Courses Regularly Taught

WS202: Psychology of Gender
WS320: Women and Madness [sample syllabus]
WS436: Gender, Justice and Law [sample syllabus]
WS392: Sexualities [syllabus]
WS620: Feminism and Its “Others”*
WS623: Feminist Social Policy Research* [sample syllabus]
(*new courses)

Research Areas

My work in the areas of advocacy for underrepresented segments of the community intersect with my interest in studying how power and privilege influence individual decision-making; I am particularly interested in the ethics of decision making within institutional environments and am currently studying and writing in the areas of long-term psychiatric disabilities, business ethics, and dispute resolution processes.

Representative Publications

Hippensteele, S.K. (2006). Mediation ideology: Navigating space from myth to reality in sexual harassment dispute resolution. American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 15, No 1, 43-68.

Koikari, M. & Hippensteele, S. K. (2000). Negotiating feminist survival: Sex, race and power in academe. Violence Against Women, Vol. 6 (11), 1269-1296.

Hippensteele, S. K. & Pearson, T. C. (1999). Responding effectively to sexual harassment: Victim advocacy, early intervention, and problem solving. Change, January-February 1999, 48-53.