Professor of Political Science

Education: B.S., Florida A & M University; M.A., Ph.D., Florida State University
Interests: International political economy, Middle Eastern affairs, economics of peace in the Middle East, theory of globalization, women in developing nations

Lori Johnson, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Education: B.A., University of Georgia; J.D., University of Virginia; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Constitutional law, women in politics, equality, legal systems

Lydia Masanet, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature

Education: B.A., Universidad Central De Barcelona; M.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Mary Alice Morgan, Professor of English

Education: B.A., Duke University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests: American literature, nineteenth and early twentieth-century novel, women's and gender studies

Miranda Pratt, Chair/ Professor of Psychology

Education: B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
Interests: Eating disorders, emotion, clinical psychology

Anna Krugovoy Silver, Associate Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies

Education: B.A., Haverford College, M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Interests: 19th and 20th century British literature, the body in literature, feminist theory, poetry, children's literature

Diana Stege, Professor of English

Education: B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., University of New Mexico; M.A., St. John's College
Interests: Chaucer, Great Books, images of women in literature

Beth Stewart, Professor of Art

Education: B.A., Plymouth State College; M.F.A., Ph.D., Ohio University
Interests: Women in art, printmaking and painting, art of ancient Greece, the Hellenistic empire, and Rome