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Location: Howley 317
Phone: 401-865-2623
Fax: 401-865-1222
E-Mail: bellhous@providence.edu
Mary L. Bellhouse
Professor

Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Ph.D. Examination Fields (passed with high distinction): Political Theory; Comparative Politics, Area Specialty: Africa.
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A., Barnard College, graduated cum laude and with honors in political science

Summary Biography
      Dr. Bellhouse’s fields are Political Theory, Feminist Theory, Culture Studies, and Visual Studies. Her Ph.D. is from the State University of New York at Buffalo, her undergraduate degree is from Barnard College.

      Her recent publications have been concerned with the construction of identity in eighteenth-century French visual culture. Her essays have appeared in a variety of journals including SIGNS, Political Theory, Interpretation, The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, The International Political Science Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Polity. Dr. Bellhouse has held post-doctoral research positions at the Boston Athenæum, Brown University, Columbia University, The Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the Yale Center for British Art, the University of Minnesota, the University of Paris at Nanterre, and Stanford University. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France.

      Dr. Bellhouse loves art, especially painting. She enjoys reading fiction, both serious novels and detective fiction. Her favorite place is Paris. During the summer of 2004 she visited the Galapagos Islands and swam with sea turtles!


Fall 2007 Courses

Course # Section Title Time Comments
PSC 341 001 Classical Political Theory TR 1:00-2:15 Theory Field
PSC 341 002 Classical Political Theory TR 11:30-12:45 Theory Field
PSC 488 004 Visual Culture and Power
W 2:30-5:15 Capstone
PSC 490 003 Independent Study in Gender Theory TBA Independent Study