Spring/Summer 2010 gender matters the university of texas at austin

t the end of this, my first year as Director of CWGS, I want to thank all those who have made this year such a pleasure—a challenge, yes, but always transformed intoA pleasure at the willingness of colleagues (staff, faculty, advisory board members, and students) who found time to listen, to help, to advise, and to ap- plaud our successes.

And despite a rather grim budgetary climate, we have had many successes: more seniors graduat- ing than ever before, our Masters’ students advanc- Susan Sage Heinzelman Photo by G. Morse ing to PhD programs around the country, our fac- students, offer curriculum grants to WGS faculty af- ulty publishing books, winning teaching awards and filiates to develop courses for the WGS major and prestigious grants, and our community of support- Masters’ program, as well as bring together the vari- ers growing larger and larger as we bring together ous human rights programs and research agendas those who care about social justice and equality in on campus. As with so much of what we do, we will the arts, in politics, and in the academy. need the advice and help of colleagues from across the University, and from those around the world These and other contributions to The Uni- who have already made significant contributions to versity of Texas at Austin and the larger community the cause of women’s rights. What receiving this culminated in the announcement that we had been grant has made even clearer to us is just how much awarded $451,000 by the Embrey Family Founda- we rely on the on-going commitment and energy tion of Dallas to develop a Women’s Rights Initiative of those who support what we do. So many want to at UT. Over the next five years, CWGS will be able share their work and have offered suggestions about to support the development of Signature Courses for how we might coordinate, rather than duplicate, Undergraduate Studies, fund international graduate projects already underway.

ANNUAL THEME: We will spend the summer planning how best Gen d e r & Ju s t i c e to implement the grant proposal and welcome your suggestions as we begin this exciting new CWGS Fo r t h e 2010-11 a c a d e m i c y e a r , t h e Ce n t e r adventure! f o r Wo m e n ’s a n d Ge n d e r St u d i e s a t UT Au s t i n w i l l s p o n s o r a y e a r o f e v e n t s o n t h e t h e m e “g e n d e r a n d Ju s t i c e .” Susan Sage Heinzelman, CWGS Director May 2010 An Uncanny Beauty A celebration of Deborah Hay April 7 & 8, 2010 I cannot begin to know what I experienced as the celebration of my work unfolded under the generous auspices of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at The University of Texas at Austin.

A few things are clear, however. Thank you for agreeing to situate my solo, No Time To Fly, at the Debra and Kevin Rollins Studio Theatre at The Long Center for the Performing Arts. I be- Director lieve it attracted a more inclusive group to the Susan Sage Heinzelman performances. I was grateful that the CWGS staff was willing to take on the colossal task of Associate Director keeping track of the reservations for two per- Alissa Sherry formances in one day. They did a stupendous Deborah Hay performing No Time to Fly Photo by R. Pizzi job at juggling. The reception at Lulu Flores’ Senior Adminstrator beautiful home was an additional perk to the prevailing celebratory mood. I am just Pat Heisler now aware of the number of women from the Austin community, (I am not talk- ing about my personal friends), who were at the performances and the symposium Program Coordinator because they support the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. I felt honored to Nancy Ewert meet them, as well as learn of their interest in my work.

Academic Advisor The symposium was and continues to be more than what I can currently digest. It Alma Jackie Salcedo unfolded effortlessly through the combined efforts of the CWGS staff and the precise structuring created by Rino Pizzi. The auditorium at the Blanton Museum of Art was TULIP Coordinator a great complement in that it allowed for audience members to come and go without Ganiva Reyes disturbing the symposium.

CWGS Student Assistants I imagine the actual symposium content will slowly sink into my bones. Right now Michelle Mott it is colored by the diversity, passion, contradictions, inspiration, and earnest inquiry Lisa Le that each participant brought to the table, aside from the excellent questions voiced Cindy Villanueva from its audience.

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Follow us on Facebook and Twitter 2 February 2010 EVENTS The 17th Annual Student Conference • Film series con- tinued with Radical Harmonies • Year in Review New Faculty Colloquia featured Ruramisai Charumbira (His- September 2009 tory) and Heather Hindman New Faculty Colloquium series began with Jill Robbins (Asian Studies) • Rebecca Bigler (Spanish and Portuguese) • What I want my words to do spoke on her research “ Chil- to you was screened, the first in a series of events on dren’s Perception of Gender this year’s theme, Performing Gender • Meta DuEwa Dr. Omi Jones, Keynote Speaker at Discrimination” • CWGS co- the CWGS Student Conference Jones, Terry Galloway, Miss Majors, and Sharon Meers sponsored Abriendo Brecha VII, were featured speakers and performers • CWGS co- Seventh Annual Activist Scholarship Conference • Ar- sponsored 3 films with the Austin Gay and Lesbian In- litt Lecture by Esther Duflo, McArthur Genius award ternational Film Festival. recipient from M.I.T. October 2009 march 2010 Performing Gender Film Series continued with 14 Wom- Explore UT • Film series continued with Hell on Wheels en followed by a panel discussion • CWGS co-hosted the • CWGS co-sponsored a book reading and signing by conference to honor BJ Fern- authors María Eu- ea (a panel discussion engag- genia Cotera and ing CWGS past directors) • Emma Pérez, and New Faculty Colloquia con- the conference, “Re- tinued with Tetyana Pudrovs- publics of Fear: Un- ka (Sociology), Karen Pagani derstanding Endem- Adora Andy (R), Press Secretary for the (French and Italian), and So- ic Violence in Latin EPA, at the film screening of 14 Women fian Merabet (Anthropology) Explore UT America Today” • • CWGS co-sponsored talks New Faculty Col- by Michael Addis, Paola Zaccaria, and Janet Jakobsen, loquia continued with Paul Bonin-Rodriguez (Theater and the conference “Rejecting Violence, Imagining Al- and Dance) and Tatiana Kuzmic (Slavic and Eurasian ternatives - a series of community conversations.” Studies). November 2009 april 2010 The film series continued with Amuse Bouche: A Chef’s New Faculty Colloquia Tale, which included a book presentation by Elizabeth concluded with David Englehardt • New Faculty Colloquia included Talia Mc- Quinto-Pozos (Linguis- Cray (Architecture) and Ying Xu (Civil Engineering) • tics) and Germine Awad CWGS co-sponsored “The Lives of Indigenous Women (Educational Psychol- in a ‘Post-Racial’ and ‘Post-Feminist’ World” a talk by ogy) • The film, In My

Andrea Smith • CWGS staff and students participated Country, and the per- Soweto Gospel Choir Reception Photo by G. Morse in the NWSA conference in Atlanta. formance of the Soweto December 2009 Gospel Choir brought South Africa into focus • Debo- As part of World AIDS Day, CWGS screened the film rah Hay Performance and Symposium • Film screen- Where the Water Meets the Sky • Commencement Exer- ing of Venus Boyz • CWGS co-sponsored the Promotion cises were held on December 5 & 6. and Tenure Panel. january 2010 may 2010 Continuing the CWGS Speaker Series, Dr. Ward Keeler CWGS Awards Reception • Spring commencement spoke on “Do the Transgendered get a Break in South- exercises on May 21 & 22 • Congratulations to all our east Asia?” • CWGS co-sponsored a performance by graduates! Tim Miller.

3 Texas Undergraduate Jody Conradt Excellence Fund in Equity and Leadership Leadership Program In her 31-year career as The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies’ Texas head coach of the UT Undergraduate Leadership Program concluded its Austin women’s basketball inaugural year with a dessert party at the home team, Jody Conradt served of CAB Member Cynthia Levinson. The Texas as a change agent both on Undergraduate Leadership Program is designed the court and off. Not only to inspire and support undergraduate students did Coach Conradt direct in the classroom, on campus, and in community Susan Heinzelman and Jody Conradt championship-winning leadership roles. For more information, please call teams, in her long career she helped hundreds of 512-471-5765. young women excel as players, students, and future leaders. Funds from this endowment will be used to inspire and instruct students on the importance of leadership and equity.

For more information, or to donate to the Jody Conradt Excellence Fund in Equity and Leadership, please call 512-471-5765.

Danielle, Asmani, Juan and Ganiva

The Feminist Action Project is a collective of current and graduated Women’s and Gender Studies students, along with a staff advisor. The project was founded Spring 2009 with the purpose of creating a student-centered event for networking with other activists, workshopping activist projects, and encouraging dialogue around diverse top- ics of feminist concern.

The 1st annual conference, held on the UT campus April 16th - 18th, was a great success with 100 participants, presenters, and attendees. Work- shops and panels included: activist self-care, anti-racism for white allies, Peers for Pride and Voices Against Violence performances, body positive, a round table discussion on ageism in the Feminist movements, fund- raising for Feminist activist projects, and immigrant women’s issues and rights. Additionally, this year’s keynote address was given by Jehmu Greene, former president of Rock the Vote and current president of the Women’s Media Center.

The Feminist Action Project would like to thank the Multicultural Information Center, the Gender and Sexual- ity Center, and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies for their support and sponsorship. We are currently looking to bring folks on board for next year’s planning - no experience required! Please contact the Gender and Sexuality Center for questions or to find out how to get involved! You can stop by the center on the ground floor of the SSB or e-mail any inquires to [email protected].

44 Alumni News Asha Dane’el (BA, 2008) will be attending UT the subject of a two-day symposium organized by the Austin once again to work on a dual degree Masters Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Program in Social Work and Public Affairs at the LBJ in May: http://mith.info/forensics/. Gabriela works as School. She is ready to be a longhorn once again! She an archivist and electronic records/metadata specialist will be focusing on empowering communities and at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX. public health policy.

Lea Susan Engle (MA, 2009) is finishing up her CWGS Alumni Association first semester as a Learning and Outreach Librarian at More than 30 WGS students will soon join the Texas A&M University. Lea teaches undergraduates graduated alumni of The University’s WGS how to do effective research and to try to get out of program. As the number of graduates grows so does the library and into the community to interact with the strength of our Alumni Association. Graduates students, staff, and faculty. It’s a tenure-track position, staying connected strengthens not only individual and she is currently ranked as an Assistant Professor. relationships but the WGS Program as well. Help The job hunt was long and stressful, but it really paid us to help you stay connected; please make sure we off in the end. have correct contact information. This summer we will be reaching out to all CWGS alumni to gather Rebecca Moody (MA, 2006) completed a second information for an alumni newsletter. We want to MA in Religion at Syracuse University - as well as a thesis hear how and what you are doing. entitled “Speaking a Leak: A Discursive Performance of (Women’s) Leaky Bodies” - and looks forward to entering the PhD program at SU in the fall. Peers for Pride The 2009-2010 student cohort for Peers for Pride, Azure D. Osborne-Lee (MA, 2008) is currently a program of the Gender and Sexuality Center, a resident playwright with Freedom Train Productions held a year-end performance. Peers for Pride trains in Brooklyn, NY. In January, an excerpt from her one students to serve as peer facilitators and use mono- act play “Crooked Parts” was featured at Brooklyn Arts logues as a way to facilitate workshops about sex- Exchange (BAX) as part of Black and White: Performing ual orientation and gender identity across the UT the Personal and Political. Azure will be returning to campus. Members learn basic facilitation skills Austin, TX this June to play the titular role in Susan while taking an in-depth look at some issues fac- G. Todd’s “Sycorax” with the Weird Sisters Collective. ing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer In the early fall Azure has plans to produce “Crooked individuals. Parts” at UT Austin before flying to London to begin For more information, contact Shane at coursework for an MA Advanced Theatre Practice at [email protected]. Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. More information can be found about Azure at http://azureosborne-lee.com.

Gabriela Redwine (MA, 2008) is coauthoring a Mellon-funded report entitled “Computer Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections”, which will be published in late 2010 by the Council on Library and Information Resources. The report was

5 Congratulations WGS Class of 2010

Master’s of Arts Master’s of Arts - Summer Graduates Starr-Renee Corbin’s thesis title is “Raising Par- Gretchen Voter Abbott is currently working on ents: Breastfeeding Trends from 1900 to Present her PhD in History at Rutger’s University. Day.” Rawan Arar’s thesis is titled “Economic Conditions Katie Forrest’s thesis title is “Examining Compet- Among Iraqi Refugee Women Living in Urban Areas itive Cycling Structure and Culture in Texas: Is there of Jordan.” a Gender Disparity?” Katie will attend The Univer- Pengli Huang received an offer from the University sity of North Texas in the fall to work on a doctorate of Hong Kong, for the PhD program in in Counseling Psychology (with a specialization in the department of Social Work and So- Sports Psychology)! cial Administration. Her thesis title is Patti Nelson’s thesis title is “The “Behind the queer readings and writ- Politics of Film Adaptation: A Case ings: A study of female fans of online Study of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of boy’s love fictions in China.” Men.” Patti will be starting a doctoral Anjali Lal’s working title for her thesis is “A prelimi- program in English this fall at Univer- nary exploration of the functioning of South-Asian sity of Southern California in Los An- domestic violence organizations in a liberal-secular geles. democratic framework of United States of America.” Ganiva Reyes is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Jennifer Morris’s working thesis title is “The Do- Studies in Education program in the mestic Violence Act: Ghana’s Bright Fu- Department of Curriculum and Instruc- ture.” tion at UT Austin. Her thesis title is “It’s Michelle Mott will be entering into not because I wanted it…I knew I wasn’t the PhD program in Sociology at UT ready”: Young Mothering Teens in the Austin in the fall. Borderlands Speak Out about the Pres- Kristopher Wright’s tentative the- sures of Sex, Love and Relationships. sis title is “Queering Race.”

Bachelor’s of Arts

Jacklyn Allgayer Emily Lazo Tava Bingham Andrea Macias Margaret Cheu SARAH MEYERS Elizabeth Cortez ELIJA OLDHAM, Jamie Doak SANDRA POFFINBARGER Harmony Eichsteadt ANNA RUSSO Ileana Gomez ADRIANA SALAZAR Kalee Gower MEREDITH STONER Sanaa Hassan MADISON WEPFER Angela Kreuser

2010 WGS Graduating Senior Class Photo by Corey Leamon

6 6 Undergraduate student news dia also published (2010) “Gender 1857-1859 Obstetrical Case Record and Stroke Symptoms: A Review of Book.” Jennifer will also attend the Nimra J. Chowdhry is at- the Current Literature”. Journal of University College of Dublin Clinton tending the London Maymester for Neuroscience Nursing, 42(2), 80-87. Institute for American Studies Sum- a WGS credit. mer School 2010: “Reading Moby Naminata Diabate (Comparative Dick,” Seminar with Amy Kaplan, Harmony Eichsteadt will be Literature) was awarded an Endowed Professor of English, University of presenting at the 2010 National Graduate School Fellowship for the Pennsylvania, July 11-17th, 2010. Women’s Studies Association Con- academic year 2010-2011. She also ference. She is on the Law and Pub- published her interview with the Katherine C. Mansfield (Edu- lic Policy Interest Group-sponsored novelist and poet Frieda Ekotto in cational Administration) presented panel titled, “Feminism, Violence the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of the her research entitled, “Informing and the State.” Journal of the African Literature Asso- the Policy Discourse: What We ciation (JALA), and presented two Know and Don’t Know about the Diana Welsch is going to An- conference papers: - “Frieda Ekotto’s Efficacy and Legitimacy of Single- tigua, Guatemala this summer to Chuchote Pas Trop (Do Not Whisper sex Schools with Implications for learn Spanish. Too Much) (2001): Reframing the Future Research” at the American African Discourse on Homosexu- Educational Research Association’s Master’s Student news ality” at the 36th Annual African (AERA) Annual Conference in Den- Literature Association Conference ver in May 2010. In addition, Kath- Katherine Charek Briggs pre- at the University of Arizona, March erine was accepted into the com- sented at the E3W Graduate Sympo- 10-14, 2010; - “The Ambivalence to- petitive AERA Division F (History/ sium in April and the New Directions wards the African Woman’s Body: Historiography) Early Scholar Men- in Queer Studies Conference last De- Jean Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes torship Program, which took place cember. She also has a book review (The Bloodletters) (2005) and the two days prior with notable scholars published in the 2010 E3W Review of Mevoungou” at the 10th Africa Con- such as feminist educational histo- Books. Additionally, Katherine has ference, March 2010, UT Austin. rian, Jackie Blount (The Ohio State been busy setting up a mentoring University). program that connects CWGS MA Hortencia Jimenez (Sociol- students with Portfolio students, fac- ogy) received a National Association Brenda Sendejo (Anthropology) ulty affiliates, and each other. of Chicana and Chicano Studies accepted a position as Assistant (NACCS) award and a dissertation Professor of Anthropology at Lorena Siller will return to fellowship from the Center for Mexi- Southwestern University in Monterrey, Mexico to conduct re- can American Studies at UT Austin. Georgetown, Texas. She will begin search for her thesis about women in the fall. Brenda also published household workers’ perceptions of Candace López (Latin American an essay titled: “Mother’s Legacy: sexual harassment at the workplace Studies) prsented a paper titled Cultivating Chicana Consciousness this summer. She will be working “Everybody knows about Mississippi in the War Years” in Beyond the through Viccali, A.C., a grass roots Goddamn!: queer Latino WWII Hero: The Social and non-governmental organization lo- people of color Political Legacy of a Generation, cated in Monterrey. and performing edited by Maggie Rivas - Rodriguez resistance in the prop and Emilio Zamora (UT Press Portfolio student news 8 era” at the Heman 2009). The research was supported Sweatt Symposium. in part by the Ellen Clarke Temple Claudia C. Beal (Nursing) attend- Candace also Award. ed the Southern Nursing Research performed in The Association Annual Conference in Austin Project on Austin, TX, February 3-6, 2010. She April 23. Iota Iota Iota presented a poster: Beal, C.C., Stu- CWGS now has an active chapter ifbergen, A., & Volker, D. ‘It was Jennifer Kelly (American Stud- of the Women’s and Gender Studies weird not being able to do things’: ies) received the Ellen Clarke Temple national honor society, Iota Iota Iota. Women’s Symptom Experience of Award in the Study of Women and Ischemic Stroke: A Narrative Study. History. She will give a talk at the Triota is already making plans for Preliminary Findings. She spoke at University of Windsor, Ontario, Can- the fall semester. Contact the Triota the symposium: “Unintended Con- ada, Canadian Association for Amer- membership chair, Katherine Briggs, sequences: The Impact of Social Re- ican Studies Conference on Health/ with questions at lationships on Outcomes of a Health Care/Nation, on October 15-17th, Promotion Intervention for Women 2010 titled “19th Century Race and [email protected]. with Fibromyalgia Syndrome.” Clau- Reproduction: James Rowan Percy’s

7 Spotlight ON FACULTY AFFILIATES Cynthia Buckley (Sociology, or of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea” presses in Mexico. This book was CREEES) will become the Pro- at UT in October 2009. published in English four years gram Director for Eurasia at the ago titled, Erotic Journeys: Mexi- Social Science Research Council Carolyn Eastman’s (History) can Immigrants and Their Sex in New York, effective August 1. book, A Nation of Speechifiers: Lives, (University of California Making an American Public af- Press, 2005). Mounira Maya Charrad ter the Revolution, (University of (Sociology) received a National Chicago Press, 2009) has won the Laurie Green (History) will be Endowment for the Humanities prize for Best First Book award- at the Institute for Advanced Study (NEH) Faculty Fel- ed by the Society for Historians in Princeton as a Visiting Scholar lowship to support of the Early American Republic. in the School for Historical Stud- full time research In the decades after the Ameri- ies for the 2010-2011 academic on her project can Revolution, inhabitants of year. The book project on which “Modernity within the United States began to shape she will be working is tentatively Islam” from Sep- a new national identity. Carolyn titled: Discovering Hunger in tember 2010 to Eastman argues that ordinary America: The Politics of Race, August 2011. She men and women gave meaning to Malnutrition and Poverty after the was also awarded American nationhood and nation- Fall of Jim Crow. a grant from the al belonging by first learning to American Institute imagine themselves as members Benjamin Gregg (Govern- of Maghrebi Studies to cover field of a shared public. ment) published three articles: research in Tunisia during the “Introduction: Enlightened Local- summer 2010 for a related project Elizabeth Engelhardt (Amer- ism in Comparative Perspective,” on “Women Leaders in Tunisia.” ican Studies) won the 2010 Silver Comparative Sociology 9(5) (2010) Her book, The Power of Kinship: Spurs Teaching Award Fellow- “Anti-Imperialism: Generating Patrimonial States in Global Per- ship. Universal Human Rights out of spective, co-edited with Julia Local Norms,” Ratio Juris 23(3) Adams, has been accepted for pub- Tiffany Gill (History) recently (2010) and “Deploying Cogni- lication as Vol. 636 of The Annals, published, Beauty tive Sociology to Advance Human Journal of the American Academy Shop Politics: Af- Rights,” Comparative Sociology of Political and Social Sciences rican American 9(3) (2010) (New York, NY: Sage, forthcoming Women’s Activism in 2011). She presented an invited in the Beauty In- Dustin HARP (Journalism) pub- paper on “Gender Legislation as dustry (University lished three articles: Loke, J., Politics: Perspectives from the of Illinois Press, Harp, D., & Bachmann, I. (2011). Middle East,” at the Cornell Uni- 2010). “Mothering and Governing: How versity Law School in April 2010; news articulated gender roles in a paper on “Power of the Tribe: the cases of Governors Jane Swift Kin-based solidarities as Patrimo- and Sarah Palin”, Journalism Stud- nial Politics in the Middle East and Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez’s ies, 12(2). Harp, D., Bachmann, I., North Africa,” at the annual meet- (Sociology) book Travesías eróti- Cantrell, T. & Loke, J. (2010). “Wave ings of the Social Science History cas: La vida sexual de of Hope: African American Youth Association, Long Beach, CA, in mujeres y hombres Use Media and Engage More Civi- November 2009; and another migrantes de México cally, Politically than Whites”, The on “Creating Political Identities: was recently pub- Howard Journal of Communication, From Kinship to Nation in the lished and presented 22(3). Harp, D., Loke, J., & Bach- Global Order,” at the annual meet- in Spanish at the in- man, I. (2010). “First Impressions ing of the American Sociological ternational book fair of Sarah Palin: Pit Bulls, Poli- Association, San Francisco, in Au- in Guadalajara (Feria tics, Gender Performance and a gust 2009. Her paper, “Gender Internacional del Li- Discursive Media (Re)contextual- Politics in the Middle East: From bro). The press that ization”, Communication, Culture, BJ Fernea’s Pioneering Work to published the book (Grupo Edito- & Critique, 3(3). Today’s Debates,” was part of the rial Miguel Angel Porrua) is one conference “Guests of BJ: in Hon- of the most respected academic

8 Susan Sage Heinzelman (Eng- Karen Pagani (French & Ital- on Digital Media and School Change. lish) recently published Riding the ian) has an article forthcoming in She is co-editor, with Andrew Burn Black Ram: Law, the South Central Review (fall) pub- of the University of London, a spe- Literature, and lished by Johns Hopkins. The title cial issue of the English Teaching: Gender, (Stan- is “The Uses and Abuses of Joseph Practice and Critique (EPTC) journal ford Press 2010). Butler’s Account of Forgiveness: of the University of Waikato, New This book ana- Between the Passions and the In- Zealand. The journal showcases lyzes a series of terests.” the work of international scholars literary, legal, and around the theme of English as historical texts Gretchen Ritter (Government) Mediated literacy: Revisiting Mode to demonstrate c0-edited Democratization in and Medium (May 2010). In addi- the persistence America: A Comparative-Histori- tion, Professor Tyner is conducting of certain gender cal Analysis, with research with three organizations stereotypes. Desmond King, to create programs in regional sci- Robert C. Lieber- ence museums and institutions Mary Kay Hemenway (Astrono- man, Gretchen that are targeted to girls, with a my) was awarded the 2009 AAS Ritter, and Lau- special emphasis on minority girls Education Prize by the American rence Whitehead and women. The project is called Astronomical Society (AAS), the (Baltimore: Johns “GirlsRISENet” and is funded by major organization of professional Hopkins Univer- the Gender in Science and Engi- astronomers in North America. sity Press, 2009). neering program of the National Hemenway is a Senior Lecturer The contributors Science Foundation. Working with and Research Associate. She re- to this volume the lead agencies, SECME (Science, ceived the award at the 215th suggest that it is Engineering, Communication meeting of the Society in Wash- intellectually fruitful to consider and Mathematics Enhancements), ington, DC in January. the U.S. in comparison to other ASTC (The Association of Science countries. They argue that the and Technology Centers) and the Barbara Jones (Nursing) pub- development of democracy is on- Miami Museum of Science, she lished an article: Jones, B., Volker, going in America; that even with recently conducted a nationwide D., Vinajeras, Y., Butros, L., Fitch- a written constitution grounded “environmental scan” survey for patrick, C., Rosetto, K. (2010) in liberal democracy, the meaning GirlsRISENet to map the existing “The meaning of surviving cancer and significance of U.S. democra- programs in these museums. The for Latino adolescents and emerg- cy are still evolving. This volume survey provides a baseline and will ing young adults”. Cancer Nursing: shows that democratization and inform the development of work- An International Journal for Cancer the pursuit of democracy are pro- shops, resources and exhibits in Care. 33 (1). cesses affected by multiple and ten major US science museums. continuing challenges -- including These museums will serve as re- Ward Keeler (Anthropology) such issues as citizenship, race, gional hubs to extend resources published an article in the Feb- institution building, and politi- and services that encourage girls’ ruary 2009 issue of American cal movements -- as patterns and interest and involvement in STEM Ethnologist entitled “What’s Bur- practices of politics and gover- programs. Results of the survey mese About Burmese Rap?” The nance continue to change. will be presented in Washington, article argues that rap’s astonishing DC in October 2010. popularity, in Burma and pretty Rebecca Rossen (Theater and much everywhere else, stems from Dance, PPP) gave a talk on April Lindsey Schell (UT Libraries) the way that it dramatizes, and 14 at Texas Hillel, “The Dancing published “Playing the Field: Pay- celebrates, youthful masculine Jew(ess): Ethnic Ambiguity and Per-View E-Journals and E-Books” concerns about power, defined in Jewish Drag in American Modern in The Serials Librarian 58(1), 2010, highly conventional, and elemen- Dance.” p.87-96. She also spoke at two con- tal, ways. He also addresses the ferences: “Innovation by necessity: matter of rap’s tendency toward Kathleen Tyner (RTF) worked One ARL’s recession plan,” Ameri- misogyny and homophobia. on international projects related can Library Association Midwinter to new media, STEM learning and Conference, Boston, January 2010 Carol Hanbery MacKay, (Eng- gender equity. She was keynote and “Academic Library E-content lish) published “A Journal of Her speaker for the 2nd International Markets: The University of Texas Own: The Rise and Fall of Annie Conference on Games and Virtual Experience”, Buying/Selling Econ- Besant’s Our Corner,” Victorian Worlds for Serious Applications in tent Conference, Scottsdale, April Periodicals Review 42.4 (Winter Braga, Portugal in April 2010. She is 2010. 2009): 324-58. also a featured speaker at the Media Literacy and Digital Cultures con- If you are not a CWGS Faculty Affiliate but Lisa Moore (English) won the ference of the Euro-Iberamerican have similar research interests, please join 2010 Silver Spurs Teaching Award Congress (ATEI) in Sevilla, Spain in us! Contact Pat Heisler at pheisler@mail. Fellowship. May where she will present a paper utexas.edu for more information.

9 CWGS Student and Faculty Awards Presented during the CWGS Annual Spring Reception on May 4th, the following awards recognize and reward both the scholarship and service of our WGS students and faculty

The Undergraduate Cynthia Walker Peña Scholarship is awarded each spring to deserving WGS undergraduates in Recognition of Photography by Glynis Morse their Outstanding Record of Service and Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies This year’s award winners are Maggie Cheu (Plan II Honors Major) and Jamie Doak, (Plan II Honors Major).

Maggie Cheu accepting her Jamie Doak accepting her award from Patti Nelson and award from Patti Nelson and The Lora Romero Memorial Award for Interdisciplin- Katherine Briggs Katherine Briggs ary Research in Race, Ethnicity and Gender honors and supports students working in the area of gender studies and Chicano/a studies or the intersection between race, ethnicity and gender. The 2009-2010 winner is: Harmony L. Eichsteadt (WGS, Senior). Harmony Eichsteadt accepting her award from Jackie Salcedo The Ellen Clarke Temple Graduate Award provides support for Lib- eral Arts graduate students to aid student travel, research, and simi- lar needs in the study of American history. Winners are: Jennifer Lynn Kelly (American Studies, MA), Rethinking the Confidence Gap: Race, Community Activism, and Women’s Paths to Public Office, and Angela Howard Frederick (Sociology PhD), 19th Century Race and Jennifer Lynn Kelly accepting Angela Frederick accepting her Reproduction: James Rowan Percy’s 1857-1859 Obstetrical Case Record her award from Laurie Green award from Laurie Green Book.

The Dissertation Fellowship Award is awarded to doctoral students writing dissertations on topics related to women’s and gender studies. This year’s awards went to: Claudia C. Cervantes-Soon (Cur- riculum and Instruction), Schooling in Times of Dystopia: Empowering Young Women in Juarez and Nandini Dhar (Comparative Literature), Only My Revolt is Mine: Female Heroism, Counter Violence Clauria Cervantes-Soon and and Gendered Resistance in Contemporary Texts of Slavery. Nandini Dhar accepting their awards from Lindsey Schell

The Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award winner is Dr. Ann Reynolds (Associate Professor) in the Department of Art and Art History, in Recognition of Outstanding Ann Reynolds accepting Record of Teaching in Women’s and Gender Studies Courses. her award from Sabrina Barton All who know Gloria - whether colleagues, students or staff - will know why we chose to honor her. Who else but Gloria gives such time and commitment to her professional relationships? Who else but Gloria makes every one of those relationships a joy, so that when one has spent time with her one feels not merely more knowledgeable but more grounded, calmer. Her students attest again and again to her ability “to weave academic rigor with genuine caring,” to be “an amazing source of intangible support, Gloria Gonzales-Lopez and Susan Heinzelman especially for feminist scholars.” The chair of her department, Bob Hummer, wrote: “Gloria’s reach in training and teaching goes beyond the boundaries of the classroom; she touches the lives of her students in a number of important ways.”

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez Gloria is there—ready to sit on center committees, direct our students’ theses, mentor new faculty affili- ates, and support and praise our staff. Although we honor Gloria this year, we are really thanking her for (Associate Professor, Sociology) (Associate Professor, all her years of service to our center since she joined the faculty in 2002. Thank you Gloria. CONTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR

10 the collection through the guidance of “Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books” • The collection will be additionally Bibliographer’s supported by annual contributions from CWGS and CAAAS corner • Titles designated for the collection By Lindsey Schell carry this note, which is searchable in the library catalog (http://catalog. The UT Libraries are pleased to an- character and written by well-known lib.utexas.edu): “Black Queer Studies nounce the creation of the Black Black lesbian author Dionne Brand, Collection” Queer Studies Collection. The col- features the four subject headings: lection, which is designated digitally “Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction; Vietnamese I will be creating a collection website through notes in library catalog re- -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Fiction; Female in the next month to which you can cords, is meant to feature, promote Friendship -- Fiction; Refugees -- Fic- point students to learn more about and increase the discoverability of the tion.” A keyword search in the catalog these unique holdings. If you have any UT Libraries’ unique holdings in the for “Black lesbian fiction” or “lesbian questions about the Black Queer Stud- area of African-American Gay, Les- fiction” or even “lesbian” would not re- ies Collection or other library matters, bian, Bisexual and Transgender Stud- trieve What We All Long For. Also, cur- please contact me: [email protected] ies. Kristen Hogan, CWGS Instructor rent U.S. cataloging practice does not as.edu. and iSchool graduate student worked consider the identity of the author as with Matt Richardson, English Dept., a subject; therefore, the author’s iden- in memorium to craft the original collection pro- tity does not affect subject headings Long-time CWGS supporter, posal and coordinated with the Li- assigned to their material. The virtual Jean Andrews, braries over the last year to make the Black Queer Studies Collection be- passed away on collection a reality. The Black Queer gins to redress the erasure of Black January 7, 2010. Studies Collection is a groundbreak- diasporic lesbian, gay, bisexual, and Jean Andrews, ing project in librarianship in that it transgender materials by the current addresses standard obstacles posed absence of information organization a scientist, gar- by the Library of Congress Subject tools, and this practice models a way dener, explorer, Headings and information retrieval for library professionals to counteract artist and cook who was known systems to locating materials by and anti-professional claims to objectivity as “the Pepper Lady,” was 86. about Black Diasporic LGBTQ peo- and take a rightful role in critical en- A fifth-generation Texan, An- ple. gagement with knowledge organiza- drews, known as “Dr. Jean” at the tion’s production of meaning.” UT School of Human Ecology, Hogan writes in her proposal: “Cur- where she was a distinguished rent information organization prac- Here are a few details about the new alumna, was born in Kingsville tice frequently obscures access to collection which I want to highlight: in 1923. materials by and about historically marginalized communities, particu- • The core collection is based upon Edward D. Vickery, Sr. passed larly lesbian, gay, and transgender 50 titles purchased between 2008-09 away on April 29, 2010. Mr. communities of color. This erasure through a Liberal Arts Faculty Library Vickery’s generosity helped the results in a lack not only of appropri- Grant awarded to Matt Richardson Jody Conradt Excellence Fund in ate materials in users’ search results, • Additional titles are being added to Equity and Leadership off to a but also of sufficient context for the the collection with subject-designated great start and he will always be incomplete list materials generated library funds, including books, films remembered by CWGS. He was by a search. For example, What We and musical recordings born on the 1st of May 1922 in All Long For (Knopf Canada, 2008), a • Titles already owned by the Librar- Ft. Worth, Texas book including a central Asian lesbian ies are being retroactively added to

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