Women's Studies faculty profiles

Women's Studies faculty profiles

Kate Finnegan
Professor, Early Childhood Education and Women's Studies
East building 116M, 775-1125, finnegan@gcc.mass.edu
Ms. Finnegan participated in one of the first curriculum transformation project conferences at Wheaton College in 1983. Kate is committed to integrating the scholarship about women into education courses. Kate supervises early childhood students in local early childhood programs. She also serves as the consultant to the Headstart classroom on campus. She teaches EDU 139, Women in Education.

Joanne McNeil Hayes
Professor, English/Women's Studies
Main building, N316, 775-1230, hayes@gcc.mass.edu
Ms. Hayes designed and taught in 1992 an Honor's Seminar in Women of the Medieval Era. In 1993, Joanne designed and taught Women in American History. She also teaches 19th and 20th century Women in Literature and Introduction to Women's Studies. Her undergraduate degree in English is from the University of Wisconsin and her
Masters is from Johns Hopkins University, where she studied women in classical antiquity.

April Heaslip
Main building, N322, 775-1220, heaslip@gcc.mass.edu
April comes to GCC with an MA in Social Ecology from Goddard College, where she studied ecofeminism and feminist art activism. Her undergraduate degrees are in psychology and women's studies from West Chester University, after also studying at the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her areas of interest include women and creativity as well as women's spirituality. Through the Inside Outstitute she also teaches workshops for women seeking their life's passion, focusing on empowerment, communication skills and our innate creativity. Her quest for knowledge continues within the areas of communication skills and conflict resolution, group dynamics and leadership.

Currently April teaches Women in American History, Women in the Pioneer Valley and is co-creating Invoking Eirene: Voices of the Past, a learning community exploring the intersection of women's history and the psychology of peace and conflict.

In her spare time she builds straw bale structures, gardens, does yoga, creates art and follows around Virginia Woolf.

Mary Ellen Kelly
Co-Coordinator, Peer Tutoring Program
Co-Coordinator, English Department
Main building, C402, 775-1335, kellym@gcc.mass.edu
Mary Ellen has taught English courses in women's literature, developmental writing and reading, composition, children's literature, and creative writing. Students are invited to contact her or the Financial Aid Office for information about the annual Virginia Low Women’s Studies Scholarship Award.

Linda McCarthy, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor, Sociology
East Building 116C, 413/775-1154, mccarthyl@gcc.mass.edu
Linda McCarthy earned her Doctorate in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2003, and teaches Sociology at GCC from a social justice perspective. Linda joined GCC in 2004, and is actively working to develop the Sociology curriculum. Currently, courses she offers include: Principles of Sociology, Social Problems, The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality, and Sociology of Gender. Linda has published several articles and is a former associate editor of the University of Massachusetts School of Education’s journal, Equity & Excellence in Education. Her academic interests include social stratification and the social construction of gender.

Phyllis Nahman
Professor Emerita
Ms. Nahman grew up in Turners Falls and has been teaching at GCC since 1971. She has been involved in both the Women's Studies Concentration and developmental education at GCC since their inception. Phyllis teaches (with great pleasure) writing, literature, developmental reading, and women's studies courses.

Angel Russek
East building 116E, 775-1152, russek@gcc.mass.edu
Angel teaches in the Human Ecology Program at GCC. Her classes include Gender Issues in Human Ecology, Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions, Strategies for a Sustainable Future and Environmental Ethics. Angel teaches from the place where social justice and ecological awareness come together. She also values the integration of politics and spirituality into teaching and learning. For 15 years she worked with the Audubon Expedition Institute, an experiential field-based undergraduate and graduate degree program with Lesley University. Recently, she directed the Community Coalition for Teens, a Franklin County public health agency working to address teen health issues in the region.

Dr. Anne M. Wiley
Professor, Psychology and Women's Studies
East building 116N, 775-1132, wiley@gcc.mass.edu
Dr. Wiley participated in one of the first curriculum transformation project conferences at Wheaton College in 1983. Since then she has been actively involved in bringing women's studies to GCC. From the first few course offerings in 1986, to the procurement of a 1993-94 Ford Foundation grant to develop the Women's Studies program option, Anne has been committed to integrating women's studies into our curriculum. She also been teaches the course Psychology of Women. Additionally, she also coordinated the 1991 New England Women's Studies Conference at GCC and is an adjunct professor in women's studies at Keene State College. Finally, she recently had an article published in Women's Studies Quarterly, entitled: Identity and Diversity: An Exploratory Assignment. Anne has her Doctorate in Education from the University of Massachusetts and her dissertation was entitled: Working Class Women in a Women's Studies Course from a Community College: Awakening Hearts and Minds.

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