Professor Susan Shaw is a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professor at Oregon State University. With a background in religious studies, Professor Shaw’s research focuses on feminist studies in religion, and teaches classes such as “Feminism and the Bible” and “Feminist Theologies in the US” throughout the academic year. Her most recent publication is Reflective Faith: A Theological Toolbox for Women, a book and workbook that makes feminist theology and feminist biblical criticism more accessible for a general audience. Professor Shaw’s publications have also appeared in multiple places, such as the Huffington Post blog, American Baptist Quarterly, and Perspectives in Religious Studies.
Professor Rebecca Warner is a Sociology professor and senior vice provost for academic affairs at Oregon State University. Teaching in the School of Policy, Professor Warner specializes in gender and family policy, science policy, and comparative and international gender policy. In the past, she has served as the chair of Oregon State’s Sociology department, as well as assisted in implementing a Master of Public Policy program in the university’s College of Liberal Arts.
They will be visiting campus to engage in a workshop that will explore the way seminars are structured in order to better its practice and usage in the academic year. The overarching goal of the Oregon State ADVANCE program, funded by the National Science Foundation, is to serve as a catalyst for advancing the study and practice of equity, inclusion, and justice for women and others from historically underrepresented groups in STEM who are faculty in the academy. The unique and innovative portion of the Oregon State ADVANCE program involves a 54-hour intensive immersion seminar focused on issues of difference, power, and discrimination. This workshop will include an overview of the seminar structure, content and pedagogy. We will engage in a set of activities based on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to explore the importance of understanding intersectionality for disrupting the normative workings of gender that maintain systems of oppression and privilege.
The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. If you are interested, please register through the Research Commons website. Lunch will be served at the event. Please join us in welcoming them to campus!
This event is sponsored by the Underrepresentation in STEM group of the Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme Science and Technology Studies project, with co-sponsorship from OSU ADVANCE, The Women’s Place, and Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
