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Graduate Instructors Leaving the Program this Year
Graduate Instructors Sherrema Bower, Dina Banerjee, and Jae Truesdell are expecting to graduate in May and will, therefore, leave our program. We would like to show our appreciation of their contribution to the Women’s Studies Program and wish them success in their future careers.
Sherrema Bower is graduating in May with her M.A. in American Studies with a concentration in Sociology and Women’s Studies. She is currently in the job market seeking a position as Assistant Director at a University Women’s Academic Center or teaching full-time at a community college. As a scholar-activist, Sherrema believes that teaching Women’s Studies has been the most activist pursuit she has ever engaged in. “There is nothing like being able to empower others,” she writes, “and teaching students and seeing them learn about women’s lives allows for true forms of consciousness-raising.” She would like to thank Julie Knoeller, Dr. Laurie Graham, and Dr. Valentine Moghadam for the wonderful work they do, and all of the graduate instructors who have truly become like family.
Dina Banerjee will be graduating in May with a PhD degree in Sociology. Soon afte
r graduation, she will join the College of Engineering Education here at Purdue University as a post-doctoral research fellow. She is excited to be a part of a research group that examines the career pathways of the minority women faculty in the STEM disciplines at Purdue. In the future, she intends to apply for teaching positions in gender, work and occupation, social change and development. She would love to teach at some place that has a warmer climate.
Jae Truesdell will be graduating in May with hir second degree from Purdue University (M.A. in American Studies with a concentration in Anthropology and Women’s Studies). Sie is currently job hunting for GLBTQQI program manager and/or community coordinator positions throughout the nation. Jae enjoyed teaching Introduction to Women's Studies and was pleased that hir students had such a great learning experience and appreciates the immensely positive reviews sie received from them in hir student evaluations.
* ‘sie’ and ‘hir’ are gender-neutral pronouns.
Announcement: Literary Reading by Famous African-American Woman Poet Rita Dove
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Famous African American woman poet Rita Dove will be on campus for the 78th annual Literary Awards Banquet and will also do a public reading on her work on April 15, 2009. Rita Dove received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for her book of poetry titled Thomas and Beulah (1986). In 1993, she was named Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress for a two-year term. She is the first and only to date African American poet to hold the position.