Steering & Council

Steering & Council

Steering & Council members meet monthly to discuss the direction of the organization and the status of women at the University. Liaisons (marked with an asterisk*) serve on Steering & Council as representatives of their respective Schools within the University. 

WFF Steering & Council members for 2021-2022 are:

• Rene Almeling, Associate Professor of Sociology 

• Jasmina Besirevic Regan,  Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 

• Kim Blenman, Associate Research Scientist in Department of Internal Medicine Section of Medical Oncology and Yale Cancer Center

• Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics

• Lynette Bowring, Assistant Professor of Music History*

• Jessica Brantley, Professor of English and Department Chair

• Susan Busch, Professor of Public Health*

• Cynthia Santos DeCure, Assistant Professor Adjunct of Acting*

• Cydney H. Dupree, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior 

• Marta Figlerowicz, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English

• Joyce Hsiang, Assistant Professor of Architecture

• Dana Karwas, Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media 

• Paula Kavathas, chair 2013 - 2017; Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

• Danya Keene, Associate Professor Public Health*

• Marta  Kuzma, Professor  of Art Theory and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the School of Art*

• Kelsey Martin, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology)*

• Reina Maruyama, current chair, Associate Professor of Physics

• Beth McGuire, Professor in the Practice of Acting; Director of Accents, Dialects, and Phonology for Actors*

• Priyamvada Natarajan, chair 2011 - 2013; Professor of Astronomy and Physics 

• Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law

• Naomi Rogers, chair 2020-2021, Professor  of History of Medicine and History

• Nancy L. Ruther, Associate Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Lecturer, Political Science (retired)

• Kim Shirkhani, Lecturer in English, Co-Course Director, English 120

• Nina Stachenfeld, Senior Research Scientist in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

• Eboni Marshall Turman, Associate Professor of Theology and African American Religion 

• Meg Urry, co-chair 2007-2008; Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy

• Laura Wexler, co-chair 2008 - 2011; Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Yuan Yao, Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems*

• Anna Zayaruznaya, Associate Professor of Music