The SWS Publications Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Kris De Welde will be the next Gender & Society Book Review Editor.
Thank you to Dr. Kelsy Burke whose term as Book Review Editor ended in May 2024.
Kris De Welde (she/ella), Ph.D. is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and of Sociology at the College of Charleston where she studies intersectional inequities/inequalities in higher education, organizational change for equity, feminist academic leadership, and liberatory pedagogies. She co-edited/co-authored the award-winning Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education (2014, Stylus Publishing, now Routledge) with Andi Stepnick, Belmont University. She is co-PI (with Drs. Ann Austin, Michigan State University and Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado Boulder) on a $1.9 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, ADVANCE and Beyond: Exploring Processes of Instuitional Change. She also has recently published findings In Social Currents and Advances in Gender Research from her study on feminist leadership in academia with collaborators and SWS members Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State University and Cathy Solomon, Quinnipiac University. Kris serves on several external advisory boards for NSF ADVANCE grants and is regularly invited as a consultant and speaker on matters related to equity in faculty careers. Kris has been a member of SWS for over 20 years, has served as chair (or co-chair) of the Sister to Sister, Academic Justice, and Social Action Committees, and was SWS’s Feminist Activism Awardee in 2017. Kris’s three-year term as Book Review Editor officially began on June 1, 2024.
If members are interested in learning more about the book review process or being added to the database of potential reviewers, email Kris at GSBookReviews@cofc.edu.
Gender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, is a top-ranked journal in sociology and women’s studies and publishes fewer than five percent of all papers submitted to it. Articles analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. To go directly to the Gender & Society home page, please click HERE.