Martha McCaughey
Martha McCaughey is a visiting researcher in the Department of Criminal Justice & Sociology. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and holds graduate certificates in women's studies and in expressive arts. Dr. McCaughey's scholarly research revolves around gender, violence, technology, and higher education. She is the author of two books: The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and Science; and Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense. She is the lead editor of the first volume about online activism, Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice, and she went on to edit Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web. She has also written a play, with Wyatt Galusky, about life in the digital age called The Wizard of OD: A Small Town Girl's Journey through the Omnipresent Dataverse. Before coming to Laramie, McCaughey was a professor at Appalachian State University, where she directed the First Year Seminar, Common Reading, and Women's & Gender Studies Programs and spent many years in the shared governance structure of the university. Dr. McCaughey writes about higher education and academic freedom for wide audiences and is a member of the Heterodox Academy Writers Group. She loves art and all things creative, and teaches visual journaling in her spare time.