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SPRING 2012 VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1 From the Director‟s Desk

engaged participants. It was Libraries on a one day especially gratifying last symposium on October 26, March to see so many 2012: ―The Legacy of Zora students (even filling the Neale Hurston: Celebrating second floor balconies) the 75th Anniversary of Their come to discuss the way Eyes Were Watching God.‖ The that race and gender were day will feature an exhibit represented in the novel from the Hurston materials at and film. The Atrium was the library, a viewing of a Judith W. Page Director, CWSGR simply alive with the documentary film on passionate, heartfelt, and Hurston, and a panel Once again, in spite of intelligent conversations discussion of UF faculty. budgetary challenges and that the panel inspired; the Inside this issue: diminished resources, the In addition to programming, day represents the best that Center has had a we have also been busy we can do as a Center that productive year, with developing the academic Looking Forward 2 truly brings people from all several wonderful options for our students. over campus and the Grad Student Update 3 programs. From our Responding to an earlier community together to 4 conference on Mary panel on women and the Honoring Edna Saffy discuss issues that matter. Wollstonecraft (photos on STEM disciplines, a group of Term Professors 4 our website) to our panel In this same spirit, we are us have been working on an Service Learning 5 on The Help, we have seen collaborating with the initiative to offer students 6 the Atrium filled with George A. Smathers courses that focus on the Allukian Garners Honors Continued on page 2 Attia: Feminist Archivist 6 Women‟s Issues in the 2012 Presidential Campaign Opportunities for Giving 7 Undergrad Honors 8 If you've wondered this Department of Political concern this year is the economy, why are women spring how we'd come to a Science; Shani King, Does The Help Help? 9 place where grown women's Associate Professor of Family and their ―issues‖ such hot Faculty News 10 access to birth control is a Law at the Levin College of button topics? To what subject of controversy, Law; the Honorable Nan Rich extent are women‘s issues Book Nook 11 wonder no longer-- well, (D-Weston); and the really only issues for women? Celebrating Milestones 12 maybe for a couple more Honorable Evelynn Lynn (R- And will women be the months. On Wednesday, 19 Daytona). Former Mayor of decisive force in this election September, at 6.30 pm, the Gainesville Pegeen Hanrahan year that many are predicting Center for Women's Studies will moderate. them to be? The panelists and the League of Women will discuss these issues and This community event will Voters of Alachua County, more, and there will be ample examine the ways that the with support from the Levin time for questions. Save the presidential candidates—and College of Law, will present a date above, and meet us in the media that relentlessly panel discussion on "Women, Room 180 of the Levin covers them—have framed Work, and Family in the 2012 College of Law, 2500 SW 2nd questions of women‘s Presidential Campaign." Avenue in Gainesville; free sexuality, morality, and power Speakers will include Lynn parking will be available. during this election year. If Leverty, Lecturer in UF's the electorate‘s primary NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE UF CENTER FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES AND GENDER RESEARCH Page 2

From the Director‟s Desk, continued.

problem of health disparities, and Development‖ and hope forward to co-hosting a panel recognizing that gender, class, to move forward with some on this very topic—―Women and race (and their intersections) new initiatives in the coming and the Presidential have a huge impact on one‘s Campaign‖-- with the League ―At a time when year. health and access to health care. of Women Voters next fall At a time when women‘s issues women’s issues Dr. Laura Guyer, who has been (September 19, 2012 from continue to arise in the collaborating with colleagues 6:30-8:30 at the Levin College continue to arise in national discourse, sometimes around the campus, has offered of Law at the University of in denigrating and uninformed the national courses for us this year; we hope Florida.) Details for all events ways, we know that we have an to see a new undergraduate in the fall will follow on our discourse, sometimes important mission at the minor, ―Health Disparities in lists and on the Center‘s Center—not only to educate in denigrating and Society,‖ in place next year. We website. We hope to welcome students but to bring various are also working to re-vamp the you to our programs and to uninformed ways, we communities together for graduate options in ―Gender the Center! know that we have an rational conversation. We look

important mission at the Center—not only Looking Back, Looking Forward: Dr. Meagan Campol to educate students It is not uncommon for Women‘s Studies majors to go Upon graduation, Meagan As she graduates this spring, but to bring various on to earn law degrees, and each moved to New York to Meagan is heading into a four- communities together year we have many alums complete her MD at the Albert year Obstetrics and completing prestigious JD Einstein College of Medicine. Gynecology residency at New for rational programs all over the country. There she carried on in the York University. This conversation." This spring, however, sees our Women‘s Studies tradition, specialty will allow her to first student finishing an MD, serving as the National continue to develop her — Dr. Judith w. Page Meagan Campol, class of ‘07. External Relations Director of interests in women‘s Hailing from Coral Springs, the American Medical reproductive and sexual where she attended J. P. Travella Women‘s Association, and health, the healthcare needs of High School, Dr. Campol (as she organizing Einstein‘s first sexual minorities, and the links will now be known!) was a magna community Women‘s Health between gender identity and cum laude graduate of the Day for low-income clients in physiological being. Her Honors Program, the Bronx. To break up the awareness of social inequalities where she followed rhythms of medical school, she has led her to an academic the pre-med course did volunteer work in Costa interest in health and track while majoring Rica, Ecuador, Israel, and healthcare disparities, and her in Women‘s Studies Uganda, and earned a Master‘s ultimate aim is a practice and minoring in Art of Public Health from Harvard focused on underserved History. Along the in 2011. When that, too, got to populations in the U.S. and way she was inducted be ho-hum, she joined a abroad—preferably in a into Phi Beta Kappa competitive ice hockey team, location with a hockey rink. and nominated as a the Harvard Business School Blades—but never failed to let Dr. Meagan Campol shows Reitz Scholar for her Gator Pride while outstanding them know just where she‘d practicing with her come from (see photo). competitive ice hockey team leadership. Page 3 VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1

Center Graduate Student Update Kate Klebes has received the Center for Women's Studies and Women‘s Studies graduate student highest scholarship that Gender Research. In April 2012, Nathalia Hernandez Ochoa has Quinnipiac University School of Whitney successfully defended her received a two-month, all expenses Law (Hamden, CT) gives for her master's project, "Reaching Out: paid summer internship three years of law school. The New Strategies for Victims opportunity with ACDI-VOCA, a ―Travel is Dean's Fellows Scholarship of LGBT Intimate Partner private, nonprofit organization that includes all tuition and fees as well Violence in Gainesville, FL." This promotes broad-based economic more than as a stipend. Kate went up to summer, Whitney plans to travel growth, higher living standards and Connecticut a few weeks ago and around Europe. Upon returning in vibrant communities in low- the seeing interviewed for this scholarship the fall, she hopes to find a job income countries and emerging with forty other admitted students- continuing her work with victims democracies. Based in Paraguay, -Kate was their first choice. She of intimate partner violence in the they provide sustainable solutions of sights; decided on Quinnipiac, despite Pacific Northwest. to the most pressing and other offers such as Syracuse, Kelly Korman is researching intractable development problems. it is a because of the focus on public initiatives such as school gardens Their activities span the interest law. According the development continuum, from and farm-to-school programs that change scholarship guidelines, "The seek to improve the food security meeting basic needs to community scholarships recognize applicants of lower socioeconomic stabilization, food security and who possess a record of populations in particular. She was nutrition, poverty alleviation, that goes extraordinary scholarly accepted into the Prairie Fellows access to financial services and achievement and leadership, have a program for graduate students. market integration. Nathalia‘s work on, deep demonstrated commitment to Kelly learned about sustainable will be a part of the Cooperative community through volunteerism, Development Program, which programs with graduate students and public service or civic activities, from other disciplines at seeks to apply gender strategic and show strong potential to be workshops in mid-May. In research and implementation in leaders during and after law addition, Kelly received an their programs to better permanent, school." Kate plans to pursue her internship with SNAP Gardens, the incorporate women farmers and interest in health law and family first non-profit in the country to women's cooperatives in the in the ideas law related to domestic enable SNAP recipients to economy. The title of Nathalia‘s violence. She has had a very busy purchase edible plants with their project is "Gender Role Analysis in of living.‖ and successful internship with meal assistance benefits. Kelly will Agriculture Cooperatives" and she Peaceful Paths. spend the summer continuing her hopes that the work she does there will increase women‘s access to Whitney Shadowens graduated research and will attend the – Miriam Beard this semester after 3 years in the National Farm to School leadership and decision making in program. In the fall of 2011, she conference in early August, for rural cooperatives. traveled to the National Women's which she received a scholarship. Lauren Smith plans to spend the Studies Association conference in Molly Green has received a Tinker summer volunteering at Kids Atlanta, GA to present a poster on Grant through UF's Center for Count, a local Gainesville her master's research project, Latin American Studies to do organization she is studying that "Degendering Intimate Partner research in Granada, Nicaragua this works with elementary school Violence: New Strategies for summer. Her research will focus on children. In addition to Victims of Same-Sex the intersectionalities of race, volunteering, Lauren will continue Intimate Partner Violence." She gender, class, and sexuality in the writing her graduate thesis and will was able to travel to Atlanta thanks little explored relationships also begin the process of to a generous travel grant she between Nicaraguan men and researching and applying to received from the College of United States women. doctoral programs. Liberal Arts and Sciences and the NEWS AND VIEWS OF

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The Center Honors the Memory of Dr. Edna Saffy, UF Alumna and Feminist Leader in Florida and the Nation

The Center has launched a A native of Jacksonville, was a battle worth fighting, one campaign to honor the Florida, she had a powerful that helped change hearts and legacy of Dr. Edna Louise and positive impact on the minds and opened opportunities Saffy (BA ‗66, MA‗68, PhD UF campus and in her for women. "It broke our ‗76) and her contributions community, state, and nation. hearts, and it almost broke our to women‘s rights at UF She was the founder of backs," she said, ―but we had and beyond. Our first NOW chapters in Gainesville changed the world through our

Edna Saffy endowed lecture series, the and Jacksonville. She served fight." as a student at Dr. Edna L. Saffy Endowed on two Presidential The in 1972 Lecture in Women‟s Studies, committees, appointed by We hope to raise $100,000 for will allow us to bring Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton. this lecture series to become a scholars and activists to While at UF, she fought for yearly event in the Center. For campus to lecture on a inclusion of women into more information about the range of women‘s issues , and for her series in honor of Dr. Saffy or and engage a new efforts on campus, she was to make a gift, please contact "It broke our generation of students, inducted in the University of Christy Popwell at (352) 294- hearts, and it faculty, and members of the Florida Hall of Fame. As a 1964 or [email protected]. larger community. key organizer of a march in almost broke support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), she led a our backs, We want to honor Dr. group of an estimated 3,000 Saffy‘s legacy as a major women at the state capitol in but we had leader in the women's rights Tallahassee. Though the movement. Edna Saffy was changed the amendment ultimately did relentless in her advocacy not pass, Dr. Saffy believed it world for equal rights for women. Gloria Steinem with Edna Saffy through our Women‟s Studies Faculty Receive Honors fight." Congratulations to Women‘s Studies Associate Professor Trysh Travis, on being named a Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor by CLAS for 2012-13, in recognition of -Edna Saffy ―excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service.‖

We would also like to congratulate Women‘s Studies affiliates Elizabeth Dale,

Trysh Travis Department of History, Stephanie Smith, Department of English, and Whitney Sanford, Department of Religion, who have been named term professors.

Assistant Professor of Law and Women's Studies Affiliate Rachel Rebouché is one of ten assistant professors campus-wide to receive a 2012 UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. These awards are given by the Provost to junior faculty members in recognition of their potential for excellence in research. Page 5 VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1

“Gender and Food Politics” Charts New Course in Service Learning In the first offering of Gender Gardening in Small Spaces and Food Politics, taught by Workshop to engage on- Dr. Anita Anantharam, students campus residents, and also in the course spread out featured a feminist art amongst various prominent installation by MFA pottery local organizations to engage in student Cheyenne Rudolph, 40 hours of service-learning. who's beautiful Temperance From Citizens Co-Op to St. Tea Set took a new spin on Francis House, and Wild Iris to domestic implications of Bread of the Mighty Food women in the kitchen. Bank, students delved into Congratulations to the Gender community service in order to and Food Politics class for

facilitate learning with topics setting an exemplary model for Women’s Studies Major discussed in class. From the future students in the course. Hannah Smoot presents her service Learning Project at Food Fest 2012 service learning came a well- attended Food Fest in Yulee Basement, in which students presented their work, not only in front of the class participants, but also in front of leaders of their organizations. Members of Florida Organic Growers, St. Francis House, representatives from local Temperance Tea Cup and Saucer with Candlestick Decanter schools, and other active By MFA Student Cheyenne Chapman Rudolph community members attended and received an impressive array of food and inspiring service presentations from students.

In addition to the service learning and Food Fest, the Gender and Food Politics class participated in Faculty-in- Residence (FIR) events, facilitated by the Broward FIR Dr. Anantharam. The class promoted a Canning and

Preserving Workshop and a Students and community Leaders participate in Food Fest, a UF event sponsored by the Center, held on April 19th, showcasing Gainesville’s local eco-friendly restaurants and organizations promoting sustainability and social responsibility. NEWS AND VIEWS OF

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Vanessa Attia: Feminist Archivist In the fall, former Women‘s recipient of the UF Florida American History fostered my interest Studies minor Vanessa Attia Opportunity Scholarship. As a in archives and librarianship. As a (class of ‘11) will embark on a double major in American History student of history, I am interested in Master‘s Degree at the and English, with a minor in gendered and cultural histories and University of Texas at Austin's Women's Studies, I conducted those narratives of American women School of Information. undergraduate research both as a and men that remain marginalized or Unusual for a student earning a McNair Scholar and in the incomplete. As an archivist I know professional (as opposed to an University Scholars Program. My that sometimes gaps in the record are academic) degree, Attia will thesis in History, “„A Ladylike just the random workings of fate, but enjoy a full scholarship for the Employment‟: Jennie Carter and the as a feminist I am also aware that first year of her studies Performance of Respectable Black gaps frequently correspond to courtesy of the McNair Womanhood in Reconstruction-era imbalances of power brought on by Scholars Program, which she California,” examined the ways that class, race, gender, and sexuality. I also participated in as an the discourse of “respectability” that think that advances in research and Vanessa Attia, undergraduate. She talks here helped shape ideals of gender among public awareness of women's history UF Class 2011 about her past academic work 19th-century African Americans going forward will be closely related to and how it led to the next was exported from the Mid-Atlantic the development of the archival chapter in her career as a states to the Pacific West. It was profession in identifying and feminist scholar. awarded Highest Honors. preserving the constantly evolving “I am originally from Punta Gorda, My experience working in the forms, creators, and users of Florida, and I attended Charlotte Smathers Library‟s Special historically significant documents.” High School. The first member of Collections and interning at the my family to attend college, I was a Gilder Lehrman Institute of

Kristin Allukian Garners Double Honor

Kristin Allukian, Scholarship Award. Allukian the Center—and especially Dr. Ph.D.candidate in English was chosen for a McQuown Judith Page and Donna and recipient of a Graduate Award based on her record of Tuckey—has been incredibly Certificate in Women‘s academic excellence, her supportive. I‘ve learned so Studies, has been awarded commitment to helping others much from my time here.‖ the 2012 Madelyn Lockhart overcome barriers, and her Kristin‘s academic interests Dissertation Fellowship by contributions to the university include nineteenth-century the Association for and local communities. American literature, women‘s Academic Women at the In Spring 2012, she taught literature, and feminist theory. Dr. Stephanie Smith, (Allukian University of Florida. The Dissertation Chair), (L to R) WST 2611: Humanities Outside of her academic work, Fellowship was established Kristin Allukian, and Perspectives on Gender and Kristin is a dedicated Dr. Madelyn Lockhart at the to honor an outstanding 2012 Women’s History Month Sexuality. According to practitioner of yoga and a female graduate student in Celebration Allukian, ―working with and in literacy volunteer at the Alachua any Ph.D. program who the Center for Women‘s County Public Library. demonstrates achievement and Studies and Gender Research promise in her chosen field. has been one of the highlights Allukian has also been awarded of my time at UF. Everyone in an O. Ruth McQuown Page 7 VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1 With an Attitude of Gratitude Thanks to everyone whose  Dr. Grady E. Johnson, Jr.  Mr. Robert A. Prather Donations to the Center generosity keeps the center  Martha A. Johnston, P.A. &  Dr. Jaquelyn L. Resnick & are used to fund viable, including the following Mr. Cliff St. John Dr. Michael B. Resnick conferences, symposia, donors:  Dr. Carol Ritzen Kem &  Mrs. Yvonne C. Schaefer & educational travel for Dr. William R. Kem Mr. Brian S. Schaefer graduate students,  Ms. Kathryn Chicone Ustler  Dr. Angel Kwolek-Folland  Dr. Jaime R. Shaw and scholarship funds,  Mr. Gregory R. Allen & Mr. Nathan O. Folland Dr. Theodore A. Shaw speaker honoraria, and exhibit support.  Mrs. Janet L. Carlson  Mr. Stewart Fraser &  Dr. Carolyn H. Smith  Ms. Jean Chalmers Mrs. Mattie J. Fraser  Ms. Clara J. Smith  Ms. Susan F. Delegal  Dr. Madelyn Lockhart  Mr. Mark W. Thurner  Ms. Polly French Doughty  Dr. Jeanna M. Mastrodicasa  Mrs. Elizabeth A. Unterseher & and Dr. Paul L. Doughty and Mr. Clay B. Sweger Mr. Alden J. Unterseher  Mrs. Deborah M Figler and  Dr. Phyllis M. Meek  Dr. Lillian D. Webb Mr. George A Figler  Ms. Kathleen B. McKenzie  Mr. Stewart Fraser &  Dr. Judith W. Page and Mrs. Mattie Fraser Professor William H. Page  Dr. Jamie R. Funderburk  Dr. Milagros Peňa and  Dr. David G. Hackett Dr. Fredrick W. Hamann  Dr. Eloise M. Harman

Patrick Klager, Linguistics M.A. Student, lunches on a bench in Ustler Hall donated by Vicki L. Stolberg and Byron E. Townsend

Opportunities for Giving to the UF Center for Women‟s Studies and Gender Research

We appreciate the generosity of our donors at all levels. For those thinking of a significant gift to the Center, we have some suggestions: $250 Garden walk pavers for the Yardley Garden (honor a recent graduate or teacher) $500-$1000 Send a student to a regional or national meeting, or fund a student‘s research trip $1000 Garden enhancement and plants for the Yardley Garden: Name a section of the garden for a friend or loved one (a plaque will indicate contribution) $1000 Inscription for an existing bench in Yardley Garden in honor of a friend or loved one $2000 A bench in Ustler Hall in honor of a friend or loved one, with an inscribed plaque $5000 Sponsor a major named lecture (one time event) $1000-5000 Help us to purchase new furniture or audio-visual equipment for the Atrium (a plaque will indicate contribution) $5000 Support faculty research for the summer (Faculty Summer Research Fellowship) $5000 Course development (New Course Development Grant) $10,000 Inscription on the Yardley Wall For majors gifts and other naming opportunities, please contact Christy Popwell, Director of Development, CLAS: (352) 392-1964 or [email protected]. NEWS AND VIEWS OF

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Undergraduate Honors, Spring 2012

Kelsey Harclerode, Ruth Maria Muñoz, McNair Hannah Smoot, Graduation McQuown Scholarship Scholars Program. Research with Honors; Phi Beta Kappa. paper: "A Look at Gender Cara Kovacs, Graduation with (Oddities) Through Drag Olivia Soutullo, Graduation Honors. Thesis: "Injecting King Performances in North with Honors. Thesis: "Child Insulin and Pursuing Pumps: Central Florida" and video Directed Interaction Training The Effects of Insulin Pump presentation: "The Studs Are and Stress in Parents of Usage on Female Self-Esteem In: An Archive and Children with Autism and Body Image" (Advisor: Introspective" (Advisor: Spectrum Disorders" (Advisor: Anita Anantharam) Louise Newman) Sheila Eyberg)

Women’s Studies Christopher Ryan, Major Laura Figueredo, Graduation Dana Williams, Graduation Cara Kovacs, with Honors Graduation with Honors. with Honors UF Class of 2012

University Scholars in the Center

For a small program, Women‘s recipients (advisor‘s names York City and Paris‖ (Kendal ―It is good Studies has always acquitted itself appear in parentheses), and Broad) well in the competition for the place their projects in the to have an prestigious University Scholars broader history of 2010-11 undergraduate research in the Program (USP), an Vanessa Attia, ―‗A Ladylike Center. end to undergraduate research incentive Employment‘: Jennie Carter which offers students the 2012-13 and the Performance of opportunity (and a little bit of journey Meg Cusack, ―Contemporary Respectable African American funding) to do a year-long American Perspectives on Womanhood in independent project under the toward, but Virginity and Purity in Young Reconstruction-era guidance of a faculty supervisor. Adults‖ (Trysh Travis) California‖ (Trysh Travis) This year, however, we were

it is the remarkably successful in the USP Kelsey Harclerode, "Gender 2008-09 competition, with three out of and the Arab Spring: An journey three applicants garnering Analysis of Action and Evan Lauteria, ―Gay Men of awards. CWSGR‘s success in Policy" (Laura Sjoberg) Color in Fraternities: At the Crossroads of Race, Sexuality, that fielding applicants for these Maritza Moulite, ―Mambo to and Brotherhood‖ (Kendal competitive awards is a tribute, MD: Haitian-American Broad) matters in first and foremost, to our bright Women‘s Ties to Folk and

and ambitious student body, but Western Medicine‖ (Anita it also speaks to the fact that our 2007-08 the end.‖ Anantharam) relatively small classes allow for Leila Adams, ―Radical the development of strong ― Ursula K. Le Guin 2011-12 Women in Gainesville: A mentoring relationships between Digital Exhibit‖ (Trysh Travis) students and faculty—an Cara Kovacs, ―The Center and

important precondition for Le Centre: Lesbian, Gay, undergraduate research. Below, Bisexual, and Transgender we celebrate this year‘s USP Community Centers in New Page 9 VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1

The World of Ursula K. Le Guin

The Center for Women‘s Studies filmmaker and writer Arwen at a writing workshop in the 1980s; and Gender Research held a Curry, and Women‘s Studies Le Guin became her mentor and panel discussion, ―The World of graduate student Michelle has remained her friend for many Ursula K. Le Guin,‖ on April 11, Harris. Travis Fristoe, UF years. 2012 in Ustler Hall. For this creative writing MFA student program, the Center worked with and Alachua County librarian. the English Department and ―The Big Read,‖ a program The panel discussed Le Guin‘s sponsored by the National Earthsea Trilogy and her legacy, Endowment for the Arts. particularly her influence on

other fantasy and science fiction Panelists included Professor and writing. Participants also placed fiction writer Stephanie Smith, Le Guin in the tradition of fantasy author and local librarian feminist science fiction. Meredith Ann Pierce, Associate Stephanie Smith added a Le Guin Panelists (L to R) Stephanie Smith, Professor Tace Hedrick, personal note: she met Le Guin Meredith Ann Pierce, Moderator Travis Fristoe, Arwen Curry, Michelle Harris, and Tace Hedrick,

Does The Help Help?

The Center for Women‘s Studies Organized in response to the this vital history. and Gender Research and the novel and recent film, this Participants were Center for the Study of Race and panel addressed the particularly alert to the Race Relations at the UF Levin representation of African ways that attitudes College of Law hosted a panel American domestic workers toward race and gender discussion on Friday, March 16 at and the Civil Rights struggle continue to shape our noon in Ustler Hall, titled ―Does of the 1960s. Whereas some discourse.

The Help Help?.‖ It was participants appreciated the wonderful to see the Atrium, stories of silenced domestic Participants included including the balconies, filled workers, all participants called Dr. Paul Ortiz, Dr. A capacity crowd packs Ustler Hall with students, faculty, and for more nuanced, informed, Debra Walker King, members of the community. and critical perspectives on Dr. Patricia Hilliard- Nunn, Dr. Louise Newman, Women‘s Studies graduate student Lauren Smith, and Moderator Dr. Zoharah Simmons.

Dr. Newman addresses the audience the Help Panel (L to R): Panelist Louise Newman, Moderator Zoharah Simmons, Panelists Debra Walker King, Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, Paul Ortiz, and Lauren Smith Page 10 CWSGR Faculty News

Anita Anantharam's book, Bodies that American Studies Association. Professor Capital," forthcoming this Fall in the Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Babb‘s guest-edited issue of the journal prestigious Centro: A Journal of Puerto Rican Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry was Voices appeared, with articles in honor of Studies. the life and work of pioneering feminist published by Syracuse University Press in March, 2012. The book explores the lives and queer studies scholar Elizabeth L. and works of four of the most recognized Kennedy, and she has a review essay in the Judith W. Page has published two articles Hindu and Urdu current issue of Women‟s Review of Books. and several book reviews in recent months. female poets of the One of the articles, ―Dorothy Wordsworth‘s twentieth century. Kendal Broad continued research on two Journals and the Aesthetics of Travel,‖ In contrast to research projects -- one that is analysing appears on the new scholarly digital site, much of the South the way a group of gay men have Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape. Asian literary constructed anti-racism and the other that http://www.amdigital.co.uk/Collections/ criticism and seeks to map the various positions of Romanticism.aspx, for which Dr. Page is a postcolonial theory interested actors in current debates about contributing editor. that concentrates LGBTQ families in the US. In January, Dr. She also gave two papers, one, ―Grace on the Indo– Broad presented a colloquium, “Situated Aguilar‘s ―The Rocks of Elim‖: Biblical English novel, Assistant professor Anita Anantharam Intersectional Politics of the 1980s: Narrative and Romantic Lyric,‖ at the Anantharam Answers questions Newsletter Constructions of a Distinctly Association for Jewish Studies in highlights the following her Reading Gay Anti-Racism‖ at the University of Washington, DC and the other, on April 25th at the poetry of these Alachua County South Florida. In addition, Dr. Broad ―Professions for Women: Frances Garnet vernacular writers, headquarters Library presented research at the Eastern Wolseley‘s Gardening Utopia,‖ at the connecting their Sociological Society meetings in New Nineteenth Century Studies Association in critical voices with nationalist and religious York, the Southern Sociological Society Asheville, NC. revitalization movements in India and meetings in New Orleans, and the Couch/

Pakistan. During the Spring 2012 semester Stone Symposium of the Society for the Anita taught a new class for CWSGR (cross Study of Symbolic Interactionism at Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History listed with POS and EUS) titled Gender and Northwestern University. All of these Society, which Trysh Travis co-founded and Food Politics. This class was a service presentations emerge from Dr. Broad‘s of which she is Managing Editor, was learning class which drew more than 60 project about the construction and framing selected as one of the "Best 25 History students. of gay anti-racism in the early 1980s. Blogs of 2011" by thebestcolleges.org. In January, Points entered a re-publication Florence E. Babb continued research in partnership with the online edition of The Peru during her spring 2012 sabbatical, Atlantic magazine, which now features its dividing her time between the coastal capital Tace Hedrick served as Humanities content in their Health section. The only of Lima and the Andean city of Huaraz. Program Chair for the Southeast Council other scholarly blog to enjoy this Affiliated with the Institute of Peruvian on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) relationship with The Atlantic is produced by Studies, she gathered material for a book conference held here at the University of the Smithsonian Institution. When not that will reexamine debates on gender and Florida, March 29-31; she also chaired two blogging about the history of alcohol and racial identity in the Andes. In April, she panels on the program. Her article on drugs, Trysh Travis researches the gendered was a featured speaker at Wesleyan Chicana/Latina popular culture, "―From history of print culture. In this capacity, she University‘s Center for the Americas House on Mango Street to Becoming Latina in was an invited speaker at the University of symposium on ―Authenticity in the 10 Easy Steps: Genre, Marketplace and Illinois' Second Book Symposium this Americas: Constructions and Contestations Chicana Identity,‖ was published in the spring, and was awarded a 2012 summer of Identity,‖ when she presented, ―Are Spanish journal La Nueva Literatura fellowship by the Bibliographical Society of Indigenous Women More Authentic?‖ In Hispánica. She has had accepted another America for continuing work on her book, May, she presented a paper on ―Theorizing article on the popular Puerto Rican Reading Matters: Books, Bookmen, and the Gender and Race in the Peruvian Andes: television personality and astrologist, titled American Century. She was recently named a Toward a Feminist Anthropology of "Neoliberalism and Orientalism in Puerto Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor for the Indigeneity,‖ at the congress of the Latin Rico: Walter Mercado‘s Queer Spiritual 2012-13 academic year. (See Page 4) VOLUME 20, ISSUE 2 Page 11 Advice from a Globe Trotting Senior: of cross-cultural immersion, but I assumed that My summer teaching experiences in Hong Kong “Get Out There!” my scholarship was the extent of the traveling I motivated me to pursue the opportunity in second could do as a student. Nothing could have been language immersion for myself, so I decided to study Rising senior Meg Cusack returned this further from the truth. As a double major in French in Paris for the fall semester of my junior spring from a semester in Paris. In the Women‟s Studies and Spanish and a double year. I applied for several scholarships, and more few minutes she had before she left for a minor in French and Education, I began importantly, a part time job while I was in Paris to help fund this endeavor. In Paris, I chose to live with research trip to Peru searching for summer internships to merge my a host family, the option that was the least expensive and her summer job varied interests, and found an organization in Hong Kong, she called Summerbridge Hong Kong, which hires and also the best suited for language immersion. I wanted to share her native English speaking university students to took classes in French at a local university for sense of how mentor underserved secondary school students eighteen hours a week and I worked with a company called Babylangues, caring for young native French important—and and provide them with a quality English how do-able—travel language education for the summer. speaking children and teaching them English in the evening. Becoming acquainted with Parisian families abroad can be for Spending the summer in Hong Kong and and teaching English to their children broadened my UF students. working with the native-Cantonese speaking understanding of French culture, gave me the students has been one of the most rewarding As a senior at Plant High School in Tampa, opportunity to hone my language skills in varied experiences of my life. Rather than travelling, I Florida, I never anticipated that any part of my environments, and proved to be a good way to help was working with local people, and bonding college education would occur outside the state, fund my studies abroad. much less overseas. The idea of a global education with them on a deep level. My students had always interested me, and my passion for impressed me with their humor, All undergraduate students should strive to broaden their education through travel—and should know learning other languages and about different intelligence, curiosity, and motivation. It was cultures has been a driving force in my life. I had heartbreaking to watch their wonderful and that you don‟t have to be rich to do it. For me, studied advanced Spanish and French, attended unique personalities get lost in the competitive working abroad not only enriched my experience and foreign language competitions, and practiced basic education system. My connection with them education, but also allowed me to partially fund my Mandarin until I graduated in 2009. But motivated me to examine the complex processes studies. Looking back, it comes to me as no surprise somehow I just never thought I would go places. of their language acquisition challenges, and in that my most treasured and life altering experiences my second summer in Hong Kong, I began occurred, not within the four walls of a classroom, but But as a graduating senior, I was extremely conducting research on Second Language rather in the interactive learning lucky to be awarded the Lombardi Scholarship Acquisition. The result was my recently environments I experienced throughout at UF, which allowed me to study history and complete University Scholars project, my travels. anthropology in Mexico, South Africa, and Peru. “Understanding „Nativeness‟ in the Writing of My first trip allowed me to realize the importance English Language Learners in East Asia.”

Book Nook: Recently Published Books by Center Faculty and Affiliates Anita Anantharam, Pamela K. Gilbert, ed. A Companion Whitney Sanford, Bodies that Remember: to Sensation Fiction, Wiley-Blackwell, Growing Stories from India: Women's Indigenous 2011 Religion and the Fate of Knowledge and Sarah Kovner, Occupying Power: Sex Agriculture, University Cosmopolitanism in Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan, Press of Kentucky, 2011 South Asian Poetry, Stanford University Press, 2012 Syracuse University Laura Sjoberg and Press, 2012 Caron Gentry, eds. Victoria Emma Pagan, ed. A Women, Gender, and

Companion to Tacitus, Wiley-Blackwell, Terrorism, UGA Press, 2011 From Carmen Diana Deere’s 2012 (Two chapters will be of Benjamin Wise, William Alexander comparative Gender Asset Gap project: particular interest to women‘s studies Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi C.Doss, C.D. Deere, A. Oduro, H. scholars: "Masculinity and Gender Planter and Sexual Freethinker, UNC Swaminathan, et al. 2011. The Gender Performance in Tacitus," by Thomas Press, 2012 Asset and Gender Wealth Gaps: Evidence Spaeth (translated by Victoria Pagan) from Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India. and "Women and Domesticity," by Bangalore: Institute for Management Kristina Milnor.) Bangalore, 2011 University of Florida

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Visit us in beautiful Ustler Hall, in the heart of the UF Members of the University of Florida Women’s Student Association pose for a photo at the Campus. Women’s History Month Celebration on March 27th, 2012 at the President’s House. The Women’s Student Association is a diverse network of UF leaders empowering women through workshops, the annual Women’s Leadership Conference, Women’s History Month, the Women’s Mentoring Program, service projects, and other events. For more information go to www.ufwsa.org/

Celebrating Milestones Women‘s Studies Graduate Student Kate Klebes successfully defended her Master‘s thesis, "American Women's Travel Writing as Literature: Margaret Fuller, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather," on March 14th (Directed by Judith W. Page)

Women‘s Studies Graduate Student Whitney Shadowens successfully defended her Master‘s project, "Reaching Out: New Strategies for Victims of LGBT Intimate Partner Violence in Gainesville, Florida," on Women’s Studies Graduate Students (L to R) April 6th. (Directed by Kendal Broad) Whitney Shadowens and Kate Klebes celebrate the completion of their M.A.s at a reception at the Center on May 4th. Both Whitney Shadowens and Kate Klebes graduated on May 4th, 2012. A small reception was held in their honor. (See photo)

Graduate students Molly Green, Michelle Harris, Catherine Jean, Kelly Korman, Nathalia Ochoa Hernandez, Atalia Lapkin, and Lauren B. Smith are continuing their coursework for the M.A. Please see page 3 for more information.