Barbara LeSavoy

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Barbara LeSavoy , Ph.D

Associate Professor

(585) 395-5799
blesavoy@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 115

Education

• University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  Educational Leadership and Policy, PhD, Social Foundations of Higher Education, May 2004; Research Focus, Women in Education
• Boston University, Boston, MA School of Education EdM, Adult and Continuing Education, May 1986
• HERS Bryn Mawr Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA Bryn Mawr University Women in Higher Education Administration, July 2013
• Anglo School, London, England Royal Society of Arts, English as a Second Language, May 1982
• Rhode Island Collage, Providence, RI BS, Elementary Education/Early Childhood, May 1981
  Teaching Concentration: English Literature/Language Arts

Areas of Specialty

• Gender-based Violence and Trauma Movements
• Global and Intersectional Perspectives on Women and Gender
• Theorizing Gender and Popular Culture
• International Women’s Day: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
• Sex and Education (1873): Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Courses Taught

• Sex and Culture; Honors Sex and Culture
• Gender, Race and Class
• Feminist Theory; Graduate Level Feminist Theory
• Feminist Research Methods
• Senior Seminar in Women and Gender Studies
• Practicum in Women and Gender Studies

International Teaching

The New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI), St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Guest Lecturer: Virtual NYI :Contested Memories: Memorializing and Visualizing Holocaust Trauma, Summer ’20

Seminars Taught:  Virtual NYI

Performing Dissent: Race, Gender and Political Voice, Winter ’22.

Navigating Identities: Politics of Race, Gender, and Civic Voice, Summer ’22.

Navigating Identity: Race, Class, and Gender in Pop Culture, Winter ’21.

NYI in St. Petersburg, Russia

She, He, They: Threshold Concepts in Women and Gender Studies, Summer ’16.

The Sex Wars: Bodies, Laboring, and Reproduction, Summer ’15.

Riot Grrrl to Little Women: Politics of Identity and Place, Summer ’14.

• Awards/Recognitions
  • SUNY Chancellor Excellence in Teaching Award, Spring ’20
  • Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence, Spring ’17
  • Fannie Barrier Williams Women of Courage Faculty Award, Spring ’16
  • Ronald E. Fontaine Faculty Student Scholarly Engagement Awards, SUNY Brockport, Spring ’15
  • Diversity Engagement Award, SUNY Brockport, Fall ’13
  • Outstanding Service to Students Award, SUNY Brockport, Spring ’13
  • Academic;Advisement Award, SUNY Brockport, Spring ’13
  • Honorable Mention, Mixed and Imagined,University of Rochester Susan B. Anthony Institute, “If I had a Camera:Re-Imagining Film and Media Through a Feminist Lens,” March ’13
  • Emerging Leader Award, American Association of University Women, April ’12
  • Mentor of the Year, McNair/CStep, SUNY Brockport, Spring ’08
• Recent Publications

  Contested Memories: The Intimate Public and Technologies of Affect in Memorializing Holocaust Trauma. In Alexandra Moore, James Dawes (Ed.), Technologies of Human Rights Representations. SUNY Press. 2022.

  Creating the Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal. Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal. October 2021

  Feminist Attitudes, Behaviors, and Culture Shaping Women’s Center Practice. Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal. October 2021

  Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation. In Katie Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette (Ed.), Feminist Connections Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space, and Place. University of Alabama Press. 2021.

  The Sexual Politics of Videogame Graphics, with Robert Mejia, In K. Gray, G. Voorhees, and E. Vossen (Eds.), Gender & Games Trilogy: Women’s Studies Volume, Palgrave, December, 2018

  Bloom’s “Normal” and Tarttelin’s “Golden Boy:” Reading Gender Fluidity Written Across Time and Text,” Feminist Teacher, 2016, 26 (2/3), 142-155.

  Disrupting the Lean: Performing a 2016 Declaration of Sentiments, with T. Schroeder, The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, 2(1), October, 2017.

  One Billion Rising: Theorizing Bodies, Resistance, and Engagement in a Campus Stop Violence Against Women Movement, Reflections: Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning. June, 2017, 17(1), 133-155.

  Negotiating Sex and Gender Mediums Across Continents: Brockport, New York to Novgorod, Russia, In A. Moore and S. Simon (Eds.), Globally-Networked Learning: Theories and Practices, Routledge, 2015, 124-135.

  Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on Student Leadership: Applying Student Voices on Learning Development, with J. Zhang, L. Lieberman, L. Barrett, MountainRise: The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014, 4(2).

  The Capitalist Hijacking of International Women’s Day: Russian and American Considerations, with G. Jordan; Journal of International Women’s Studies, 2013, 14(3), 244-258.

  The New Old Feminism: Regional Coalition and the Future of Women and Gender Studies, March ’12, Women in Higher Education.

  Review of Eisenstein, “Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World,” June ’12, Gender and Society, Sage Publications.

  Now I have Something that is Mine: Women’s Higher Education Gains as Feminist Standpoint, with J. Bergeron, S. Evans, Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, 2011, 9, 141-163,

  How to be the Best at Everything: The Gendering and Embodiment of Girl/Boy Advice, Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought, 2011, 5 (1) 1-21.

  On the Outside End: Systems of Oppression and Academic Success, Black Women, Gender, and Families, 2010, 4(2) 85-108.

• Presentations

  Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944): 100 Years After Suffrage and the Legacies of Race, Gender, and Civic Voice, Women’s Rights National Park, Seneca Falls, NY, February, ’20.

  International Day on Elimination of Violence Against Women, “Domestic Violence, United Nations 2020, and the Legacy of Jennifer Schlecht,” SUNY Brockport, November 22, 2019.

  COILing with Authoritarian Tendencies, Past and Present: Student Expectations and Interactions in Partnership between the US and Russia, Brazil, and China , International Virtual Exchange Conference, UK, September, ’20

  The Bureaucratic (Im)possibilities of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA Conference, San Francisco, CA, November ’19. Doing the *: Performing the Radical in Antiracist Antisexist Work: National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, San Francisco, CA, November ’19.

  Identity Politics and Dark Tourism: Holocaust Memorials and Trauma Studies, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, San Francisco, CA, November ’19.

  Meaningful Assessment in WGS: Challenges, Successes, and Strategies, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Program Administrator’s Pre-Conference, Atlanta, GA, November ’18.

  The Decision to Departmentalize: Pressures, Politics, Practicalities, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Program Administrator’s Pre-Conference, Atlanta, GA, November ’18

  Knowledge, Identity, and Place: Resisting Binaries and Re-envisioning a Gender Expansive University, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Atlanta, GA,, November ’18.