Sue V. Rosser, Ph.D.

Dean of Ivan Allen College

Ivan Allen Dean's Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology

Professor of Public Policy and History, Technology, and Society

Sue Rosser received her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973.  Since July 1999, she has served as Dean of Ivan Allen College, the liberal arts college at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is also Professor of Public Policy and of History, Technology, and Society.  She holds the endowed Ivan Allen Dean’s Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology.  From 1995-1999, she was Director for the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida-Gainesville.  In 1995, she was Senior Program Officer for Women’s Programs at the National Science Foundation.  From 1986 to 1995 she served as Director of Women’s Studies at the University of South Carolina, where she also was a Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine in the Medical School.

She has edited collections and written approximately 120 journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women and science and women’s health.  Author of ten books, Teaching Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (1986), Feminism within the Science and Health Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance (1988), Female-Friendly Science (1990) from Pergamon Press, Feminism and Biology: A Dynamic Interaction (1992) from Twayne Macmillan, Women’s Health: Missing from U.S. Medicine (1994) from Indiana University Press, and Teaching the Majority (1995),  Re-engineering Female Friendly Science (1997), Women, Science, and Society:  The Crucial Union  (2000) from Teachers College Press, and The Science Glass Ceiling:  Academic Women Scientists and their Struggle to Succeed  (2004), her latest book is Women, Gender, and Technology (2006), co-edited with Mary Frank Fox and Deborah Johnson.  She also served as the Latin and North American Co-editor of Women’s Studies International Forum from 1989-1993 and currently serves on the editorial boards of NWSA Journal, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering and Transformations.  She has held several grants from the National Science Foundation, including “A USC System Model for Transformation of Science and Math Teaching to Reach Women in Varied Campus Settings” and “POWRE Workshop”; from 2001-2006 she served as co-PI on a $3.7 million ADVANCE grant from NSF.  She currently serves as PI on InTEL:  Interactive Toolkit for Engineering Learning, a $900,000 NSF grant.  During the fall of 1993, she was Visiting Distinguished Professor for the University of Wisconsin System Women in Science Project.

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