College of Charleston Faculty Named an Editor for Industry Journal

The Sociologists for Women in Society Publications Committee has named Kris De Welde, professor in the College of Charleston’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of Sociology, the next book review editor for its journal, Gender & Society.

Gender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, is a top-ranked journal in sociology and women’s studies and publishes fewer than 5% of all papers submitted to it. Articles in Gender & Society analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies and global and transnational spaces. The journal primarily publishes empirical articles, which are both theoretically engaged and methodologically rigorous, including both qualitative and quantitative methods. The journal also occasionally publishes theoretical articles that meaningfully advance sociological theories about gender

De Welde studies intersectional inequities/inequalities in higher education, organizational change for equity, feminist academic leadership and liberatory pedagogies. She co-edited/co-authored the award-winning Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education (2014, Stylus Publishing, now Routledge) with Andi Stepnick, Belmont University. She is co-PI (with Ann Austin, Michigan State University and Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado Boulder) on a $1.9 million National Science Foundation grant, ADVANCE and Beyond: Exploring Processes of Institutional Change. She also has recently published findings in Social Currents and Advances in Gender Research from her study on feminist leadership in academia with collaborators and SWS members Marjukka Ollilainen, Weber State University, and Cathy Solomon, Quinnipiac University.

De Welde serves on several external advisory boards for NSF ADVANCE grants and is regularly invited as a consultant and speaker on matters related to equity in faculty careers. She has been a member of SWS for over 20 years, has served as chair (or co-chair) of the Sister to Sister, Academic Justice, and Social Action committees, and was SWS’ Feminist Activism Awardee in 2017.

De Welde’s three-year term as book review editor officially began on June 1, 2024.