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Directors
Rosemary Dziak is the Co-Director (2005 - 2008) of the Gender Institute. Dr. Dziak is a Professor in the Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine. She began as a research professor at UB in 1976, and advanced to Professor in 1989. She served as Interim Chair of the Department of Oral Biology from 2002 to 2004, and has been the Director of the D.D.S. / Ph.D. Combined Training Program since 1996. Dr. Dziak obtained her Ph.D. in Radiation Biology from University of Rochester in 1973. Her post-doctoral position was in Pharmacology at Northwestern University Medical School. Dziak’s research centers on bone cell signaling and tissue engineering. She is the past recipient of a NIH Special Fellowship, a NIH Career Development Award, and the Promising Inventor Award from SUNY Research Foundation. She has served as editor and reviewer for a variety of professional journals.
Professor Dziak aims to coordinate gendered research on South Campus and will continue her mentoring activities while promoting the careers of women in the sciences at UB.
Margarita Vargas is the Co-Director (2006-2009) of the Gender Institute. Dr. Vargas is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the College of Arts and Sciences. She served as Chair of the Department from 1998-2001 and has also taught in the Women's Studies Department. She was President of national organization Feministas Unidas (Dec. 2004 – Dec. 2005) and an honorary member of the UB chapter of the Golden Key International Society. She has published and translated a variety of articles and was co-editor, with Catherine Larson, of Latin American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, January 1999.
Barbara Bono was the Co-Director of the Gender  Institute from June 2003-2006. She is an Associate Professor of English and Shakespearean scholar in the Department of English at UB. She began teaching here in 1986, after holding positions at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as a Mellon Fellow at Harvard University, and as a Junior Fellow at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Brown University. Her writing has addressed gender in Shakespeare, the cult of Elizabeth, women and Renaissance literature, and issues in English curricula. Dr. Bono presented on "Collegiality and the Law", concerning tenure and promotion, at the 2002 National Women’s Studies Association meeting. She is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Folger Institute and the President of the UB Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Her community service includes education advocacy through promoting qualified candidates for the Buffalo School Board and planning for a secure future and high academic performance in Buffalo public schools.
Dr. Bono has been active in the Gender Institute since its inception, serving on committees and chairing the first Gender Week @ UB held in September 2002. She brings a wide range of experience in gender issues and scholarship to this position, in which she is responsible for oversight of all programs and providing policy direction to meet the Institute’s mission.
Isabel Marcus (Co-Director 1997 - 2001, Director 2001-2003) was appointed in 1997 by then Provost Tom Headrick. She is a professor of law, with dual doctorate degrees: one in political science and one in law.
With Co-Director Margaret Acara, Dr. Marcus brought the Gender Institute through its early years, recruiting a strong Executive Committee from the Humanities and Social Sciences, with a special focus on international issues and gendered violence.
She has been a professor in the UB School of Law since 1982 and is a member of both the New York State and California bars. She is a labor arbitrator for both the Federal and New York State governments.
Dr. Marcus's writing has focused on women's issues, most recently on domestic violence. She has traveled and lectured extensively, especially in Eastern Europe. Her fellowships and sabbatricals have taken her to People's Republic of China, India and Pakistan. In 1997, she was a Fulbright Lecturer on the Faculty of Law at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania.
She has published a book, Dollars for Reform and is working on a second, Dark Numbers: The Emergence of Domestic Violence as a Law and Public Policy Issue in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Suzanne Laychock, (Co-Director 2001-2002), Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology. She was appointed by Provost Elizabeth Capaldi as the new Co-Director for the Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender in January 2001. In January 2002, Dr. Laychock resigned as Co-Director to take a new position as Senior Associate Dean for Research and Biomedical Education, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Laychock served on the Executive Committee of the Gender Institute since 1999. She received her Ph.D. from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, in 1976, and has been with the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Buffalo since 1989.
She is a member of the Graduate Faculty in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Laychock served on the President's Review Board, and chaired the Departmental Merger Committee for the departments of Biochemical Pharmacology and Pharmacology and Toxicology. Dr. Laychock also chaired the Women in Pharmacology Committee of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and has written several essays related to the success of women in science for the society's news journal The Pharmacologist.
Dr. Laychock is currently Associate Editor of LIPIDS. The author of more than 80 scientific publications, her research interests focus on diabetes; her most recent grants as principal investigator include an NIH grant for "Putative Mediators of Insulin Secretion", a Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International Postdoctoral Fellowship for Bumsup Lee - "Molecular Characterization of Signal Transduction Pathways in Pancreatic Islets", and an American Diabetes Association Research Grant on "Regulation of Expression of Receptors for Inositol Triphosphate and Ryanodine in Pancreatic Islets".
 Peggy Acara (Co-Director 1997 - 2000), retired, was Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She was appointed as Co-Director by then Provost Thomas Headrick in 1997. With Co-Director Isabel Marcus, she strengthened the representation of women in the sciences and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on Institute committees. This is an important constituency at UB, in an area that still suffers from underrepresentation of women on the faculty. Her academic career of over thirty years focused on research in renal function and the interrelationships of transport and metabolism in kidneys, at levels from the sub-cellular to the whole animal. Major research funding was received from NIH (NIDDK and NIAAA)and the American Heart Association. She served for ten years as Associate Editor for Pharmacological Reviews and as Editorial Advisory Board member of Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Dr. Acara has participated in numerous University committees on tenure and promotion, as well as in mentoring programs for high school and college students in the sciences, and has had a career-long interest in mentoring of women faculty. She was co-convener of the Association of Women Full Professors at UB, begun in 1997. Dr. Acara offered a model of feminist management to the Gender Institute that enriched and empowered all who worked with her, and she is considered a major advocate for the promotion of women in all aspects of life at UB.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the Gender Institute chairs our working committees and directs the Institute's present and future activities. For a complete list of Executive Committee 2007-2008 members, please click here.
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee of the Gender Institute is an advisory group for the Director and Executive Committee. There are seven active sub-committees: Research, Curriculum, Gender Week, Film Festival, Work Life, New Initiatives, and Graduate Student Committee. If you are interested in serving on any of these sub-committees, please give us a call at 829-3451.
Graduate Student Steering Committee
Please check back for details of the 2006-2007 Graduate Student Committee. Feel free to explore the links under the Events menu to learn about past graduate activities. To get involved, please email our Graduate Assistant, Susannah Bartlow, at
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