Primary Faculty
Wendy Gunther-Canada, Ph.D.
Professor
Wendy Gunther-Canada, Ph.D. holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics (Northern Illinois University Press, 2001); and the co-author of Women, Politics, and American Society 3rd and 4th editions, (Longman, 2002, 2005) with Nancy McGlen, Karen O’Connor, and Laura van Assendelft. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on political rights, citizenship, and gender politics including “The Politics of Sense and Sensibility: Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France” which won both the Marian D. Irish Award and the Frederick W. Conner Prize in the History of Ideas. Dr. Gunther-Canada teaches courses in political philosophy and women and politics. She has received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching; the Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Award for Exemplary Mentoring of a Graduate Student, American Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession; and the Outstanding Women Faculty Member Award. Professor Gunther-Canada is a Co-Principle Investigator for the UAB ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award. She served on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession of the Southern Political Science Association and is a past president of the Women’s Caucus for Political Science: South.
