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Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, associate professor of American studies and Eleanor DeWolfe Ludcke ‘26 Honorary Chair of Liberal Studies, earned her Ph.D. in American and New England studies at Boston University where one of her three major examination fields was nineteenth-century women’s history.
Dr. De Wolfe’s research interests include the ways women appear in and/or use popular print to advance social and cultural ideas about gender, family, religion and other concerns. She is the author of Shaking the Faith: Women, Family and Mary Marshall Dyer’s Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (which received the Communal Studies Association’s Outstanding Book award for 2003) and the co-editor of Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers.
Her current research concerns the newspaper, court, and fictional portrayals of the murder of a Maine mill girl. At UNE, Dr. De Wolfe has co-directed four of the biennial Maine Women Writers Collection conferences. Dr. De Wolfe teaches courses on American women’s history.
Alexandra Campbell, Ph.D.
Alexandra Campbell comes to UNE from England, and is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. Alex’s courses include: "Deviance," "Crime and Deviance," "Globalization and Identity," "Race, Class, and Gender," "Globalization and Technology," and "Introduction to Sociology," and she is the present coordinator of the Sociology Internship.
Dr. Campbell is currently working on a book manuscript, which explores issues of race and white identities in cyberspace, and arises from research she conducted as part of her Ph.D. She has also researched and published in the areas of rape prevention and power, race and racism, and race and policing. She earned her Ph.D. and M. Phil. at Cambridge University, UK, in Criminology and her B.A. at University of York St. John.
Brian Duff does research in the fields of political theory, including feminist political theory, and American politics. He recieved his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. In political theory, he focuses on modern political thought, particularly issues about the ways ideas about children affect politics. His research in feminist political theory has focused upon the relationship between radical feminism and postmodernism. In American politics, he is interested in the factors that influence the ways ordinary citizens think about and engage in politics.
For the women's studies program he teaches courses on gender and politics, and feminist political theory.
Julia M. Garrett, Ph.D.
Julia M. Garrett, assistant professor of English, completed a Ph.D. in English literature with a doctoral emphasis in women’s studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College. She credits her mentors and graduate colleagues in the UCSB Women’s Studies Program with providing her with her most valuable training as a teacher. Her dissertation focused on the witchcraft literature of Renaissance England, including records about actual trials, as well as plays that represented witch figures on the stage. Dr. Garrett also has a research specialty in the history of gender and sexuality, and is currently completing a study examining how witchcraft discourse served as a vital site of knowledge about sexual beliefs. Her current research on early ethnography examines how childrearing, marriage practices and gender difference are imagined across a range of cultures during the early modern period. She has conducted workshops on multicultural and feminist pedagogy and received three service awards - both for her work with women’s studies and for mentoring underrepresented and first-generation college students.
Linda L. Morrison, associate professor of psychology, earned both her M.A. and her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio, and her baccalaureate degree in clinical psychology with a minor in women's studies from Alfred University in Alfred, New York.
Dr. Morrison was the first full-time coordinator of the Rape Education and Prevention Program at The Ohio State University where she authored the rape education curriculum published by Ohio State and still in use today, and she continues to have a research interest in issues of sexual violence prevention and recovery. Her other research interests include gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth, suicide risk assessment (particularly for minority populations), and parental leave policies and their impact on working families. She is currently working on a biography of a lesbian couple in their 70's who have been together over 40 years.
Before moving to Maine in 1996, Dr. Morrison was honored to receive the Women's Leadership Award from The Ohio State University for her leadership and service to the Rape Education and Prevention Program, and numerous teaching awards. At UNE, Dr. Morrison has won the outstanding teacher of the year award three times, and she regularly teaches the Psychology of Gender, Mutlicultural Counseling and The Psychology of Sexual Orientation, a senior level seminar.
Linda Sartorelli, Ph.D.
Linda Sartorelli is chair and professor of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Her interests include scientific reasoning, causation, Galileo, and the teaching of thinking. Serving as a consultant in the teaching of thinking with the National Center for Teaching Thinking (Newton, Massachusetts), she has conducted numerous workshops on teaching thinking for teachers at all levels and presented papers on critical thinking at national and international conferences.
She also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Philosophy Teachers. Firmly believing that philosophy is a useful discipline, Professor Sartorelli worked for six years with the Texas Law Enforcement Management Institute helping police officers and chiefs to become better decision makers and problem solvers. She also helped develop for managers and shop workers at Texas Instruments a strategy for getting at the root cause of problems in the production of small parts.
She has worked with Wisconsin PBS on a series of videos on the interaction among science, technology and society. Her current interests include the philosophy of friendship, love, marriage and sex, and she is working on a paper about the relationship between concepts of friendship and life goals.
She earned her Ph.D., MA., from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, in the philosophy of science, logic.
Jennifer S. Tuttle, associate professor of English and Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature and Health, earned her Ph.D. in literature at the University of California, San Diego, where her examination fields included literature and women’s health, 19th-century U.S. women’s writing, and women and consumer society.
She is currently working on two book projects: Unsettling the West: 'American Nervousness' in California Women’s Writing, which examines women’s invocation of medical discourse at the turn of the last century, and The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She recently published a scholarly edition of Gilman’s novel The Crux (1911), and has written articles on several U.S. women writers, as well as on women’s detective fiction.
Before moving to Maine, Dr. Tuttle taught in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University, where she mentored Graduate Women Scholars of Southern California (a skill-building group of women graduate students), organized women’s studies conferences, and was honored as a “Woman of the Year” by the California Legislature for her work with the Center for Family Solutions, a battered women’s shelter. At UNE, Dr. Tuttle is the faculty director of the Maine Women Writers Collection, has co-directed two of the biennial MWWC conferences, and regularly teaches a course on writing and women’s health. She serves as coeditor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
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