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Helen Astin (left)
Acting Co-Director, 1990 - 1991
Acting Director, 1991 - 1992
Julia Wrigley (right)
Acting Co-Director, 1990 - 1991
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| Biography |
Helen Astin is a Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Education and a Senior Scholar at HERI. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology (Counseling and Social) from the University of Maryland. Her research interests include education and career development of women; faculty performance and rewards; leadership. Her publications include "The Shifting Gender Composition of Psychology: Trends and Implication for the Discipline" (with G.M. Pion and M.T. Mednick, et al). American Psychologist, May 1996.
Julia Wrigley is a Professor in the Sociology Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is editor of Gender and Educational Equality and Sociology of Education, and author of Class Politics and Public Schools: Chicago, 1900–1950. She has also written many articles and book chapters. She has served on the editorial boards of Educational Policy, Contemporary Sociology, History of Education Quarterly, and the American Educational Research Journal. |
| Accomplishments:
1990 to 1991 |
CSW sponsored its first graduate student research conference on April 19, 1991. It featured thirty-three UCLA graduate students presenting research on women and gender in a day-long series of interdisciplinary workshops. The opening plenary featured a keynote address by Lillian Faderman (English).
A new travel grant program and the Jean Stone Dissertation Fellowship were established.
With assistance from CSW, the Gender and Politics Project convened a second conference, What Ever Happened to Women's Liberation: Rethinking the Origins of Contemporary Feminism, on May 3 and 4, 1991. This conference drew veteran feminist scholars and activists from around the country to share their personal experiences in the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
CSW co-sponsored the conferences Women and Work: Understanding the Gender, held November 9 to 11, 1990, and Women, Work and Power in the Middle East, held on April 12 to 13, 1991.
In the fall of 1991, CSW initiated a new series of Brown Bag lunch seminars, which invited faculty engaged in research on women and gender to present their work in a more intimate and informal setting than that provided by either the Feminist Research Seminar or the Public Lecture Series. In 1991-1992, twelve faculty members led brown bag lunch seminars on varied topics.
On November 13th, 1991, the CSW hosted a publications reception and open house to honor works on women and gender published by CSW scholars. More than forty recent books, book chapters and journal articles authored by UCLA faculty, graduate students, and research affiliates were featured.
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| 1991 to 1992 |
In the fall of 1991, the Center initiated a new series of brown bag lunch seminars that invited faculty engaged in research on women and gender to present their work in a more intimate and informal setting than that provided by either the Feminist Research Seminar or the Public Lecture Series. In 1991-1992, twelve faculty members led brown bag lunch seminars on varied topics.
On November 13th, 1991, the CSW hosted a publications reception and open house to honor works on women and gender published by CSW scholars. More than forty recent books, book chapters and journal articles authored by UCLA faculty, graduate students and research affiliates were featured at the reception.
The CSW organized and co-sponsored a conference entitled Learning from Latin America: Women's Struggles for Livelihood, which was held on February 27-29, 1992. The conference featured twenty-three Latin American and North American scholars presenting research on poor women’s struggles for subsistence in light of the prolonged economic crisis in Latin America. |
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