EDUCATION:

A.B. cum laude (English), June, 1971, Radcliffe College

M.S. (Biological Sciences), June, 1974, Northwestern University
        Major area: Developmental biology; Minor area: Biochemistry

Ph.D. (Biological Sciences), June, 1977, Northwestern University
          Advisor: James A. Lippincott, Dissertation: Studies on the adherence step
          essential for tumor induction by Agrobacterium.

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD :

• Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
  • Chair, Women's Studies Program, 1992-1998, 2001-2004
  • Associate Chair, Women's Studies Program, 1989-1992
  • Associate Professor, August 1989-August 1992
  • Assistant Professor, August 1983-1989
• Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecturer 1982-1983
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Women's Studies Program, Lecturer 1978-1983
• Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate, Department of Plant Pathology, Laboratory of Luis Sequeira, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977-1980
• Northwestern University Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1976-1977
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1973-1976
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, Northwestern University, 1973
• Research Assistant, Neurochemistry and Neuropathology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, 1971-1972

ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS :

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1970
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1973-76
• Northwestern University Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1976-77
• NSF National Needs Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1977-78
• Honorary Member, Phi Kappa Phi, 1992
• Fellow, CIC Academic Leadership program, 1997-98
• Faculty Development Grant, 1998-99
• Evjue-Bascom Professor of Women's Studies, 2001- 2006
• Faculty Development Grant, 2004-05

PUBLICATIONS:

    * refereed journals

Journal and Other Articles

* 1. Whatley, M.H., Bodwin, J.S., Lippincott, B.B. & Lippincott, J.A. (1976). Role for Agrobacterium cell envelope lipopolysaccharide in infection site attachment, Infection and Immunity 13: 1080-1083

* 2. Lippincott, B.B., Whatley, M.H. & Lippincott, J.A. (1977). Tumor induction by Agrobacterium involves attachment of the bacterium to a site on the host plant cell wall, Plant Physiology 59: 388-390.

* 3. Whatley, M.H. & Spiess, L.D. (1977). Role of bacterial lipolysaccharide in attachment of Agrobacterium to moss, Plant Physiology 60: 765-766

* 4. Whatley, M.H., Margot, J., Schell, J., Lippincott, B.B. & Lippincott, J.A. (1978). Plasmid or chromosomal determination of Agrobacterium adherence specificity, Journal of General Microbiology 107: 395-398.

5. Lippincott, J.A., Chang, C.C., Creaser, V.R., Birnberg, P.R., Rao, S.S., Margot, B, Whatley, M.H. & Lippincott, B.B. (1978). Genetic determination governing enhancement of tumor initiation by avirulent Agrobacteria, Agrobacterium host adherence and octopine synthesis. Proceedings of the IV International Conference on Path Pathogenic Bacteria, Angers France.

* 6. Whatley, M.H., Hunter, N., Cantrell, M.A., Hendrick, C.A., Keegstra, K. & Sequeira, L. (1980). Specific changes in Pseudomonas lipopolysaccharide associated with induction of the hypersensitive response in tobacco, Plant Physiology 65: 557-559.

* 7. Bradshaw-Rouse, J., Whatley, M.H. Coplin, L., Woods, A., Sequeira, L., Kelman, A. (1981). Agglutination of strains of Erwinia stewartii with a corn agglutinin: correlation with extracelluluar polysaccharide production and pathogenicity, Applied and Environmental Microbiology 43: 344-350.

* 8. Allen, D.G. and Whatley, M.H. (1986). Men's health: A critical perspective, Nursing Clinics of North America, 21 (1): 3-13.

* 9. Whatley, M.H. (1986). Puberty education: Stressing the similarities. Feminist Teacher, 2 (1): 29-30.

* 10. Whatley, M.H. (1986). Integrating sexuality issues into the nursing curriculum, Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 12 (2): 23-26.

11. Whatley, M.H. (1987). What teachers should know about menstrual cramps. Middle School Journal, 18 (2): 38-39.

12. Whatley, M.H. and Worcester, N. (1987). Technology and cooptation: Osteoporosis screening and women's health, Science for the People, 19 (4): 13-18.

* 13. Whatley, M.H. (1987). Biological determinism and gender issues in sexuality education. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 13 (2): 26-29.

* 14. Trudell, B. and Whatley, M.H. (1988). School sexual abuse prevention: Unintended consequences and dilemmas, Child Abuse and Neglect, 12 (1): 103-113.

* 15. Whatley, M.H. (1988). Photographic images of Blacks in sexuality texts. Curriculum Inquiry 18 (2): 137-155. Reprinted in: Castenell, L.A., Jr. and Pinar, W.F. (Eds). (1993). Understanding Curriculum as Racial Text, SUNY Press, pp. 83-106.

16. Trudell, B., Whatley, M.H. and Worcester, N. (1988). Our bodies, their bars: Teaching women's health in prison. Proceedings of College Programs Behind Bars Conference, University of Wisconsin Centers, pp. 109-114.

* 17. Whatley, M.H. and Trudell, B. (1988). The role of the family in child sexual abuse prevention programs. Journal of Education 170 (1): 95-106.

* 18. Whatley, M.H. (1988). Goals for sex equitable sexuality education. Peabody Journal of Education, 64(4): 59-70. Reprinted in: The Education Digest, Vol. LV, No. 5, January 1990. Reprinted in: Klein, S. (Ed). (1992) Sex Equity and Sexuality in Education, SUNY Press, pp. 83-95.

* 19. Whatley, M.H. (1989). A feeling for science: Female students and biology texts. Women's Studies International Forum, 12(3): 355-36l.

* 20. Whatley, M.H. and Trudell, B.K. (1989). Child sexual abuse prevention and sexuality education: Interconnecting issues. Theory Into Practice, XXVII (3): 177-182.

* 21. Whatley, M.H. (1989). Raging hormones and powerful cars: The construction of men's sexuality in school sex education and popular adolescent films, Journal of Education, 170(3): 100-121. Reprinted in: Giroux, H. (Ed). (1991) Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics, SUNY Press, pp. 119-143.

* 22. Whatley, M. H. (1991) Images of gays and lesbians in sexuality texts. Journal of Homosexuality, 22(314): 197-211.
Reprinted in: Harbeck, K. M. (1992) Coming Out of the Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers, and Curricula, Harrington Park Press.

* 23. Trudell, B. and Whatley, M. H. (1991) Sex Respect: A problematic public school sexuality curriculum. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 17 (2): 125-140.

* 24. Worcester, N. and Whatley, M. H. (1992) The selling of HRT: Playing on the fear factor, Feminist Review, no. 41 (Summer): 1-26.

* 25. Smoczyk, C., Zhu, W. and Whatley, M. H. (1992) An instrument for measuring cancer patients' preferences for support group components, Journal of Cancer Education, 7(3): 267-279.

* 26. Whatley, M. H. and Trudell, B. (1993). Teen-Aid: Another problematic school sexuality curriculum. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 19 (4): 251-271.

* 27. Henken, E. R. and Whatley, M. H. (1995). Folklore, legend, and sexuality education. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 21 (1): 46-61. Reprinted in: Alan Dundes (Ed) (2004) Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies: Folkloristics: Theories and Methods, Routledge

28. National Women's Health Network Writing Group (Fugh-Berman, A., Pearson, C., Allina, A., Zones, J., Worcester, N., Whatley, M., and Massion, C.) (2002). Manufacturing need, manufacturing "knowledge." Network News, May/June: 1,4.

29. National Women's Health Network Writing Group (Fugh-Berman, A., Pearson, C., Allina, A., Zones, J., Worcester, N., Whatley, M., and Massion, C.) (2002). Hormone therapy and osteoporosis: To prevent fractures and falls, there are better options than hormones. Network News. July/August: 4-5.

30. Whatley, M. (2004) "Folklore and the Sexual Lives of Adolescents," in American Sexuality, Vol 2, Issue 4, March.

Book Chapters

1. Whatley, M.H. & Sequeira, L. (1981). Bacterial attachment to plant cell walls. In F.A. Loewus, and C.A. Ryan (Eds.), Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, Plenum Press.

2. Whatley, M.H. (1985). Male and female hormones: Misinterpretation of biology in school health and sex education, in V. Sapiro (Ed.), Women, Biology and Public Policy, Sage Yearbooks in Women's Policy Studies, Vol. 10, pp. 67-89.

3. Whatley, M.H. (1986). Taking feminist science to the classroom: Where do we go from here? In R. Bleier (Ed.), Feminist Approaches to Science, Pergamon, pp. 181-190.

4. Whatley, M.H. (1988). Beyond compliance: Towards a feminist health education. In S. Rosser (Ed.),Feminism Within the Science and Health Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance, Pergamon, pp. 131-144.

5. Worcester, N. & Whatley, M.H. (1988). The response of the health care system to the women's health movement. In S. Rosser (Ed.), Feminism Within the Science and Health Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance, Pergamon, pp. 117-130.

6. Whatley, M.H. and Worcester, N. (1989). The role of technology in the coaptation of the women's health movement. In K.S. Ratcliff, et al. (Eds.), Healing Technology: Feminist Perspectives. University of Michigan Press, pp. 199-220.

7. Whatley, M. H. (1990). The picture of health: How textbook photographs construct health. In Ellsworth and Whatley (Eds.), Ideology of Images in Educational Media: Hidden Curriculum in the Classroom, pp. 121-140.

8. Trudell, B. and Whatley, M. H. (1992). Sex equity principles for evaluating sexuality education materials. In S. Klein (Ed). Sex Equity and Sexuality in Education, SUNY Press, pp. 305-331.

9. Whatley, M. H. (1992). Whose sexuality is it anyway? In J. T. Sears (Ed.) Sexuality and the Curriculum. Teachers College Press, pp. 78-84.

10. Whatley, M. H. (1994). Keeping adolescents in the picture: Construction of adolescent sexuality in textbook images and popular films. In J. Irvine (Ed). Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities. Temple University Press, pp. 183-205.

11. Worcester, N. And Whatley, M. H. (1996). "Women's health promotion and disease prevention: Shifting the emphasis to earliest and lifelong health promotion for a diversity of women." US-Canadian Women's Health Forum Delegate's Kit for Conference in Ottawa, Canada.

12. Whatley, M. H. (1999) The 'homosexual agenda' goes to school. In D. Epstein and J. Sears (Eds.) Dangerous Knowings: Sexual Pedagogies and the Master Narrative, Cassell, pp. 229-241.

Books

1. Worcester, N. and Whatley, M.H. (Eds.) (1988). Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues. Edition I. Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

2. Ellsworth, E. and Whatley, M. H. (Eds.), (1990). Ideology of Images in Educational Media: Hidden Curriculums in the Classrooms. Teachers College Press.

3. Worcester, N. and Whatley, M.H. (Eds.) (1994). Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues. Edition II. Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

4. National Women's Health Network (2000) Taking Hormones and Women's Health (new edition), co-written with C. Pearson, A. Fugh-Berman, J. Zones, M. Whatley, N. Worcester. NWHNW.

5. Worcester, N. and Whatley, M.H. (Eds.) (2000). Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues. Edition III. Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

6. Whatley, M. H. and Henken, E. R. (2001), Did You Hear About the Girl Who...? Contemporary Legends, Folklore, and Human Sexuality. New York University Press.

7. National Women's Health Network (2002), The Truth About Hormone Therapy: Breaking Free of the Medical Myths about Menopause. Co-written with C. Pearson, A. Fugh-Berman, A. Allina, C. Massion. M. Whatley, N. Worcester, J. Zones. Prima Publishing.

8. Worcester, N. and Whatley, M.H. (Eds.) (2004). Women's Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues. Edition IV. Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

TEACHING:

Women's Studies Program-University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecturer and Professor, 1978-present, Areas: Women's Health and Biology

• Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease
• Biology and Psychology of Women (co-taught and taught alone)
• Childbirth in the United States (co-taught)
• Women, Sex Hormones, and Health
• LGBTI Health

Department of Curriculum and Instruction-University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecturer and Professor, 1982-present. Area: Health Education

• Health Information for Teachers
• Teacher Education About Human Sexuality

Graduate Seminars:

• Issues of Race, Class, and Gender in Health Education
• Health Education for Specific Populations
• Issues in Women's Health Education
• Multicultural Perspectives in Health Education
• Health Education and the Media

Additional Teaching Experience:

• Co-taught one-credit Women's Health course through University of Wisconsin PREP Program, at Taycheedah Correctional Institution, Fall l986.
• Developed "Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease," as correspondence course through University of Wisconsin Extension, 1981 and revised in 1999.
• Co-teach numerous Outreach workshops on topics including menopause, other women's health issues, diversity, sexual harassment

SELECTED CURRENT NATIONAL SERVICE:

Board of Directors, National Women's Health Network, 2001-present

North American Editor, Journal of Sex Education (international journal), 2000-present

Editorial Board, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education 2001-present

Advisory Board, Rowman & Littlefield series, "Curriculum, Culture, and [Homo]Sexualities," 1998-present