Program faculty have contributed significantly to the primary mission of the Women and Gender Studies program through teaching, mentoring and/or administration. Compared to affiliate status, program faculty are expected to make a greater and more consistent contribution to the Women and Gender Studies program. Some contributions of program faculty include teaching a women and gender studies course, mentoring a graduate student, and serving on MAIS thesis and project committees.
Dr. Bailys research has focused primarily on the effects nonformal education has had on women and the communities in which they live.
Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Mental Health, Gender and Race, Black Studies
Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods
Documentary, television, social media, war movies, sports media, black popular cultures, LGBTQ media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV, gender and sexuality
critical theory, cultural sociology, feminist theory, music and the arts
early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Science and Mathematics
19th & 20th century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics
Asian American students, student development, multiple identities, intersectionality, and graduate student success
Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World
Organizational change, community corrections (probation/parole), prisons, law & society, reentry, problem-solving courts, implementation studies, street-level bureaucrats, and qualitative methods
scholarship of teaching and learning, online learning, scholarly digital storytelling, digital humanities