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This week Richard and Joe welcomed Professor and author, Dr. Doreen Mattingly. Dr. Mattingly is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University (SDSU). In her 21 years at SDSU she has taught a total of sixteen different courses, including her popular classes on women and politics, women’s movements and activism, and globalization and development.
In all of her classes she strives for relevance, rigor, and engagement, pushing students to consider multiple perspectives and to place current issues in historical and geographical context. Six times chosen as “Most Influential Faculty Member” by an outstanding graduate in her department and a previous recipient of the College of Arts and Letters Student Association Outstanding Faculty Award, she is the recipient of the 2016 Teaching Excellence Award for the College of Arts and Letters at SDSU.
Her academic publications are on a range of topics, including domestic work, immigration, urban politics, feminist research methods, and women’s activism in the 1970s. She is the co-editor (with Ellen Hansen) of “Women and Change at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Mobility, Labor, and Activism.” She is the recipient of the 2016 Teaching Excellence Award for the College of Arts and Letters at SDSU.
Dr. Mattingly’s newest book is “A Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America’s Culture Wars.” The book chronicles the political career of Midge Costanza, a feminist who served as assistant to the president for public liaison under President Jimmy Carter—at the time, the highest position a woman had ever held in the White House.
On August the 16th at 7:30pm, Dr. Mattingly will be having a book signing at Warwick’s book store in La Jolla.
Behind the scenes, Dr. Mattingly serves the university as the Co-Director of the Bread and Roses Center for Feminist Activism and Research, a member of the SDSU University Senate, and a leader in the SDSU chapter of the California Faculty Association. In Fall 2016, she will assume the role of Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies.
She holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University, and MA from UCLA, and a BA from UC Berkeley.
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