The Department of Women's Studies at Emory University

	Important Announcement: The Women’s Studies Department has approved new requirements for the WS Major and Minor, which will go into effect January 2010. Students who declare a WS Major or Minor after this date will be covered by the new requirements. Faculty article Read an article on recent controversy about South African runner Caster Semenya, at NAACP site The Defenders Online, written by our own Dr. Pamela Scully and Dr. Clifton Crais (Professor of History, Emory University) here. Success After Emory See video of three recent graduates of Emory with connections to Women's Studies: Travis Meadows, Women's Studies minor Monique Dorsainvil, Women's Studies major Zoe Fine, Women's Studies major Faculty Interview Hear an interview with Professor Pamela Scully about her latest book, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus, here. Recent Graduates Doctoral Degrees Awarded May 2009 Dawn Comeau, Ph.D. (May 2009) Aida Hussen, Ph.D. (May 2009) Undergraduate Degrees Awarded May 2009 Ingianni Acosta Christian Allen Candace Coffman Matilde Davis Monique Dorsainvil Zoe Fine Jaclyn Friedman Halima Garba Candice Merritt Shayne Sebold Scot Seitz (Fall 2009) Kimberly Smith (Summer 2009) Honors Students Zoe Fine - Highest Honors "Interpreting On- and Off-Screen Lesbianism: A Case Study of Emory University" Monique Dorsainvil - High Honors "Resisting the Margins: Black Lesbian Self-Definition and Epistemology" Candice Merritt - High Honors "'Babies Havin' Babies': Examining Visual Representations of Teenage Pregnancy, 1960-1996" Awards Zoe Fine Outstanding Student in Women's Studies Award Monique Dorsainvil Lucius Lamar McMullan Award President's Commission on the Status of Women Undergraduate Writing Award Candice Merritt Outstanding Student in Women's Studies Award Delores Aldridge Award for Diversity Research Scot Seitz Delores Aldridge Award for Community Building, Diversity and Intergroup Relations S.I.R.E. Independent Research Grant Olivia Wise Gay and Lesbian Alumni Leadership (GALA) Award New Faculty Women’s Studies welcomes its newest faculty member: Deboleena Roy, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, and Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology. Professor Roy will be a Faculty Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University from September 2008 – June 2009. Professor Roy has arrived and is settling in, ready to jump into the 2009-2010 Academic Year. Jennifer Freeman, Visiting Assistant Professor for 2008-2009. Prior to her doctoral work, Jennifer earned degrees in English from Spelman College and Anthropology from Georgia State University. Yael Sherman, Visiting Assistant Professor for 2008-2009. Yael did her undergraduate work in Women’s Studies at Wellesley College. Her general areas of interest are Feminist Theory, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Film and Television Studies, Popular Culture. Recent Publications Pamela Scully and Clifton Crais celebrated the release of Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography with a talk and book signing at the Carlos Museum on February 5th. The following is a link to a reivew of the book by Martin Rubin of the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book11-2009feb11,0,6009737.story Carrie Baker: The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassmentin the United States; Cambridge University Press, December 2007. Lisa Diedrich: Feminist Time Against Nation Time; Lexington, 2008 Frances Smith Foster: Love and Marriage in Early African America; Northeastern University Press, 2008 Beth Reingold: Legislative Women: Getting Elected, Getting Ahead; Rienner, 2008 Kimberly Wallace-Sanders: Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender and Southern Memory; University of Michigan Press, 2008 Student Awards Margaret Beck-Coon and Sachelle Ford received the 2008 Women’s Studies Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award Aida Hussen accepted a Mellon Mays Fellowship for the academic year 2008-2009. Gina Helfrich (WS Certificate) has been named a CHI (Center for Humanistic Inquiry Fellow for 2008-2009. Other News Emory WS Ranked #1 in Nation! {Read more...} Congratulations to Irene Browne and her co-PI, Belisa Gonzalez (Emory PhD in Sociology), who were recently awarded a major NSF grant for their research project on middle class Dominican and Mexican families in Atlanta. The purpose of the study is to investigate the social mobility strategies of Dominican and Mexican families in Atlanta. In particular, they look at the opportunities and barriers that influence decisions about where to live, where to send their children to school and what types of activities their children pursue. They examine whether issues of race, ethnicity and gender influence mobility strategies of Dominican and Mexican families, and the conditions under which this occurs. Professors Irene Browne and Mary Odem have partnered with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) in a collaborative, interdisciplinary project that would involve research, training, and teaching. Studies in Sexualities is a recently created program at Emory (part of the Race and Difference Initiative), focusing on the multiple ways in which sexuality is experienced, conceptualized, and theorized. Through the Department of Women’s Studies it offers with regularity an introductory course in Studies in Sexualities that highlights the many methods and objects of inquiry in the field, with special emphasis on the resources available at Emory. In 2008-09, we launch a series on “Other Americas” that will take as its focus aspects of sexuality in non-mainstream American venues, in the fall, emphasizing Native American and Latino cultural sites, in the spring African American, African and Asian diasporic locales.