Faculty and Staff

Trisha Franzen

Co-chair and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

B.A., State University of New York, Buffalo
M.A., University of New Mexico
Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Office: Robinson Hall 201A
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (517) 629-0535

Bille Wickre

Professor of Art History

Co-chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ph.D. University of Michigan

Office: Bobbitt Visual Arts Center 208B
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (517) 629-0375

Lucia Soriano

Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Ethnic Studies

B.A., California Polytechnic University
M.A., Claremont Graduate University
Ph.D., Washington State University

Office: Robinson Hall 202
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (517) 629-0420

Scott Melzer

W.W. Diehl Trustees Professor of Sociology

B.A., University of Florida
M.A., University of California Riverside
Ph.D., University of California Riverside

Website

His teaching and research interests are in gender, social psychology, and criminology, with particular interests in intimate violence, men & masculinities, gun politics, and social change. He is co-founder and co-director of Albion College’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Scott’s research examines how men respond to threats to their statuses and identities, and includes books on American Manhood as well as the NRA. For more information, visit his website.

Office: Robinson Hall 309
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (517) 629-0421