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Dr. Myrna Perez Sheldon received two outside grants this year, a short-term fellowship from the Library Company of Philadelphia and one from the American Philosophical Society. Sheldon is Assistant Professor of Classics & World Religions and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Ohio University, She was awarded a Mellon Scholars Program […]

All are invited to join the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies reading group discussion on Monday, Oct. 2, from 11:50 a.m.  to 12:50 p.m. The group will meet in the WGSS conference room (31 S. Court St., Room 105), and pizza will be served. The focus for this meeting is […]

All are invited to join the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies reading group discussion on Monday, Oct. 30, from 11:50 a.m.  to 12:50 p.m. The group will meet in the WGSS conference room (31 S. Court St., Room 105), and pizza will be served. This meeting will continue the Oct. […]

Dr. Myrna Perez Sheldon co-authored a chapter in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology, edited by John Hart. (John Wiley & Sons, 2017). She and co-author Naomi Oreskes wrote a chapter titled “The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States.” Sheldon is […]

Dr. Myrna Perez Sheldon authored an article on “Wild at Heart: How Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology Helped Influence the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity in American Evangelicalism” in the Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Sheldon is Assistant Professor of Gender and American Religion, jointly appointed in two departments, […]

Dr.Patty Stokes, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, was quoted in a Mamamia.com story headlined “Here’s exactly what it was like to give birth 100 years ago.” A century ago, almost every Australian woman knew someone who had died during childbirth. Thus, when women fell pregnant, they were […]

From Compass Informal work—and how it is “counted”—is an important in changing economic structures and gender performances, said Dr. Risa Whitson, Associate Professor of Geography and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. She was the keynote speaker at the Graduate Commencement on April 28. Most of her research is based […]