Susan Archer Mann
Professor and
Associate Chair
Ph.D. Toronto

Dr. Mann's areas of specialization include sociological theory, feminist theory, and gender & family relations. She received her B.A. in Sociology in 1972 from the University of Maryland, College Park Maryland, and her M.A. in Sociology in 1975 from the American University in Washington, D.C. She did her doctoral training at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada and received her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1982.

Dr. Mann has been actively engaged in Women's Studies since her arrival at UNO. She was one of the "founding mothers" of the UNO Women's Studies Program, the UNO Women's Center, and the UNO Child Care Center. She served as the first Director of the UNO College of Liberal Arts Women's Studies Minor from 1985-1991. Currently, she serves on the UNO Women's Studies Advisory Committee.

Along with her book, Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice, (University of North Carolina Press, 1990), she has published articles on feminist theory and on the history of southern women's non-wage labor. Some recent articles on feminism and postmodernism can be found in Gender & Society (1997) and Sociological Inquiry (2000). She also co-authored a special issue of Race, Class & Gender (2001) on debates between Marxists and race, class, and gender analysts. Her most recent article on third wave feminism is forthcoming in Science and Society (Spring 2005) and she is currently working on a feminist theory textbook for Roxbury Press.

Dr. Mann regularly teaches the undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Sociological Theory and a graduate seminar titled Sociological Perspectives on Gender. She also teaches Family Sociology and a number of undergraduate Women's Studies courses, including Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Theory.