Cheryl L. Keyes book, Rap Music and Street Consciousness, published by the University of Illinois Press (2002), has been selected by CHOICE as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004. CHOICE is a highly respected monthly publication of the Association of College Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Many librarians choose which books to buy on the basis of reviews in CHOICE.

Sondra Hale, Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, published "Ambivalent Testimonies: Ambiguities in Sudanese Women's Responses to Islamism," in Women and Gender in the Middle East and the Islamic World Today, ed. Sherifa Zuhur (2003). She presented "The Sudanese Family Under Islamism," at a Roundtable at the Middle East Studies Association in Anchorage; "Human Rights, Islamism/Islam, and Women's Rights in Sudan," at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; "The Growing Gap between Abstract Theories and Practice within Women's Studies and How These Contradictions Can Be Addressed," at the Sudan Studies Association International Meeting; "Grassroots Organizing: Sudanese Women in War and Exile," at a conference on "Borders, Babies, and Bombs," National Council on Research on Women, Mills College; and a CSW panel with Esha De, "Reading International Through Local: Women's Studies in the Global South." Prof. Hale went to Khartoum and Omdurman, Sudan in February, 2003, to be a Curriculum Consultant and External Examiner at Ahfad University for Women, and to give a workshop entitled "Feminist Discourses and Islamic Discourses," as well as delivering two public lectures: "Perspectives on The Sudanese Women's Movement," and "Transnational Trends in Gender Studies and the Feminisms." At UCLA she co-organized a symposium on "After the Last Sky: The Humanism of Edward Said." In the community she is co-coordinating the West Coast Branch of Right to Education, Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank.

Sandra Harding edited/ co-edited three collections of essays published in 2003. Science and Other Cultures: Issues in the Philosophy of Science and Technology, co-edited with Robert Figueroa, came out in January (Routledge). The Second Edition, a 20th anniversary edition, of Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, originally co-edited with Merrill Hintikka, was published in June (Kluwer). The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies, came out in November (Routledge).

Shirley Hune is the editor, with Gail M. Nomura, of a new book, Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology (New York: New York University Press, 2003). The anthology is comprised of original new work that treats women as historical subjects with agency, negotiating hierarchies of power and multiple intersections, including globalization. It includes chapters on Cambodian, Chamorro, Chinese, Filipina, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Native Hawaiian, Asian Indian, and Vietnamese women in a wide range of experiences, including as military brides, lesbians, transnational workers, beauty contestants, and community activists. Shirley Hune is also on the Board of Visitors of Bennett College, one of two existing historically black colleges for women.