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IRW Rutgers Faculty Seminar Fellows, 1997-2008

The following is a directory of IRW Seminar fellows (by last name) from 1997 to present, including the name of participant, academic year and theme of seminar, department affiliation, and title of project.

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Thea Renda Abu El-Haj

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Graduate School of Education

"Gender, Citizenship Education and Community Activism:Lessons from an Arab American Community Arts Organization"

Nikol Alexander-Floyd

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Women's & Gender Studies

"Framing Condi(licious): Condoleezza Rice and the Rhetoric of 'Closeness' in U.S. National Community Formation"

Suzan Armstrong-West

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Academic Programs, Douglass College

"Gender & Sense of Self: Impact of Douglass College Mission Course"

Barbara Balliet

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Women's and Gender Studies

"'What Do We See Now?': Picturing Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century US Periodicals"

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

Women's Studies

“City Sketches: Women Illustrators in Public

Karen Barad

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies

Women’s Studies

“Getting Real: Power, Practice, and Agency”

Juliana Barr

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

History

"The 'Seductions' of Texas: The Political Language of Gender in the Conquests of Texas 1690-1810"

Fran Bartkowski

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

English/Women's Studies, Newark

"Kissing Cousins: Kinship @ Century's Turn"

Vilna Bashi

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Sociology

"Getting a Job (within limits): Immigrant Social Network Employment Within Racial- and Gender-Stereotyped Labor Markets"

Agatha Beins

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Women's & Gender Studies

"Sister Rise Up: Feminist Periodicals and the Production of Feminist Identities and Communities"

Ulla Berg

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies

"In Defense of Community? Long Distance Localism and  Transnational Political Engagement Between the US and the Peruvian Andes"

Eleanor L. Brilliant

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Rutgers School of Social Work

"Fund Raising and Fund Allocation as an Empowerment Strategy for Women"

Ethel Brooks

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Postdoctoral Fellow, CAWP, IRW, Women's Studies

"The Consumer's New Clothes: Transnational Protest, the New International Division of Labor and Women's Work in the Garment Industry"

Wesley Brown

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

English

"Stylistic Innovation and Masculinity in Jazz and American Culture During the 1940s"

Winnifred Brown-Glaude

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

 Institute for Women's Leadership

"'Women Outa Road:' Race/Color and Women's Informal Work in Jamaica"

Kim Butler

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

Africana Studies

"Ransoming the Queen: Reclaiming Women's Agency and Philosophy in the Making of the African Diaspora"

Patrick J. Carr

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Sociology

" 'Where You Can Go Wrong Here . . .': A Narrative Analysis of the Experiences of Young Women Growing Up in Three High-Crime Philadelphia Communities"

Susan J. Carroll

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Political Science and Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)

"Women Public Officials as Agents of Social Change"

  

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Political Science

“Re-envisioning Political Representation”

Cheryl Clarke

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay Concerns

"The Afro Pomo Homo Vexing of Black Macho in Black Lesbian and Gay Writing, 1979 to 1996"

Cati Coe

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice-Camden

"The Strategies of Ghanaian Immigrant Women to Raise THeir Children"

Ed Cohen

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

English

"Common Immunities/Immune Communities"

2006-2007: Health and Bodies

Women's & Gender Studies

"Opening Up a Few Concepts"

Edgar Rivera Colón

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Anthropology

"Love in the House of Gotham: An Ethnographic Study of the NYC Ball Community"

Sheila Cosminsky

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

Sociology, Anthropology, Criminal Justice and Women's Studies

"The World of Maria"

Jocelyn Crowley

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Public Policy, Bloustein

"Fathers in Absentia - Child Support Policy in the 21st Century"

Laura Curran

2002-2003: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Rutgers School of Social Work

"Caring for Cold War Children: Child Protection, Family Poverty, and Professional Social Work in Mid-Century America (1946-1963)"

Jewel Daney

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Center for Women's Global Leadership

"Family Banishment: Exploring a Definition and Understanding of Honor Crimes in the United States"

Cynthia Daniels

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Political Science

"Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction"

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

"Gender, Citizenship and State Power"

Harriet Davidson

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

English and Women's Studies

"With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast?"

Carlos Decena

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

Women's and Gender Studies/Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

"Washington Heights, Perverse Modernities and the Making of Dominican Transnational Worlds"

Kayo Denda

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

Rutgers Libraries

"Japanese Women Diaspora Research Portal"

Elin Diamond

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

English

"Women's Performance in the Public Sphere"

Sunday DiPalma

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Social Work, Newark

"Advocacy in the Academy"

Barbara DiCicco-Bloom

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ

"Cultural Diversity Among Nurses and its Impact on the Health Care System: Female Nurses Born in Kerala, Educated in India and Practicing in the US"

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Marian Eberly

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

ESL/PALS/FASCE

"Social Network Characteristics and Their Influence on Acculturation and Cultural Identity"

Belinda Edmondson

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

English, Newark

"Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women and the Politics of Public Performance"

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

"Caribbean Middlebrow: Popular Culture, Women, and the Caribbean Middle Class"

David Eng

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

English

"Queer Diasporas/Psychic Diasporas"

Leela Fernandes

2002-2003: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies

"The Invention of the New Indian Middle Class: Gender, Class and Culture in India, 1950-2000"

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

"Between the National and the Global: Gender, Commodification and the Making of a New Public Sphere in Globalizing India"

Leslie Fishbein

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

American Studies

"Good Girls/Bad Girls: From Silence to Cacophony: Feminists, Prostitutes, and Identity Formation in Urban Anti-Vice rusades"

Nicole Fleetwood

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

American Studies

"In the Light: Gender, Visuality and Blackness"

Carola Frege

2002-2003: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

School of Management and Labor Relations

"Practices, Theories and Methods in Industrial Relations and the Concept of Class: A Comparative Analysis"

Dee Garrison

2002-2003: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

History

"Untold Story: Women and the Fight Against Nuclear Power, 1958-82"

Mary Gatta

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Center for Women and Work, SMLR

"Rethinking United States Workforce Development Policy: Promoting Flexible Access to Education and Skills Training for Single Working Poor Mothers"

Nancy Gerber

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Literatures in English, Newark

"Portrait of the Artist as Mother: The Figure of the Mother-Artist in Contemporary American Fiction"

Judith Gerson

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

Sociology and Women's Studies

"In Between States: German Jewish Refugees, 1933-1945"

Susan Golbeck

2003-2003: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Graduate School of Education-Educational Psychology

"The Demise of Development in Early Education?: Femininities and Masculinities in Young Children's Cognitive Development"

Sherry Gorelick

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

Sociology and Women's Studies

"Feminists and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict"

Ann Graham

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies

"Women's Advocacy in Central and Eastern Europe"

Blanche Grosswald

2002-2003: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Rutgers School of Social Work

"'Meaningful' Work and Family Outcomes: Gender and Class Differences"

Mary Hartman

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Institute for Women’s Leadership

"Gender, Household and Power: A Subversive View of Western Civilization"

Mary Hawkesworth

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Political Science and Women's Studies; Eagleton Institute of Politics

"Gendered Enactments"

Radha Hegde

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

School of Communication, Information & Library Studies

"Talk, text, illusions: Dilemmas of representation and the production of transnational feminist knowledge"

Nancy A. Hewitt

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

History and Women's Studies

"Origin Stories: Recasting Women's Rights in America, 1835-1875"

Tanya K. Hernandez

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Law-Newark

"The Salience of Intersectionality Theory Analysis for Women of All Colors"

Dorothy Hodgson

2002-2003: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Anthropology

"Organizing for Change: Forms of Collective Action Among African Women"

Kimberly DaCosta Holton

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures-Newark

"Performance and Conflict in Portuguese-Speaking Newark"

Beth Hutchison

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

IRW & Women's and Gender Studies

"Asserting and Enacting Lesbian and Gay Identities"

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

"Gendered Patterns of Blood Donorship: Blood Sisters in 1980s San Diego and Seattle"

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Jennifer Jones

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

History

"Terésè's Enlightenment: Women in the Shadows of the Parisian Public Sphere"

Jyl Josephson

2006-2007: Health and Bodies

Political Science-Newark

"Controlling Sex: State Regulation of sexuality"

Ann Jurecic

2006-2007: Health and Bodies

English

"Regarding the Suffering of Others: The Politics of Reading Illness Narratives"

Samira Kawash

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

English

"Palestinian Placelessness: Geography, Postcoloniality, Nation, and the Body"

Alice Kessler-Harris

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

History and Women's Studies

"Gender and the Construction of Social Policy in the United States from 1920 to 1970"

Daphne Lamothe

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

English

"African-American Literature and the Ethnographic Imagination"

Renee Larrier

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

French

"Women Bearing Witness. 'Temoignage' or the Affirmative I in Caribbean Literature"

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

"Marabout, Madras, and Colombo: {Dis}placed Bodies Engendering Dyaspora(s)"

Catherine Lee

2006-2007: Health and Bodies

Sociology

"Understanding Difference After Inclusion: Biomedical Investigations of Sex, Gender, and Health Following the 'Inclusion Mandate'"

Abigail Lewis

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

History and IRW (2007-2008)

"'There Are No Second-Class Children of God': The Racial and Religious Inclusiveness Campaigns of the YWCA"

Ardele Lister

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Visual Arts, Mason Gross

"Advocating Independence"

Julie Livingston

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

History

"A World of Pain: Palliation and Personhood in Botswana"

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Minkah Makalani

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

History

"To Live as Well as Others': Black Radicalism, Gender and the Harlem Tenants' League, 1929-1932"

Elena Mancini

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Germanic Languages and Literatures

"Gender Dynamics and the Struggle for Homosexual Emancipation and Sexual Reform in Fin de Siècle Germany"

Patrice Mareschal

2006-2007: Health and Bodies

Public Policy and Administration-Camden

"Invisible No More: Politics, Policy and the Mobilization of Caring Labor"

Laurie Marhoefer

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

History

"Ideas of Race and Empire in Community Formation and Homosexual Activism in Germany, 1918-1933"

Leslie McCall

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Sociology and Women's Studies

"Feminist Reconsiderations of Economic Restructuring and Inequality"

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

"Spatial Configurations of Inequality"

Jessica Morales-Libove

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Anthropology

"Gender, Power, and Performance in Urban Senegal"

Jennifer Morgan

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Women's and Gender Studies; History

"Gender and Slavery in Colonial New York"

Donna Murch

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

History

"The Urban Promise of Black Power: African-American Political Mobilization in Oakland and the East Bay, 1961-1977"

Piia Mustamaki

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

English

"The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy: Defining Melancholic Feminine and Racial Identity Against High and Popular Cultural Icons"

Kimberly Mutcherson

2006-2007: Health and Bodies

Rutgers School of Law-Camden

"The More Things Change: Legal Regulation of Motherhood in a Rapidly Changing Technological Landscape"

dt ogilvie

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Rutgers Business School-Newark, Management and Global Business

"African American Women as Outsiders within Research on Leadership"

Sasha Patterson

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Center for the American Women and Politics/Political Science

"Sex, Laws, and Power"

Sonali Perera

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

English

"Rethinking Working-Class Literature: Feminism, Globalization and Socialist Ethics"

Jennifer Pettit

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

History

"A Grand Domestic Revolution? Home Economists and the Better Home"

Liss Platt

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

Mason Gross School of the Arts

"Is Your Baby Gay?"

Judy L. Postmus

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

School of Social Work

"Identifying a New Strategy for Partnering with Survivors of Victimization"      

Jasbir Puar

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Women's Studies and Geography

"Global Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Queer Tourism"

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

"Queer Diasporas and Questions of Affect"

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Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Anthropology and Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

"Performance of Blackness, De-centering of Whiteness?"

Edward Ramsamy

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Department of Africana Studies

"Gender and the Politics of Identity in the 'New' South Africa"

Joanna Regulska

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

Geography and Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies

"The New ‘Other’ European Woman"

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Women's & Gender Studies and Geography

"Forced Migrants: Women Constructing Their Support Communities in Post-Conflict Situations in Georgia"

Yana Rodgers

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Women's and Gender Studies

"Bob the Builder and Sue the Secretary: Gender Differences in Vocational School Choices and Returns in East Asia"

Robyn Rodriguez

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

Sociology

"The Labor-Brokering State: The Philippine State and the Globalization of Citizen-Workers"

Patricia Roos

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Sociology

"Gender Equity in the Academy"

Sarah Rosenfield

2000-2001: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Sociology

"Gender and Sense of Self: Impact of Douglass College”

Ariella Rotramel

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Women's & Gender Studies

" 'Pushed to the Other Side': Contemporary Migrant Community Histories"   

Beth C. Rubin

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Educational Theory, Practice, and Administration, GSE

"Race, Class and Ability: Constructing Difference across Varied School Contexts"

María Josefina Saldaña

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

English

"Urban Indians: New York and Its New Mexican Immigrants"

Cynthia Saltzman

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice

"In the Shadow of Privilege: Women and Unions at Yale"

Debarati Sen

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Anthropology

"From Illegal to Organic: Fair Trade Organic Tea Production and Women’s Community Activism in Darjeeling, India"

Lisa J. Servon

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

Urban Planning & Policy

 "Information Technology and Poor Urban Women: Examining the Question of Access through a Gendered Lens"

Louisa Schein

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Anthropology

"Gender, Culture, Mobility: Minority Women Performers in China’s Maoist Era"

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

"Media, Gender and Diaspora: Structure and Subjectivity in Hmong American Homeland Practices"

Susan Sidlauskas

2006-2007: Health and Bodies

Art History

"Before and After: Picturing the Rest Cure"

Ben. Sifuentes-Jauregui

2001-2002: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Spanish and Portuguese

"Bound Textualities: Gender, Masochism and Melodrama in Latin American Narrative"

Caridad Souza

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Puerto Rican & Hispanic Caribbean Studies

"Racing the Public Sphere, Youth, Sexuality, and Female Bodies"

Linda Steiner

1997-1998: Women in the Public Sphere: Power, Practice, Agency

Journalism and Mass Media, SCILS

"Forms of Women’s Transformative Media: Contemporary Examples of Feminist Communication Channels"

Anna Stubblefield

2004-2005: Diversity: Expanding Theory and Practice

Philosophy-Newark

"The Chimera of Race and Cognitive Ability: Toward Genuine Educational Reform in the United States"

Yoko Suzuki

2003-2004: Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s)

Music

"Performing Gender: Masculinity in Jazz Saxophone Performance"

Heidi J. Swarts

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Political Science, Newark

"Comparing Leadership and Political Skills Development Among Women Community Organizers and Leaders"

Mary Trigg

2007-2008: Communities: Research and Action

Institute for Women's Leadership

"My Community Is All Around Me: How Mothers Who Are Professionals Define and Experience Community and Place"         

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Zdravko Vassilev

1999-2000: Urbanisms/Cityscapes/Environments

Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute

"Inequitable Distribution of Hazardous Air Pollutants Across Urban and Rural Communities: Implications for the Reproductive Outcomes of Women"

Kirsten Wever

1998-1999: Women in the Public Sphere II: Modes of Knowledge and Action

School of Management & Labor Relations/Labor Studies & Employment Relations

"Women as Change Agents in the World of Work: An International Comparative Perspective"

Julie Whittaker

2002-2003: Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Identities, Rights, and Social Movements

Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

"The Impact of Advanced High School Mathematics Courses on Girls' Labor Force Attachment and Future Earnings"

Edlie Wong

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

English

"Fugitive and Foreigner: Cultures of Travel in the Black Atlantic, 1835-1865"

Ellen Wu

2005-2006: Diasporas and Migrations

American Studies & History

"Yellow Perils, Yellow Power: Race and Asian American Citizenship, World War II to 1975"

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