4 1 0 2 G N I R P S Feminist Trajectories

DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’ S AND GENDER STUDIES

Letter from the Chair

Dear Colleagues, Nurses United at whose suggestion we of the resolution on women human Hopefully we are now recovering from developed our current project, the rights defenders. The events invite a I N S I D E the feet upon feet of ice and snow online certificate program in Women‘s dynamic group of scholars, activists and THIS ISSUE: which greeted us at the start of the Global Health Leadership. That panel, artists working on peace, the environ- semester. Although many of our classes whose three papers —Kelly Coogan- ment, anti-violence, policy change, and were cancelled, I know we have over- Gehr‘s on Feminist Coalitions in Unlike- research and teaching on gender, milita- Review of 2 come and are back on track. We are ly Places, Chrisy Moutsatsos‘ on Re- risms, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. the Year now mid-way into an amazing semester. thinking Pedagogy and Power and Heidi I would also like to congratulate First I would like to introduce Hoechst‘s on Online Classrooms and Joanna Regulska for her work as Vice WGS 4 Monique Gregory, our Department Inter-generational Interdependence— President for International and Global Administrator, officially. You know her gave us instructive insights into the Affairs. Her hard work has been recog- Department by now, but she was on medical leave challenges and extraordinary potential nized as the Association of International last Spring when our last newsletter of online teaching. Most inspiring was Educators has announced Rutgers Uni- Faculty 6 came out so I would like to take this versity as a recipient of the 2014 Simon Highlights opportunity to welcome her formally Dr. Abena P. A. Busia Award for their comprehensive interna- and to thank her for all the work she tionalization efforts. Named for the late does helping to anchor the department. Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, the Si- Graduate 10 The semester began with our spec- mon Awards recognize outstanding and Highlights tacularly successful conference innovative achievements in campus ―Feminist Digital Pedagogies.‖ Not only internationalization and is among the Images of 13 was it a success in the physical space of most prestigious awards for compre- Rutgers but, because the entire event hensive internationalization. the Year was live-streamed, its global reach was The most recent event attended by beyond impressive. The Office of In- our students, faculty and staff was the Updates from 14 structional & Research Technology Institute for Women‘s Leadership‘s the PhD shared with us that the off-site engage- Kelly‘s presentation which, in her exam- Angelides endowed lecture for Wom- ment is the highest they have ever rec- ples of the international reach of this en, Media, and Technology honoring Alumni orded. We had viewers from 26 nations certificate program and the possibilities Gloria Steinem. The event was attended Updates from 15 with over 500 people viewing in total. it gives to ―educate into collective diso- by more than 900 people and could not In addition to 8 Western European bedience‖ truly affirmed our decision to have been more of a success. Our the MA countries, we had viewers from 5 Cen- embark on this certificate project. We Leadership scholars were honored to Alumni tral and Eastern European countries, are committed to continuing our ethical meet with Gloria Steinem in our office Russia, 4 Middle Eastern and North self-education on feminist digital peda- prior to her university speech. She re- Undergradu- 16 African countries, 5 Latin American and gogies and developing online courses minded us that the digital divide is a ate Highlights Caribbean countries, South Africa, and for our students. good proxy for power, and that we India. Kudos to Brittney Cooper and Last fall we also welcomed our must all light the torches of women Upcoming 18 Mary Hawkesworth, conference con- Mellon Fellow Annie Fukushima, who around us so that we can walk togeth- veners, for a wonderful event. In addi- will offer the research briefing er. In the last of our new media tech- Events tion to the gauntlets thrown down ―Immigrant Crossings & the Invisible/ nologies events this semester we are about ―Percussive Pedagogies: Teaching Visible Paradigm of Human Trafficking‖ happy to be partnering with the School Publications 19 (And Being Taught) Feminism in Digital next March 24. Also, she is organizing of Communication & Information Spaces‖ by Brittney and her Crunk- for next fall ―From Asia-Pacific to the (SC&I) to welcome Kimberly Springer, adelic sisters, there is one other Americas,‖ a multi-media event that will Women‘s Studies professor, broadcast- presentation from the conference I enable a rich dialogue about militarisms er and digital media and archives ex- would like to single out, the one on in the 21st century in the framework of pert, to deliver a public lecture on April ―Activist Learning in the Digital Class- the 16 Days Campaign that, organized 24. We have been hoping to bring her room,‖ chaired by our Kelly Coogan- by the Center for Women‘s Global here to visit us for several Gehr (PhD 2009), who is now an Edu- Leadership, honors women‘s human years, let us turn out to cator for the Institute for Health and rights and the United Nations General show her a WGS and IWL Socio-Economic Policy of the National Assembly‘s Third Committee adoption welcome!  P A G E 2 REVIEW OF THE YEAR News from the Graduate Director

The Graduate Program in sive exams. Many congratula- School of Arts and Sciences, the Women‘s and Gender Studies tions to Snezana Otasevic, Su- Department of Women‘s and started the 2013-14 academic sana Galan Julve, Taida Wolfe, Gender Studies, and the Insti- year in the wake of some excel- and Rachel Aparicio! tute for Research on Women lent news earlier in the spring. The fall 2013 semester has at Rutgers University are Our department had a winner already seen several of our pleased to announce a two-year among the recipients of the graduate students complete postdoctoral fellowship in Graduate School of New Bruns- their degrees. In October, Sa- Women's and Gender Studies, wick's Awards for Excellence in rah Weirich completed her MA supported by the Andrew W. Teaching. Our very own Sara degree, and she is currently in Mellon Foundation. The select- Perryman received the Rutgers the PhD program in Political ed fellow will receive a stipend Graduate School of New Science at Rutgers. Also in Oc- of $50,000 each year as well as Brunswick Teaching Award for tober, Yurika Tamura defended an annual research allocation of excellence in undergraduate her dissertation and completed $2,000 and Rutgers University teaching. Sara has made out- her PhD. Yurika immediately health benefits. The fellow will standing contributions to the (the next day!) started work in pursue research and teach success of our Graduate Pro- her new Postdoctoral Fellow- three courses in the Depart- gram, and the Department is ship position at Rice Universi- ment of Women‘s and Gender honored that her efforts are ty‘s Chao Center. Congratula- Studies during the two-year “Rutgers University being recognized. In addition, tions Sarah and Yurika! term of her/his appointment. Stina Soderling received the The fellow also will participate has joined the Linda Rothman Award for Dr. Yana Rodgers in seminars and other activities GEMMA European teaching excellence in our de- organized by the IRW. partment. Exchange Program. We also learned that PhD International Exchange The GEMMA candidates Miriam Tola and Max Some exciting news from Julie Hantel both were awarded one Rajan, our MA Director. Program in year of fellowship support to Thanks to Julie‘s hard work, participate in the 2013-14 semi- Rutgers University has joined Women’s Studies nar at the Rutgers Center for the GEMMA European Ex- features a Cultural Analysis. In addition, change Program. The GEMMA Anel Mendez Velazquez and Program in Women‘s Studies Consortium of Ashley Falzetti earned spots in Two more students defend- features a Consortium of Euro- the Institute for Research on ed their MA theses later in the pean Universities that offer a European Women 2013-14 seminar and fall semester in order to gradu- Masters in Women‘s Studies. Universities that fellowship support. Moreover, ate in January 2014: congratula- This Consortium is sponsored Jenna Brager was offered a com- tions to Kaitlyn Wojtowicz and by the European Commission. offer a Masters in petitive summer 2013 fellowship Kimberly Buckley! The Program is two years in from the Auschwitz Jewish Cen- Our recent alums have length. The MA students in our Women’s Studies” ter in Poland. some good news. Jillian Hernan- department may visit two Euro- dez, who received her PhD in pean universities in which to New Cohort and Graduates May 2013, has started her new complete coursework and ben- In fall 2013 we welcomed a job in a tenure-track assistant efit from scholarly mentorship. wonderful new cohort of enter- professor position in Critical In their fourth term they will ing MA and PhD students. Their Gender Studies and Ethnic return to Rutgers to complete intellectual interests and schol- Studies at the University of their Thesis. The participating arly backgrounds are as diverse California – San Diego. Further- European universities are: Lodz, and rich as their living experi- more, Debotri Dhar, who also Poland; Oviedo, Spain; Granada, ences and practical training. finished in May 2013, was se- Spain; Hull, UK; Utrecht, Neth- And just as our new cohort lected as the 2013-14 Postdoc- erlands; and Bologna, Italy. started their fall coursework, toral Visiting Scholar in the Finally, this newsletter con- we have begun the new recruit- Women's, Gender and Sexuali- tribution would be remiss with- ing season, highlighted by a ty Program at Boston Universi- out thanking, profusely, all the strong presence of our graduate ty. Congratulations to our won- hard work of Monique Grego- student volunteers at the MA derful alumni! ry, Suzy Kiefer, and Susana and PhD reception at the No- Galan Julve in supporting the vember meeting of the National Postdoctoral Opportunity graduate program. Collectively Women‘s Studies Association Of note is a call for applications we are that much more orga- annual meeting. This fall we also for the 2014-2016 Mellon Post- nized, informed, encouraged, saw four of our PhD students doctoral Fellowship in Wom- and strengthened by their ef- pass their written comprehen- en's and Gender Studies. The forts and grace. 

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S REVIEW OF THE YEAR P A G E 3 News from the Undergraduate Director Despite the complicated times Humanities division, together transportation, conference the public university system is Dr. Ethel Brooks with Comparative Literature registration, lodging and food of going through, the Department (68.42%) and Linguistics the students, as well as their of Women‘s and Gender Stud- (58.33%). The Department of participation in the cultural, ies has some good news to Women‘s and Gender Studies social and tourist program asso- share. A report elaborated by has certified nearly 200 majors ciated with this world-wide the Dean of Humanities of the and minors for the May 2014 interdisciplinary gathering insti- School of Arts and Sciences graduation. tuted in 1981. (SAS), James Swenson, shows that our department has had Grants to India New Online Certificate the highest percentage of posi- Nine undergraduate students The department has also re- tive change in enrollment of will have the opportunity this cently launched, in collabora- undergraduate students from offered by our department in August to attend and partici- tion with the IWL and National 2007 to 2013 in the Humani- the academic year 2012-2013 pate in the World Women‘s Nurses United (NNU), an inno- ties. This number is particularly (compared to 2,821 students in Congress in Hyderabad, India. vative online Certificate Pro- noteworthy given the dramatic 2007-2008). It is important to Under the mentorship of WGS gram in Women‘s Global decrease of enrollment that the note that this does not include faculty, the selected students — Health Leadership that seeks to humanities disciplines have students who took classes in Shamama Siddiqui, Cierra Kaler engage students, health care suffered in the same period, courses organized by other -Jones, Ashley Garner, Sarah providers, nurses and other with a 5.06% reduction for the departments that were cross- Stern, Meryem Uzumcu, Juhi community members in conver- whole division. According to listed with WGS. Farooqui, Justice Hehir, Eden sations about vital issues related this data, only Women‘s and Mesfun, and Srutika Sabu— to health and healthcare. The Gender Studies (13.90%), Eng- Increase of Majors have developed papers and program, initiated by WGS lish Writing and ESL (13.27%), Another positive development organized two panel proposals faculty member Mary Hawkes- Classics (4.01%), Philosophy refers to our majors and mi- that will be chaired by Lisa Het- worth and PhD alumnae Kelly (2.71%), and French (0.64%) nors. Between 2008 and 2013, field, Associate Director of the Coogan-Gehr, has rapidly multi- have seen positive changes in the number of declared majors Institute for Women‘s Leader- plied its enrollment from its their registration figures. In in Women‘s and Gender Stud- ship (IWL), and Mary Trigg, initial 35 students last spring absolute numbers, 3,213 stu- ies augmented by 50%, one of Director of Research of the 2013 to the current 63 students dents were enrolled in courses the highest increases in the IWL. The grants will cover the this spring semester 2014. 

News from Douglass Library Since fall 2013, Douglass Library stalled in the Fordham Com- current students and Douglass has increased its digital and Kayo Denda mons. The original Fordham alumnae, thus enabling students multimedia capability by adding Lab, now the Fordham Lab to expand their networks and another technology rich space Classroom, is available to uni- strengthen pride in their institu- to the Rutgers community. versity courses for time slots tion and its traditions. During spring 2014 the ground outside of the courses offered We are also getting ready floor Fordham Commons will by the Mason Gross School of for a call for the ―Fourth Un- serve as the laboratory for four the Arts. dergraduate Multimedia graduate students in the The Margery Somers Foster Award‖ (deadline March 26, ―Digital Curation Internship‖ co Center continues to curate the 2014). Please encourage your -taught by Mary Hawkesworth Douglass Alumnae Oral History students with creative multime- and Kayo Denda. The graduate Project, a collection of approxi- dia projects to apply. students, three from the Wom- Gender Studies Department mately 250 intergenerational The Media Center Open en‘s and Gender Studies De- and the Libraries highlights the interviews of Douglass women House attracted a good crowd. partment and one from the integral role that the libraries from 1925-2005. We have in- We hope to continue dissemi- School of Communication and play in the academic ecosystem, troduced short interview clips nating new media related ser- Information, Library and Infor- both as a partner to the stu- from this collection to students vices to faculty and instructors. mation Science Department, dents‘ academic experience and in the Knowledge and Power Contact Jane Sloan, will use the video intake from facilitator of world-class schol- course. The students are ex- ([email protected]), media the Feminist Digital Pedagogies arship. posed to Douglass women‘s librarian, for inquiries and addi- conference and create compel- Thanks to Jonathan Sauceda, collective ambitions and learn tional information. Should you ling feminist digital projects Music/Performing Arts Librari- of the historical events that have any questions, inquiries, using multimedia tools and an, and his grant ―Fordham have shaped their alma mater. suggestions or recommenda- expertise. This partnership FabLab,‖ two 3D printers and a We also created unique oppor- tions, please contact me at: between the Women‘s and 3D scanner will soon be in- tunities for contact between [email protected]. 

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 4 WGS DEPARTMENT//NEW INCORPORATIONS

New Faculty: Sylvia Chan-Malik Sylvia Chan-Malik joined Rutgers panion to American Islam, edited the resolutely transnational con- last fall 2012 with a joint appoint- by Juliane Hammer and Omid texts of geopolitical power rela- ment with the departments of Safi (Cambridge University Press, tions between the US, South Women‘s and Gender Studies 2013). She is also the guest edi- Asia, and the Middle East. and American Studies. She is a tor (with Khyati Joshi) of ―Asian Through first-person interviews, literary, cultural studies, and American Religions‖ in the Amer- archival analyses, the close- comparative ethnic studies schol- asia Journal (Spring 2014). Her readings of literary, visual, media, ar whose work examines the essay ―Islam in the Arts in the and digital texts, this book racialization of Islam and, more U.S.‖ has been accepted for pub- demonstrates how African Sylvia Chan-Malik has a broadly, the theorization of racial lication in The Routledge Hand- American, White American, PhD in Ethnic Studies -religious identities in a ―post- book of Islam in the West (June South Asian American, and Arab from the University of racial‖ age. Through her analysis, 2014). American Muslim women, from California, Berkeley she reveals the intersections of the interwar period into the post (2009). race, class, gender, sexuality, and Making Muslim America -9/11 era, have acted as primary religion that construct ―Muslim What does it mean to be a part architects and central historical In the spring semester, America,‖ and demonstrates of Islam? Sylvia Chan-Malik‘s agents of Islam‘s racial, gendered, she is teaching a graduate how a rich racial and religious current manuscript A part of and religious presence in the US. seminar on Feminist syncretism, borne out of the Islam: Race, Gender, and Making Locating what she calls an affec- Methodology. interaction and exchange be- Muslim America, 1923-2013 re- tive tradition of Islam in the US, Contact: tween Black, Arab, White, Lati- sponds to this question by locat- Chan-Malik argues that Muslim [email protected] no, and South Asian Muslim ing the lives and labor of Muslim American women have been communities, has always been women in the U.S. within and instrumental in constructing and the hallmark of Muslim American through the racialized contexts enabling ethical practices of racial identity, community and cultural of their engagements with Islam. -religious-gendered belonging, formation. Chan-Malik has re- Chan-Malik considers historically ways of being and feeling Muslim cently published ―Cultural and -situated cultural constructions within the shifting racial, gen- Literary Production of Muslim of Islam and Muslims in the na- dered, and religious logics of America‖ in The Cambridge Com- tion‘s racial imaginary, as well as 20th-21st century US. 

New Postdoc: Annie Fukushima Annie Isabel Fukushima, PhD is Northern California – Anti- an anthology edited by Lisa currently an Andrew W. Mellon trafficking Collaborative of the Cuklanz and Heather McIntosh, Postdoctoral Associate in Wom- Bay Area. She was invited by the Documenting Gendered Violence en's and Gender Studies and the Independent Television Service (2014). She is also the co-editor, Institute for Research on Wom- to be a panelist for the interna- with Rosalee Gonzalez, Layli en at Rutgers University (2013- tional screening of Invoking Justice Maparyan, Matt Richardson and 2015). Her work explores homo (August 2013) and she was fea- Anita Tijerina, of a Third Wom- Annie Fukushima has a -social violence through examin- tured on the Office for Victims en Press anthology that will be PhD in Ethnic Studies with ing Asian and Latina/o migrant of Crime Training and Technical published in 2015 following the a Designated Emphasis in experiences and categorization Assistance Center (OVC TTAC) lead of This Bridge Called My Back Women, Gender, and as traffickers/trafficked people website in January 2014 as the (1982) and other seminal femi- and the multiple crossings mi- ―Consultant Spotlight.‖ nist of color and queer of color Sexuality from the grants traverse – geographical anthologies. Her article ―Beyond University of California, and socio-political. Fukushima‘s New Publications Supply & Demand: The Limita- Berkeley (2012). work is interdisciplinary: sociolo- Fukushima is currently working tions of End Demand-Strategies‖ In the spring, she is gy of participant observation and on her book manuscript Asian is included in Human Trafficking teaching an participation, media and legal and Latina/o Migrant Crossings in Reconsidered: Rethinking the Prob- undergraduate course analysis, and a transnational femi- the United States and the Invisible / lem, Envisioning New Solutions, on Gender & nist lens. During the spring of Visible Paradigm of Human Traf- edited by Kimberly Kay Hoang Popular Culture. 2013 she served as an expert ficking. Her recent co-authored and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Contact: witness on human trafficking in work, ―Calling the Consumer (2014). She has published multi- Annie.fukushima@ the superior courts of California, Activist, Consuming the Traffick- ple encyclopedia entries on inti- San Francisco and is currently ing Subject: Call and Response and mate relations and race, immi- rutgers.edu evaluating Office for Victims of the Terms of Legibility,‖ with gration, human trafficking, and Crime funded programs in Julietta Hua, will be included in comfort women. 

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S WGS DEPARTMENT//HIGHLIGHTS P A G E 5

Seven Courses for Healing the World The certificate program in education requirements or and Gender Studies, Nursing, “Change Is Already Women‘s Global Health Lead- moving towards completion of Psychology, Africana Studies, ership is an innovative online a Bachelor‘s degree. The twen- Environmental Economics, Geo- Happening” project developed by the De- ty-one credit certificate pro- logical Sciences, Philosophy, - Ashley Faults partment of Women‘s and gram offers a combination of Political Science, and Public Registered Nurse, NNU Gender Studies in collaboration required, elective, and special Health have attended the clas- with the Institute for Women‘s ses. The online format of the ―I have been working a lot of night Leadership (IWL) at Rutgers program has enabled nurses shifts over the past few weeks, and and National Nurses United from Arizona, California, Colo- on a slow evening recently I fired up (NNU), the largest nurses‘ rado, Illinois, New York, Michi- my laptop to watch a few of the union in the United States. The gan, and Pennsylvania to partici- course‘s required videos. At one program was approved by the pate. The program has contin- point, a co-worker asked if she could School of Arts and Sciences ued a very high student reten- sit and watch, as well. Before too curriculum committee in the tion rate of 94%.  long, a little group was gathered and academic year 2012-13. It was everyone‘s eyes were wide. People launched with support of a Logo of the program.  Visit www.womensglobal were shocked to learn about the generous grant from the Dean healthleadership.org to learn horrifying truths regarding living and of Arts and Sciences in Rutgers- topic courses that present a more about the program. The working conditions around the New Brunswick. The online comprehensive overview of website features faculty profiles, globe. After the films, I was able to certificate program is designed social, economic, political, and course descriptions, require- talk further about the class, and as for undergraduate students environmental issues central to ments, syllabi, student evalua- you encountered, people were very who seek to combine their health and well-being of women tions, digital bookshelf, visual eager to be enlightened. If even just interests in health professions in different parts of the world. archive, health statistics, films your sister-in-law and my few co- with interdisciplinary feminist Since the program was and documentaries, and many workers are inspired through what scholarship. More than 250,000 launched in 2012, it has attract- other exciting resources on we have learned, then change is nurses who are NNU members ed students from diverse disci- women‘s health research and already happening. Even subtle are also eligible to pursue the plines, professions, and regions. activism in various parts of the change for justice is better than no program for meeting continuing Students majoring in Women‘s world. change!‖

Conference on #TeachDigitalFem Online teaching and the Digital included presentations by integrated by Brittney Cooper, Humanities (DH) are increas- Douglass Residential College Robin Boylorn, Sheri Davis- ingly becoming key components students participating in the Faulkner, Susana M. Morris and in the development of pedagog- DOCC on Race, Gender and Eesha Pandit— discussed ical approaches and tools. In Technology, moderated by ―Percussive Pedagogies: Teach- order to reflect on the oppor- Karen Alexander and Elaine ing (And Being Taught) Femi- tunities and challenges that the Zundl, Dean of Junior and Sen- nism in Digital Spaces.‖ The digital present poses for femi- ior Year Programs and Dean of conference also included a nist theory and practice, as well the Douglass Project for Rut- hands-on workshop on how to as to learn more about those gers Women in Math, Science create feminist content in Wik- projects that are already using and Engineering at Douglass ipedia, facilitated by Adeline new technologies and cyber- Residential College. Koh, and a session on Flipd space for teaching, the Depart- On January 24, the educa- with Sesh Venugopal. ment of Women‘s and Gender tors for the Institute for Health The event attracted an audi- Studies organized on January 23 and Socio-Economic Policy of ence of about 150 participants and 24 a conference on Femi- the National Nurses United on site and over 500 online nist Digital Pedagogies. (NNU) Kelly Coogan-Gehr, viewers from 26 countries that The two-day event featured Poster of the conference. Chrisy Moutsatsos, and Heidi could follow the presentations keynote speeches by Adeline Hoechst talked about the im- through live streaming.  Koh, director of DH@Stockton New School, and Alex Juhasz, plementation of the Online and assistant professor of litera- professor of Media Studies at Certificate Program on Wom- ture at Richard Stockton Col- Pitzer College. On January 23, en‘s Global Health Leadership  Watch online: http:// lege, and by Anne Balsamo, the panel ―Engaging Students in the session ―Activist Learning youtu.be/ee_Ki41xeqU (Jan 23) professor and Dean of the Across the Disciplines in Femi- in the Digital Classroom.‖ The and http://youtu.be/ School of Media Studies at The nist Dialogues on Technology‖ Crunk Feminist Collective — LAjeR9kDCNs (Jan 24).

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 6 FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS//HONORS, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Prof. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is co-editing, Prof. Charlotte Bunch was honored with the Prof. Nikolwith G. Julia Alexander Jordan-Zachery,-Floyd ais Special co-editing, Issue with on BlackJulia Prof. Charlottecreation Bunch of the wasCharlotte honored Bunch with Human the creation Rights of Jordan-Zachery,Women a Specialin Politics Issue for on the Black National Women Political in PoliticsScience the CharlotteDefender Bunch AwardHuman to Rights be given Defender to activists Award from to be for the NationalReview. Political She published Science Review.―Beyond She Superwoman: published Jus- given to activistsaround from the world,around at the the world, Global at Fund the Global for Wom- Fund ―Beyond Superwoman:tice for Black WomenJustice for Too,‖ Black in Women Dissent (WinterToo,‖ in for Women‘sen‘s 25th 25th Anniversary Anniversary Gala. Gala. The The Center Center for for Wom- Dissent (Winter2014, invited2014, invited article). article). 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Prof. Susanbonmatsu Carroll the published book More with Women Kira Sanbonmatsu Can Run: Gen- the She continues to serve on the Editorial Boards of Signs and book More derWomen and Pathways Can Run: to Gender the State and Legislature Pathways to(Oxford the State Feminist Economics. Legislature (OxfordUniversity University Press, 2013). 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Prof. Radhika Balakrishnan published ―Debt, Prof. RadhikaPower, Balakrishnan and Crisis: Social published Stratification ―Debt, and Power, the and Prof. Brittney Cooper published (with Aisha Crisis: SocialInequitable Stratification Governance and the ofInequitable Financial Markets,‖Governance in Prof. BrittneyDurham Cooper and Susana published Morris) (with the Aishaarticle Durham ―The Stage and of FinancialRace, Markets,‖ Empire, in and Race, the Empire, Crisis of and the the Subprime, Crisis of edited the Susana Morris)Hip Hop the Feminismarticle ―The Built: Stage A NewHip HopDirections Feminism Es- Subprime, byedited Paula by Cakravartty Paula Cakravartty and Denise and DeniseFerreira Ferreira da Silva Built: A Newsay,‖ Directions in Signs 38:3 Essay,‖ (Spring in Signs,2013), Vol. and 38, the No. chapter 3 da Silva (John(John Hopkins Hopkins University University Press, Press, 2013). 2013). 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FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS//HONORS, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS P A G E 7

Prof. Fakhri Haghani offered two talks in the Uni- Prof. Yana Rodgers published (with Nidhiya versity of Manchester (UK): ―‗Seeing and Being Seen:‘ Menon) the article ―Labor Regulation and Job Egyptian Women, Revolutions, and the Staging of a Quality: Evidence from India,‖ in the Industrial Shifting Public Sphere‖ (February 25) and ―Between and Labor Relations Review 66:4 (July 2013), and Realism and Representation: Cinema and Society in the chapter ―Credit and Self-Employment,‖ in the Middle East‖ (February 26). Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life, edited by Deborah M. Figart and Tonia Prof. Jasbir Puar received the Modern Languages Warnecke (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013). Association GL/Q Caucus Michael Lynch Service Award and the Robert Sutherland Visitorship Award Prof. Louisa Schein presented ―Changing in Queens University. She also became a Fellow 2013- Idioms/Changing Practices: Ethnicity, Minority, 2014 of the Society of the Humanities at Cornell Uni- and Culture in China‖ at the International Con- versity. ference of Asian Scholars in Macau (June 2013). She also presented ―Ethnographic Representa- Prof. Julie Rajan has secured with Routledge a con- tion Across Genres: The Culture Trope in tract for her book, Al Qaeda's Global Crisis: Takfir and Contemporary Mainland Media‖ at the Inter- the Mass Killing of Muslims (forthcoming 2014). She was Asia Cultural Studies Conference in Singapore (July 2013). the guest editor of two special issues in the Journal of Schein also gave two lectures at the Asia Research Institute Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, one on ―Women and at the National University of Singapore (July 2013). Terrorism: Violence, Conflict, and the Nation- State‖ (November 2013) and the other on ―Women Prof. Kyla Schuller held the Erasmus Mundus Suicide Bombers: Negotiations of Violence‖ (May 2013). Visiting Professor Scholarship at the University With Sanja Bahun-Radunovic, she is working on the second of Utrecht in the Netherlands (May-June 2013). edition of her book, Violence and Gender in the Globalized She is currently at work on a book project, The World: The Intimate and the Extimate (Ashgate, forthcoming Sentimental Politics of Life, which rethinks the 2014). She completed two articles: ―Indian Writing in the emergence of eugenics in the United States. West: Imperialism, Exoticism, and Visibility,‖ in Om Dwivedi and Lisa Lau (eds.), Marketing Compulsions of Indian Writing in Prof. Mary Trigg (Aresty Research Assistant English (Ashgate, forthcoming), and ―Women Terrorists in Kim LeMoon, SAS‘15) won 2013 ―Best Poster‖ Postcolonial Conflicts Globally,‖ in Carola Dietze and Clau- for the humanities field in the Aresty Research dia Verhoeven (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Center‘s Undergraduate Research Symposium, Terrorism (Oxford UP, forthcoming). ―Multicultural Motherhood: Seabrook Farms in the 1940s & 1950s.‖ The poster is related to Prof. Joanna Regulska is the appointed member Trigg‘s new book project, Maternalism, Temporal- of the 2014 Association of International Education ity, and Representations of Mothers in the United States, 1920- Administrators Conference Planning. She received 1960. She has a contract with Rutgers University Press for the 2013 Fulbright International Education Adminis- her book Feminism as Life's Work: Four Modern American trators Program in Korea, Fulbright Korean- Women, 1910-1940, that will be published in the spring American Educational Commission. 2014.

Events Honor Nancy Hewitt and Cheryl Clarke

On the occasion of their retire- among others. Clarke is the brating the Work of Nancy A. ment, a series of events cele- author of several books of Hewitt,‖ and a program that brated last fall the work of two poetry —Narratives: Poems In included sessions on sexuality, affiliated faculty of the Depart- The Tradition Of Black Women; gender and desire, remaking ment of Women‘s and Gender Living As A Lesbian; Humid Pitch; race and place, complicating Studies: Nancy Hewitt and and Experimental Love. She was feminism, gender, work and Cheryl Clarke. On October 4, also, since 2009, the Dean of politics, and organizing for a gathering entitled ―Cheryl Students for the Livingston change. Hewitt was a professor Clarke: A Retrofuturespective‖ Campus. of History and Women‘s and invited activists, artists, schol- On October 25 and 26, the Gender Studies at Rutgers, and ars, performers, and others to conference ―Solidarity and published, among others, the a get-together that featured Social Justice: Recasting Histo- edited collections A Companion talks and poetry readings by ries of Sex, Class, and Race in to American Women’s History Cheryl Wall, Rickey Laurentiis, America‖ honored Nancy and Women, Families and Com- Evie Shockley, Aishah Shahida Hewitt with a keynote by Paula munities: Readings in American Simmons, Abena Busia, Aimee Giddings, author of When and History, as well as Who Built Meredith Cox, E. Frances Where I Enter, entitled ―Of America? She also edited White, and Edgar Rivera Colon, Poster of the conference. Politics and Pedagogy: Cele- No Permanent Waves. 

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 8 FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS// FACULTY SPOTLIGHT Making (Inter)Disciplinary Trouble

By Dr. One of the things that I am most pas- advocate for gender equity. As Chair of ence PhD and one of our department‘s Nikol sionate about is making (inter) discipli- the American Political Science Associa- women‘s and gender studies certificate Alexander nary trouble, that is, ―troubling‖ or tion‘s Committee on the Status of students. As a result of this committee‘s -Floyd disrupting conventional disciplinary Women in the Profession (CSWP), I efforts, the March 2014 annual meeting Professor boundaries that affirm mainstream ap- organized a plenary session for the of the National Conference of Black proaches to knowledge production and CSWP entitled, ―Leaning In and Having Political Scientists will mark the begin- in Wom- constrain progressive agendas for femi- It All?: Redefining Equality and Trans- ning of a formal affiliation of the AS- en’s and nist and anti-racist politics. In recent forming Political Science in the New BWP with NCOBPS. This affiliation will Gender years, I have been fortunate to further Millennium,‖ which featured Anne- facilitate programming on women‘s and Studies this agenda in a variety ways, both Marie Slaughter, Carol Mershon, Shayla gender studies issues for the NCOBPS through my professional service and Nunnally, and Karen Beckwith. The annual meeting, and provide a context scholarship. scholars had a far-reaching, robust, and for Black women in political science to I was humbly grateful to serve as generative discussion, and the plenary receive mentoring and career support. program co-chair for the National was covered by reporters and was dis- Finally, I have been fortunate to co- Women‘s Studies Association for the cussed in stories in The Chronicle of edit a special issue of the National Polit- 2011 and 2012 annual meetings. Alt- Higher Education and Issues In Higher ical Science Review on Black women in hough I had just finished co-chairing the Education aimed at spotlighting the issue politics with an amazing feminist schol- 2010 annual meeting of the National of gender inequities in political science. ar, Julia Jordan-Zachery, Chair of Black Conference of Black Political Scientists, There is a correlation, of course, Studies at Providence College. The

In the picture, among others, Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Abena Busia, Zakia Salime, and other leaders in the NWSA, such as Bonnie Thornton Dill, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Chandra Mohanty, Allison Kimmich, and Angela Davis.

when former National Women‘s Stud- between the amount and type of schol- special issue, due out fall 2014, features ies Association (NWSA) President Bon- arship produced about gender and race cutting-edge, interdisciplinary work nie Thornton Dill asked me to work inequities and the presence of white from a range of sub-fields and utilizes a alongside her as NWSA program co- women and racial minorities in the wide array of methods. One of the chair, I could not pass up an opportuni- professions, and this especially critical in pieces, which examines the raced- ty to co-labor with an amazing scholar- the case of Black women in academia, gendered authoritarian discourse of activist whom I had long admired. I was particularly in political science, one of Marion Barry in terms of his involve- also excited about contributing to the the disciplines that has been historically ment of D.C. housing policy, was new direction that the NWSA has tak- resistant to addressing equity concerns. penned by one of our PhD students, en in recent years to forge a more in- For this reason, organizations, such as Rosemary Ndubuizu. The special issue clusive, diverse organization that would the Association for the Study of Black will be the first published by a political provide renewed energy and direction Women in Politics (ASBWP), have been science journal that centers on Black to the field of Women‘s and Gender formed to advance Black women in women‘s experiences, and will contrib- Studies. Our themes of ―Feminist political science and support scholarship ute to Black women‘s and gender stud- Transformations‖ and ―Feminism Un- on Black women. Recently, under the ies scholarship both within and beyond bound‖ directly addressed the impact of direction of Wendy Smooth, associate political science. feminist thought in reconfiguring disci- professor of Women‘s and Sexuality One of the benefits of being a grad- plinary terrains and directed attention Studies at The Ohio State and the cur- uate and now faculty member of Rut- to the new horizons of feminist theory rent president of the National Confer- gers is having exposure to an impres- and practice in the current millennium. ence of Black Political Scientists sive community of feminist scholars Each year conference attendance con- (NCOBPS), an NCOBPS Women‘s across disciplines, with an abiding com- tinued to break new records, and the Initiative was instituted to address the mitment to women‘s and gender stud- level of engagement by participants has advancement of Black women within ies and ample support for doing pro- been outstanding. the organization and the profession. I gressive feminist work. As a scholar, I In a similar vein, within the context had the pleasure of co-chairing this am fortunate to be able to pursue my of political science, feminists have been committee, along with Nadia Brown, personal and political passions within working to push the boundaries of what assistant professor of political science at such a vibrant feminist community as constitutes valid knowledge and to Purdue, who is a Rutgers political sci- we have at Rutgers. 

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS// CONFERENCES P A G E 9 Presentations at the NWSA, CESA and Other

A contingent of WGS faculty participat- Claims‖ at the University of California, ed in the 34th Annual Conference of Berkeley (April 2013), and ―The Scandal the National Women‘s Studies Associa- of Woman Loca in the Dominican- tion (NWSA) in Cincinnati (November Haitian Borderlands‖ at the Latin Amer- 7-10). Under the theme ―Practices of ican Studies Association (LASA) Con- Effecting Change,‖ Prof. Brittney vention in Washington DC (May 2013). Cooper took part in the Crunk Femi- He was an invited panelist at the Na- nist Collective Roundtable (in the pic- tional Stigma Summit on Black and Lati- ture), Prof. Alison Bernstein pre- no Gay Men‘s Health in Dallas sented on ―Women and Media Leader- (November 2013), and ―Thinking with ship‖ and ―How to Fund the Revolu- The Crunk Feminist Collective. my Gut: Preliminary Notes on How to tion? Sustaining the Future of Women‘s do Theory with Spirit,‖ at the Union Studies and Feminist Organizations,‖ Done? The Future of Critical Ethnic Theological Seminary in New York Prof. Mary Hawkesworth talked Studies.‖ (October 2013). Dr. Annie Fukushi- about ―Academic Publishing in Wom- In other academic gatherings and ma presented ―Cultures of Crossing & en‘s Studies: Journals,‖ and Prof. Ka- conferences, Prof. Nikol Alexander- Servitude: Tracing an Archive of Raced ren Alexander moderated the session Floyd presented ―Race, Gender, and and Gendered Subjects‖ at the Ameri- ―Queer Mobilizations.‖ Under the the Social Construction of the African can Studies Association (ASA) Confer- theme ―Borders and Margins,‖ Prof. Diaspora: A Case-Study of the Black ence, Washington D.C. (November Mary Trigg presented ―U.S. Immigrant Male Crisis in Popular Culture, Public 2013). Prof. Radhika Balakrishnan Mothers‘ Narratives of the Past: Tem- Policy, and Formal Politics‖ at the Uni- presented ―The Politics for Solidarity: porality, Motherhood, and Memory, versity of Wisconsin-Madison (February Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational 1920-1940.‖ 2013) and ―We Shall Have Our Man- Organizing,‖ at the Barnard Hall in New WGS faculty also participated in the hood: Black Male Crisis Ideology in York (April 2013) and ―Democracy v. A Critical Ethnic Studies Association Popular Culture, Public Policy, and For- Global Economy: New Challenges and (CESA)‘s 2013 Conference in Chicago mal Politics,‖ at the University of Illinois Threats‖ at Columbia University (September 19-21). Prof. Sylvia Chan -Chicago (March 2013). Prof. Carlos (September 2013). She also served as -Malik presented ―The Radical Politics Decena presented ―Working Trans in an expert panelist for OHCHR‘s Expert of Prayer,‖ participated in a roundtable Jaime Cortez‘s Sexilio” at the American Group Meeting on promoting human on ―Demons of Comparison: Ethnic University, Washington DC (February rights in post-crisis financial regulation Studies and the Imperatives of Imperial- 2013) and the University of Connecti- and macroeconomic policies in NY ism,‖ and was a discussant on the Social cut (April 2013). He also presented (April 2013) and spoke at the US Hu- Justice Initiative ―Imperial Legacies and ―Body Portals‖ Writing Through Sleep man Rights Network‘s bi-annual nation- the Perils and Possibilities of Compara- Dealer‖ at CUNY (March 2013), al conference in Atlanta on ―Advancing tive Work.‖ Prof. Jasbir Puar partici- ―Towards a Queer Intersectional Analy- Human Rights 2013: Dignity, Justice, pated in the plenary ―What is to be sis in Immigration Marriage vs. Asylum Action‖ (December 2013). 

CWGL: Vienna +20 Symposium

The Center for Women‘s Salime (WGS, RutgersU), and lowed by a panel on human Global Leadership (CWGL) with the participation of Prof. rights, democracy, and right to organized on October 3 the Charlotte Bunch (WGS, development, with the partici- Vienna +20 symposium ―Human RutgersU), Patricia Guerrero pation of Noura Erakat (Temple Rights and Fundamental Free- (Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas), University Beasley School of doms: 20 Years After Vienna.‖ Bernedette Muthien (Coalition Law), Norma Maldonado ViennaThe one-day event was opened of African Lesbians), and Anita (Asociacion Raxch‘ och‘ Oxlaju with a keynote by Prof. Radhi- Nayar (United Nations Non- Aj), and Atieno Ndomo (United ka Balakrishnan, Executive Governmental Liaison Service). Nations Millennium Campaign). Director of the CWGL, and In the afternoon, there was The Chair of the Department Anthony Romero, of the Amer- a panel on poverty and inequali- of WGS, Prof. Abena Busia, ican Civil Liberties Union, mod- ty, with presentations by Ejim was in charge of the closing of erated by LaShawn Jefferson, Dike (US Human Rights Net- the symposium.  from the Ford Foundation. work), Bhumika Muchhala The morning started with a (Third World Network), and  Watch online: http:// panel on Women‘s Rights, Ignacio Saiz (Center for Eco- www.you tube.com/ moderated by Prof. Zakia Closure of the symposium. nomic and Social Rights), fol- CWGLRutgers.

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 10 GRADUATE HIGHLIGHTS//RESEARCH REPORT Teaching Feminist Theories in Bangladesh

By Nafisa The day I first heard that I was selected said, universities in the Global North and articles that my professors assigned Tanjeem for the Graduate School of New Bruns- also need to promote the practice of were written by North American or PhD student wick pre-dissertation travel award, I considering open source digital publica- European feminists in English. I looked in Women’s was overwhelmed with joy. The award tions for faculty hiring and tenuring. at the syllabus I was teaching. I assigned and Gender meant a lot for me. It meant I could Introduction to College Teaching some amazing feminist texts from scho- afford to go to Bangladesh and spend classes at Rutgers cautioned me against lars such as Judith Butler, Audre Lorde, Studies three months visiting potential research giving away my personal cell phone and Chandra Mohanty and all of the sites. It meant I would be able to col- number and accepting friend requests works were published in English from lect locally published resources, estab- from students on Facebook. US practic- either the USA or the UK. My own lish networks with Bangladeshi re- es endorse email as the primary means academic training in Bangladesh and the searchers and activists, and identify key of student-faculty communication. The- way I was training Bangladeshi students informants. Nevertheless, I did not se practices make little sense in the were heavily influenced by feminist know on that day it also meant I would context of Bangladesh, where only 20% knowledge produced in the hegemonic get the opportunity to know an amaz- people have access to internet (The Global North. My colleagues at Univer- ing cohort of Bangladeshi undergradu- Independent, May 31, 2013). Consider- sity of Dhaka try their best to update ate students majoring in Women‘s and ing the low percentage of internet us- students with most recent interven- Gender Studies and the very rewarding ers, I was not surprised when students tions in North American and European experience of teaching part of a course titled ―Introduction to Feminist Theo- ries‖ at University of Dhaka in Bangla- desh. My teaching philosophy is influ- enced by ―Introduction to College Teaching‖ classes and TA training ses- sions at Rutgers University and Univer- sity of Toronto and my four-year-long experience of teaching in the USA and Canada. I was always interested in gain- ing teaching experience in the Global South where I would face unanticipated challenges and be able to question ped- agogical assumptions of my North American instructional training and experience. So, when I first heard that the Department of Women and Gen- der Studies at University of Dhaka was looking for a substitute teacher to cov- er for a faculty member on maternity leave, I volunteered. Teaching at University of Dhaka My wonderful students from the ―Introduction to Feminist Theories‖ class. brought me face-to-face with the ex- traordinary privilege of universities in asked for my personal cell phone num- feminist thought with a view to making the Global North. Texts that I wanted ber. It is also very usual to get a Face- students competent for graduate ad- to teach were not available at libraries book friend request from a student in mission in the North. Do I take that of the university. Institutional subscrip- Bangladesh. Most of the universities in much effort to teach works of Rokeya tions to most of the academic journals this country neither have access to Sakhawat Hussain or Najma Chow- published from North America and course management systems like Sakai dhury at Rutgers? How often do femi- Europe are too expensive for a public or eCollege nor maintain list servers. nist scholars in the Global North cite institution of higher learning in the The Facebook group of the Depart- works that are written in languages Global South such as University of Dha- ment is the place where students get other than English and produced in the ka. Many faculty members purchase most updated news. Global South? books at their own expense when they Students at University of Dhaka My four week teaching experience travel abroad to pursue higher studies often asked me what the Bangla words gave me the wonderful opportunity to or attend conferences. Upon returning would be for terms such as ―hetero- question and rethink my teaching phi- to Bangladesh, they donate the books normativity,‖ ―intersectionnality,‖ or losophy and practice, which have been to libraries in order to familiarize stu- ―transnational feminism.‖ I could not profoundly shaped by North American dents with the most updated feminist give them satisfying answers, which led instructional training and experience. I scholarships. Countries in the Global me to wonder why I don‘t know the loved University of Dhaka, where re- South like Bangladesh desperately need Bangla words. I looked back at my un- sources are limited and challenges are less stringent copywrite laws and more dergraduate training from the same unpredictable but alternatives are crea- open source digital publications. That university. Almost two-thirds of books tive and aspirations are high. 

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S GRADUATE HIGHLIGHTS P A G E 11 Filipino Labor Migration and Coloniality of Power

Last August I went to the University Raymundo put me in contact with By Carolina of The Philippines (UP) as a visiting her extensive network of Filipino Alonso fellow sponsored by Saba Raymundo, migrant organizations in Manila and I Bejarano a professor at the UP Center for was invited to take part in the activi- PhD student International Studies. ties organized for her summer class, in Women’s In my work I explore the relation including field trips to state agencies and Gender between labor migration and coloni- and advocacy organizations, and lec- ality of power in the United States, tures by Philippine migration schol- Studies and the Philippines is an especially ars, government officials and commu- important site for understanding this nity advocates. relation, not only because it shares I also had the opportunity to at- with Latin America the legacies of tend the meetings of the Alliance of Spanish and US colonialism but also Concerned Teachers (ACT) –a big because it is the top labor-exporting Filipino organization for the encour- country in the world. agement of academic activism– and I I had a wonderful time exploring participated in the organizing of the the UP‘s archive on the US colonial International Assembly of Migrants & era, and learning about coloniality Refugees, which took place in New and migration from the many faculty York City in October 2013. All in all, members at the UP who have great I had the best time, and I can‘t wait expertise on the subject. Professor Carolina in the Philippines. to go again. 

Coming Full Circle: ‘A Question of Color’ in NY As both a returning nontraditional discussed how African American lennium.‖ This spring and fall I am By Kathe graduate student in Women‘s and directors, including myself, endeav- teaching ―Media, Culture and Repre- Sandler Gender Studies at Rutgers and a ored for decades to accurately and sentation: Black Feminism and Cine- PhD student Guggenheim award-winning filmmak- artfully reflect Black skin tones, de- ma.‖ Finally I will participate in the in Women’s er, my worlds came full circle this spite film processing technologies 2014-15 IRW Seminar Feminist Op- and Gender past summer. Drs. Dominique that were skewed for White com- tics: Gender and Visual Studies. And Grisard and Margrit Vogt invited me plexions. I also described some re- in the not too distant future I will Studies to screen my 1993 PBS film A Ques- cent visceral student responses to A complete my documentary film in tion of Color at the Skin/Matters con- Question of Color at Rutgers where I progress on modern Black feminist ference on August 29 at the CUNY use it to explore racialized notions of movements.  Graduate Center and to be a pre- beauty and internalized racism. While senter at the Columbia University my film privileges African American symposium the following day. A Ques- experiences, a number of Latinas and tion of Color, then twenty years old, is South Asian women in particular the first one-hour documentary to shared painful familial and community explore attitudes about skin color, experiences in their autobiographical hair texture and facial features in papers. I attended the conference in African American communities. part to identify accessible cross cul- The film was paired with a recent tural scholarship and media for teach- short documentary —Shadeism by ing about the topic. Happily, I met Nayani Vathsaladevi-Thyiyagarajah— several scholars and artists who are which explores a similar topic producing such work. Following the amongst women of color in Toronto. conference, some of us posed for this In the discussion that followed, Vath- photograph on the right. saladevi-Thyiyagarajah shared that she In closing, this experience marked had seen my film some years earlier me for a remarkable convergence of and had been very influenced by it. my academic pursuits and my Personally, I was moved by her inter- filmmaking which continues today. views. A robust dialogue ensued be- Currently I am at work on my disser- tween us and the audience. tation ―How Black Feminism Takes Kathe (kneeling right) with (left to right) Abby Dobson, The following day I presented on Place: Intergenerational Activism and Corey Dzenko, Kendra Ross, Katyayani Dalmia, the topic of Colorism and Cinema. I Cultural Production in the New Mil- Cecilia Cardena-Navia, and Lahoma Thomas.

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 12 GRADUATE HIGHLIGHTS

PhD Students Present at Major Conferences

Several WGS graduate students partici- pated in the NWSA conference in Con- necticut last November. Under the theme ―Borders and Margins,‖ Sara Perryman presented ―Eco-sensoriums and Geographies of Risk: Detroit, Michi- gan‘s Affective Circuitry‖ and Lindsey Whitmore presented ―Imperial Sensa- tions: Border Anxiety & Bodily Trans- gression in ‗A Thrilling and Exciting Ac- count of the Sufferings and Horrible Tortures Inflicted on Mortimer Bowers and Miss Sophia Delaplain.‘‖ Under the theme ―Body Politics,‖ Jenna Brager presented ―Visceral Possessions and Queer Haunting in ‗The Dybbuk.‘‖ The panel ―Rethinking Sexual Difference: Body Politics in the Work of Luce Iri- garay,‖ with Max Hantel (―The Womb and the Folding Sea: Glissant, Irigaray and the Feminine Poetics of Relation‖), Stina Soderling and Snezana Otasevic with WGS Chair, Abena Busia, at the NWSA. Snezana Otasevic (―Of Difference and Orientation: What Irigaray has to offer to Sara Ahmed‖) and Stephen dening in the South: The Circulation of a tion for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Seely (―Does Life Have (a) Sex? Re- Community‘s Origin Story.‖ Annual Conference in Stanford Universi- thinking Sexual Difference with Irigaray In October, WGS PhD students ty. In November, Susana Galan pre- and Simondon‖), which was cancelled attended the Critical Ethnic Studies sented ―Jointly Redefining Honor and due to limited attendance, was finally Association (CESA) conference in Chi- Shame: Personal and Political Bloggers offered as part of the WGS Brown Bag cago: Louise Tam presented ―Racism Discuss Sexual Harassment in the Post- Research Briefings last January 27. Un- as Illness? The Problem of Anti-Racism Mubarak Egyptian Virtual Sphere‖ at the der the theme ―Futures of the Feminist in Cross-Cultural Mental Health Agen- Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Past,‖ Ashley Glassburn Falzetti cies,‖ and Ashley Glassburn Falzetti, Annual Meeting in New Orleans. In presented ―Preserving Forgotten Memo- who talked about ―Place and Belonging March 2014, Lindsey Whitmore pre- ries‖ and ―Origins of Belonging: Con- in Historical Narratives of Indigeneity.‖ sented ―Truth-ing the Addicted Body: temporary Stories of the Miami Nation In July 2013, Nafisa Tanjeem pre- Initial Steps Towards an Emergent Ethics and Native Intelligibility.‖ In this same sented ―Mapping Transnational Organi- of Care‖ at the 6th Annual LGBT Stud- rubric, Stina Soderling presented zing Using a Feminist Commodity Chain ies Symposium ―Foucault 2014: Beyond ―From Marching on Washington to Gar- Analysis‖ at the International Associa- Sexuality‖ in Hofstra University. 

WGS PhD Students Receive Teaching Awards Women’s Activism

Two WGS graduate students in Romania have received teaching awards for showing excellence in under- graduate teaching: Sara Perry- WGS PhD student Laura Lovin man received the Rutgers Grad- has recently published the chap- uate School-New Brunswick ter ―Grounds for Hope? Voices Teaching Award (in the picture), of Feminism and Women‘s Activ- and Stina Soderling received ism in Romania,‖ in Postcom- the Linda Rothman Award. Their munism from Within: Social Justice, teaching experience includes Mobilization, and Hegemony, edit- feminist and queer theory, critical ed by Jan Kubik and Amy Linch. sexuality studies, interdisciplinary The edited volume is a publica- theory and methodologies, femi- tion of the Social Science Re- Sara Perryman receives the award from Dean Jerome nist pedagogies, anarchist theory search Council and New York Kukor. and rural geography.  University Press in 2013. 

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FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 14 UPDATES FROM THE PHD ALUMNI

Accredited Safe Homes (ASH)

Feminists have contested the tradi- ed Safe Homes or ASH. Kudum- nities. Further, the short-stay homes By Valsala tionally acknowledged claim of the bashree aims at eradicating poverty do not have sufficient number of Kumari ‗home‘ as a safe haven or a location holistically through convergence of vacancies to accommodate all women Executive of stability, safety and security. The services of various government de- in distress situations. Providing long Director reason why some feminists reject the partments and agencies, and through term rehabilitative homes will be Kudumbashree value of home is because they view women-centric empowerment time consuming and expensive. While home as embodying patriarchal val- measures. With nearly 4 million searching for a solution to this prob- (PhD Alumnae ues. To them home is a place of con- women in its membership roll, lem, we came up with this idea of 2011) finement for the sake of aiding male Kudumbashree is the strongest net- ASH. projects. To many women home is a work of poor women in India. space of repression where the Other Kudumbashree has been ac- Women-Friendly Localities is rendered invisible. The illusory claimed nationally for the seminal ASH entails initially identifying safe safety of the home is debunked by work it has done by way of providing localities because a woman will be the increasing reported cases of a model for developing countries in psychologically safe only if the sur- roundings are also safe for her. So women friendly localities will be iden- tified first, followed by selection of safe homes based on certain criteria like ownership and management of the homes by single women, widows, elderly couples, provision of security features in the building, ability of the other occupants of the home to em- pathize with the women in distress and be respectful of their privacy and being non-intrusive, etc. Kudumbashree will provide a definite amount to the hostess for a period of 6 months by which time the woman will be imparted a skill with which she will be reintegrated into the labor market and into the Kudumbashree Neighborhood Group and she will move out of the Accred- Training on performance improvement at Kudumbashree. ited Safe Home. The skilling of the woman will be accomplished through atrocities committed against women eradicating poverty. Kudumbashree the Aajivika skill development pro- and children within the confines of has been able to accomplish this basi- gram of the Ministry of Rural Devel- their homes. cally by empowering women through opment or under the National Urban The Indian state of Kerala is no the creation of collective spaces for Livelihood Mission. This will be im- exception. The statistics published by women to reflect upon, to analyze plemented by the qualified service the State Crime records Bureau their plight and to find out their own providers of the Gender Help Desks shows an alarming rate of atrocities solutions to their problems. These of Kudumbashree which also house committed against women despite collective spaces have provided a short-stay homes. Reintegration into the state being a model for the rest collective voice to the hitherto voice- the neighborhood group is so very of the country in several areas includ- less poor women rendering them important since the group provides ing accomplishment of social develop- audible to those who occupy the the collective space in which women ment in a cost effective manner. The power structures, compelling the find their strength, identity and col- often repeated high status of the power holders to lend them their lective voice.  women of Kerala is belied when jux- ears. Once women and children are taposed with the high rate of crimes rescued from their oppressive committed against women. homes, very often they require long-  Learn more about Kudumbashree: Acknowledging that there are term stay for proper rehabilitation. www.kudumbashree.org practical gender needs for women The short-stay homes in Kerala pro- subjected to atrocities Kudum- vide only temporary accommodation bashree, the Kerala State Poverty and do not have adequate facilities Eradication Mission, has conceptual- for reintegration with dignity of the ized a novel scheme called Accredit- women in distress into their commu-

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Poverty Eradication in Kerala

After completing my MA at Rut- Budget Matrix for all Kerala State By Sulekha gers in October 2012, I was ac- Police Department programming Prasad cepted to participate in a six- for the projected year 2014- Gender Policy month paid internship program at 2015, and created several distinc- Advisor at Kudumbashree, a poverty reduc- tive Gender Budget Matrices for Kudumbashree tion program in Kerala, India, the entire State Police Depart- (MA Alumnae directed by Valsala Kumari, a ment Programming of Kerala as Rutgers PhD Alumnae (see previ- well as the State Police Depart- 2012) ous page). For the past three ment Janamaithry Project months, I have been a Gender (community policing project). Policy Advisor at Kudumbashree There I created schemes to de- State Poverty Eradication Mis- velop Gender Budgeting, Gender sion. Kudumbashree was formally Responsive quantitative and quali- started in 1998 as a pioneering tative analysis, and Gender pro- agency for poverty alleviation. gramming that is sex- But, unlike other poverty allevia- disaggregated centric. tion programmers, Kudum- Kudumbashree provided me bashree has a multi-pronged de- an exceptional platform to learn sign that rests on economic em- Sulekha in Kerala. how the application of develop- powerment and social develop- ment theory can be carefully and ment strategies. Its three-tier ture review for The Gender practically positioned to effective- federated community structure Based Anti-Human Trafficking ly understand the current gender adds to its authenticity, accounta- Initiative, which is to be applica- possibilities and women‘s justice bility, and commitment towards ble to 24 regions and all 14 dis- initiatives in Kerala. My experi- the poor and marginalized. tricts of Kerala. Furthermore, I ence afforded me the expertise Among my accomplishments created, constructed and imple- and analytical tools necessary for are the creation, construction mented a Gender Empowerment active engagement with women and implementation of a Gen- Measuring Scheme for the effec- as they deal with development dered Analysis for an Accredited tive realization of Empowerment modeled practices. I am currently Housing System. Within this, I in 3 districts, and I created a case completing a fund proposal for created a Vetting and Barring 3 study analysis of several areas of the project ―Prevention of vio- Tier System to locate a safe Pan- Kerala to access the Gender lence against women and children chayat and safe home for a victim Policy Results of Micro enterpris- and rehabilitation initiative: Ac- of violence and her child. I also es of 24 regions and 14 districts. credited Safe Housing (ASH) provided evidence and a litera- Finally, I created a 4 Tier Gender Scheme.‖ 

Intersectional Sexuality Education

I graduated with my master‘s in promotes comprehensive sexuali- to continue to work in the field By Kaitlyn Women‘s and Gender Studies in ty education to young people and of sexuality education and hope Wojtowicz January 2014. The research for the adults who teach them. to pursue further advanced edu- Coordinator of my thesis —entitled ―The Con- Course work in the Women‘s cational opportunities at Rutgers Education and struction of an Anti-Feminist and Gender Studies program in the future.  Communica- Pedagogy in an Abstinence-Only- gave me the tools necessary to Until-Marriage Curriculum‖— be able to approach my work tions at Answer and my entire time in the pro- from an intersectional standpoint.  Learn more about Answer: (MA Alumnae gram has greatly impacted the The research for my thesis has In the web: answer.rutgers.edu 2014) work I do in my professional given me greater insight into the In Facebook: www.facebook.com/ career. Before, during and now abstinence-only-until-marriage AnswerEd. after completing my master‘s, I field, and has helped our organi- In Twitter: @sexedhonestly have worked at Answer, a non- zation as we battle the encroach- profit organization based at Rut- ment of these programs into gers University that provides and schools across the nation. I plan

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 16 UNDERGRADUATE HIGHLI GHTS

Trans* Activism in Campus

Natasha Thinking in retrospective, I can still recently collaborated with the Rut- tive indicators of the goals I aspire Payano remember the first day I walked into gers University Student Assembly to have for my future. As of now I Double major my first Women‘s and Gender Stud- (RUSA) to pass a Preferred Name am torn between either pursuing a in Women’s ies course, it was Women, Culture Policy for all the university‘s data- career in law and focusing on the and Society. I was a freshman, lost bases. This bill aims to pressure the issues of communities that have long and Gender inside of a newly entered grandiose administration to address the needs remained ostracized, such as the Studies and world, Rutgers University. I barely of their trans* students and not trans* community, and assuring that English knew who I was and needless to say force them to adhere to a name someone is advocating for their the path that lay before me re- they do not identify by. rights in the legal front, or becoming mained unbeknownst to me at this Furthermore, I have worked for a WGS professor. point. All I knew in that moment the Women‘s and Gender Studies Regardless of which path I was that I had finally found the place department as a student assistant choose I most definitively feel in- which I had longed for. for about two years now, since the debted to my experiences as a Rut- Looking through the syllabus for the first time and hearing the profes- sor discuss the objectives of the course, I discovered that there were actually people in the world who studied the issues that tormented my mind every day. I felt a sense of belonging and validation in my senti- ments and I have never looked back since. As of today, I am a junior at Rutgers University and I am double majoring in Women‘s and Gender Studies and English. I have always had a very strong passion for social advocacy and the knowledge I have acquired within WGS has equipped me even further with the skills required to act upon Natasha Payano in the WGS office. my passion. As of the beginning of the fall 2013 semester I have served beginning of my sophomore year. gers student and I cannot help but as Co-Founder and Treasurer, as My duties as a student assistant feel that, regardless of where life well as Program Organizer, of include assisting with any matters takes me I will always reflect back Trans*missions, the first ever that may arise within the WGS such on that first day of Women, Cul- transgender organization on campus. as scheduling, budgeting, events, etc. ture, and Society and wonder how Trans*missions allows trans* folk I have also worked as an English depressingly superficial my life would and their closest allies to join to- Tutor for the Douglass Writing have been without that initial step- gether in both an informative and Center for about two years. My ping stone.  discussion based group in order to duties as tutor consist of aiding un- create a sense of community and a dergraduate students with reading field of resources. Trans*missions comprehension, essay structure, and  Learn more about aims to completely shatter the no- theoretical concepts that are needed Trans*missions: tion of ‗Otherness‘ within the trans* in order to formulate an organized In Facebook: www.facebook.com/ individual and create a sense of be- comprehensive essay. Lastly, I cur- Rutgerstransmissions longing within a community that not rently intern for Judge Alberto Ri- In Tumblr: rutgerstransmis- only welcomes trans*, but also com- vas, in the Middlesex County Court- sions.tumblr.com prehends the multi-faceted daily house within the criminal division. In Twitter: @rutransmissions predicaments that tag along with My duties as intern consist of assist- that identity. Before demanding ing the judge‘s law clerk with incom- rights a community must first make ing expungements, as well as making their presence known, they must, in phone calls to attorneys, plaintiffs, effect, become visible and and prosecutors in regards to ongo- Trans*missions aims to make the ing cases. ―T‖ in LGBTQ rise to the surface of The large array of positions that I social concern and no longer remain have cultivated throughout my edu- in the shadows. Trans*missions has cation at Rutgers has served as posi-

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Grants for the Women’s Worlds Congress

Next August, nine Rutgers undergraduate Empowerment,‖ Sarah Stern on ―Sexual Hehir on ―Anti-Poverty Interventions students will have the opportunity to par- Empowerment of University Women: Mo- among Latina Migrant and Immigrant ticipate in the 2014 International Interdisci- bilizing against Rape Culture,‖ and Meryem Workers in New Brunswick,‖ Eden Mesfun plinary Congress on Women, that will take Uzumcu on ―Suzanne‘s Project: Empower- on ―Envisioning the Consequences of place in Hyderabad, India. The conference ing Rural Women through Agriculture in Armed Conflict: Images of Congolese will attract thousands of feminist activists Antalya, Turkey.‖ The second panel pro- Women in Social and Print Media,‖ and from around the world under the theme posal, entitled ―Globalization, Migration and Srutika Sabu on ―From Local Culture to ―Gender in a Changing World.‖ the Challenge of Minority Women in Dias- Imperial Morality: Sexual and Reproductive The selected students have worked Health Challenges of South Asian Women with faculty advisors to develop papers and Immigrants in the USA.‖ propose two panels. The first, entitled Before the conference, the students will ―Empowering Women and Girls: Tactics of present their papers in an interdiscipli- the Millennial Generation‖ will be chaired nary forum at the Department of by Lisa Hetfield, Associate Director of the WGS on May 1, from 4:00-6:30 pm. The Institute for Women‘s Leadership (IWL) at grants have been funded with the generous Rutgers, and will include presentations by support of the SAS Honors Program, the Shamama Siddiqui on ―Women‘s Economic IWL, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, SAS Empowerment: Evaluating the Impact of Deans: Area Studies, SAS Dean: Humani- Microcredit Programs on Women in Paki- pora‖ will be chaired by Prof. Mary Trigg, ties, the Department of WGS, Signs, and stan,‖ Cierra Kaler-Jones on ―Visual and Director of Research of the IWL, with Douglass College. The Women‘s Worlds Performing Arts as a Strategy to Empower presentations by Juhi Farooqui on ―Social Congress was created in 1981 as the first Economically-Disadvantaged Girls in New Media for Social change: Muslim Women world-wide interdisciplinary gathering to Jersey,‖ Ashley Garner on ―Collective Challenging the Mainstream Media Narra- focus on research pertaining to women‘s Compositions: From Spaces of Silence to tive in the Post-9/11 United States,‖ Justice issues. 

Meet the WGS 2014 Workstudy! Undergraduate Awards 2013

Eleanor Brilliant Award for Outstanding Senior in Wom- en’s and Gender Studies: Melissa A. Gabilanes Gilda Morales Award for Outstanding Student Activist: Em Kay Dorothy Hamilton Baillet Award for Outstanding Re- search: Annu Dahiya Dee Garrison Award for Jus- tice and Peacemaking: Amarilis Rodriguez Elizabeth Hallowell Award for the Advancement of Women’s Rights: Laura M. Callejas Douglass College Women’s and Gender Studies Alum- nae Prize: Caitlin Johanna Serrano, Alexis Levine, Sonia Begum, Natasha Payano, and Mark-Ray Lockwood. McAleer

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S P A G E 18 UPCOMING EVENTS

Brown Bag Research Briefings Women and the ‘Arab Spring’ The 2013-2014 WGS ―Brown Bag Research Briefings‖ are held the third Monday of each month from 11:00 am-12:30 pm during the The Department of WGS and academic year. This informal gathering gives our new faculty, post the Center for Middle Eastern docs and graduate students an opportunity to share and present Studies at Rutgers present a their research. panel on ―Women, Religion and the Uprisings in the Mid- March 24 May 12 dle East‖ on April 2 at 2:00 11:00 “Immigrant Cross- 11:00 Topic: Forthcoming pm, with Beata Kowalska, ings & the Invisible/Visible Yanoula Athanassakis professor of Sociology at the Paradigm of Human Traf- American Council of Learned Jagiellonian University (Poland) ficking” Societies Post-Doctoral Asso- and Beth Baron, professor at Annie Fukushima ciate in Women‘s and Gender the City College and co- Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Studies director of the Middle East Associate in Women‘s and and Middle Eastern American Gender Studies Center at CUNY. 

Workshop on the Anthropocene Kimberly Springer on Apologies Atmospheric carbon dioxide this still unstable discursive ronment and Public Policy at concentrations now hover formation becomes an influen- Oxford University, and the The Department of WGS and around 400 parts per million, a tial frame through which to program will consist of non- the School of Communication threshold that many scientists understand and respond to a concurrent roundtable discus- & Information (SC&I) present and environmentalists consider suite of interconnected social, sions in which early career a guest lecture by Kimberly a path towards the cata- ecological, and economic cri- academics and advanced grad- Springer, professor at the strophic. At the same time, ses unfolding across the planet. uate students interested in School of Information of the scholars in the social and natu- In relation to this, the de- cross-disciplinary exploration University of Michigan, on ral sciences as well as the hu- partments of Women‘s and into the changing nature of ―The Politicization of Apology manities are increasingly en- Gender Studies and Geogra- entanglements between sci- Through Old and New Media‖ gaging with the notion of the phy, and the Center for Cul- ence, nature/society, and poli- on April 24 at 11:00 am, at Anthropocene, a new geologi- tural Analysis at Rutgers Uni- tics will offer a brief presenta- the Alexander Library. In her cal period in which the Earth is versity are organizing the tion of their work, followed by talk, Springer will focus on the fundamentally influenced by workshop ―After 400 ppm: a discussion facilitated by a apology as transactional in human activity on an unprece- Science Politics, and Social senior faculty moderator.  order to explore the soci- dented scale. This and other Natures in the Anthropocene‖ otechnical features of old and concerns underscore the im- on March 27 and 28. The new media to help us discern portance of critical engage- keynote speaker will be Sarah  More information in: the difference between the ment with emerging narratives Whatmore, head of the School www.geocritique.org/cfp-400- politics of apology and the of the Anthropocene, particu- of Geography and the Environ- ppm-science-politics-social- politicization of apology in the larly at the present moment as ment and professor of Envi- natures-anthropocene. 21st century. 

IRW Distinguished Lectures WGS Graduation April 10 The 2013-2014 The WGS Graduation Cele- 4:30 “Can a Woman annual theme is bration will take place next Be A Chief?” Decolonizing Gen- May 7 at the Conference Drucilla Cornell der / Gendering Room of the Ruth Dill John- Political Science, Rut- Decolonialization. son Crockett Building from gers University The talk will be held 4:00 to 7:00 pm. In this infor- at the Ruth Dill John- mal gathering, WGS majors son Crockett Building, and minors will be honored in preceded by a recep- the presence of their families tion at 4:00 pm. and friends. 

FEMINIST TRAJECTORIE S PUBLICATIONS P A G E 19 Intersectionality and Prisons Two recent issues of Signs pre- The wide-ranging articles in the Perspectives‖—document and sent thematically unified articles Autumn 2013 issue—a special analyze the unique forms of on subjects of pressing relevance issue titled ―Women, Gender, discipline, control, and abuse to By Andrew to contemporary feminist schol- and Prison: National and Global which women and gender- Mazzaschi arship: ―Intersectionality: Theo- variant people are subject within Deputy Editor rizing Power, Empowering The- carceral regimes. The Winter Signs: Journal ory,‖ the Summer 2013 issue, 2014 issue of Signs contains was guest edited by Sumi Cho, articles on a number of diverse of Women in Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, topics: the literature of Japanese Culture and and Leslie McCall. The issue American internment, the ef- brings together numerous fects of the HIV epidemic in strands of intersectional scholar- Kenya and Zambia, theorizing ship, taking stock of the diverse trans embodiment and oppres- field of intersectionality studies sion, abortion debates in South and forging new directions for Africa, decolonial hemispheric future insurgent knowledges. Summer 2013. Autumn 2013. feminism, and more. 

Forthcoming Issues 40th Anniversary

The Spring 2014 issue of Signs Social Change,‖ guest edited by Autumn 2014 marks Signs‘ humanities—specifically topic will feature a comparative Christina Dunbar-Hester, which fortieth year of publication. To modeling, which uses an perspectives symposium on takes on the relationships commemorate this milestone, algorithm to identify a set of ―Translation, Feminist between particular forms of Signs is planning to present an topics within a large corpus of Scholarship, and the Hegemony media and processes of array of online features that will texts. While no more objective of English,‖ in which scholars gendering and racialization, enable readers to visualize and than any other research method, explore feminist discourse‘s national development, and the creatively explore the Signs topic modeling will nevertheless intraregional and transnational formation of social movements. archive. A thematically organized provide a way of interacting with travels and the asymmetries in And in Autumn 2014, Signs will virtual issue composed of the full Signs archive, tracing the the circulation of feminist theory publish a symposium titled articles selected from the emergence of particular areas of and research. The issue also ―Gendered Bodies in the Protest journal‘s historical archive will study or analytical paradigms contains several thematically Sphere,‖ edited by Miranda highlight the contributions Signs within feminist thought, and linked articles, including Rosi Outman-Kramer and Susana has made to the multifaceted visualizing the changes in Braidotti on Françoise Collin Galán, which collects an field of feminist scholarship. academic feminism over time. and French feminism and Maria impressive range of essays Signs‘ deputy editor Andy On January 29, the Signs do Mar Pereira on the epistemic analyzing and documenting the Mazzaschi and graduate research research team presented ―Topic status of the ―foreign‖ in circulation of gendered bodies assistants Susana Galán and -Modeling a Feminist Archive‖ at Portuguese women‘s, gender, through myriad instances of Lindsey Whitmore have also the Rutgers Digital Humanities and feminist studies. The protest, dissent, and collective been exploring the possibilities Showcase, where they discussed following issue will contain the action that have erupted around for archival analysis offered by the advantages and challenges of symposium ―Gender, Media, and the globe.  techniques in the digital this methodology. 

Third Woman Press: Call for Submissions An anthology, co-edited by five inclusive approach to sharing the continue to shape queer and documents and/or high- feminist scholars of color — experiences of people of color feminist of color epistemology resolution images of original Annie Isabel Fukushima, Rosalee and Indigenous Peoples engaged and practice. They seek artwork as JPEG files should be Gonzalez, Layli Maparyan, Anita in local and transnational social scholarly and creative essays, submitted for consideration by Revilla, and Matt Richardson— change. TWP encourages testimonials, poetry, and art that May 15, 2014.  propels the mission of Third contributions that are in will contribute to the Woman Press (TWP) by conversation (directly or understanding and practices of bringing together a variety of indirectly) with the body of social change, healing and  See the complete call for expertise and interests to this feminist/womanist works that transformation. Full essays (max. submissions at http:// project and striving for an have come before and that 5,000 words, 20 pages) as Word tinyurl.com/lwaqhmc.

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