KAREN TICE, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1993. Associate Professor  

Dr. Tice (vita in Word) joined the faculty in 1994 with a joint appointment in Gender and Women's Studies.  Her previous experience includes serving as director of two women's service agencies and as assistant professor of Social Work at Western Carolina University and at Western Kentucky University where she also served as Director of Women's Studies.

Dr. Tice's areas of teaching include gender and education; popular culture; race, ethnicity, class, gender and student cultures; and feminist theory. She coordinates the EPE 301 (Education in American Culture) graduate teaching assistants for the department. In 1997 she was awarded the UK Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Her book, Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work (Illinois 1998) explores the construction of professional authority in social work and how the writing of case narratives created clients, authorities, problems, and solutions. Her published work includes articles on gender and professionalization, social reform and settlement work in Kentucky, the politics of social justice/women’s organizations, service learning and feminist pedagogy, and campus beauty pageantry and student life. She is currently finishing a book manuscript titled “Queens of Academe: Campus Beauty Pageantry and Student Life.” Growing out of this book project is new research on Reality TV programming for high school girls, TV makeover shows, and religion and student life.