Associate Professor / Program Leader for Sociology/Gender Studies Minor Coordinator
Phone: (239) 590-7191
E-Mail: kdewelde@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - #30

B.A., Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, University of Colorado, Boulder 1998

Research and teaching interests: gender, women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), sociology of families, sociology of food, and service learning.

Courses Offered:

Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field within which Sociology plays a significant role.  Dr De Welde is the coordinator for the minor at FGCU, and she teaches several key courses for the minor as well.  Follow this link for more information:

Gender Studies Minor

Current projects:

“Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Women Navigating Hostility and Making Feminist Change in the Academy”: In-progress book collaboration with Dr. Andi Stepnick, Belmont University, TN.  See: https://sites.google.com/site/disruptingthecultureofsilence/

Select peer-reviewed publications:

Forthcoming: “Kick Ass Feminism: Violence, Resistance, and Feminist Avengers in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. For Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Kick Their Asses!:  Feminist Perspectives on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, Donna King and Carrie Smith, eds.  Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

Forthcoming: Review of Gender, Culture, and Physicality: Paradoxes and Taboos.  By Helen M. Sterk and Annelies Knoppers.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009, 144 pp. Gender and Society. 

Co-authored with Sandra Laursen: “The ‘Ideal Type’ Advisor: Helping STEM Graduate Students Find Their ‘Scientific Feet,’” The Open Education Journal 1 (2008), 49-61.

Co-authored with Sandra Laursen and Heather Thiry: “Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math): A Fact Sheet,” Sociologists for Women in Society (2007)

“White Women Beware! Whiteness, Fear of Crime, and Self-Defense,” Race, Gender, and Class 10:4 (2003), 75-91.

“Getting Physical: Subverting Gender through Self-Defense,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 32:3 (2003), 247-278.

Co-authored with Eleanor Hubbard: “’I’m Glad I’m Not Gay!’: Heterosexual Students’ Emotional Experience in the College Classroom with a ‘Coming Out’ Assignment,” Teaching Sociology 31:1 (2003), 73-84.

Select conference presentations:

“Complex Explorations: The Politics of Feminist Qualitative Research.”  Annual meeting of the Qualitative Report, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. January 2011.
 
“Greening Service Learning: Teaching Social Justice and Sustainability via a Sociology of Food course,” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA, April 2010. 

“Choosing For or Against? Work-Life Balance in Academic Career Choices for Women in STEM,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), San Francisco, August 2009.

“Resistance in Sustaining Pedagogical Innovations: Lessons for Sociology from STEM Innovators,” presented at the annual meeting of the ASA, Boston, August 2008.

"Embracing a Service Learning Perspective," presented at the DU Public Good Conference: The Theory and Practice of Public Good Work, Denver, 2007.

"Bridges in Service-Learning: Creating Interdisciplinary Opportunities for Students," presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, 2006.

"'Back Off!': Women, Embodied Agency, and Social Space," presented at the annual meeting of the ASA, Atlanta, 2003.

"For Whites Only? Fear of Crime and Self-Defense as Raced and Classed Experiences," presented at the annual meeting of the ASA, Chicago, 2002.

Recent Invited (local) Lectures and Presentations:

Profesional Service, Leadership Positions

President, Sociologists for Women in Society-South

Co-chair, Committee on Academic Justice, Sociologists for Women in Society

Member, Editorial Board of  Journal of Integrated Social Sciences:

"JISS attempts to provide a platform that fills the void of a unified approach in the social sciences. We are launching our peer-reviewed journal with several disciplines in mind that are central to the social sciences: Psychology, Sociology, Political Sciences, and Gender Studies. Our hope is that students and professionals alike will take advantage of this new outlet for their ideas and quality work, to be shared with others, thereby bridging the isolation that often exists between the various social disciplines. We are therefore particularly interested in interdisciplinary and/or holistically oriented projects and invite you to share such investigations with the rest of the scholarly community."

Public Sociology

"Why We Need Women in Technology," Ms. Magazine Blog, June 23, 2010.

Interviewed by Northwest Public Radio: "Women Encouraged to Puruse Careers in Science" (Anna King, reporter), October 7, 2009.

"Domestic Violence and Financial Stress," op-ed in Girl With Pen, October 23, 2008. Also appeared on Counterpunch, October 24, 2008.