Judy Branfman presented her documentary film-in-progress, "The Land of Orange Groves and Jails," at the Western Association of Women Historians conference in Berkeley in June, and at the 25th Annual North American Labor History Conference in Detroit in October (where it was also the center of a panel on free speech, labor, and Los Angeles history). A short segment of the film in progress was also featured at the CFT Labor in the Schools conference in November.

Miriam Dexter presented a short version of her new work comparing the Greek Medusa, Indic Kali, Indic Lajja Gauri figures on temple walls, Irish Sheela na gigs on church and castle walls, and Irish shape-changing female figures in epic tales, to a session in the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association. She will give a longer version of the paper at a Symposium on "Female Mysteries of the Substratum" held at Rila Monastery, near Sofia, Bulgaria. She co-edited a volume, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2002, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. (2003), and is in the process of co-editing a volume, The Black Sea Flood and its Aftermath: Papers from the First International Symposium on the Interdisciplinary Significance of the Black Sea Flood, Joan Marler and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds., forthcoming.

Anne Eggebroten worked on "Where Wisdom Calls: Crossroads & Open Gates", a conference held June 17-20, 2004, at Scripps College, Claremont. Speakers included Phyllis Trible, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott with music by Linda Allen and Carolyn McDade. The event was co-sponsored by the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Claremont Graduate University and by Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus, a 30-yr-old organization working toward feminist goals in evangelical Christianity. See www.eewc.com and http://religion.cgu.edu. She recently published "On Being Evangelical and Ecumenical" in the Summer 2003 issue of EEWC's Update.

Rhonda Hammer has been a CSW Research Scholar since 1998. Her areas of research include: feminist theory, patriarchal and family terrorism, cultural studies, critical media literacy and women and the media. Her publications include: Rethinking Media Literacy with P. McLaren, D. Sholle, S. Reilly. Peter Lang, 1995; AntiFeminism and Family Terrorism, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002; "Militarism and Family Terrorism." In The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2003; "Family Terrorism and Globalization." In Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies and Global Conflicts (forthcoming) and "Postcolonialism." Encyclopedia of Social Theory (forthcoming). She has also produced and co-produced a number of educational video productions.

Erith Jaffe is researching women and theatre in the early-modern European context. Among the topics she has explored are Commedia dell'Arte and the first appearance of professional actresses, the use of multilingualism by women performers in the Renaissance and the Baroque, and issues of spatial presentation in women's performance. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre at the University of Riverside and will be presenting her work at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference and the biannual conference: "Attending to Early Modern Women." She has published articles in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, European Studies Journal, and Quaderni d'Italinistica, and has reviewed books for Theatre Journal and the Sixteenth Century Studies Journal. She has also worked as a performer, educator as well as researcher.

Rex King has recently returned from a six-month field trip to the English midlands to gather historical documentation on the boat women who delivered cargo on the commercial waterways during the nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. She is currently conducting a series of interviews with women who are still actively involved in owning and using boats on these waterways. In the mid-nineteenth Century women were actively involved in keeping commercial narrowboat transport through England's canal system alive. Rex is investigating these pioneer women to explore the implications of their contributions on issues of self-esteem and leadership among women today who choose "non-traditional" occupations. It is her hope to use this research to encourage women's increased participation in marine-life and non-traditional careers in general.

Penny L. Richards attended the Social Science History Association conference in Baltimore in November to give a paper on education themes in Mary Austin's short stories. The paper about Mary Austin presented at the CSW brown-bag seminar last Spring is now newly published as a chapter in Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940, edited by Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche (Bucknell University Press 2003). Penny is currently co-editing the H-Disability and H-Education lists on the H-Net, and co-moderating a yahoogroup called WomenWritersThroughTheAges, where he has organized a group-read of Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri for this Fall/Winter.

Kathleen Sheldon published the chapter on "Mozambique," in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide: Sub-Saharan Africa, ed., Aili Mari Tripp (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003) (there are six volumes in this reference work, covering women around the world). She presented material on women's experiences as part of a roundtable discussion on "Revolutionary Legacies in Southern Africa: The Case of Mozambique," at the University of Minnesota in October 2003. She recently received a grant from the National Coalition of Independent Scholars for her current project, an Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa which will be published by Scarecrow Press.