Pauline Bart, Ph.D.
pbart@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2008
Projects : 1) Writing a book, "Protean Women: The Liquidity of Female Sexuality." 2) Writing an article for "Gender and Society" focusing on the methodological and public interest issues and the construction of identity.
Jill Cherneff, Ph.D.
cherneff@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1990
Project: My project, "The Science and Culture of the Breast," will discuss the unique scientific qualities of the human female breast and the cultural value and significance of the human female breast in non-western cultures.
Ann Chisholm, Ph.D.
achisholm@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Projects: 1) Completing a manuscript entitled "Ladies of the House: Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women, Disciplinarity, and the Incorporation of Femininity." 2) Developing a related project that explains how nineteenth-century gymnastics promised to properly calibrate reciprocal relationships between women’s nerves of motion and sensation while pledging to safeguard female sanity and to enable the accrual of appropriate objects of desire. 3) Writing a book that maps the history and dynamics of body doubling in U.S. cinema.
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Jennifer Cotter, Ph.D.
jcotter@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Project: Revising manuscript: "Feminism Made Material," which analyses new shifts in gender and sexuality and their social representations in feminist, queer, and transnational theories.
Jennifer Cullen, Ph.D.
jenniferkw@adelphia.net
Research Scholar since 2007
Project: Revising dissertation into a book on representations of virginity in modern Japanese literature. In this text I explore representations of virginity in Japanese literature from the turn of the century until the early 1930s. I analyze representations of virginity in the works of a variety of authors, such as Mori Ōgai, Tayama Katai, Mushanokōji Saneatsu, contributors to the feminist journal Seitō, and Kikuchi Kan to demonstrate the ways in which the concept of virginity was appropriated by authors of differing viewpoints.
Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D.
mdexter@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: 1) Coauthoring monograph, "Apotropaic and Erotic Eurasian Female Figures," with Victor Mair. 2) Translating passages from Old Norse saga "Egil and Asmund." 3) Translating Atharvaveda 4.15.12. 4) Finishing for publication an invited conference paper on the Chalcolithic (ca. 4500 BCE) “Danube Script,” which was found on thousands of pots, figurines, and even some rare plaques throughout the connected Neolithic “Danubian” cultures of present-day Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania.
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Karina Eileraas, Ph.D.
keileraas@wesleyan.edu
Research Scholar since 2008
Project: Researching the constructions of multiracial identity in "American Girl" dolls.
Kim Elsesser, Ph.D.
elsesser@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2003
Projects: The first project is a continuing analysis of my dissertation data on gender and social support in the workplace. The second project for next year is to analyze data collected from a survey on gender in the workplace that I helped design for MSNBC.com and ELLE magazine.
Mary Fox, Ph.D.
maryfox@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Project: Clarifying an array of 'risk' theories, exploring their utilities in mediating information and emotion, and locating their place within and effect upon larger social theories. Applying 'risk' theory in a particular domain in order to explore the roles that 'risk' discourses play in that domain. Considering the theories and application of risk discourses in light of gender and feminist thought, which have been largely missing terms when risk is discussed.
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Rhonda Hammer, Ph.D.
rhammer@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: Co-editing a book, "Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches," with Douglas Kellner; and continuing research and writings on films using a critical feminist cultural studies perspective with emphasis on "the politics of representation." |
Myrna Hant, Ph.D.
myrnahant@aol.com
Research Scholar since 2001
Projects: Two research projects: one on television's portrayal of mature women (" Black and White Depictions of Aging on Television: Changing Cultural Expectations"), and another on feminist activists in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Karon Jolna, Ph.D.
karonjolna@yahoo.com
Research Scholar since 2004
Project: "A Woman's Guide to the Corner Office," a book focusing on the insights, pitfalls, and accomplishments of women executives, based on in-depth interviews conducted with a diverse range of top women executives.
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Penny Kanner, Ph.D.
kanhist@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1990
Project: Preparation of a manuscript about women who served on the Belgian, Eastern and Serbian fronts during WWI.
Hilarie Kelly, Ph.D.
hilariek@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Projects: Completing and publishing three articles: "Tales of a Tyrant Queen: A Charter Myth for Male Dominance or a Role Model for the New Transnational Muslim Woman?"; "Weddings, Cell Phones, and Cyberspace: How Somali Diasporic Women Reconstruct Community in a Global Context"; and "Zahra Put the Kettle On: Women, Hospitality, and Food Preparation in Transnational Perspective."
Gabriele Kohpahl, Ph.D.
gkohpahl@hotmail.com
Research Scholar since 2008
Project: An article entitled “Mexican Women on the US/Mexico Border and US Social Security Survivor Benefits" (working title).
Joanne Leslie, Sc.D., C.T.S.
jleslie@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2005
Project: My research will continue to focus on training, writing and community organization to promote fruitful interaction between faith communities and those working on justice issues that affect women. This will include: (1) establishing an interfaith Beijing Circle to increase awareness of the situation of women locally and globally; (2) systematically searching through the published books and articles and unpublished works-in-progress concerning faith-inspired and faith-informed social justice work in the area of gender equality and women's empowerment; (3) writing and publishing an article the "Beijing Circles" project.
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Ursula Lindqvist, Ph.D.
ulindqvist@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2008
Projects: Submitting at least two scholarly articles, and continuing work on a book manuscript titled "New Nationalisms: Race, Gender, and Colonial Discourse in Sweden, Denmark, and the US Virgin Islands."
Elline Lipkin, Ph.D.
elline@aol.com
Research Scholar since 2008
Projects: 1) Book, "Seal Starter: Girls' Studies," an introduction to Women and Gender Studies. 2) Book chapter on the contemporary poet Alice Notley in "American women Poets in the 21st Century." 3) A series of articles on contemporary American women poets' use of form. 4) Working further on my second poetry manuscript, tentatively entitled "Cast," which explores themes of travel and identity, family and language, all refracted through the lens of a contemporary female speaker.
Gisele Maynard-Tucker, Ph.D.
gmaytuck@aol.com
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: 1) Preparing a session on HIV/AIDS for the 2009 Annual Meeting for Applied Anthropology. 2) Reviewing the book “Reproductive Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti," by M. Catherine Maternowska, in "Studies in Family Planning." 3) Editing a special issue “HIV/AIDS in Africa” and preparing article “Insecurities and strategies: Are HIV/AIDS Programs in Developing Countries Sustainable?" for "Practicing Anthropology," to be published December 2008. 4) Writing review article “Lagos, HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Workplace: Interventions for Small and Medium Enterprises” in the "Journal of Reproductive Health Matters."
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Julie Nack Ngue, Ph.D.
julienackngue@gmail.com
Research Scholar since 2008
Project: My research project will comprise a series of articles organized around the general theme: "Critical Conditions: Refiguring Bodies of Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing."
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Becky Nicolaides, Ph.D.
bnicolaides@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Project: Researching and outlining a book, "Into the Suburban Fold: A Social History of Postward Suburban America." In the coming year, I will continue my review of the secondary literature, and begin some forays into the history of Park Forest, Illinois, which will comprise a case study for this book.
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Ernestina Osorio , Ph.D.
osorio@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2006
Projects: 1) Developing doctoral dissertation, "The Intersection of Architecture, Photography, and Personhood: Case Studies in Mexican Modernism," into a book manuscript. 2) Publishing articles on Mexican modernism and global architectural culture and pedagogy.
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Elizabeth Pillsworth, Ph.D.
pillse@gmail.com
Research Scholar since 2008
Projects: 1) Continuing research on "Women's Sexual Choices: Lab Studies and Ethnographic Evidence for the Evolution of Female Sexual Autonomy." 2) Completing and publishing an ethnographic paper concerning women's sexual choice among the Shuar. 3) Producing an ethnographic survey of patterns of restrictions on women's sexuality across different cultural contexts.
Jennifer Price, Ph.D.
jjprice@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: 1) Finish book, "Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA," as well as, publish pieces in "GOOD," "Environmental History," and other magazines and journals. 2) Continue work with the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, which will continue its "Malibu Public Beaches" project and will develop the next project in its "Public Access 101" series. 3) Continue to develop the "Future of Nature Writing" conference, for which UCLA is the primary sponsor.
Penny Richards, Ph.D.
turley2@earthlink.net
Research Scholar since 1999
Project: Transcribing and editing a private collection of letters written by a Scottish woman, 1860-1900, and setting up a website to share the work-in-progress with other scholars.
Denise Roman, Ph.D.
denizr@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2002
Projects: 1) Editing a journal, "Women's Studies International Forum." 2) Writing a paper, "The Body in the New Wave of Romanian Cinema."
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Kathleen Sheldon, Ph.D.
ksheldon@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1989
Project: Revising the article on "The Diary of Sylvia Thankful Eddy, 1919-1920." for publication, and continuing to develop a book project based on the diary and the supporting and contextual information.
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Alice Wexler, Ph.D.
arwexler@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1994
Project: Research and begin to write an article or essay ( "Moving Targets: Huntington's Disease in Popular Culture") on the relation of popular representations of Huntington’s disease in the 1980s and 1990s to cultural constructions of gender, ethnicity, heredity, class, and definitions of the “normal.”
Mari Womack , Ph.D.
mariwomack1@yahoo.com
Research scholar since 1999
Projects: Two book projects: "The Artful Body: Reflections on the Human Form"; "Cultural Anthropology: Global Perspectives on Being Human."
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Patricia Zukow-Goldring, Ph.D.
zukow@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1996
Projects: Co-editing special issue of "Ecological Psychology" on new theoretical explanations of affordances and how they develop in diverse cultures. Continuing research study, "Assisted Imitation: How Infants Grasp that the Perceiving and Acting of the Self is 'Like Others." |
