Associate Professor, Coordinator, Women's Studies
Teaching
Dr. Braithwaite is the recipient of the 2005 Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching -- one of 3 awarded among the university faculty for the year, and of the 2008 Janet Pottie Murray Award for Educational Leadership.
Dr. Braithwaite teaches the core courses in Women's Studies:
- WS 101 Gender, Equality, and Difference
- WS 102 Gender in Transnational Perspective
- WS 302 Constructing Identity and Difference
- WS 403 Theorizing Feminisms
in addition to a variety of electives in Women's Studies:
- WS 205 Sex and Culture
- WS 206 Bad Girls and Transgressive Women
- WS 210 Selected Topics: Foodand Cultural Studies
- WS 311 Identity and Popular Culture
- WS 412 Theories of the Body
- WS 491 (Directed Reading) Advanced Feminist Theories
- WS 491 (Directed Reading) Advanced Cultural Studies
- WS 491 (Directed Reading) Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms
- WS 491 (Directed Reading) Queer Theory