Join the McAuley Institute for Mercy Education’s McAuley Scholars from the Mercy Critical Concern Faculty Collaborative on Women & Gender who will share their experiences advancing teaching and research initiatives that address the Critical Concern of Women and contribute to the mercy, Catholic vocation of Salve Regina University.

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These seven McAuley Scholars each received a grant to support a research or teaching initiative in the 2022 fall semester.  Since then, these faculty have engaged student fellows and convene in regular interdisciplinary seminars to advance their work. The initiatives that the McAuley Scholars have been focused on and will be discussing and sharing at the Faculty Lecture Series are as follows:

ESTHER MARÍA ALARCÓN ARANA, PH.D.
Associate Professor | Modern Languages
¡Las Chicas Son Guerreras! Mujeres y Música Consciente en la España Contemporánea

VICTORIA GONZALEZ, PH.D.
Assistant Professor, Sociology | Cultural, Environmental and Global Studies
Examining Gender Roles

BELINDA BARBAGALLO, PH.D.
Assistant Professor | Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Risks of PFOS Exposure in Pregnancy: A Public Health Outreach Campaign

DONNA HARRINGTON-LUEKER, PH.D.
Professor | English, Communications, and Media; Program Coordinator | Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Life-Writing: Women and Autobiography & Women, Muckraking, and McClure’s Magazine

KAITLIN GABRIELE-BLACK, PH.D.
Assistant Professor | Psychology
Shifting Roles, Shifting Identities: Exvangelical Mothers’ Experiences of Parenthood and Identity Development

TARA BROOKE WATKINS, PH.D.
Assistant Professor, Theatre | Music, Theatre and Dances
The Strindberg Experiment

KATHLEEN MUIRHEAD, PH.D.
Assistant Professor | Counseling, Leadership and Expressive Arts
Counseling and Gender: Examining Human Development Through a Non-Binary Gender Lens