Western Illinois University - Quad Cities - Academics

While there are many professors on the QC campus from whom BLAS and MLAS students take courses, this page introduces the handful primarily responsible for serving these degrees.

Tara Weisenborn with Dr. Everett Hamner, completing a political survey at the QC Unity Fest, a cultural diversity festival in Davenport.

Contact Information:
Waggoner Hall 213 (Macomb)
Phone: 309.298.3025 (Macomb)
60th Street Room 211 (Quad Cities)
Phone: 309.762.9481 (Quad Cities)
E-mail: AK-Alton1@wiu.edu

Degree:
PH.D., Cornell University

Primary Research Interests:
Aging; Women's Health Issues.

Additional Website:
http://www.wiu.edu/biology/faculty/alton-a.php

Contact Information:
Quad Cities Campus Room 212
Phone: 309.762.3999 Ext. 62247
E-mail: E-Hamner@wiu.edu

Degree:
PH.D., University of Iowa

Courses Taught:

• A&S 195 Introduction to the Liberal Arts & Sciences
• A&S 495 Senior Capstone Course
• LAS 503 Tradition & Change (Focus on the Humanities)
• ENG 299 Critical Methods of Reading & Writing
• ENG/WS 301 Women & Literature: Utopia, Dystopia, & the American Dream
• ENG 302: Popular Forms of Literature: Science Fiction
• ENG 348 Ethnic Literatures of the United States
• ENG 356 Literature of the Bible
• ENG 395 Film & Literature
• ENG 400G Topics in Literature: Genetics, Ethics, & Narrative
• ENG/REL 492G Religion, Literature, and Film
• ENG 540 Literary Traditions & Influences: Evolution & the Postsecular
• ENG 540 Literary Traditions & Influences: African American & Latin@ American Fictions

Primary Research Interests:

• 20th & 21st century American fiction & cinema
• Science and technology, especially evolution and genetics
• Global religions and postsecular theory

Additional Website:
http://www.wiu.edu/cas/english_and_journalism/directory/show.php?e-hamner

Contact Information:
Quad Cities Campus Room 217
Phone: 309.762.3999 Ext. 62232
E-mail: DS-Malachuk@wiu.edu

Degree:
PH.D., Rutgers University

Courses Taught:

• A&S 195 Introduction to the Liberal Arts & Sciences
• ENG 206 Issues in US Literature
• ENG 299 Critical Reading & Writing
• ENG 300 Short Story
• ENG 340 American Nature Writing
• ENG 348 U.S. Ethnic Literature
• ENG 353 Great Books
• ENG 400G Topics in Literature
• ENG 401 Major Authors
• ENG 549 Issues in Literary Studies
• ENG 532 Literature and Place

Primary Research Interests:

• Nineteenth-century literature, political theory, the environment

Additional Website:
http://www.wiu.edu/cas/english_and_journalism/directory/show.php?ds-malachuk

Contact Information:
Quad Cities Campus Room 287
Phone: 309.762.3999 Ext. 62251
E-mail: NA-Schaefer@wiu.edu

Degree:
PH.D., University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Courses Taught:

• A&S 495 Senior Capstone Course: Religion and Politics
• SOC 316 Collective Behavior
• SOC/WS 360 Gender and Society
• SOC 462G Political Sociology
• SOC 464G Sociology of Religion
• SOC 475 Sociology of Popular Culture
• REL 454 Contemporary Spiritual Movements

Primary Research Interests:

• Sociology of religion and cultural sociology
• Popular culture
• Globalization/Americanization
• Race, class, gender, collective behavior

Additional Website:
http://www.wiu.edu/sociology/faculty/schaefer.php

Contact Information:
Quad Cities Campus Room 285
Phone: 309.762.3999 Ext. 315
E-mail: TL-Werner@wiu.edu

Degree:
PH.D., University of Kentucky

Courses Taught:

• A&S 495 Senior Capstone Course
• LAS 502 Tradition and Change (Focus on the Social Sciences)
• SOC 300 Minority Peoples
• SOC 320 Sociology of Work
• SOC/WS 410G Women and Poverty
• SOC 415 Social Stratification
• SOC/AAS/WS 420G Race, Class, and Gender
• SOC/WS 430G Sociology of Women´s Health
• SOC 460G The Family

Primary Research Interests:

• Race, gender, and class

Additional Website:
http://www.wiu.edu/sociology/faculty/werner.php

A sufficiently caffeinated Dr. Dan Malachuk.