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

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

Dr. Mann 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 and as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Race, Class and Gender Section from 2003-2004.

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 (Signs, 1989). Her articles on feminism and postmodernism can be found in Gender & Society (1997) and Sociological Inquiry (2000). She co-authored a special issue of Race, Class & Gender (2001) on debates between Marxists and race, class, and gender analysts. Her article on third wave feminism can be found in Science and Society (2005) and her most recent publication on feminism and imperialism will appear in Sociological Inquiry (October, 2008). Currently, she is working on a feminist theory textbook for Oxford University Press.

Dr. Mann regularly teaches Sociological Theory, Feminist Theory and Third Wave Feminism. She also has taught the Sociology Department’s graduate seminars on Sociological Theory and Sociological Perspectives on Gender.