Faculty and Staff

Claire Bracken

Job Title

Associate Professor of English

Karp Hall 106

Phone

(518) 388-8746

brackenc@union.edu

Department/Program: English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., University College Dublin; M.A., University College Cork; Ph.D., University College Dublin
Lewis Davis

Job Title

Thomas Armstrong Professor of Economics

Chair of the Department Economics

Lippman Hall 118

Phone

(518) 388-8395

davisl@union.edu

Department/Program: Economics, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.S., Davidson College; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kara Doyle

Job Title

Associate Professor of English

Karp Hall 209

Phone

(518) 388-6207

doylek@union.edu

Department/Program: English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

A.B., Georgetown University; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Cornell University
Megan M. Ferry

Job Title

Professor of Chinese

Karp Hall 223

Phone

(518) 388-7104

ferrym@union.edu

Department/Program: MLL, Asian Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

Areas of expertise:
Modern Chinese literature, culture and language.

Chinese language pedagogy, language curriculum development, language program development

B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., Washington University
Andrea R. Foroughi

Job Title

Associate Professor of History

Chair of the History Department

Lippman Hall 116

Phone

(518) 388-7109

forougha@union.edu

Department/Program: History, American Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., Santa Clara University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Melinda A. Goldner

Job Title

Professor of Sociology

Chair of the Department of Sociology

Lippman Hall 217

Phone

(518) 388-6725/6292

goldnerm@union.edu

Department/Program: Sociology, American Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, SMTC

B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Washington State University; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Deidre Hill Butler

Job Title

Associate Professor of Sociology

Lippman Hall 206

Phone

(518) 388-8070

butlerd@union.edu

Department/Program: Sociology, Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, Campus Diversity & Inclusion

B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Clark University
Lori Jo Marso

Job Title

Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies

Professor of Political Science

Africana Studies Program Director

Lippman Hall 115

Phone

(518) 388-6626

marsol@union.edu

Department/Program: Political Science, Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.S., University of South Dakota; M.S., London School of Economics; Ph.D., New York University
Elena McGrath

Job Title

Assistant Professor of History

Lippman Hall 110

Department/Program: History, LACS, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jennifer Mitchell '04

Job Title

Assistant Professor of English

Karp Hall 108

Phone

(518) 388-6815

mitchelj@union.edu

Department/Program: English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., Union College; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D. The CUNY Graduate Center
Stephanie Mueller

Job Title

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Karp Hall 220

Phone

(518) 388-6763

muellers@union.edu

Department/Program: MLL, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

Areas of expertise:
“Terrorist-Turned-Entrepreneur: Basque Masculinities in Fe de etarras.” Revista de
estudios hispánicos. March 2021.

"Jordi Puntí's Els castellans: Rewriting Catalan Narratives of Immigration and Integration." Romance Quarterly. Vol. 67, no.4, 2020, 214-229

Translation. “An Analysis of the Basque Translations of Alice in Wonderland.” From
Spanish original by Manu López Gaseni (University of the Basque Country, Spain). Alice
in a World of Wonderlands. Eds. Jon A. Lindseth and Alan Tannenbaum. New Castle,
Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 152-154.

“Basque Ghosts, Spanish Specters: Jon Juaristi’s Cambio de destino and the Self-
Fashioning of a (Still) Nationalist Intellectual.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 91.4: 399-
416.

“Afterword: A Bookless Literature?” Co-authored with Luis Martín-Estudillo. Hybrid
Storyspaces: Redefining the Critical Enterprise in Twenty-First Century Hispanic
Literature. Ed. Christine Henseler and Debra A. Castillo. Hispanic Issues Online 9: 289-
298.

Translation: “Tensions in Contemporary Basque Literature.” From Spanish original by
Jon Kortazar (University of the Basque Country, Spain). New Spain, New Literatures. Ed.
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press:
135-147.

B.A., Luther College; M.A., Ph.D., The University of Iowa
Jillmarie Murphy

Job Title

Professor of English

Director of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

Karp Hall 104

Phone

(518) 388-8796

murphyj@union.edu

Department/Program: English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, American Studies, ESPE, SMTC

B.A., College of Saint Rose; M.A., College of Saint Rose; Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York
Erika M. Nelson Mukherjee

Job Title

Associate Professor of German Studies

Karp Hall 102

Phone

(518) 388-8377

nelsone@union.edu

Department/Program: MLL, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

Areas of expertise:
German Studies / Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies / Narrative Medicine

B.A., English and Comparative Literature (Classics, German, French), Oberlin College; Graduate Certificate, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University; M.A., Germanic Languages and Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin; M.A., Psychology of Education, Teachers College Columbia University; Ph.D. Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Zoe Oxley

Job Title

Professor of Political Science

Lippman Hall 226

Phone

(518) 388-6719

oxleyz@union.edu

Department/Program: Political Science, American Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

A.B., Bowdoin College; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University
Stacie Raucci

Job Title

Chair of Classics

Frank Bailey Professor of Classics

Lamont House 303

Phone

(518) 388-6966

rauccis@union.edu

Department/Program: Classics, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Krisanna Scheiter

Job Title

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Lamont House 308

Phone

(518) 388-6772

scheitek@union.edu

Department/Program: Philosophy, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., M.A., University of Missouri-St. Louis; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Mehmet Fuat Sener

Job Title

Professor of Economics

Lippman Hall 119

Phone

(518) 388-7093

senerm@union.edu

Department/Program: Economics, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.S. 1993, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; M.S. 1995, London School of Economics, London, U.K; Ph.D. 1999, University of Florida at Gainesville
Jenelle Troxell

Job Title

Associate Professor of English

Karp Hall 210

troxellj@union.edu

Department/Program: English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, Film Studies

B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Dan Venning

Job Title

Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance

Henle Dance Pavilion 202

Phone

(518) 388-7035

venningd@union.edu

Department/Program: Theater & Dance, English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, American Studies

Areas of expertise:
Theater history, dramatic literature, theater criticism, Shakespearean performance, musical theater, theater and nation building.

Ph.D., City University of New York; M.Litt., University of St. Andrews; B.A., Yale University
D. Catherine Walker

Job Title

Assistant Professor

Bailey Hall 301C

Phone

(518) 388-6538

walkerc@union.edu

Department/Program: Psychology, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., Rutgers College; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany
Patricia Wareh

Job Title

Associate Professor of English

Karp Hall 201

Phone

(518) 388-6007

warehp@union.edu

Department/Program: English, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A., University of Florida; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Laura Winters

Job Title

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Lamont House 207

Phone

(518) 388-6437

wintersl@union.edu

Department/Program: Classics, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies

B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College Santa Fe (2006); B.S. Physics, Austin Peay State University (2008); M.S. Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago (2012); Ph.D. Classical Studies, Duke University (2020)

Reamer Campus Center 310, 302

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Contact

Jillmarie Murphy

(518) 388-8796

gswsdir@union.edu