Women's History Month

Project Members

Ms. Annie Butler
Ms. Annie Hayes Butler is a Media Technician in the School of Education's Curriculum Laboratory at FSU since 1987.  She received her B.S. in Business Administration and an Associate of Arts Degree in General Studies at Fayetteville State University.  Ms. Butler is involved in numerous university, community, and church projects, activities and programs.

Dr. Blanche  Radford Curry
Dr. Radford Curry , an Associate Professor of Philosophy at FSU, since 1992, received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brown University.  Her teaching and research areas include moral and social value inquiry, African-American Philosophy and feminist theory.  She has taught several courses in Women's and Gender Studies, as well as authored several articles in these areas.  Dr. Radford Curry initiated FSU's Women's History Month Project in 1998 with a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council. She chairs the FSU's Women's and Gender Studies virtual discussion group , which is under the auspices of  Virtual Teaching and the University Learning Center, where she also serves as the Philosophy Coordinator.  She is an advocate of multicultural and women's issues, an active member of her regional community and served as a consultant for ACT/SAT/GRE/NEH and others.  Dr. Radford Curry  has received several fellowships, outstanding teaching awards, research, administrative and community recognition.  She recently completed, with exceptional accolades, Bridges: Academic Leadership for Women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Dr. Radford Curry is the Director of Fayetteville State University WHMP.  Dr  Radford Curry is from Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Heather Griffiths
Dr. Griffiths received her MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Delaware.  She joined the sociology department at Fayetteville State University in the fall of 2006, and completed her PhD requirements in the Winter of 2007.  Currently, Dr. Griffiths is researching pedagogy and developing her PhD, "Town and Gown: An Examination of College Housing as a Social Problems Cluster," into a series of publications.  She writes a weekly film review for Fayetteville's Up and Coming Weekly and advises the Sociology Club.

Dr. Brenda Mann Hammack
Dr. Hammack has been an Assistant Professor of English at Fayetteville State University since 2004.  She received her MA in Creative Writing from Hollins College (now University) and her Ph.D. in nineteenth century British literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  Her most recent article, “Florence Marryat’s Female Vampire and the Scientizing of Hybridity,” appeared in SEL (Studies in English Literature) in Autumn 2008 and her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals including The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The North Carolina Literary Review, Heliotrope, The Hurricane Review, Mudlark, The Laurel Review, Word Riot, Arsenic Lobster, Pedestal, and Stirring: A Literary Collection.   She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.  Dr. Hammack teaches seminars in children’s literature, adolescent literature, Victorian literature, fin de siècle literature, gothic literature, creative writing, contemporary poetry, and interdisciplinary images of women.  She is currently completing a poetry manuscript inspired by the work of female Surrealists.

Ms. Socorro Hernandez-Hinek
Socorro Hernandez-Hinek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts. She received her M.F.A., degree from East Carolina University, Greenville and M.A. from the University of California, Chico. Ms. Hernandez-Hinek’s experience includes museum education; studio technique, foundation courses, and grants writing. She has received acknowledgement and awards in grant writing for the visual arts and in the field of Art Education. Before coming to Fayetteville State University, she acquired experience working in the museum environment as a presenter, educator, and education administrator. She has traveled throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America to view museum collections. As an artist, Ms. Hernandez-Hinek has exhibited widely and has works in private collections. She lectures, presents workshops, and attends professional conferences frequently. Ms. Hernandez-Hinek teaches Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, and Art History.

Dr. Mingxian Jin
Mingxian Jin is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fayetteville State University, North Carolina. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from Kent State University in 2004. She also received her B.S. in computer science from Wuhan University, China and M. Eng. in computer engineering from North China Institute of Computing Technology, Beijing, China. Her teaching and research areas include software engineering, web development, parallel processing, associative SIMD computing, parallel computational models and algorithms.

Dr. Emily Lenning
Dr. Lenning earned her PhD in Sociology from Western Michigan University in 2008.  Within the field of Criminology, her research and publications focus on corporate and state crime, international law, the social construction of deviance, and media representations of crime and justice.  She is also an expert on gender and feminism, focusing much of her research on the challenges faced by transgender individuals and their partners, as well as the problematic nature of using current language to describe gendered experiences.

Before coming to FSU, Dr. Lenning taught at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College, where she received several awards for outstanding teaching.  She is actively involved in the academic community, serving as a member of the executive board for the Division of Women & Crime of the American Society of Criminology, as well as on several college-wide and departmental committees.