Susan Rensing

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Susan Rensing

Susan Rensing

Susan Rensing, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research

Ideation | Deliberative | Learner | Strategic | Intellection
rensing@ksu.edu
She/Her/Hers

Campus office: 215 Fairchild

Responsibilities

I direct the Developing Scholars Program and I coordinate with faculty, staff, and students to increase undergraduate research opportunities. I am also a graduate faculty member in the Master of Public Health program.

Teaching

Each semester I teach the first-year cohort of DSP scholars. I love connecting students with research mentors and helping them launch their research projects and present at the Annual Spring Research Symposium.

Current Courses

LEAD 502: Developing Scholars Program seminar

Professional expertise

Education

Research and Publications

Research Areas

Health equity
History of Science, Medicine & Gender
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Selected Publications

A Guide to Teaching Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies: Socially Engaged Classrooms (co-authored with Christie Launius and Holly Hassel), Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
"Integrating National Violent Death Reporting System Data into Maternal Mortality Review Committees," (co-authored with Jennifer Miller), Journal of Women’s Health, November 2021, Vol. 30, Issue 11, 1573-1579.
“‘Falling in Love Intelligently’: Eugenic Love in the Progressive Era,” Journal of Popular Romance Studies Summer 2016, Issue 5.2
“‘Wisconsin Ousts Cupid’: Wisconsin’s Eugenic Marriage Experiment,” Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin’s Historical Review Winter/Spring 2016, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 44-53.
“Women ‘waking up’ and Moving the Mountain: The Feminist Eugenics of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,”
MP: An Online Feminist Journal, Spring 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 96-120.

Grants and Awards

Grants

Co-Principal Investigator (with Ellyn Mulcahy), “Ready to Serve: Building a Day One Ready Public Health Workforce for Kansas,” Public Health Scholarship Program, Health Resources and Services Administration
Co-Principal Investigator (with Jennifer Miller), “Maternal Mortality: Understanding the Impact of Pregnancy-Associated Homicide,” National Violent Death Reporting System New Investigator Research Award, a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and the American Public Health Association

Awards

First Year Advocate Award, K-State First, 2023
Dr. Susan Ariola Bosco Putting Students First Faculty Award, K-State, 2022
Diversity Leadership Award, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2017
Distinguished Teaching Award, University Studies Program, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2014