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Berenice Carroll won the Violet Haas Award from the
Counsel on the Status of Women!
Congratulations, Berenice!
Promotions (Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty):
To Professor:
Nancy Peterson, English
To Associate Professor:
Paula Leverage, Foreign Languages and Literature
Publications and other news from Joint and Affiliated faculty:
Books:
Moghadam, Valentine M. Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
Articles:
McBride, William L. "Taking a Distance: Exploring Some Points of Divergence between Beauvoir and Sartre," pp. 189-202 in Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence, eds. Christine Daigle and Jacob Golomb, IU Press, 2009.
Moghadam, Valentine M. “The Status of Women”, pp. 514-21 in Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic, Vol. II, eds. Mehran Kamrava and Manochehr Dorraj (Greenwood Press, 2009).
—-. “Where Are Iran’s Working Women?” Middle East Institute, Viewpoints: Special Issue on the Iranian Revolution at 30, January 2009. www.mideasti.org/
Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures:
Decker, Alicia. "Intimate Nationalisms: Musings on the Five Wives of Idi Amin," African Studies Association 51st Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2008
—-. "Survival on the Frontlines: Women as Warriors in Idi Amin's 'Economic War,'" Labor Crossings: World, Work, and History Conference, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), September 2008.
Moghadam, Valentine M. “States and Social Rights: Negotiating Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Maghreb.” Yale University, 30 Jan. – 1 Feb. 2009. Part of World Bank/Yale University project on Social Transformation and Governance: Africa and the Middle East.
Moghadam, Valentine M. “Between Globalization and Family Law: Women and Economic Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa.” Seminar on “The Global Middle East: Islam, Capitalism, and the Global Economy”, Feb. 20-21, 2009, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
—-. “From Islamic Revolution to Feminist Transformation? The Past and Future of Revolution in Iran.” Conference on The Past and Futures(s) of Revolution, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, 12 March 2009.
—-. “Comparing Women’s Movements in Iran and Morocco”, Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture, Northeastern University, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology and International Studies Program, 16-17 March 2008.
—-. “Women and Extreme Violence”, annual meetings of the French Sociological Association, Paris, panel on the sociology of violence, 16 April 2009.
Patton, Venetria K. "The Child Figure as a Means to Ancestral Knowledge in Daughters of the Dust" the National Council for Black Studies Conference, March 2009.
Other News:
Dr. Anne Fliotsos' book, American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century (U of Illinois P, 2008) was named a Choice Oustanding Academic Title.
Dr. Phoebe Farris also worked as a consultant for the National Museum of the American Indian's traveling exhibit, "IndiVisible: African-Native Shared Heritages". Her essay, "Red, Black and Brown: Artists and the Aesthetics of Race" focused on the lives and works of five women artists of mixed heritage.
Professor Helen Brown was awarded the Black Metropolis Research Consortium 2009 Short-Term Fellowship in African American Studies. The fellowships were awarded to scholoars, and artists who have exhibited excellence in their discipline(s), have a significant body of work characterized by originally, and have demonstrated a need to conduct research in the archives and collections of BMRC members. The six 2009 Fellows represent a diverse spectrum of research disciplines. Helen's project title is "Margaret Allison Bonds and Langston Hughes: Musical-Textual Relationships in the Arts Songs."