When Feminist Majority Foundation began publishing Ms. in 2001, it established the Committee of Scholars to serve as a bridge between the magazine and the field of women’s studies. Today, a diverse group of feminist scholars spanning disciplines form the Committee, using their knowledge of new research and theories to help shape the stories told in Ms. and its strategic vision.
Co-Chairs
Carrie N. Baker, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Program for the Study of Women and Gender; Smith College
Michele Tracy Berger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chair Emeritus
Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Arts and Humanities; University of Maryland, College Park
Committee Members
R. Dianne Bartlow
Gender and Women’s Studies
California State University at Northridge
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and Chair, Women, Culture, Development, Program
University of California, Santa Barbara
Audrey Bilger, Ph.D.
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Pomona College
Kelly Brown Douglas, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of Religion and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Goucher College
Nohelia Canales, M.S.
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of English
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Department of English
Brittney Cooper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies
Rutgers University
Irasema Coronado, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
University of Texas at El Paso
Norlisha (Tish) Crawford, Ph.D.
English and African American Studies
University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies
Arizona State University
Julie R. Enszer, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, University of Mississippi
Radhika Gajjala, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Media and Communication and American Culture Studies Program
Bowling Green State University
Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of American Studies and Center for Mexican American Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Kelly Finley, M.A.
Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor, Women’s and Gender Studies
UNC Charlotte
Kryn Freehling-Burton, M.A.
Senior Lecturer, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Oregon State University
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D.
Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies; Chair, Comparative Women’s Studies; Director, Women’s Research and Resource Center
Spelman College
Janell Hobson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies
State University of New York at Albany
Ileana Jiménez
English Department
LREI: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School
Valerie Ann Johnson, Ph.D.
Dean for the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities
Shaw University
L.S. Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
University of California, Santa Cruz
Kimi Lynn King, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
University of North Texas
M. Bahati Kuumba, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Comparative Women’s Studies and Associate; Director, Women’s Research and Resource Center
Spelman College
Lisa Yun Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Illinois, Chicago
Director of National Public Housing Museum
Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Ph.D.
Director and Professor, Women’s Studies
Southern Connecticut State University
C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Research and Policy in the Public Interest
Layli Maparyan, Ph.D.
Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director, Wellesley Centers for Women; Professor, Africana Studies
Wellesley College
Irma McClaurin, Ph.D.
McClaurin Solutions
Michelle McGibbney Vlahoulis, Ph.D.
Women and Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation
Arizona State University
Linda Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate University Professor and Director of Applied Women’s Studies
Claremont Graduate University
Barbara Ransby, Ph.D.
Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, African-American Studies and History; Director, Gender & Women’s Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Loretta R. Ross, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Practice, School of Transformation
Arizona State University
Susan M. Shaw, Ph.D.
Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Transitional Director of the School of Language, Culture and Society
Oregon State University
Carol Stabile, Ph.D.
Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
University of Oregon
Dr. Karla J. Strand, MLIS
Gender & Women’s Studies Librarian
University of Wisconsin
Nayereh Tohidi, Ph.D.
Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Department
California State University at Northridge
Patricia Trujillo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, English; Director of Writing and Rhetoric
Northern New Mexico College
Gina Athena Ulysse, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Wesleyan University
Jennifer D. Williams, Ph.D.
English
Howard University