Membership
The WSC is a terrific group of students, staff, administrators, and faculty working on women’s issues at USF. We meet approximately once a month in the fall and spring semesters, and we hold a summer retreat to plan the next year’s activities. If you’re interested in women’s issues at USF, then please consider lending your time and talents to this important Presidential Advisory Committee.
WSC Members at the 2008 Summer Retreat. Top row from left: Kathy Harvey, Judi Jenson, Marion Becker, Mary Clift. Bottom row from left: Kathy Moore, Amber Gum, Michelle White, Elizabeth Bell
To apply, please download and complete this application. Directions for submitting the application are included on the form.
2008-2009 Members and Officers
Linda Alexander, Instructor, Library & Information Sciences
Marion Becker (Past-Chair), Professor, Aging and Mental Health Disparities, FMHI
Elizabeth Bell (Chair), Professor, Communication
Giovanna Benadusi, Associate Professor, History
Joni Bernbaum, Outreach Coordinator, USF Advocacy Program
Martha Brown (Vice-Chair), Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Dean of Faculty Development, Medical School
Marie Byrd-Blake, Assistant Professor, Childhood, Education & Literacy Studies, College of Education, USF Sarasota-Manatee
Mary Clift (Past-Chair), Computer Lab Manager, Information Technologies
Eileen Dabrowski, Student, Biomedical Science and Chemistry
Sgt. Charlotte Domingo, USF Police Department
Heather George, Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Research & Educational Support, FMHI
Amber Gum (Treasurer), Assistant Professor, Aging & Mental Health Disparities, FMHI
Kathy Harvey, Officer Manager, College of Business, USF Polytechnic
Judi Jetson, Program Director, USF Collaborative for Children, Families, & Communities, FMHI
Kathleen de la Peña McCook (Vice-Secretary), Professor, Library and Information Sciences
Jessica McIlvane (Vice-Treasurer), Associate Professor, School of Aging Studies
Kathleen Moore, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Law, and Policy, FMHI.
Nanci Newton, Director, USF Advocacy Program
Soha Patel, Student, USF Medical School
Nicole Randazzo, Student
Dana Schowalter, Graduate Student, Communication
Rachel Silverman, Graduate Student, Communication
Karen Talamantez, Ex-Officio DEO
Sue Viens, Office Manager, Department of Religious Studies
Michelle White (Secretary), Assistant in Technical Assistance, Division of Applied Research and Education Support, FMHI
More About our Members and Officers
Dr. Marion Becker is Professor in the Department of Aging and Mental Health Disparities at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at USF. Dr. Becker is a nationally-recognized researcher and advocate for vulnerable populations of all ages. Her research has focused on improving the lives of women with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders and histories of trauma, children in the child welfare system, and the elderly.
Elizabeth Bell received her PhD in Communication, with an emphasis in Performance Studies, in 1983 from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication at USF. Bell is the recipient of more than ten teaching awards from college, state, and national associations. She is the coeditor of From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture (Indiana UP, 1995) and author of Theories of Performance (Sage, 2008).
Giovanna Benadusi is Associate Professor in the History Department. She received her PhD in Renaissance/Early Modern Italian history from Syracuse University. She is the recipient of several fellowships including Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, two ACLS, a Philosophical Society Grant, and an NEH Summer Stipend. She is the author of A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), of numerous articles and book chapters, and is currently completing a book “Visions of the Social Order: Women's Last Wills, Notaries, and the State in late Renaissance and Baroque Tuscany.” She founded and now serves as co-director of the multidisciplinary Undergraduate Certificate in Italian Studies.
Mary Clift works in Information Technology and is the Computer Lab Manager for the Tampa Campus. She graduated from USF with a degree in Communication. Mary is a past chair of the WSC and continues to work with the committee to advance the interests of women who work for the university.
Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Library and Information Science, is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida where has also been director at the School of Library and Information Science. She has held administrative and faculty positions at Louisiana State University and the University of Illinois-Urbana. She holds the PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. degrees from Marquette University (English) and the University of Chicago (Library Science) and a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She has been President of the Association for Library and Information Science Education and was the 2002 Latino Librarian of the Year (Trejo Award). She has received the Beta Phi Mu Award for distinguished service to education for librarianship; the ALA Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award; the ALA RUSA-Margaret E. Monroe Adult Services Award; the ALA Equality Award and the ALA Library Diversity Research Award. In 2007 she received the Florida Library Association. Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sergeant Charlotte Domingo has been a University Police Officer since 1990. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of South Florida. She is certified as a Florida Crime Prevention Practitioner and a Florida CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) Practitioner by the Florida Attorney General’s Office. She is a certified Rape Aggression Defense instructor, radKIDS instructor, and a Self-Defense Awareness and Familiarization Exchange (SAFE) instructor. She is an adjunct instructor in the USF Physical Education Elective Department. Sergeant Domingo’s prior experience at the University Police includes assignment as a Residential Officer, Patrol Shift Supervisor, Accreditation Manager, Evidence Custodian, Field Training Officer and Training Coordinator. She is currently assigned to the Crime Prevention Unit.
Kathleen A. Moore, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health, Law, and Policy. She received her B.A. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in social/health psychology from Kent State University. She did her post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in which she worked on a NIMH-funded study assessing the effects of exercise vs. medication on clinically depressed older adults. For the past eight years, she has been at FMHI with a primary focus in the area of substance abuse and mental health.
Nanci Newton has worked with victims of sexual assault and domestic violence since 1971. A native of Tampa, she directed rape crisis centers and battered women’s programs in Wisconsin and Georgia before joining the Women’s Center of Jacksonville as Program Coordinator of Stop Violence Against Elders, where she was co-writer and Executive Producer of the national and international award-winning cd-rom-based curriculum Stop Violence Against Elders: A Comprehensive Training for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Professionals. She has extensive experience in training law enforcement, prosecutors, medical professionals, and advocates as well as lecturing at universities and state and national conferences. Ms. Newton has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing. Her Rape Crisis Center Advocate’s Resource and Training Manual, written for the Rape Crisis Center, Madison, Wisconsin in 1990, has become an internationally recognized model and was used to train victim advocates in Russia and Japan. Ms. Newton provides consultation and training on issues of violence against women and on abuse in later life. She has served as a trainer and consultant to the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life, the federal Office of Violence Against Women, and the Office of the Attorney General (State of Florida). She is certified by the State of Florida as a Victim Services Practitioner and holds national certification as a Credentialed Advocate at the Advanced Level with a Designation of Comprehensive Victim Intervention Specialist. Ms. Newton is the Director of the USF Advocacy Program at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Nicole Randazzo is a senior and a political science major at the Tampa Campus. She is the chief of staff for student government. Nicole is the vice president of student and public affairs for NITE. She created the NITE walk, and has worked extensively with campus safety, and sits on a security technology work group.
Rachel Silverman is a PhD candidate and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication. Her work focuses primarily on media criticism, critical/cultural studies, feminism, and religion. Rachel teaches the class Women and Communication, and is also the faculty adviser to the student organization N.I.T.E., Necessary Improvements to Transform our Environment.
Michelle White, MA, BCBA, provides consultation, training and technical assistance to Florida public schools interested in Positive Behavior Support. Michelle has worked as an educator of students with special needs, consulted for residential and vocational settings in addition to providing behavior analytic services for all ages.
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