Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Alumnae/i Associates 1991-2012 July 9, 2012 Janet Aalfs 1995-1996 Valley Women’s Martial Arts, Inc., Easthampton, MA Poetry and Martial Arts KIAI: A WOMAN SHOUTS —Poetry, Martial Arts, and Self Defense Heather Abel 2005-2006 Novelist, Northampton, MA The Limits of Optimism: Gender Relations at Alternative Newspapers Tina Achcar-Naccache 1997-1998 Beirut, Lebanon Human Rights The Effects of Confinement on Domestic Workers Kimberly Adams 1998-1999 Philadelphia, PA English Anna Jameson, the Grimké Sisters, and Anglo-American Feminist Contacts Marjorie Agosin 1991-1992 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Spanish and Literature Translation of Some of Emily Dickinson's Letters into Spanish Nada Ali 2009-2010 Independent Researcher, New York, NY The Discourses and Practices of the Sudanese Opposition in Exile (1989-2000): A Gender Perspective Hanife Aliefendioglu 2006-2007 Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Cyprus Communication and Media Studies Gender and Ethnicity in the Discourse of the Northern Cyprus Media Anwar Alkhalldy 2011-2012 Free University, Berlin, Germany (Political Science) Shi’i Islamism and Gender in Iraq Henrice Altink 2007-2008 University of York History The Struggle to Define Jamaican Womanhood: 1865-1938 Nora Amin 2004-2005 Freie University, Berlin, Germany Theatre Topics in Performance Alia Arasoughly 2002-2003 MIFTAH, Ramallah, Palestine Sociology Palestinian and Lebanese Women Filmmakers and War Marie Ashe 2006-2007 Suffolk University, Boston, MA Law Toward a Gendered Religious Pluralism Kiran Asher 2005-2006 Clark University, Worcester, MA International Development and Women’s Studies Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels: Third World Women, Gender and the Environment Mary King Austin 1999-2000 Mt. Washington, MA English/Theatre Elaine Goodale Eastman: A Biography Yamila Azize-Vargas 1996-1997 University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico Public Health and Women's Studies Abortion in Puerto Rico and Chile: Extreme Legalities, Close Realities Ruth Backes 1993-1994 Amherst, MA Biography Without Fear or Favor: A Biography of Frances Perkins Carol Bailey 2003-2004 University of the West Indies English Word Warriors: Female Resistance via Electronic Technology Olena Bakhareva 2000-2001 Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine English & Linguistics Discursive Strategies of Performing Femininity in American and Ukrainian Cultures Susan Bandy 2007-2008 Institute of Coaching and Sports Education Sports Studies Body Language in American Women’s Literature of the Late 19th Century Isabelle Barker 2003-2004 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Political Science Theorizing Citizenship in an Era of Privatization Diane Bell 1993-1994 The George Washington University, Washington, DC Anthropology Dreaming Ourselves Anew: Indigenous Traditions, Gendered Spiritualities, and New Age Religions Leslie Bender 1996-1997 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Law and Women's Studies Legal Challenges to Social Injustice: How Women Can Use Tort Law to Continue Feminist Struggle Natalie Bennett 1998-1999 Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY Sociology Narratives of Success: Attributes of Race-Ethnicity, Gender and Work among Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women Christine Benvenuto 2001-2002 Amherst, MA Freelance Writer Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World Danielle Bessett 2004-2005 New York University, New York, NY Sociology Defining the “Normal Pregnancy:” Knowledge and Experience in Stratified Reproduction Gurminder Bhambra 2005-2006 University of Sussex, Lewes, East Sussex, UK Sociology Dangerous Particularisms: Challenging Social Theory in the Emerging World Lynda Birke 1994-1995 Llangollen Clwyd, U.K. Biological Science The Naming of the Shrew: Feminism, Animals and Nature Karen J. Blair 1993-1994 Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA History Women and Arts Philanthropy in the United States Benita Blessing 2010-2011 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA DEFA Film Library Women and Science in East German Children’s and Youth Films: Feminine Feminists Tracey Jean Boisseau 1993-1994 University of Akron, Canton, OH History The Convergence of Colonialism and Feminism: An American Woman's Travels to Africa and Back, 1892-1936 Liana Borghi 1995-1996 Universita de Firenze, Firenze, Italy Literature Liminaliens and Others: Figurations of Subjectivity in Women's Utopian and Science Fictions Jeanne Braham 1992-1993 Sunderland MA American Literature Crucial Conversations: Studies in Contemporary Women's Literary Autobiography Mary Bray 1991-1992 Education Against the Tide: A Study of Women Activists Alice Brown-Collins 1991-1992 Holliston, MA Black Studies Let Me Tell You Who I Am: An Exploration of Psychological Themes and Research on African- American Women Japonica Brown-Saracino 2010-2011 Boston University, Boston, MA Sociology Pride of Place: The Origins and Implications of Queer Women’s Migration to Four U.S. Towns Susan Buchholz 2001-2002 Lee, MA Freelance Writer/Actor Discovering Emily Warren Roebling and the Role of Women in Engineering in the Late Nineteenth Century Ruth Weiss Busch 1994-1995 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Law The Law and Domestic Violence in New Zealand Deidre Butler 2005-2006 Union College, Schenectady, NY Sociology Othermothering in Motion: Parenting Styles of African American Stepmothers CADRE – Companeras Arising to Develop Researchers Everywhere 2002-2003 Holyoke and Northampton, MA Girls, Inc., TRP/New Visions, Tapestry Health Systems Doing Our Own Research: Mother and Daughter Dialogues on Dating Then and Now Elizabeth Cahn 2007-2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst Regional Planning “WSPA While You Work:” The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture, 1975-1981 Karen M. Cardozo 2005-2006 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA English Trauma's Palimpsests: Contemporary US American Narrative Cycles Jacqueline Castledine 2005-2006 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ History Gendering the Cold War: Race, Class and Women's Peace Politics, 1945-1980 Jennifer Cayer 2011-2012 Amherst College English Embodied Ethnographies: Feminist Theatre Encounters Anthropology Shuma Chakravarty 1997-1998 Dorchester, MA Ministry & American Literature Ethics of Identity—Maintaining a Balance Between Individual Accomplishment and Societal Mores Dorothy Chansky 2006-2007 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Theatre Kitchen Sink Realisms: Drama, Dining and Domestic Labor in Twentieth-Century American Theatre Janet Chawla 2000-2001 MATRIKA, New Delhi, India Health Education Building Bridges Between Ethno-medicine and Bio-medicine in India Meredith Cherland 2009-2010 University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Education Harry Potter and the Discourses of Gender: Teaching Critical Thinking Manjula Cherkil 2007-2008 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Management Disadvantaged Women Workers in the Unorganized Sector in Bangalore, India: A Socio-Economic Study Hyoung Cho 1996-1997 Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea Sociology Women's Power and Sex/Gender Politics in Domestic and Public Spheres (with Special Reference to Korea) Pat Chuchryk 1992-1993 University of Letheridge, Letheridge, Canada Sociology Democratization, Social Change and Women's Movements in Chile Lindsey Churchill 2010-2011 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL History Imagining the Tupamaros: Resistance and Gender in Uruguayan and U.S. Revolutionary Movements, 1960s-1980 Alev Cinar 2001-2002 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Political Science Forging Images of Women, Building a Nation: From Islam to Secularism in Turkey Susan Clarke 1996-1997 Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT Education Mid-life Women High School Teachers: Models of Transition for Adolescent Students Mary Ellen Cohane 2009-2010 Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA English/Communications Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Addams and the World Economic Conference of 1933 Carol Cohn 1997-1998 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Women's Studies & Sociology American National Security Thinking After the Cold War: Language, Gender and Institutional Culture Nancy Coiner 1993-1994 Amherst, MA Comparative Literature Laboring in the Field of the Self: Allegory and Autobiography in the Late Middle Ages Lynn Comella 2002-2003 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA Communications Selling Pleasure: Sex, Gender and the Good Vibrations Model of Sexual Retail Meghan Cope 2001-2002 State University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Geography Flexible Welfare: Local Social Service Organizations and the Regulation of Poor Women’s Lives Lillian Corti 2000-2001 University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK English & Women’s Studies Interracial Medeas: 20th Century Treatments of an Ancient Myth Heidi Creamer 1997-1998 Hadley, MA English & Women's Studies Feminist Boards of Directors: Strategies for Achieving Multicultural Leadership for Social Change Elizabeth Currans 2005-2006 University of California Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, CA Women’s Studies Imagining Women: Community, Belief and Whiteness in Gendered Public Protest Anita Dahlberg 1999-2000 Stockholm University, Sweden Law/Social Work Law as Mirror and Creator of Gender: Equal Opportunities in Labour Life Arlene Dallalfar 1994-1995 Lesley College, Cambridge, MA Sociology Gender and Entrepreneurship: Iranian Women in California Abigail Dallmann 2011-2012 University of Massachusetts Amherst Legal Studies Courting Property: Women, Marriage and the Meaning of Possession Coralynn Davis 2005-2006 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Women and Gender Studies