Judith Howard

Divisional Dean of Social Sciences
Chair of Women Studies 2001-2005
Professor of Sociology


Background
Professor Howard has been an adjunct faculty member in Women Studies since 1982 and was Chair of the department from 2001 to 2005.  Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 1982.

Research Interests
Social Psychology, espcially social cognition; sociology of gender; intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality; pedagogy.

Publications
  • O'Brien, Jodi and Judith A. Howard (Eds.) 1998. Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publications.
  • Howard, Judith A. and Jocelyn A. Hollander. 1997. Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology. Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications.
  • Howard, Judith A. and Peter L. Callero (Eds.). 1991. The Self-Society Dynamic: Cognition, Emotion, and Action. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Howard, Judith A. and Ramira Alamilla. 2001. "Gender and identity." Pp. 54-64 in Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives, edited by Dana Vannoy. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Co.
  • Hollander, Jocelyn A. and Judith A. Howard. 2000. "Social psychological theories on social inequalities." Social Psychology Quarterly 63:338-51.
Awards
  • Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, UW 2001
  • Editor, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1995-2000
  • President, Pacific Sociological Association, 2001-2002


Courses
  • Introduction to Social Psychology
  • Social Cognition
  • Sociology of Gender
  • Diversity in US Society
  • SIGNS Seminar on Feminist Scholarship
  • Seminar on Teaching