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News and Views
Spring 2002 Volume 12, issue 2
Faculty Awards and Publications
Swapna Banerjee, History, has received an NEH-funded research fellowship from the AIIS that will support her research in India for 2002-03. She has also received summer funding from the Humanities Research Enhancement Fellowship. Both awards will enable her to launch her project on children and childhood in colonial Bengal, India.
- Kendal Broad, CWSGR, has taken a position on the Gender & Society editiorial board and recently published “FemiQueer Pedagogies: ‘Lesbian/Gay’ Studies in Postmodern Women’s Studies,” Feminist Teacher, 2001.
- Marsha Bryant, English, recently published "Plath, Domesticity, and the Art of Advertising," in College Literature (April 2002).
- Kim Emery, English, published “The Lesbian Index: Pragmatism and Lesbian Subjectivity in the Twentieth Century United States,” a volume in the SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory.
- Debra King, English, was recently accepted to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Provost Faculty Fellowship Program. Congratulations, Dr. King!
- Angel Kwolek-Folland, CWSGR, was elected president of the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association and will assume her duties in March 2002.
- Milagros Peña, CWSGR, published her article "Encountering Latina Mobilization: Field Research on the U.S./Mexico Border," in Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion, James V. Spickard, J. Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire (editors), New York University Press (2002).
- Stephanie Smith, English, recently published "Antebellum Politics and Women's Writing" in The Cambridge Companion to 19th American Women's Writing, November 2001. She signed a contract for a guide to women's studies called Spunk: A Woman's Study. Additionally, she will be reading from her latest novel at the ICFA in Ft. Lauderdale this March.
- Anita Spring, Anthropology, recently published an article entitled, "Positive Effects of Agricultural Commercialization on Women Farmers: A New Paradigm," in Development Economics and Policy, 2001.
- Marta Wayne, Zoology, received an NIH grant. The grant is a multi-investigator, multi-site grant called "Quantitative genomics of sexual dimorphism" with a projected budget of $2,600,000. The grant assesses the extent of differences in gene expression between females and males in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Teacher of the Year Awards
Congratulations to the following affiliated faculty who received 2001-2002 CLAS Teacher of the Year Awards:
- Marsha Bryant, English
- Terry L. Mills, Sociology
- Marta L. Wayne, Zoology
University of Florida Study Abroad in Ecuador
Gender, Environment, Agriculture, and Participation
Summer 2002
The Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, in partnership with the University of Florida International Center, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, is offering courses in Summer 2002 on Gender and Development at ESPOL (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral) in Guyaquil, Ecuador. The course aims to give students a complete learning experience, blending theory and methods with practical face-to-face experience beyond institutional walls. Some of the activities students will participate in include: visiting both small and large farms in the area, a visit to El Angel Watershed and Consorcio Carchi and several communities in the vicinity where the Consorcio Carchi is working, visiting development projects in La Sierra, and a stop at Fundragro project sites. For program information or an application:
Dr. Sandra Russo, srusso@ufic.ufl.edu
Dr. Angel Kwolek-Folland, halohead@wst.ufl.edu
Dr. Marilyn Swisher, mesw@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
CWSGR Colloquium Series
The CWSGR hosted the Spring Colloquium Series, featuring speakers lecturing on various topics related to women and gender issues. On February 12th, Ms. Lola Haskins, UF, presented “We Women: A Poetry Reading,” a collection of poems recently published in her book The Rim Benders. Wild Iris Books sponsored a book signing of the author’s latest works. Dr. Deborah van den Hoonard, visiting from the Gerontology Program at St. Thomas University, Canada, gave a lecture on “The Widowed Self: The Measuring of Widowhood for Older Canadian Women” on February 26th. The early days of widowhood, relationships with children, friends and men, learning to do new things and connections to the community were the themes explored in this presentation.
