Gender Studies Program

Research Workshop

In order to advance the program’s commitment to inter-disciplinary research and inquiry into the subject of gender, the Gender Studies Program is pleased to announce an upcoming series of research workshops.  The events will include presentations by advanced undergraduates majoring in Gender Studies as well as graduate students and faculty members from a variety of departments who work in the area of gender and sexuality.  The workshop will begin with the week’s presenter giving a brief lecture on his or her current research in the field, followed by a seminar-style discussion.

The workshops will be held during Friday Open Houses this semester from 1:30-2:30 pm in the Gender Studies Conference Room, 325 O'Shaughnessy unless otherwise specified below.

 

Fall 2007/Spring 2008 Schedule

November 30, 2007
Presenter: Daniela DeLuna '08
Political Science Major/Gender Studies Minor

Winner of a 2007 Genevieve D. Willis Gender Studies Senior Thesis grant
Title: "Bebé a Bordo: Teenage Pregnancy among Mexican-American Girls"
Thesis Advisors: Heidi Ardizzone and David Klein


February 1, 2008
Presenter: Stacey Williams '08
Psychology Major/Gender Studies Major
Title: Objectivity and Gender in Science: Implications for Psychology
Thesis Advisor: Krista Duttenhaver


February 29, 2008
Presenter: Samara Cahill
Ph.D candidate in 18th-century English literature
Gender Studies Pre-doctoral Fellow-Academic Advisor in 2006-07
Graduate Presidential Fellow, English
Title: “the Mahometan Richardson”: Virtue, Education, and the Nation in the letters of Richardson’s Female Readers


March 14, 2008
Presenter: Professor Julia Viglione Douthwaite
Romance Languages and Literatures
Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Title: " Engendering Displacement, or How the 1789 Women's March on
Versailles Left its Imprint on French Literature
"
Location: 339 O'Shaughnessy


March 28, 2008
Presenter: Krista Duttenhaver
Ph.D candidate in Systematic Theology
Gender Studies Pre-doctoral Fellow-Internship/Study Abroad Advisor in 2006-07, 2007-08
Title: "Psychic Matter, Embodied Spirit: Simone Weil’s Concept of the Relational Self"

April 11, 2008
Presenter: Jamie Grebowski '08
Economics Major/Gender Studies Major
Winner of a 2007 Genevieve D. Willis Gender Studies Senior Thesis grant Title: "Segregation by Sex:  Estimating the Effects of Single-Sex Education on Further Education"
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Kasey Buckles

April 25, 2008
Presenter: Belkys Torres
Ph.D. Candidate English Dept. / Institute for Latino Studies
Title: "Tomorrow They Will Kiss: A Melodrama of the Cuban-American Exilic Condition"