About the SocietyBoard & Committees
Board of Directors
Board members
The Society is governed by an elected board of twelve directors with staggered six-year terms.
President – Elizabeth A. Kissling
[ekissling[at]ewu.edu]
is a Professor of Communication Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Eastern Washington University.
- New President Kissling displays the prized bronze tampon, by tradition passed to the incoming president at the biannual meeting.
Chris Bobel
[chris.bobel[at]umb.edu]
is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her specialities include women-centered social movements, including menstrual activism.
Giovanna Chesler
is a filmmaker, media producer, and Assistant Professor in Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College.
Joan Chrisler
is a Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College. Her specialties include PMS, attitudes toward menstruation and menopause, sociocultural aspects of menstruation, and cognitive and behavioral changes across the menstrual cycle.
Paula S. Derry
[paula.derry[at]gmail.com]
is a health psychologist who works independently. Her specialties include theoretical and analytic work in a broad range of areas pertaining to the biology and psychosocial aspects of menopause, including a holistic model of menopause.
Heather Dillaway
is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Wayne State University.
Mindy J. Erchull
is a social psychologist who works as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.
Christine Hitchcock
Alexandra Jacoby
[alexandra[at]leavethecastle.com]
is a self-taught artist and creator of vagina vérité®
Ingrid Johnston-Robeldo
[Ingrid.Johnston-Robledo[at]fredonia.edu]
Maria Luisa Marván
[mlmarvan[at]gmail.com]
is a researcher at the Institute of Psychological Research, Universidad Veracruzana and belongs to the Mexican Research Association. Her specialties include sociocultural aspects of menstruation, pms, and attitudes toward menarche and menstruation.
Margaret (Peggy) Moloney
is Associate Professor of Nursing at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests are the experiences of women with migraines; Internet-based research; finding ways to help women prevent and control migraine headaches; and women’s experiences in the perimenopause.
Jerilynn Prior
is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of British Columbia and Scientific Director of the new Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research. Her specialties include ovulation, perimenopause, progesterone, and a feminist approach to women’s health.
Margaret L. (Peggy) Stubbs
is Associate Professor of Psychology at Chatham College in Pittsburgh PA. Her specialties include psychosocial aspects of menstruation; attitudes towards menstruation, pubertal development; and menstrual education throughout the lifespan.
Laura Wershler
[lauraw[at]sexualhealthaccess.org]
is the current Executive Director of Sexual Health Access Alberta (formerly Planned Parenthood Alberta), a non-profit that facilitates access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, in Calgary, Alberta.