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Cheryl Cooky accepted a joint appointment between Health & Kinesiology and Women’s Studies at Purdue. She received her PhD in Sociology and Gender Studies from USC. Her dissertation research on recreational sport programs for "at-risk" urban girls examined the programs at the level of social structure, culture and social interactions. Cheryl's other research area is in gendered representations of female athletes in mainstream media. In one study, she and her colleagues conducted a content analysis of the mainstream news media's coverage after Don Imus referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." She has also written on the intersections of sport and Girl Culture, specifically examining how sport was part of the "Girl Power!" discourse of the 1990s. Currently Cheryl and her colleague Michael Messner, Ph. D. are collecting data for the next phase in the longitudinal study "Gender Stereotyping in the News Media." Her research has been published in Sociology of Sport Journal, the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and will appear in Sociological Perspectives (forthcoming Summer 2009).
Marlo D. David accepted a joint appointment between English Department and Wom
en’s Studies Program at Purdue. Marlo has received her PhD in English from the University of Florida. Her research attends to the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in 20th-century African-American literature. Her current research project, “Mama’s Gun: Transgressive Narratives of Race, Gender and Nation,” addresses how mothers and motherhood are depicted in contemporary African-American literature and culture. Her work has appeared in the African American Review and Home Girls Make Some Noise: A Hip Hop Feminism Anthology.
Jennifer Freeman Marshall accepted a joint appointment between English Department and Women’s Studies Program at Purdue. Jennifer comes to Purdue from Emory University’s Department of Women’s Studies where she is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor. She received her PhD in Women’s Studies from Emory University with specializations in feminist theories (black feminist literary theory, and feminist anthropology and ethnography) and African American literary and cultural Productions from 1891-1960. She received her M.A. in Anthropology from Georgia State University and her B.A. in English from Spelman College. She has received several fellowships for her research and teaching including the Emory University Southern Studies Dissertation Fellowship and the Andrew W. Mellon Teaching Fellowship. Her research interests include black feminist thought; 20th century African American literary and cultural productions; and feminist methods.