Program
Scholars
Jacqueline Adams Independent Scholar (Hong Kong, China) Art & Human Rights: Women Against Pinochet September 2006 to August 2009 Laura Fantone
Mary CurranJunior Researcher (University of Padua, Italy) Traces of migration and in-betweeness: poetics and politics in post-colonial Asian women artists. August 2008 t0 July 2009 Natascha Gruber Professor (University of Vienna, Vinnea, Austria) Concepts of sex and gender in Medicine and Biotechnology – with a special focus on intersex research January 2006 to August 2009 Elke Heckner Assistant Professor (University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon) Unruly Bodies: Gender, Resistance, Modernity August 2007 to August 2009 Lori Merish Associate Professor (Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.) Laboring Women and the Languages of Class: Sex, Race, and U.S. Working-Class Women’s Cultures, 1830-1860 August 2007 to August 2009 Michele Pridmore-Brown Independent Scholar (Palo Alto, California) Biopolitics of “Delayed” Motherhood and of Emergent Fertility Strategies September 2006 to August 2009 Ashraf Zahedi Independent Scholar (Los Gatos, California) The Role of Filipinas in the Making of Filipino-Irano Community September 2006 to August 2009 Xiaohui Zhu Instructor, Philosophy (Fudan University, China) Chinese women from 1949 to 2008 and focus on how changed culture affects the value of women September 2008 to September 2009 Affiliated Scholars Assistant Professor (Department of Political Science, Philosophy and Geography, Eastern Connecticut State University) The Mobilization of Space, Place & Gendered Identities in Environmental Debates in Butte, Montana and in Kentucky Spring 2009 Jennifer Hosek Assistant Professor (Department of German Language and Literature, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada) Sun, Sex & Socialism: A Cultural History of Cuba & the Germans: Films Making Capitals—Capitals Films: Transnationalizing Berlin and Havana post Cold War July 2008 to August 2008 Samantha King Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Health Studies and Women’s Studies (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) Health Education as Diplomatic Strategy: Interrogating the US-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness January 2008 to August 2008 Mei Li Professor, English (Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China) Critical Examination of the Dynamic Relationship between Gender and Civil Society in China August 2008 to February 2009 Ewa Majewska Feminist reinterpretation and reconstruction of principal notions of the Modern and Contemporary social and political thought. October 2009 to March 2010 Anna Novakov Professor (St. Mary’s College, California) January 2009 to June 2009 Edmée Ollagnier Associate Professor (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Women, knowledge and recognitions January 2009 Aivita Putnina Gender research, reproductive health and biotechnologies Fall 2008 Jacqueline Adams Hong Kong, China Art & Human Rights: Women Against Pinochet Natascha
Gruber
Philosophy, Lecturer (University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Ethics in Medicine with Specific Focus on the Concepts of Sex and Gender in Intersex Management Elke Heckner Oregon Unruly Bodies: Gender, Resistence, and Modernity Lori Merish Washington, D.C. Laboring Women and the Languages of Class: Sex, Race, and U.S. Working Class Women's Cultures, 1830-1860 Kathryn Poethig Professor (California State University, Monterey Bay) Sisterhood after Terrorism: Feminist theologies on armed struggle, just peace, and Empire Michele Pridmore-Brown Consultant, Changing Families Project (California) Biopolitics of delayed motherhood Ashraf Zahedi California Role of Filipinas in the Making of Filipino-Irano Community Affiliated Scholars
Leslie Salzinger (Fall
2007)
California Model Markets: Identifying "The Social" in Peso/Dollar Exchange Elly Teman (Fall 2007) Jerusalem, Israel Relationships That Form Between Surrogates and Intended Mothers During Gestational Surrogacy Process Post-Doctoral
Fellow
Roshanak
KheshtiCalifornia Iranian Trans/Homosexuality Through a Geopolitical Lens Jacqueline Adams Sociology/Scholar with Center for Latin American Studies (UC-Berkeley) Art & Human Rights: Women Against Pinochet Natascha
Gruber
Philosophy, Lecturer (University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Ethics in Medicine with Specific Focus on the Concepts of Sex and Gender in Intersex Management Laura
Kerr
Independent Scholar When Trauma Came Home: Mental Illness and Emotional Distress in Late Modern America Roshanak
Kheshti
Post-Doctoral Fellow Eun-shil Kim Affiliated Scholar Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea Biotechnology and Women's Reproductive Bodies Tommy
Lott
Philosophy, Professor (San Jose State University) The Social & Political Thought of Anna Julia Cooper Qudsia
Lubna Mirza
Interdisciplinary/Senior Lecturer (University of East London School of Law) Islamic Feminism & Concept of Equality Elina
Oinas
Sociology, Researcher (Abo Akademi University, Finland) Young Women’s Health Activism, Empowerment and Medicalization Kathryn Poethig Professor (California State University, Monterey Bay) Sisterhood after Terrorism: Feminist theologies on armed struggle, just peace, and Empire Michele Pridmore-Brown Consultant, Changing Families Project Biopolitics of delayed motherhood Leslie Reagan Associate Professor (UC-Berkeley Gender & Women's Studies), and Medical Humanities Scholar (Science, Technology & Society Center) Epidemic of Anxiety: Mothers, "Deformed Babies" & German Measles in America Clare Sears Post-doctoral scholar, Sociology (UC-Santa Cruz) Arresting Dress: Policing Sex and Gender Difference in 19th Century San Francisco Rajni
Walia
Senior Lecturer (HP State Government Colleges, India) Contemporary South Asian and South Asian American Women's Writings Ashraf Zahedi Independent Scholar Role of Filipinas in the Making of Filipino-Irano Community 2005-2006 Scholars Math, Returning Visiting Scholar, Lecturer (UC Santa Cruz), Community School for Women (Israel) Queering the Peace Movement in Israel/Palestine Izabela Filipiak Humanities, Visiting Scholar (Institute of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies) UC, Doctorate, 2004 Polish Academy of Sciences Maria Komornicka & the Provinces of Otherness Natascha Gruber Philosophy, Lecturer (University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Ethics in Medicine with Specific Focus on the Concepts of Sex and Gender in Intersex Management Laura Kerr Independent Scholar When Trauma Came Home: Mental Illness and Emotional Distress in Late Modern America Elline Lipkin Creative Writing & Literature, Returning Visiting Scholar, Writer in Residence (Colorado), Visiting Asst. Professor (Texas A&M) The Space on the Page, the Shape of the Poem: Contemporary American Visual Poetics Tommy Lott Philosophy, Professor (San Jose State University) The Social & Political Thought of Anna Julia Cooper Qudsia Lubna Miraz Interdisciplinary, Sr. Lecturer (University of East London Law School) Islamic Feminism & the Concept of Equality Aparajita Nanda English, Visiting Scholar (UC English Dept., 2003-2005) Repositioning Possibilities: Identity Politics & Gendered Subjectivity in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s films & Octavia Butler’s fictions Elina Oinas Sociology, Researcher (Abo Akademi University, Finland) Young Women’s Health Activism, Empowerment & Medicalization Juliana Spahr English, Asst. Professor (Mills College) How Gertrude Stein’s Work Represents the Changes in Language Practices
2004-2005 Scholars Dalit Baum Lecturer, The Community School for Women, Israel Queering the Peace Movement in Israel/Palestine Tuula O. Gordon Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies University of Helsinki, Finland The ways in which citizenship can be theorized in critical terms, asking to what extent it provides potential for inclusion or exclusionary trends. Laine Harrington Post Doctoral Scholar GTU, Berkeley Work exploring the relationship between logos theory & Christian theological tradion. Alexandra S. Howson Lecturer in Sociology, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland Book project: "Embodying Gender/Gendering the Body." Tirza T. Latimer Post Doctoral Scholar Art History, Stanford University An art exhibition: "Acting Out: Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore." Elline Lipkin Post Doctoral Scholar English & Creative Writing, University of Houston A dissertation to book project: "The Errant Thread." Lisa G. Materson Assist. Professor, Dept. of History, UC Davis A book project: "Respectable Partisans: African American Women in Electoral Politics, 1877 to 1944." Zohreh M. Niknia Independent Scholar An interdisciplinary view of the process and outcome of the socioeconomic integration of the Iranian immigrant woman in the United States Diana I. Rios Communication Sciences & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, University of Connecticut 2002-2003 Scholars Deborah R. Altamirano Plattsburgh State University, NY Bonnie Gisel Curator, Environmental History LeConte Memorial Lodge, Yosemite National Park Francisca E. Godinez Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis Susan Kray Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication Indiana State University Huey-li Li Assistant Professor, College of Education, University of Akron Barbara Mennel Assistant Professor, German & Cinema Studies, University of Maryland Katherine Mezur Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theatre & Dance, UC Davis Tracy L. Robinson Professor, Dept. of Counseling & Applied Educational Counseling Northeastern University Janet K. Shim Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences University of California, San Francisco 2001-2002 Scholars Deborah R. Altamirano Plattsburgh State University, NY Anita Nahal Arya Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi Anna Babka Vienna, Austria Kathleen L. Barry College of Health & Human Development, Penn. State University Romy Borooah Associate Director, Center for Women's Studies University of Cincinnati Maria Cotera Post Doctoral Fellow Program in American Culture, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Jane E. Dabel Lecturer, Dept. of History, UCLA Extension Mary Elliott Adjunct Faculty Women's and Gender Studies Program, Sonoma State University Ellen Fernandez-Sacco Independent Scholar Myrna Garcia-Calderon Independent Scholar John Howard Lecturer, Dept. of History, University of York Katherine Mezur Independent Scholar Martha Mockus Instructor, Gay Lexbian Bisexual Studies, City College of San Francisco Young Mi Angela Pak Lecturer, St. Mary's College of California Tracy L. Robinson North Carolina State University, 2001 / Northeastern University, 2002 Ruth Rosen Professor, Dept. of History, UC Davis Su-feng Song Independent Scholar Margaret Swain Gender and Global Issues Program, UC Davis Beverly Voloshin Professor and Graduate Literature Director, Dept. of English, S.F. State University John Yu Zou Independent Scholar 1999-2000 Scholars Anu Aneja Department of Humanities-Classics, Ohio Wesleyan University Birger Angvik "Peruvian women's literature and feminist literary theories" Giovanna Covi Researcher in English, Facolta di Lettere, Universitõ di Trento, Italy Jane Flax Department of Political Science, Howard University R. Ruth Linden Independent Scholar Leslie J. Reagan Department of History & Medical Humanities, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Jennifer L. Shaw Independent Scholar 1998-1999 Scholars Lauren Berlant Dept. of English, University of Chicago Erin G. Carlston English/Continuing Studies, Stanford University Georgine W. Clarsen Research Centre for the Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Adelaide Amanda Gouws Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Radha Jhappan Dept. of Political Science, Carleton University Lori G. Kletzer Social Sciences/Dept. of Economics, UC Santa Cruz Isabelle Lehuu Departement d'histoire, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Brinda J. Mehta Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literature, Mills College Jennifer L. Shaw Independent Scholar Daiva Stasiulis Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University Haruko Takeda College of Social Sciences, Ritsumekan University 1997-1998 Scholars Birger Angvik "Peruvian women's literature and feminist literary theories" Lorna Erwin Diana Majury "Equality and Inequality in the Canadian legal context", "Feminist pedagogy" Maggie Montesinos Sale "Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and Marina Ruiz Burton: Competing perspectives on the U.S. incorporation of the Southwest" Silvia Pellarolo "The representation of women in tangos & popular theater & and construction of a modern feminine identity in Argentina" Margit Stange "Nineteenth century United Sates discourse of bodily expressivity as it was applied to, and resisted by, women writers and orators& Keiko Yamanaka "Between two 'Homelands': Japanese immigrant women in Brazil and Japan, 1908-1995" |