Visitingscholarspast

2005-6

Mariolina Grazioso, Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan, was in Madison from May 17-June 17, 2005. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mariolina is also a Jungian Psychoanalyst, had her training at the C.G.Jung Institute in Zurich. She has published several essays both in the field of sociology and in the field of analytical sociology. Her major works are: the book La Donna e la storia, Liguori, 2001; the essays: Impegno sociale e Vita Interiore, in Simone Weil Poesia e Impegno, Unicopli 2003; Gender Struggle and the Social Manipulation and Ideological Use of gender Identity in the Interwar Years, in Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism and Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 1995; Sociologia e Psicoanalisi nella visione di Adorno: due prospettive, uno sguardo, in La Scuola di Francoforte, Cultura Tedesca Donzelli, 2001. In most of her works her major concern has been the analysis of the relationship between gender identities and the formation of collective identities, as well as the exploration of the link between the ontological and the social level. At UW-Madison she collected data for a new research project on Sexual Repression in Latin and Anglo-Saxon Countries.

Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Professor, Faculty of Social Science and Technology Management, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. She is working on a book project Negotiating the Role of Ultrasound in Pregnancy. She can be reached at ann.r.saetnan@svt.ntn u.no

Stefanie K. Halverson is a visiting scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center from September 2005 through May 2006. Halverson received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University in May 2004 and is currently a senior lecturer in the school of business at UW. Her research interests include leadership, teams, and emotions in organizations. While at the Women's Studies Research Center, Halverson is investigating the effect of gender differences in expressed emotions on perceptions of leadership effectiveness. Specifically, her research will explore the extent to which such differences are real or socially constructed, and examine the differential effects of male and female leaders' expressed emotions on followers' perceptions. She can be reached at shalverson@wisc.edu

Louise Root-Robbins was most recently employed as the University of Wisconsin System Coordinator for the Status of Women Initiative and Co-Director (with Professor Bernice Durand) of the UW System Sloan Project for Academic Career Advancement. In this capacity, she was a resource for campus-based and collaborative initiatives to work toward organizational improvements to improve the status of women –faculty, staff, and students- and ensure progress toward gender equity and equality at UW System institutions. Prior to this position, Louise taught and did research in the medical and nursing schools at UW-Madison. Dr. Root-Robbins has been a senior administrator at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and Division of Health where she worked closely with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on implementing statewide HIV/AIDS prevention programs and advising the state superintendent on comprehensive school health program implementation. She is frequently invited to speak on leadership, gender equity, work/life issues, women’s health, and organization change and development at institutions of higher education. During her time as a fellow at the UW-Madison Women’s Studies Research Center she will focus on research related to women’s employment issues and barriers to their advancement
Louise has lived in Madison for the past 20 years - she is originally from Michigan – where she attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing and a Master’s Degree in Public Health, she completed her Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from the Department of Management and Organizational Behavior at Benedictine University in Chicago. She a member of the board of directors for the national organization, College and University Work/Family Association (CUWFA) and the statewide organization Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL). Louise is a recipient of the 1993 League of Women Voters Citizen of Distinction Award, 2003 YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, and the 2003 Margaret Miller Award for distinctive community service from Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Louise Root-Robbins can be reached at lrootrobbins@aim.edu

Joyce Bayande Endeley (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor, Agriculture Extension and Gender Studies, the University of Buea, Cameroon. She is the Head of the Department of Women and Gender Studies, and Vice-Dean in charge of Students Affairs and Records, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences. She has been teaching and doing research at university level since 1982.

Her research interests relate to gender and agriculture, women’s empowerment, women’s credit schemes, national women’s machineries in Cameroon, gender capacity building and impact assessment of development program. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. She has jointly edited a new book series entitled, “Issues in Gender and Development Volume 1: New Gender Studies from Cameroon and the Caribbean” printed and distributed by ABC. She has consultancy experiences with development bodies such as IDRC, Commonwealth Secretariat, United Nations, SASSAKAWA-Global 2000, PLAN International. Professsor Endeley serves as a board member of development foundations such as HEIFER Project International Cameroon and the Cameroon GATSBY Foundation. She is coordinator of the U.S government Ambassador Girls Scholarship Program (AGSP) in the Southwest Province in Cameroon.

Professor Endeley is currently on a 3-month academic exchange visit, a link exchange program between UW-Madison and the University of Buea in Cameroon. The primary purpose of her visit is twofold: to strengthen the collaboration between the two institutions and to further her research on the “The Impact of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Operations on Gender Relations, Land and Community Livelihood in Selected Project Sites within Cameroon.” While at UW-Madison she will give talks, exchange experiences with faculty and students, explore possibilities for further collaboration between the women’s studies programs and women’s studies research centers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Buea. She will gladly meet with students/faculty who desire information on studying/teaching and doing research in Cameroon. joyceendeley@yahoo.com

2004-05

Mariolina Grazioso, Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan, was in Madison from May 17-June 17, 2005. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mariolina is also a Jungian Psychoanalyst, had her training at the C.G.Jung Institute in Zurich. She has published several essays both in the field of sociology and in the field of analytical sociology. Her major works are: the book La Donna e la storia, Liguori, 2001; the essays: Impegno sociale e Vita Interiore, in Simone Weil Poesia e Impegno, Unicopli 2003; Gender Struggle and the Social Manipulation and Ideological Use of gender Identity in the Interwar Years, in Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism and Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 1995; Sociologia e Psicoanalisi nella visione di Adorno: due prospettive, uno sguardo, in La Scuola di Francoforte, Cultura Tedesca Donzelli, 2001. In most of her works her major concern has been the analysis of the relationship between gender identities and the formation of collective identities, as well as the exploration of the link between the ontological and the social level. At UW-Madison she collected data for a new research project on Sexual Repression in Latin and Anglo-Saxon Countries.

Professor Catherine Orr, Associate Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program, Beloit College, Wisconsin, has been appointed as visiting scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center from September 2004 through May 2005. Dr. Orr worked on a book Project tentatively entitled "Knowledge for What?: Histories, Theories, and Practices of Academic Activists."

2003-04

Dr. Karen McLaughlin is a veteran New York actress with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. McLaughlin has appeared Off and Off-off Broadway, in regional theater, national tours, film and television. She was a featured soloist recording for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, and also appeared at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Her professional emphasis has been the development of new stage works including the Actors Studio and New Dramatists. Her most recent stage adaptation includes productions of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment at Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge; Mary McCarthy: High Wire Act at Northwestern University, and also an invited guest reading at the Abingdon Theatre Company in New York. She performed her stage adaptation of Assia Djebar's Algerian White on Saturday, April 17, 2004, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The performance is in conjunction with the African Literature Association's 30th Anniversary Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hema Nair; Selection Grade Lecturer, Department of English, N.S.S. College for Women, Poojappura, India, Fulbright Scholar; Literary Women of Kerala, India; September 15-December 15, 2003.

Audrey Sprenger, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology University of Denver; worked on two book projects "Turning Life Into Fiction, and Queer in America A collection of Writings About Living as a Sexual Outlaw"; April-August, 2003.

2002-03

Professor Janet B. Parks of the School of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies from Bowling Green State University. Her research focused on sexist language as it is used in sport. 8/26/02-5/25/03.

Fatou Diop (Senegal) was here as a Fulbright scholar. She is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Université Gaston Berger in Saint Louis, Sénégal. Ms. Diop worked on the impact of new technologies of information and communication (NTICS) on women. 9/23/02-6/30/03

Dr. Ayesha Imam is a Nigerian activist and scholar working on issues pertaining to women's rights in Nigeria and Africa more generally. She was the national coordinator of Baobab, a women's rights group and since 1992, Imam has also been the coordinator of the International Solidarity Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws in Region West (Africa and Middle East). Dr. Imam is also the editor or co-editor of eight books dealing with various aspects of women and development in Africa and Nigeria.

Professor Marjorie Mbilinyi was a visiting scholar with the Women's Studies Research Center from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She taught a course entitled Women and Change in Contemporary Africa in the fall 2002 in the Women's Studies Program. Professor Mbilinyi received her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1977 after completing a B.Sc. at Cornell University and an MA at Stanford University. Professor Mbilinyi has published numerous books on women and work, including books on women and agribusiness, microenterprise, and education; women on sugar cane plantations; and womenís responses to economic crisis and structural adjustment. Her writing has also discussed womenís concerns more generally in Tanzania and Africa, as well as women in relation to the state, civil society, and grassroots mobilization. Mbilinyi is known not only for her writing, but also her activism. She was one of the co-founders of the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme, one of the first prominent non-governmental organizations in Tanzania that was formed after the country began to liberalize. The organization has been active in numerous policy areas, from womenís and girls education to health, female political representation, domestic violence, incorporating gender into the country's national budget, and many other concerns.

Gail Omvedt (Kasegaon District Sangli, India) visited us in November 2002. Omvedt is a foremost scholar of social movements in India and has worked not only with the Dalit and anti-caste movements but also the environmental, farmers and rural women s movements. In particular, she has worked on issues of abandoned women, women s land rights and political representation. She has worked very much as an activist but also as an academic, having published numerous books on these social movements.

2001-02

Darunee Tantiwiramanond, professor and director of the Women's Action and Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, was a visiting scholar from Feb 15 to October 15, 2002, working on a project entitled Strategies for Women's Economic Empowerment in Southeast Asia.

Kathleen Bubinas (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) was with us from August 2001 to Mary 2002, working on her project "From Delhi to Chicago: The Journey to Work for South Asian Immigrant Women"

E. Nicole Meyer (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) 8/27/01-5/26/02

Diane Turner (Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative, Madison)

2000-01

Sylvia Tamale (Makerere University, Uganda) was a visiting scholar at UW-Madison from September 27 to November 1 as part of its faculty exchange with Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. Tamale is a senior lecturer on the Law Faculty at Makerere and is author of the pathbreaking book When Hens Begin to Crow: Gender and Parliamentary Politics in Uganda, Boulder, Westview Press 1999. She is currently Dean of the Faculty of Law at Makerere University.

A Tinker Visiting Professor Fellowship was granted by the Nave Committee of the Latin American Studies Program to bring Gloria Bonder from Argentina to campus in the Spring 2001. Bonder is teaching a Women's Studies course Special Topics: Women, Civil Society and Citizenship Identity in Latin America. Bonder is a leading scholar on women and gender issues in Latin America, and an active advocate of women's rights. She pioneered the field of women's studies in Latin America and helped create the Center for Women's Studies in Argentina, one the first research and advocacy institutions on women's rights in Latin America. Her work and various publications on women, education and youth were key contributions to this field development in Latin America. She is currently the director of PRIGEPP, Gender, Society and Policies section of the Latin American Post Graduate Institute of Social Sciences (FLACSO).

The African Studies Association granted the Women's Studies Research Center an International Visitor's Program fellowship to bring Alice Mungwa to attend the African Studies Association annual meeting in 2000 and to visit the UW-Madison campus for eight days prior to the conference. She was a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences at the University of Yaounde II in Cameroon. Ms. Mungwa presented a paper "The Mandatory Nature of Affirmative Nature for Women’s Political Rights in Cameroon" and met with graduate students. She also participated in a graduate seminar Political Science 900 "Women and Citizenship: Comparative and Political Theory Perspectives." She is currently Senior Political Affairs Officer of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Karen Jankowsky

Diane Michelski Turner