News and Views of UF CENTER FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES AND The Center for Women’s Studies GENDER RESEARCH NEWSLETTER Fromand theGender Center for Research Women’s Studies and Gender Research HIGHLIGHTS VOLUME 19, ISSUE 1 SPRING 2010 Spring Gala Planned
Local Feminist Donates Historical Papers From the Director’s Desk Gender Conversation series Just before continued support as she has which was a reading by UF continues classes started moved to the dean‘s office. novelist and Professor of last fall, I was Many phone calls and emails English Jill Ciment. Jill read AAW brings surprised and later, Milly is still providing from her recently published Congresswoman to exhilarated to be novel, Heroic Measures, which Campus appointed Interim Director of last summer made it on to
Anantharam the CWSGR. Having been an Oprah‘s summer reading list. Nominated for affiliate faculty member for Also at that event, Associate International years, I was aware of the Dean for Humanities Debra Educator of the Year accomplishments of the Walker King provided an faculty and of the excellent inspirational message. We‘ve “Activists Among programs that the Center had hosted several fascinating Us” Panel Discussion sponsored, such as the speakers since that beginning, Planned continuing Gender and look forward to others Professor of English and Women’s Conversations Series. during the remainder of the Studies Affiliate Dr. Jill Ciment Although we have all felt the spring semester. We‘re in reads from her book, difficulties of the economic the early stages of talking downturn, the Center has Heroic Measures, at the well about a series of small INSIDE THIS held its own, in part thanks to attended fall reception. conferences on re-reading I S S U E : the generosity of our important feminist texts from supporters in the UF me with institutional the 20th century. We will Local Feminist 2 community and beyond. To memory, as has another inaugurate this series next Donates Papers our affiliate faculty members former director, Angel year with a conference on and our loyal supporters, we Kwolek-Folland. Simone de Beauvoir‘s The Gender 3 express our gratitude. I also Second Sex. Our own faculty Conversations thank Milagros Peña for her The year began with our members continue to distinguish themselves in their Faculty News 4 leadership of the Center for opening program and over four years, and her reception, the highlight of Continued on Page 2 Career Panel 5 Held Spring Gala Planned Evans honored 6
Anantharam Invitations have been mailed The Gala, set for February Recognized, 7 27th from 7:30-9:30 p.m. is and RSVPs have arrived for A Panel Discussion being held in the Atrium at Planned Spring Gala at the Center for Ustler Hall and features the Women‘s Studies and Gender music of the UF Jazz Combo, Graduate Palm Fronds painted by 8 Research. with new Jazz Director, Scott News Florida artist Eleanor Blair The Gala is a celebration of Wilson. (Gerhard Baier Trumpet Artist and AKAI with friends, and enjoy wine the installation of a collection Windsynth Artist) of paintings by Florida artist and heavy hors d‘oeuvres. Eleanor Blair in Ustler Hall, Gala attendees will meet the Cocktail attire is requested. made possible by a generous artist, Eleanor Blair, mingle The event will be catered by Ibti. P A G E 2 From the Director’s Desk (continued from page 1)
research: Trysh Travis has beautiful paintings by artist project on women and gardens published a major book, The Eleanor Blair, generously in 18th and 19th century England, Language of the Heart: A Cultural donated to us by Kathryn I am particularly delighted to History of the Recovery Movement Chicone Ustler. These have these paintings greet me from Alcoholics Anonymous to paintings, which re-imagine every day as I come to work! Oprah Winfrey (UNC Press, Florida‘s vibrant landscapes Please visit our web site, ably 2009), and Stephanie Evans has and flora, have brought our maintained by Office Manager co-edited an exciting collection, atrium to life. If you can‘t Donna Tuckey, for a complete African Americans and Community make it to our spring gala on listing of our faculty, courses, Engagement in Higher Education February 27th, both a and events. I hope to see you in Dean D’Anieri chats (SUNY, 2009). And several of celebration and a fundraiser the Center! us have other books on the way! for the Center, please stop by with new Center at another time to see the Director Judith Page Finally, this spring we are paintings in the atrium. Having following the Fall celebrating the installation of ten just completed a scholarly Reception. A crowd gathers in front Ustler Hall to witness the unveiling of Longtime Gainesvillethe FeministYardley Garden Wall. Donates Historical Papers By Trysh Travis Emily then went on to major in math Browne, t-shirts in a special exhibit entitled at UF. After graduating in long a ―Feminist Fashion Statements, 1968 1963, she taught middle and pillar of -2008.‖ high-school math and became department head and Senior We often think that history is made Class Sponsor in her one (and Gainesville‘s progressive by famous people, but in fact the only) year of teaching. She community and a founder of the myriad small actions we take each Emily Browne (2nd from then became a ―systems Judy Levy chapter of the National day in our lives are what make analyst‖ in the strange new left), founder of the local Organization for Women history. If you or someone you field called ―computer chapter of NOW in (NOW), has donated eight boxes know has personal papers or programming‖ at the GE plant of personal papers to the artifacts related to the history of Gainesville is shown here in Alachua. Browne‘s long life CWSGR. These documents women, feminism, or Neumaother Aguiar, with fellow activists as an activist began with the shed light on the development of progressive causes, theyauthor may be and 1950s civil rights movement (left to right) Gainesville‘s women‘s valuable to future scholars. Diaries, and included the March on award winning Ruth Brown, organizations as well as on the letters, minutes from meetings, Washington of 1963. sociologist ways in which women worked to press releases, organizational Jan Elliott, and influence local elections and city records, flyers, posters, and In Gainesville she represented Celia Fairweather. government. When processed, photographs are all key documents her precinct in the local they will be a rich addition to that help us to better understand Democratic Party for over UF‘s Special Collections library, women‘s work in pursuit of nineteen years, and was the which houses similar materials equality in recent times as well as local contact for the from groups like Gainesville the distant past. If you have Democratic Socialists of Women for Equal Rights materials you believe would America. She worked for (GWER) and Florida NOW, as interest scholars, please contact Florida NOW and Floridians well as a digital collection titled Assistant Professor Trysh Travis Representing Equity and ―Radical Women in Gainesville.‖ (273-0393/[email protected]) or the Equality as well as the NAACP Director of the CWSGR (392- and other organizations. Emily Browne was born in New 3365).
Jersey in 1942 and moved to St. In 2008, Wild Iris Books Petersburg at age sixteen. She displayed Browne‘s collection attended Boca Ciega High School of feminist and progressive
NEWS AND VIEWS VOLUME 19, ISSUE 1 P A G E 3 Grad Students Attend NWSA
This year‘s National Women‘s Studies student, the NWSA gave me the chance Women‘s Studies Faculty member and Association annual meeting, held in to hear a variety of gender analyses and conference veteran Trysh Travis Atlanta from November 12-15, had field work topics, affording me greater attended the conference as well and was some new attendees. Thanks to a insight into the exciting trajectory of the moderator in a roundtable discussion generous anonymous gift, five UF our discipline, and sparking ideas of my titled, ―Gender, Sexuality, and Campus Women‘s Studies graduate students own,‖ said Graduate Student Diana Drinking Cultures: A Discussion of Policy were able to attend the conference, McCarley, ―With documentaries and Practice.‖ She also had a book whose theme this year was ―Difficult intersecting sexuality, race and gender, signing session for her new book, The Dialogues.‖ papers on pornography, vegetarianism, Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics and the political media, and debates about how to coalesce feminist activism Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey (UNC Press, Graduate Students Sarah Austin, and academe, the conference officially 2009). Diana McCarley, Whitney Shadowens, grounded and energized my entry into Sarah Steele, and Erin Tobin attended the Women's and Gender Studies." as first timers. "As a first year MA
Gender Conversations “Intersections” SeriesSpring Continues Gender Conversation
Dr. Jennifer A. Rea, Associate Religion Caleb Simmons discussing We hope to see youSeries at our nextSchedule Gender Conversation. All Professor and Director of Intersections of Gender and information about the Gender Conversation Series can be Distance Learning in Classics, Development examining ―Muscles and found on our website at www.wst.ufl.edu. You can also call the kicked off the fall Gender (Mal)development: Hypermasculinity center at 352-392-3365. You are encouraged to bring a friend Conversation Series in September and the Legacy of the Domination of and a brown bag lunch! with Intersections of gender and Nature in India.‖ antiquity, ―The Scream on the Other Side of Silence: Feminism and Vergil's Aeneid‖ On December 10th the conversations continued with a Don’t miss our next Gender Conversation! graduate student panel discussion,
The series, which is open to Intersections in the Contemporary everyone, is sponsored by the Study of Gender, featuring graduate March 23rd, 2010 Center for Women‘s Studies and students Sarah Austin, Meredith 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Ustler Hall, 3rd Floor Library Gender Research. Coordinated by Kite, and Erin Tobin Intersections of Gender, Sexuality and Evangelical Christianity Women‘s Studies Assistant Sean O‘Neil Professor Anita Anantahram, with The Spring Gender Conversation Doctoral student help from Assistant Professor of Series began on January 19th with a Department of Religion Religion Robert Kawashima and packed house and Associate last year‘s coordinator, Associate Professor of History Nina Caputo Professor Stephanie Evans, the discussing Intersections of Gender April 22nd discussions are held monthly and Medieval Europe. 12:00 p.m.– 1:30 p.m. Ustler Hall, 3rd Floor Library during the lunch hour in the third floor library in Ustler Hall. Intersections in the Contemporary Study of Gender In February, we had Assistant CWSGR Graduate Student Panel
Professor of English Dr. Jodi Schorb Melissa Houle, Catherine Jean, Diana McCarley, In October, Assistant Professor of lead a conversation that analyzed Whitney Shadowens, Sarah Steele, and Erin Williams Political Science and Women‘s moments when narratives by women Studies Affiliate Laura Sjoberg addressed Intersections of Gender circulated prominently in her talk and Terrorism at a very well titled, Intersections of Gender: Early attended conversation, followed in American Prison Narratives. November by Doctoral Student in P A G E 4 CWSGR Faculty News
Judith W. Page was named Waldo W. Neikirk Anthropological Association for the 2009-2012 published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Fall Term Professor in CLAS last spring. She has term. 2009 and ―Of Indians and Modernity in Gloria presented several papers recently: one on Jane Anzaldúa‘s Borderlands/La frontera: The New Austen‘s Mansfield Park at a conference on Austen Mestiza‖ was published in a special issue of Review in Chawton, UK over the summer 2009; an invited A Recent publication by Kendal Broad-Wright, of International American Studies, Fall/ talk on Austen and Shakespeare at the Higgins titled ―Activist Parenting and GLBTQ Families‖ and Winter2009/2010. Her paper ―From House on School for the Humanities at Clark University in published in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies in Mango Street to Playing With Boys: Genre, November 2009; and a paper on Dorothy 2008 was co authored by H. Alden, D. Berkowitz, Marketplace and Chicana Identity.‖ Reading Wordsworth and Italian gardens at a conference in and M. Ryan, who earned PhDs in Sociology at UF Latina/o Identities is forthcoming in ―Pasaporte Florence, Italy in January 2010. and have certificates and concentrations in latino: viaje, cultura e identidad en la literatura Women‘s Studies. Her paper ―Sexualities, hispana en los Estados Unidos.‖ Sociologies and the Intersectional Potential of Two Anita Anantharam currently has two books in Qualitative Methodologies‖ was accepted for press: the first is a translation project of one of publication in Theorizing Intersections: Sexual Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and India‘s most well known modern Hindi poets titled Advances (2010). Dr. Broad is also doing two former CWSGR Director Angel Kwolek- Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Nation, book reviews for the NWSA Journal (21,1) on, Folland was given an advance award from the and Culture. The second is a monograph on feminist ‗Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological National Science Foundation, Partnerships for poetry from India and Pakistan, Bodies that Evolution in America’ and ‗Courting Equality: A Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Remember: Women’s Indigenous Knowledge and Documentary History of America’s First Legal Same-Sex (PAID) for Collaborative Research - Alliance for Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry, which is Marriages‘. Dr. Broad‘s research, supported by the the Advancement of Florida's Academic Women currently under-contract with Syracuse University‘s Placek small grants program of the American in Chemistry & Engineering. In December, she Series in Gender and Globalization. Psychological Foundation & a CLAS Humanities gave an invited lecture, ―A Woman‘s History of Dr. Anantharam’s most recent publications Scholarship Enhancement Fund, continues on ―The Business,‖ at the International Conference for include ―A Change in Aesthetics and the Aesthetics Narrative Work of A Multi-Racial Gay Men‘s Businesswomen Networking in Málaga, Spain. She of Change: Premchand‘s Bazaar-e husn and Group, 1980-2005: Constructing Multi-Racial Gay was invited to the Business Law and Narrative Sevasadan,‖ accepted for publication in Gender and Selves and Doing Intersectional Resistance.‖ Symposium at the Michigan State University Language; “East/West Encounters: ‗Indian‘ Identity College of Law where she gave a lecture titled, ―The Personal is International: Gender Rights, and Transnational Feminism in Manushi,‖ Feminist Stephanie Evans is lead editor of the newly Media Studies, 2009; and Engendering the Nation: Glocalization, and Sexual Harassment.‖ Two released African Americans and Community papers Dr. Kwolek-Folland coauthored were Women, Islam, and Poetry in Pakistan,‛ Journal of Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, International Women’s Studies, 2009. She also published: ―Pathways for Women to Obtain Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research Positions of Organizational Leadership: The presented two academic papers last spring, at the (SUNY, 2009) and author of the article "African American Comparative Literature Association, and Significance of Mentoring and Networking,‖ Duke American Women and International Research: Dr. Journal of Gender Law and Policy, January 2009, and at the South Asian Studies Association Annual Anna Julia Cooper's Legacy of Study Abroad" Conference. ―Pathways to Success for Women Scientists in in Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Higher Education in the U.S.,‖ in Gender Equality Abroad. She also authored the book chapter Programmes in Higher Education: International "Learners and Teachers of Men: A Historical View Perspectives, Berlin, 2008 Florence E Babb’s book, The Tourism Encounter: of the Participation and Contributions of Black Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories, based American Males in Higher Education." Dr. Evans on her long-term research in Cuba, Mexico, gave an invited lecture at the 40th Anniversary of Trysh Travis’ book, The Language of the Heart: Nicaragua, and Peru, is forthcoming this year with Africana Studies Conference at Vassar College in A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Stanford University Press. A book chapter, April. In July, she attended the 26th Annual Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey was ―Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private International Katherine Dunham Technique published by UNC Press in November. Dr. Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua,‖ appeared Seminar at Southern Illinois University. She was Travis gave a talk on "Women, Addiction, and in Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Academic Program Chair of the 2009 Annual Child Welfare: Sharing an American Perspective" Anthropology in a Globalizing World, edited by Ellen Convention of Association for the Study of African to the Ministry of Social Affairs, Kaohsiung Lewin and William L. Leap (Wiley-Blackwell 2009). American Life and History (ASALH), held Province, Taiwan, ROC last July. She also Her essay, ―Feminismo, Identidad, Diaspora—Un September 2009 in Cincinnati, Ohio. organized a roundtable on ―Gender, Sexuality, comentario sobre las practicas transnacionales,‖ and Campus Drinking Cultures‖ at the annual came out in an art exhibition catalog for Cara(a) conference of the NWSA in November. She was cara / face2face (Miami, FL: Centro Cultural Tace Hedrick was invited to present her paper an invited plenary speaker at FSU‘s History of Español). Her review essay, ―Gender, Kinship, and ―Walter Mercado, Sexuality, and ‗Oriental‘ Textual Transmission program, and shared Migration in the Andes,‖ is in press in Signs: Journal Mysticism in Latin America‖ at the Latin American research from a forthcoming book on ―Publishing of Women in Culture and Society. She presented Studies Association meeting in Rio de Janeiro in Development and Development Publishing: papers at the Congress of the Latin American June. Dr. Hedrick also gave a talk to during UF‘s Perspectives on Print Culture in the ‗Third‘ Studies Association in Rio de Janeiro and at the ―Race,‘Spice‘ and Latinas‖ Workshop in March. World.‖ International Congress of Americanists in Mexico Dr. Hedrick’s paper ―Queering the Cosmic Race: City. She was elected to hold the Cultural Seat on Esotericism, Mestizaje, and Sexuality in the Work of the Executive Board of the American Gabriela Mistral and Gloria Anzaldúa‖ was
NEWS AND VIEWS VOLUME 19, ISSUE 1 P A G E 5 Career Panel Held
The Center held its first Women‘s prepared them for their current Studies Career Panel last spring positions. featuring four alumnae panelists— Victoria Adams, Diana Gibson, HavreDe Hill, and Megan Seery— and 2008 graduate Diana Gibson, who is addressing the current Women‘s now an educator at a museum in Professor Trysh Travis with panelists Studies community at the University of Miami, and 2006 graduate HavreDe (l to r) Diana Gibson, Victoria Adams, Florida. Assistant Professor Trysh Hill, currently working with the Gay HavreDe Hill, Megan Seery. Travis organized the Saturday and Lesbian Community Center of the roundtable that featured tips for job Palm Beaches, spoke about the paths seekers, cautionary tales from the that led them to their current In a letter to the Gainesville Sun, the workplace, and networking positions. four panelists wrote, ―Paramount opportunities. among our studies was the emphasis The attendees certainly benefitted placed on mentorship, active learning, from what the panelists had to say and critical thinking, continuous self- Victoria Adams, a 2005 graduate of the enrichment, and the value of Center and currently a marketing the panelists also benefitted from seeing how far the program had come institutional knowledge. In particular, consultant in Tallahassee, and 2006 we discovered how to incorporate the graduate turned public relations and from in roots in a small office in Turlington Hall in 2003, when majors views of historically under-represented marketing manager Megan Seery groups and individuals.‖ spoke about how their education were first admitted to the program.
AAW Brings Wasserman Schultz to Campus
in the Atrium at Ustler Hall. Preventive Services Task Force suggestion that women not begin getting mammograms until they hit 50. ―This is Wasserman Schultz discovered a very disturbing,‖ said Wasserman Schultz. breast lump through a self-exam, two ―The bottom line is that instead of making months after her first mammogram at things more clear for women, the 40. Although the cancer was detected recommendations are totally confusing at an early stage, she also learned that women.‖ as an Ashkenazi Jew of Eastern
Congresswoman Debbie European descent, she was at greater Wasserman Schultz (center) risk of carrying a gene mutation which The informal presentation was co- visits with Dr. Anita Anantharam predisposed her to breast cancer and sponsored by the Office of the Vice (left) and Women’s Studies Di- recurrence. She tested positive for President for Human Resource Services rector Dr. Judith Page (right) this BRCA2 gene mutation, prompting and the Center for Women‘s Studies and after the breakfast in Ustler Hall. her to have both breasts removed. ―I Gender Research. had a lot going on last year.‖ she The University of Florida Association quipped, remembering seven major surgeries, including a double The University of Florida Association for for Academic Women presented Academic Women (AAW) provides “Breast Cancer Awareness: Balancing mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, all while balancing opportunities for women faculty and Breast Cancer, Family, Work, professional staff to network and enhance Reelection, and the 2008 Campaign," motherhood and her job as Congresswoman. their knowledge about the University of featuring Congresswoman Debbie Florida and their work environment. Wasserman Schultz on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. The presentation was For more information on the AAW, visit Her appearance followed on the heels their website at http://grove.ufl.edu/~aaw/ accompanied by a continental breakfast of the controversial United States P A G E 6 Become a Friend Of Women’s Studies
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Evans Named “Emerging Scholar”
Congratulations to our own Jan. 7, 2010 edition. Diverse information officers, and others. Each Associate Professor Stephanie Evans, an associate profiles 12 ―under 40‖ scholars scholar is selected based on research, Stephanie Evans professor of Women's Studies from around the country who educational background, publishing honored by and African American are making their mark in the record, teaching record, competitiveness Diverse Magazine studies at the University of academy through teaching, of field of study, and uniqueness of field of Florida, who has been chosen research, and service. study. as one of twelve ―Emerging Scholars‖ by Diverse magazine. The magazine‘s editors For more information on Professor Evans, selected honorees from a pool including her community mentoring Diverse, which first published of candidates recommended by projects, visit www.professorevans.com. its ―Emerging Scholars‖ edition various scholars, department in 2002, honored Evans in its chairs, university public
NEWS AND VIEWS VOLUME 19, ISSUE 1 P A G E 7 Anantharam Nominated for International Educator of the Year Congratulations to Women's Cosmopolitanism in South Asia. This spring Dr. Studies Assistant Professor In 2007, she won an Anantharam is at the Paris Dr. Anita Anatharam for being Internationalizing the Curriculum Research Center teaching nominated for International grant to enhance her an Honors course titled, Educator of the Year 2009 at the Transnational Feminism course. In An Appetite for Paris: University of Florida. Dr. addition, Dr. Anantharam taught a Gender, Globalization and Anatharam's nomination course on food and globalization Food. The course examines came from her support of UF's for the 2009 UF in Paris Spring foodways (the cultural, Anita Anantharam strategic goal of internationalizing Break program. Together with social and economic accepts her award at the the campus and curriculum. her colleague Travis Smith practices relating to (Religion), she launched the first production and 2009 International Dr. Anantharam's research focuses UF in India study abroad program consumption of food) and Educator Awards at the on gender and nationalism in South in CLAS during the summers of transcendence of Keene Faculty Center on Asia (India and Pakistan). She has 2008 and 2009 Drs. Anantharam geographic boundaries, the two books forthcoming, an edited and Smith led a group of students politics of what we eat, November 17 2009. volume, Mahadevi Varma: Political to Dehradun, India to live, study, where we eat it, and how Essays on Women, Nation, and and work on an organic farm as we eat and the reflection of deep- Culture and a scholarly monograph, part of the University of Florida‘s rooted gender, religious, racial, Bodies that Remember: Women’s summer study abroad program in class, and national biases. Indigenous Knowledge and India.
A photo exhibit featuring student photographs from the UF in India Study Abroad Program was held at Volta Coffeehouse in downtown Gainesville from December 2nd through January 5th. All proceeds benefited the Center for Women‘s Studies and were earmarked for Study Abroad Scholarships. The event was sponsored by the Department of Housing and Residence Life and the Center for Women‘s Studies with special thanks to Volta. “The truth will “Activists Among Us” Panel Discussion Planned set you free. But first, it will "Activists Among Us: the for Equal Rights, an interracial Williams, Sallie Ann Harrison and Gainesville Women's Movement organization of women whose Corky Culver. piss you off.” Across Generations" will take place active work for civil and human on Thursday, April 8, 2010 from rights changed the course of history 6:30-8:30 pm at the Matheson in Gainesville. It will also include Co-sponsors include: the University Museum. Sponsored by the Samuel Gainesville activists in the pivotal of Florida Department of History, the -Gloria Steinem UF Center for Women's Studies and Proctor Oral History Program, the women's liberation movement of American Author, panel discussion will bring together the 1960s. Serving as one of the Gender Research, George Smathers local activists from the 1950s main centers of feminist activity Libraries, UF Center for the Activist Humanities and the Public Sphere through the present to discuss the nationwide, Gainesville feminists ongoing struggle for social justice, posed radical challenges to male (Yavitz Fund), the Women's Studies gender equality, and human rights. authority, and ushered in a new era Graduate Student Association, the The panel will also serve as a of social change and opportunity History Graduate Society, The springboard for the collection and for women. Gainesville Women's Commission, The Emily Dickinson Society, and the preservation of historical materials on the history of women's activism Civic Media Center. in Gainesville. The Mayor of the City of Gainesville, The Honorable Pegeen Hanrahan, will be welcoming For more information please call the Moderated by Dr. Patricia Hilliard- panelists Vivian Filer, Kathie Samuel Proctor Oral History Nunn, this event will include Sarachild, Jane Hiers, Rosa B. Program at 352-392-7168 or email members from Gainesville Women [email protected] UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
200 Ustler Hall P.O. Box 117352 Gainesville, FL 32611-7352 Phone: 352-392-3365 Fax: 352-392-4873 www.wst.ufl.edu
Graduate Student News
Graduate Student Tanya Faublas Graduate Student Sarah Austin at 3:30p.m in the Ustler Hall successfully presented her non will present her thesis, Conference Room. thesis project, Kirino Natsuo's Reclaiming the Experience of English Translations: A Primer on Motherhood through Second and This spring semester we December 2nd. Third Wave Feminist Publications, welcomed new graduate student on Thursday, February 25th Catherine Jean, who joined beginning at 3p.m. in the Ustler Graduate Student Meredith Kite fellow first year graduate Hall Conference Room. will present her thesis, Cultivating students Melissa Houle, Diana Food Democracy: Toward an McCarley, Whitney Shadowens, Ecofeminist Politics of the Global Graduate Student Erin Tobin will Sarah Steele and Erin Williams, Food System, on Thursday, present her thesis, Toward a who were admitted in the fall. nd February 25 beginning at Queer Gaze: Cinematic 8:30a.m. in the Ustler Hall Representations of Queer Female
Conference Room. Sexuality in Experimental/Avant- Garde and Narrative Film , on Friday, March 5, 2010 beginning