FALL 2016 Department of Women & Gender Studies

Greetings from the new Chair I am delighted to take on the role of Chair and tools for confronting and remedying the greater interdisciplinary, inter-college, and of the Department of Women and Gender problems of inequality and social injustice. I community-based ties with a wide range Studies. In the 11 years that Monika can only hope to fill Dr. Shafi’s shoes as the of scholars, teachers, and advocates. As Shafi served as Chair, WOMS became Department continues to grow and thrive. an anthropologist of corporate life and one of the key sites on campus and in the capitalism in Southeast Asia, I have a special community for exploring gender-based bias, As Chair, one of my primary objectives interest in the intersections of money, power, supporting advocacy for women and other will be to further broaden the impact and and gender, and study social and economic underrepresented groups, and examining profile of the Department and build even bias in the Asian and Muslim workplace. theories of agency, resistance, The courses I teach concern women oppression, and violence. in the global workforce, Islam and The Department is today an gender, and transformations in intellectual and interdisciplinary Asian women’s lives in times of rapid home to excellent faculty who economic development and social provide opportunities for majors, change. non-majors, and minors alike to engage in open and critical One of my primary curricular inquiry and explore multiple goals for WOMS is to continue to points of view. WOMS provides ensure that both the intellectual UD students with methodologies and practical applications of for analyzing some of today’s the Department’s academic most pressing social, political, opportunities—and the value of a and economic issues concerning major, minor, or even one course in women, gender, and sexuality, Farwell to Dr. Shafi (left) and welcome to Dr. Sloane-White Continued on page 4 Farewell from the outgoing Chair Dear Alumni and Friends, to their assessment of our operation. I am and national leadership in this area. We My 11-year tenure as Chair of the delighted to share that the outside evaluators, also awarded the inaugural Mae and Robert Department of Women and Gender Studies all highly respected WOMS professors and Carter Endowment Women’s Studies Faculty ended in August, and I return to my other administrators, were most impressed by how Research Award to Dr. Amanda Bullough, home, the Department of Literatures, much our faculty and staff have accomplished Assistant Professor of Management at UD Languages, and Cultures. Naturally, this is a over the past decade. and President of Women in the Academy time of reflection and of taking stock, and it Another terrific development has been of International Business, who examines dovetails with our Academic Program Review hiring two new WOMS faculty members. the particular obstacles faced by women (APR), an academic evaluation all university In Fall 2016, Dr. Emerald Christopher, entrepreneurs in developing countries. departments routinely must undergo. Assistant Professor, joins us on a three-year Am I saddened to leave WOMS? Of course, Our APR involved preparing an extensive appointment, and in September 2017, Dr. I am! I will miss my colleagues and friends, document listing all major developments, Chiara Sabrina will arrive as Associate miss the excitement and enthusiasm, the initiatives, and events since 2005, the year Professor. Both will significantly strengthen atmosphere in our house at 34 West Delaware of our last APR, then meeting with an our expertise in Domestic Violence and Continued on page 4 outside team of evaluators and responding Prevention, and our potential for growth Thanking Dr. Monika Shafi for Outstanding Leadership ’ve always seen myself as task-oriented,” oversaw the expansion of the curriculum, Act and the Path Ahead”; create a new Isays Monika Shafi, Elias Ahuja Professor as well as growth in the number of majors capstone seminar for graduating WOMS of German, adding, “I like to get things enrolled. majors that has produced significant student done.” As she steps down in August 2016 research projects, some of which have gone as Chair of the Department of Women Thanks to her visionary leadership, on to be published; and, because of the and Gender Studies, she leaves behind an Women’s Studies—which went on to continuing generosity of Mae and Robert extraordinary legacy. Not only has she become the Women and Gender Studies Carter, oversee the awarding of grants for spearheaded numerous academic projects, Department during her second five-year both teaching and research that have given but she used her eloquence and tactful term—was able to implement a popular graduate students opportunities to practice persuasion to change the climate for minor in Sexualities and Gender Studies; feminist pedagogy and enabled faculty from women and encourage the importance of offer a groundbreaking Concentration around the university to engage in feminist feminist thinking. Winner of the 2011 in Domestic Violence Prevention and scholarship. E. Arthur Trabant Award for Women’s Services (DVPS), the first of its kind in Equity, Dr. Shafi has been honored across the nation; receive Faculty Senate approval From Dr. Shafi’s own perspective, however, the University for her tireless work in to develop a graduate certificate; stage a not the least of her achievements was advancing the cause of women’s education, 40th anniversary celebration in 2013 that moving the department to its present while raising both the institutional and the featured Dr. Marie Laberge’s oral history location—a charming three-story, early- national profile of our department, which project about the founding of Women’s twentieth-century house. As someone whose she has led for eleven years. Studies at UD; successfully complete its first scholarly publications examine women’s two searches for new tenure-track faculty work, issues of migration, and material After becoming Director in 2005 of and bring in its first Postdoctoral Fellow; culture in modern German literature, she what had been a program since 1973, she organize and host the nationally prominent has always been sensitive to the politics of immediately set out to secure departmental 2014 conference, “Powerful Partnerships: status for Women’s Studies. As Chair, she 20 Years of the Violence Against Women Continued on page 4 Pascha Bueno-Hansen Awarded Tenure he Department of Women and Gender Bueno-Hansen places the TRC, feminist which focuses on the TStudies is thrilled to announce that the and human rights movements, and related transitional justices University of Delaware awarded Dr. Pascha non-governmental organizations within an processes of Peru, Bueno-Hansen tenure and promotion to international and historical context to expose Colombia and Brazil. Associate Professor in May 2016, citing the difficulties in addressing gender-based This new project her excellence in research, teaching, and violence in Peru. Her innovative theoretical will use a queer service. Bueno-Hansen received her PhD and methodological framework, which brings decolonial framework in Politics, Feminist Studies, and Latin together decolonial feminism and a critical to analyze the cisheteronormativity of American & Latina/o Studies from the engagement with intersectionality, facilitates transitional justice mechanisms and the University of California at Santa Cruz in an in-depth analysis of the Peruvian variants of toxic masculinity among armed 2009, and she joined WOMS that Fall as transitional justice process. Bueno-Hansen actors in relation to the legacy of Spanish its first-ever tenure-track hire. In addition uncovers the colonial mappings and linear and Portuguese colonialism. The creative to directing the department’s Sexuality and temporality underlying transitional justice initiatives of activists, advocates, artists Gender Studies minor, Bueno-Hansen holds efforts and illustrates why such efforts must and documentarians to bring hidden and faculty affiliations with UD’s Department of address the societal roots of atrocities if taboo issues—such as violence against Political Science & International Relations they are to result in true and lasting social gender and sexual minorities—to light and the Latin American and Iberian Studies transformation. embody a decolonizing impulse that honors program. On November 4, 2015, Bueno-Hansen the precolonial Amazonian and Andean marked her book’s publication with a lecture multiplicity of gender and sexual expression. Bueno-Hansen’s promotion marked the in Bayard Sharp Hall sponsored by the Additionally, Dr. Bueno-Hansen will serve as culmination of an exciting and successful Department of Women and Gender Studies the faculty coordinator of the newly formed 2015-2016 academic year, especially with as part of its Fall Lecture series. She discussed LBGTQIA+ and Racial Justice Activism regard to her research. In August 2015, her how the state and civil society groups in Peru Living Learning Community for first-year first book,Feminist and Human Rights understood and addressed the impact of the students. With a focus on the intersection Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Peruvian internal armed conflict on women of LGBTQIA+ and racial justice issues, this Justice was published by the University of and detailed the ways in which the working LLC will support and connect struggles Press. This book, resulting from seven of race, language and culture in relation to across dis/ability, ethnicity, religion, class years of field studies and archival research, gender expose the complex challenges of status, and nationality as participants develop examines the Peruvian state’s creation of addressing gender-based violence. a network of students and others who work a Truth and Reconciliation Committee towards social change on campus and beyond. (TRC) in 2001 after a generation of internal As the new academic year unfolds, Dr. armed conflict and authoritarian rule. Bueno-Hansen is working on her next book, By Barbara Ley

2 Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 in contemporary German-language fiction and WWII was released by Routledge in conjunction Faculty News on the German literary response to migration with her invited March 2016 presentation and refugees. She also organized “Roundtable: at “Unfinished Apologies: Imperial Japan’s Pascha Bueno-Hansen has been Günter Grass: Assessing his Legacy“ at the Sex Slaves of Wartime Asia,” a symposium in promoted to associate professor with tenure. She German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, co-sponsored by the School has given lectures from her recently published Washington, D.C. in October 2015. of Advanced International Studies of Johns book, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Hopkins University and Asia Policy Point. Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice, and was Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Her letter about recent developments in the invited to deliver the Keynote address at The Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of “comfort women” political situation appeared Global Politics of Truth and Justice Conference Humanities, gave an invited lecture “Bookfest in the Times January 1, 2016. In April at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in at Tiffany’s” in October 2015 at the Winterthur 2016, she delivered a related paper, “Teaching February 2016. Her latest publications include Museum in Wilmington, DE, in conjunction ‘Comfort Women’ Issues: The Hidden Stories “Decolonial Feminism, Gender, and Transitional with the of Girls,” at “War and Sexual Violence,” a Justice” in Oxford Handbook of Gender and exhibition conference sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Conflict (forthcoming, Oxford University Press); Tiffany Glass: Center, NY. In Spring 2016, her essay “Dress, “An Intersectional Analysis of the Peruvian Painting with Women’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, and Truth and Reconciliation Commission” in Color and the ‘Thoughtful’ Work of Linda Grant,” was Studying Women, Violence and War: Shifting Light. She published in the Northwestern University Perspectives (Routledge, 2016); and “Ending the presented Press volume, Long Shadows: The Second World Colonial/Modern Occupation of Indigenous on “Invisible War in British Fiction and Film, and has essays Women’s Bodies in Guatemala and Perú,” in The Disabilities” forthcoming in 2016 in Neo-Victorian Humour Feminist Wire (May 10, 2016). In Fall 2016, she for a (Brill) and The History of British Women’s started as Program Coordinator for UD’s Living roundtable on disabilities issues at the November Writing, 1880–1920 (Palgrave Macmillan). Learning Community LGBTQ+ and Racial 2015 National Women’s Studies Association She also published book reviews in the journals Justice Activism. Conference. In March 2016, she gave an Victorian Studies and Oscholars, Throughout invited lecture (“Richard Le Gallienne, the Spring 2016, she co-curated with Mark Samuels Monika Shafi,Elias Ahuja Professor of Pre-Raphaelites, and Liverpool”) at the Walker Lasner an interdisciplinary public exhibition, German, published three articles and two Art Gallery in Liverpool, UK, in conjunction Richard Le Gallienne: Liverpool’s Wild(e) Poet, others are forthcoming. She presented at four with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty for the Central Library in Liverpool, UK, different national/ international conferences and Rebellion. A new printing of her 2001 August 5-October 31, 2016. and symposia. Her current scholarship is focused co-edited Legacies of the Comfort Women of predominantly on the representation of work

In Memoriam: Elaine Salo, Associate Professor laine Rosa Salo, Associate Professor feminism, sexuality, Eof Political Science and International patriarchy and women’s Relations and of Women and Gender Studies rights. at the University of Delaware, died August 13, 2016, after a battle with cancer. She was She joined the UD faculty 54. A service celebrating her life was held in 2014 with a joint September 8, 2016, in Gore Recital Hall of appointment and taught the Roselle Center for the Arts. classes in water politics in the global South, politics Born in Kimberley, South Africa, Dr. Salo of transitional societies, received a bachelor’s degree with honors from and gender and politics. University of Cape Town, a master’s degree In her relatively short time in international development from Clark at UD, Dr. Salo became University and a doctorate in anthropology engaged in the campus from Emory University. Before coming to and the community, and constant bucking of the status quo,” said Delaware, she was director of the Institute where she was extremely well-liked and Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Associate Professor for Women’s and Gender Studies at the highly respected. “Elaine was an exceptional of Women and Gender Studies. “She had so University of Pretoria in South Africa. colleague and friend. Her kindness, much life in her, so much seemingly endless Her research focused on gender, identity, brilliance, warmth and humor inspired, as capacity to give. During her brief time here at violence, social construction of masculinities, well as her unflinching resistance to injustice UD, she touched many hearts.”

Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 3 Thanking Dr. Shafi, for the different contributions they with unflagging support ever since. “We are continued from page 2 bring to our academic enterprise. With all indebted and trying to follow in Mae characteristic modesty, she attributes the Carter’s footsteps,” she says. “Knowing place and to the effects on women of their many remarkable accomplishments to the someone who has invested her heart in this, everyday environments. Our department’s department as a whole, with its “shared with a level of commitment that is truly current location is, in her view, “the feminist position,” and describing herself incredible, has been inspirational, and I am physical embodiment of what we do. It is a merely as the one who “could facilitate the deeply grateful to her.” communal space and, even without having goals.” a meeting room, it speaks to the idea of Dr. Shafi describes her two terms as Chair community.” Dr. Shafi is unambiguous about having as “an incredible privilege.” All of us who modeled her pragmatic feminism, advocacy have been fortunate enough to work with The strength of the department’s for change, and diplomatic way of working her, however, must insist that the privilege cooperative spirit, of course, a tribute to with UD administrators on a wonderful was all ours, and we will never stop Dr. Shafi herself. She has actively fostered predecessor: Mae Carter, who did more thanking her for her brilliant leadership. collegiality by making everyone—faculty, than anyone to establish Women’s Studies By Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert staff, and students alike—feel valued at UD in 1973, and who has provided it Carter Professor of Women’s Studies

Greetings from the Chair Farewell, continued from page 1 continued from page 1 Avenue, miss the laughter as well as the sighs. WOMS—becomes clear and important to However, I am thrilled with what the faculty all current and prospective students. WOMS and I have accomplished together. I am most courses provide significant opportunities for grateful for all the support we have received student-to-student dialogues across diverse from our terrific donors, Mae and Robert cultural, religious, racial, and ethnic groups, Carter, and also from the administration. The and to do so from perspectives as diverse Department’s new Chair, Dr. Patricia Sloane- as history, political science, anthropology, White, brings wide-ranging administrative psychology, literary and cultural studies, and scholarly expertise to the position. religion, and the arts. WOMS is known by Under her expert leadership WOMS, I am many UD students for offering a wide range confident, will continue to thrive. of outstanding classroom and community- based opportunities that give students the It has been an extraordinary privilege to chance to engage rigorously and seriously serve as Chair of WOMS and to lead this with issues and debates that directly affect exceptional group of faculty members them and the lives of people worldwide. witnessing their dedication to their students, Students often tell me that their courses their scholarship, and the UD. I wish to in WOMS are among the most exciting extend most heartfelt thanks to everyone, and illuminating they take at UD, and I especially to Dr. Jennifer Naccarelli, am so excited and proud to be a part of a Associate Chair, and to Deborah Arnold, department that makes such a significant WOMS office coordinator. I work very impact on how they think about their lives closely with both of them and they simply are and, as they go on to their professional a dream team! careers, helps them make a difference in the lives of others. Thank you to all, and farewell! With very best wishes,

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4 Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 Welcome Dr. Christopher-Byrd, WOMS Faculty & UD Alumna n Fall 2016, when Dr. Emerald she will explore related topics in a paper IChristopher-Byrd became Assistant on “Twenty-First- Century Jane Crow: Professor of Instruction and the first Racialized Gendered Borders and the Black Postdoctoral Fellow in Women and Gender Body,” to address how Black women’s bodies Studies at UD, it was a homecoming. After continue to be colonized within the U. S. years of academic and career success, Dr. justice system. Throughout the coming Christopher-Byrd returns to teach courses in year, she will also prepare for publication sexuality, race, and gender and to pursue her her earlier analysis of how pop culture tells ongoing research into the politics of a popular African American women that their success and problematic genre of advice literature depends upon (heterosexual) marriage, the aimed at African American women—what subject of her PhD dissertation. she has called the “Love and Marriage Dr. Christopher-Byrd remembers her feeling Playbook” for Black women. of strangeness as a student when she saw UD’s Much has changed since she received her developed a new elective, “Race, Class, and campus for the first time: “Everyone looked 2004 undergraduate degree as a double Feminism,” and at UD she will draw on her so different from me,” she recalls. Now she major in English and Women’s Studies, important research into race and gender in returns to a familiar landscape, but where the now Women and Gender Studies. Dr. pop culture, to teach a new course in “Hip student body that has undergone generational Christopher-Byrd has earned multiple Hop Feminism.” shifts, especially when it comes to attitudes graduate degrees: a Master’s in Higher toward feminism – “That used to be the ‘F’ What drives all her work is her own Education Administration and in Women’s word,’” she says, but it is now more widely feminism, which ties together ideology, Studies from George Washington University, embraced. Recently, at the start of a course at intellectual critique, and activism, and which as well as a PhD in Language, Literacy and Georgetown University, she asked how many is always grounded in her experience of daily Culture from the University of Maryland, students identified as feminists, and all 30 life. “My research,” she says, “allows me to Baltimore County. She has held positions in raised their hands. At UD, she is determined connect with and make sense of my world— student affairs at Utica College, McDaniel to help students use what they learn about the world I grew up in—in an academic way.” College, and George Washington University. feminist theory as a bridge between academic Raised in and nurtured by single In 2013, she was selected by the Women’s understanding and activism around issues of women who were proudly independent, she Research and Education Institute to be a race, gender, and class in their everyday lives. is particularly eager to examine through her Legislative Fellow in the Washington, DC, The Women and Gender Studies Department research and undergraduate teaching the office of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. is proud to welcome her! effects of inner-city violence on women of She has taught numerous undergraduate By Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert color. At the November 2016 conference of courses at a range of institutions, including Carter Professor of Women’s Studies the National Women’s Studies Association, Georgetown University, where she Amanda Bullough: Faculty Research Award Recipient r. Amanda Bullough, Assistant entrepreneurship, leadership, organizational DProfessor of Management in the behavior, cross-cultural management, and Lerner College of Business and Economics international development. She publishes at the University of Delaware, was the in premier journals like the Journal of recipient of the 2015 Mae and Robert Carter Management, Academy of Management Endowment in Women’s Studies’ Faculty Perspectives, Entrepreneurship Theory Research Award. Dr. Bullough presented and Practice, Leadership Quarterly, etc., “Women Entrepreneurs: Building Resilience serves on the editorial review board for and Reducing Fear through Business Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Ownership” as the Women and Gender has presented at numerous international Studies Fall Lecture Series on October 26, business and management conferences. Her 2016, in Bayard Sharp Hall. newest streams of research and teaching include entrepreneurship in war zones and Scholars have recently been learning how emboldened as business owners? Building under adverse conditions, global leadership, women’s perceptions about culture and on her previous research in countries like and women’s entrepreneurship and adversity affect their business decisions, but Afghanistan, Dr. Bullough addressed these leadership. She has done work in Finland, less is known about how entrepreneurial questions and discussed her newest data on China, Thailand, Afghanistan, Jordan, activity in turn affects their perceptions of women entrepreneurs’ perceptions of danger Mexico, Algeria, and many others, and has adversity. Is there something about engaging and adversity, domestically in and also consulted on projects with the World in entrepreneurship that causes women abroad in Pakistan. Bank, the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women in adverse environments to become more program, and the Global Business School or less fearful; do these women feel more Dr. Bullough’s research encompasses Network (GBSN).

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Halley Pradell, WOMS Web Designer, Staff News also works in IT Support for the Mathematics Department. A WOMS and Math/Economics Shawnee Sloop, (right) WOMS Student double major, Halley was selected as a 2016 Intern with an English major and WOMS minor, UD Woman of Promise and awarded the returned this past August from an incredible Mathematics Rees Scholarship. Halley study abroad semester in Rome, Italy, followed thoroughly enjoys working in the Department of by a summer in Menorca, Spain. Shawnee was Women and Gender Studies, and is thankful for lucky enough to travel throughout Europe during the never-ending support and compassion that Spring semester to countless beautiful and unique radiates through the department. She has gained locations. While in Menorca, she hiked every so much from working with such a wonderful day through the breathtaking natural beauty and group of women, and hopes to bring this with her quintessential small villages of the island. Now as she embarks on a 2017 Winter Study Abroad in her senior year at UD, Shawnee is enthused to trip to India. be back at working for WOMS. This Fall, she had two articles published for the University’s UDress fashion magazine. Interview: Deborah Arnold artist and published poet eborah Arnold joined the Department and Persephone. I am interested in the Dof Women and Gender Studies as backstory, looking beyond the standard Administrative Coordinator in 2013, script. days before achieving her Master of Arts in English from West Chester University. Who are the artists who have Her mixed media collage “Writing through influenced your work? the Blues” was selected as the cover art for Visual poets are a major influence – from Keeping Time: 150 Years of Journal Writing, William Blake’s paintings that trail into his and her publications include Interview with poems, to Paul Klee and his use of letters as the Willow Girls, a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Award. Her icons in collages, to the contemporary visual poem “Hieroglyphs” was selected for the poets such as Anne Carson and the Pulitzer 2015 Random Acts of Poetry Award at UD. Remix project poets who work with textual redactions. How did you get started and Deborah Arnold, Department of Women and Here is the question, every what came first, writing or Gender Studies, Administrative Coordinator artist is asked: Where to do you mixed media? Do you find yourself drawn to think your creativity comes At age five, I wrote my first poem on the particular themes? from? inside cover of a diary. I collected fine It comes from the need to tell stories, both stationery, and writing poems on it seemed I am drawn to the role of memory and how through the forms of visual art and poetry. to transform them into a visual piece of art. our lives are shaped within the context of The sonnet is an incredible form for telling Decades later, I studied printmaking and memory connected to larger political and a story: you explore an argument, reach a experienced language as a tactile element social events. My awareness of the risks turning point, and must find resolution. I when I handset text in lead type. Suddenly, inherent in freedom of expression was think artists fundamentally are searching the binary between writing and making art formed in 1970, when the Ohio National for ways to engage with the world and to objects was gone, and the holistic approach Guard fired into a crowd of student listen below the noise of the seemingly to making books allowed me pull the rug demonstrators at Kent State, killing four constant and oppressive din to discover true out from between the art forms. students. I became very quiet and my writing became very carefully constructed. meaning and connection. In the holistic approach of The responsibility of language is key for me, What excites you right now mixed media, what role do and the formal structures require a clarity of expression I find powerful. and what are you working on? differences between forms? I would love to write a graphic novel, Writing poetry is an interior journey, and its What role does gender play in bringing the visual and the verbal together exacting visual shape and internal structure your work? and exploring the space between the panels are like a map for language and ideas. The as the invisible silence where transitions I am drawn to women’s stories and visual vocabulary of mixed media art feels occur–much like our world and our lives. everyday lives as art, particularly religious By Monika Shafi very spontaneous. and mythological figures such as Eve

6 Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 WOMS Students: 2016 Highlight

Sage Carson (WOMS 2016) and Harry Lewis (WOMS 2018) were on stage with fields, with particular attention to their Lady Gaga at the 2016 Academy Awards linkage to issues of race, sexuality. when she sang the Oscar-nominated song Forthe 2016 Capstone, Dr. Pascha “Til it Happens to You,” music and lyrics Bueno-Hansen explored this by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga, from the convergence with a body mapping assignment in which the graduating class filmThe Hunting Ground. Backstage, Sage (pictured with Vice President Joseph Biden) engaged with the themes of embodiment, and Harry (pictured with Lady Gaga) also community building, transformation, met Vice President and UD alum Joseph healing and social justice. Each student Biden. composed an artist statement to accompany their body map, to express their reflections on and analysis of course materials as related to their life experiences through artistic expression. The body map shared here is one of 22 V-Day’s founder Eve Ensler, the play works created by the 2016 Capstone brings together female identified students Graduates. to preform women’s monologues on sexuality, love, strength and social justice. During the Fall semester, V-day held one of their most popular sex-positivity events, Big-O-Bingo, the proceeds going to support Natasha’s Justice Project.

Students Acting for Gender Equality Men’s Action Network (MAN) is a (SAGE) hosted the annual “Take Back student organization made up of all the Night” event in April 2016, featuring genders, dedicated to educating, Wagatwe Wanjuki, a feminist activist and engaging, and empowering men around survivor featured in the film The Hunting healthy masculinity and gender based Ground. This event aims to shatter the violence prevention. In March 2016, silence around sexual assault, bringing MAN hosted leading anti-porn feminist students and survivors together for a march and scholar Gail Dines’ multimedia around campus and speak out. SAGE weekly presentation based on her acclaimed meetings provide a safe space for students to book, Pornland: How the Porn Business share their experiences with gender issues on has Hijacked our Sexuality. Dines and off campus. discussed how the dominant images and stories disseminated by the multibillion- dollar pornography industry promote and legitimize a gender system that undermines equality and encourages violence against women. Dines is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights. This event was co-sponsored by SAPE Committee, and cosponsored by Men’s Action Network, Office of Equity and Inclusion, University of Delaware Police Department, Student Wellness & Health Promotion, Office of the Dean of Students, Greek Council, and Sexual V-Day at UD joins efforts with members Offense Support. of SAGE to bring a voice to feminist issues on the University of Delaware’s campus. In The Capstone Seminar, required for March, V-Day hosted the annual Vagina Women and Gender Studies majors who are Monologues, co-sponsored by UD Haven, about to graduate, converges the history, SAGE, VOX, E-25, C.A.L.M and the theory, politics, and pedagogies of Women’s Longboard Crafting club. Written by Studies and of Gender Studies as academic

Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 7 Congratulations, 2016 Graduates!

Women and Gender Studies Women and Gender Studies Patricia Pennington Majors Majors with DVPS Minors and Kristin Hamilton Brittany Banks Concentrations Samantha Garbini Kelcy Bifani Lynnette Curtis Gerti Wilson Samantha Brant Amy Hopkins Joanna Wicks Carley Canada-Banks Jessica Johnson Valerie Fragier Alexandra Cheatham Kylie Kinsella Shannon Collins Lynnette Curtis Gabrielle Lanzetta Catherine Marchbank Kaitlyn Ennis Zainab Shah Kristine Reed Kara Gildea Nicole Verbanas Noelle Sanchez Margaret Hussar Laura Muscovich Jessica Johnson Women Studies Minors Emma Fleming- Rosen Heather Mealey Kylie Kinsella Casey McGinnis Shereen Sandiford Gabrielle Lanzetta Muzi Xu Molly Carroll Sarah McMillan Amanda Rainford Christian Mills Lauren Moffa Yvonne Rivera Zainab Shah Kara Gildea Sanika Salim Nicole Verbanas Morgan Benson Kathryn Keulmann Alexi Viets Marta Shakhazizian

SGST Minors

Brittany Banks Alexandra Cheatham Margaret Hussar Women and Gender Studies Majors with Women in Global Awards of Special Merit for Academic Excellence were conferred upon four outstanding Perspective Concentration graduates in Women and Gender Studies: Alexandra Cheatham, Kaitlyn Ennis, Jessica Zainab Shah Johnson, and Gabrielle Lanzetta. Congratulations!

8 Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 The Mae Carter Scholarship, Awarded to two students he Mae Carter Scholarship is is committed to improving the status Tawarded to an undergraduate of women across the globe at the policy woman student at the University of level as well as the personal level. She has Delaware who carries the values of served as an intern on Capitol Hill in Mae Carter, former Assistant Provost Delaware Senator Thomas Carper’s office, for Women’s Affairs and Executive working on issues related to trafficking and Director of the Commission on the immigration. Previously she interned at the Status of Women, to advance the non-profit organization CentroNia, which status of women at the University. assists Latino immigrants in Washington, The 2016 scholarship was awarded D.C., serving as a Case Manager in the to two students: Sage Carson and Family Center, connecting women with Sanika Salim. essential services such as childcare and counseling, and administering a “Digital Sage Carson, with double majors Literacy” workshop for newly arrived in Anthropology and Women Latino families. Salim has also volunteered and Gender Studies as well as Parenthood of Delaware’s Generation Action with the Washington Center Program, a concentration in Domestic Violence and Students Acting for Gender Equality, working on its Human Trafficking Task Prevention and Services, has worked tirelessly on the Sexual Assault and Prevention Force. At UD, she was an active member of and effectively to raise awareness, effect Education Committee (SAPE). She has SAGE (Students Acting for Gender Equity), university and legislative change, and support contributed her expertise to the Local MSA (Muslim Student Association), and and advocate for survivors. As a member Legislative Collaboration of Delaware State VOX (Voices for Planned Parenthood). In of the Faculty Senate Commission for Representatives and Senators, working with 2013, she participated in the “Second Annual Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention, State Senator Bryan Townsend on opposing Conference on the Muslim World,” held at Carson helped to improve the University’s legislation that would have been harmful to Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco sexual misconduct policy in 2015, and victims of sexual assault. Her commitment to as a co-author and co-presenter of a paper assisted in developing recommendations advocacy and action in support of women’s titled “The Sexual Exploitation of Women for Undergraduate Education. As an intern safety and quality of life clearly model the During the Protests of the Arab Spring,” with the Office of Equity and Inclusion spirit and activism of Mae Carter. and as part of a student Roundtable on “The for the Title IX coordinator, she worked Muslim’s World Perception of Islamophobia.” on improving the campus prevention Sanika Salim, a 2016 UD graduate with Her adherence to feminist activism in the and education campaign and served on double majors in Women and Gender face of opposition embodies the ideals of Mae the Bystander Intervention Committee. Studies, with a Women in Global Studies Carter. Carson also serves as a Sexual Offense concentration, and in Political Science and By Marie Laberge Support Advocate for UD Student Health International Relations, specializing in and Wellness, and represents Planned Development issues and the Middle East, Gabrielle Lanzetta: Winner of The 2016 Nellie Thompson Rudd Award abrielle Lanzetta is the 2016 recipient “Changing the Gabby’s commitment to ending sexual Gof the Nellie Thompson Rudd Award, Conversation: violence and promoting social justice was which honors a student who excels in Addressing evident in her extracurricular work as well. scholarship, leadership, and service to the Sexual Assault She served as the Vice-President of Students Department of Women and Gender Studies. on Campus,” Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE) and directed helped to plan the annual “Take Back the Gabby graduated with a double major in toward Night” marches on campus. She also served Women and Gender Studies and Sociology incoming as the partnership and liaison coordinator as well as a concentration in Domestic students to for Natasha’s Justice Project, a national Violence Services and Prevention. In 2014, teach them organization aimed at addressing the she studied abroad in Paris as the recipient about the backlog of thousands of untested rape kits of the Mae and Robert Carter Endowment nature of consent, basic information about in the . She was a member of a Scholarship. In 2015, Gabby was one of the sexual assault, and reporting protocols for number of campus organizations including first undergraduate recipients of the Julie those who have been assaulted. V-Day, Vox (the student voice for Planned Mapes Wilgen Award in Human Sexuality & Parenthood), and Haven (the LGBTQIA Gender Studies, for her outstanding research As part of her work for her Domestic group on campus). achievements and leadership in diversity, Violence Concentration, she worked as a gender equality, and sexual health through research assistant for the Delaware Coalition Gabby is currently working as a National her work with UD student organizations. Against Domestic Violence at the courthouse Campus Organizer for the Feminist Majority Gabby worked with fellow student Molly in Wilmington, Delaware. Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. Doddano to create a program, entitled By Kathy Turkel

Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 9 Event Highlights: Dr. Rashad Shabazz n April 2016, the Department of Women Nootbaar, a German immigrant, the police Iand Gender Studies hosted a lecture by presence in the vice district and Black Dr. Rashad Shabazz based on his book, neighborhoods increased in an attempt to Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of stamp out social intermingling between Confinement and Black Masculinity in whites and Blacks in cabarets and cafés. The Chicago (Illinois University Press, 2015). An moral outrage over consensual interracial associate professor and head of faculty in the socialization fueled the push to police Black School of Social Transformation at Arizona male sexuality. The actions of the Chicago State University, Dr. Shabazz brings together Police led by Nootbaar stigmatized Black Black cultural studies, gender studies, human male Chicagoans and limited their social and geography, and critical prison studies. His physical mobility, a pattern of policing that lecture at UD–co-sponsored by The Office continues today in Black communities. of the Provost, The Center for Black Culture, and the Departments of Black American The current political climate challenges us Studies, Geography, Political Science & as Women and Gender Studies students, International Relations, and Sociology and professors and community to address Criminal Justice, allowed us to embrace new policing, violence, and mass incarceration analytical lenses and amplify the voices of a in relation to gender, sexuality and race. My population not often heard in our classrooms. peers were energized and captivated by Dr. Shabazz’s presentation. We devoted an entire Dr. Shabazz spoke bluntly about the class to discussion of his presentation and its emergence of carceral geography in the Black magnitude in shaping our understanding of Belt of Chicago as a function of a state intent Between 1890 and 1913, the Chicago Police injustices of our nation. upon criminalizing interracial sex in the By Harry Lewis, Department targeted racial intermingling. WOMS Class of 2018 vice district and policing Black sexuality. Under the leadership of Captain Max (with Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen) Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Program Update he Domestic Violence Prevention and Advocates TServices (DVPS) Concentration and Retreat and Minor continued to expand our commitment Conference to provide services to survivors of domestic in May 2016, violence and to build a future workforce of where the trained advocates. In our fifth year, we more expansion of clearly aligned our course content with best our training practices in the field of violence prevention. areas into Through our partnership with the Delaware the realms of Coalition Against Domestic Violence prevention (DCADV), our students now receive training and systems in systems advocacy and primary prevention. advocacy While working to examine and eliminate the was root causes of violence in our communities, highlighted students also acquire the skills necessary through to evaluate how each level of the systemic the panel, response to violence holistically serves “Prevention survivors in their journey toward healing. in Delaware: DCADV, Sue Ryan, to our campus as the Through our practicums and our internship Sharing Stories & Highlights of Local instructor of our required upper division program, our students are not limited to the Efforts to Prevent Intimate Partner & course examining domestic violence services delivery of direct services to individuals in Sexual Violence.” Together with prevention in the state of Delaware. With over 25 crisis, but now witness the implementation specialists from the DCADV, People’s Place, years of service to social justice issues, Ms. of prevention programs and coordinated CHILD Inc., ARTfusion, and Jewish Family Ryan shared an expertise with our students community responses. Services of Delaware, we demonstrated how that could never be acquired through efforts in Delaware serve as innovative models textbooks alone. We also said goodbye to, Our location in the small state of Delaware is and celebrated the graduation of, our fifth ideal for these purposes, as our state-network for implementing prevention efforts into diverse communities across the nation. DVPS Concentration class. Congratulations of advocates model the powerful integration to Lynette Curtis, Amy Hopkins, Jessica of systems advocacy, primary prevention, The 2015-16 academic year was also a year Johnson, Kylie Kinsella, Gabby Lanzetta, and trauma informed standards of care. This of hellos and goodbyes. We enthusiastically Zainab Shah and Nikki Verbanas. was clearly evident at the 2016 DCADV welcomed the new executive director of the By Jennifer Naccarelli

10 Connections / Department of Women & Gender Studies / University of Delaware / Fall 2016 Staying Connected

Rebecca Guarino (WOMS/Math 2015), Delaware Center for Justice, Inc. Published by Department of winner of the 2015 Mae Carter Scholarship, Women & Gender Studies was awarded the Knowles Science Teaching Jessica Tatum (WOMS 2015 is Victim Foundation Fellowship, which aims to Service Specialist, Criminal Division, 34 W. Delaware Avenue increase the number of high-quality high Victim Witness Assistance Program with school science and mathematics teachers the Delaware Department of Justice, Newark, DE 19716 after having served there in an internship in order to improve science, technology, 302-831-8474 engineering and position through the Domestic Violence and math (STEM) Prevention Services practicum program. www.wgs.udel.edu education in the Melissa Pleasanton (WOMS 2014) United States. For is a Victim Services Specialist for the Editor the next five years, Wilmington (DE) Police Department. the period covered Deborah Arnold by the fellowship, Cheryl Wilson (PhD 2005), UD Alum Editorial Assistant Guarino and former faculty member for the UD expects to take Women’s Studies program, is the is the Shawnee Sloop part in numerous online and in-person newly appointed Dean of Arts and Sciences Art Direction/Design professional development experiences, as at University of Baltimore, where she also well as discussions and classroom visits served as Chair of her division and Associate Kathleen Wheatley with her colleagues in the program. “I love Professor, and was previously Professor math, and I love teaching math because it of English at Stevenson University in is a challenge,” she said. “I want to show my Maryland. students that they can enjoy math UPDATES? and be good at it. It wouldn’t be Are you a WOMS alum fun to teach something that was with some news you’d easy.” like to share in our next newsletter? Email us: Guarino, who is attending [email protected]. graduate school at Columbia University, also has an article, “Let the Girls’ Voices Be Heard: Poetry The University of Delaware is an equal as Healing for Girls in Delinquent opportunity/affirmative action employer and Title IX institution. For the University’s complete Correctional Facilities” which non-discrimination statement, please visit http:// began as an essay for the WOMS www.udel.edu/home/legal-notices/ Senior Capstone, published in Girls Studies: An Undergraduate Research Journal.

Nikki Kress (WOMS 2013) WOMS Graduates (right to left) Melissa Pleasanton (2014), is now the Adult Victim Service Jessica Markowski (2013) and Abigail Samuels (2014) met Program Coordinator at the recently with WOMS Associate Chair Dr. Jennifer Naccarelli.

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