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Faculty:
In 2006, EMU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology successfully recruited Dr. Sõlange Simões to serve on our faculty. A native of Brazil, Dr. Simões brings a wealth of global research, teaching, and policy expertise to the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. After earning a Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, she served as a tenured Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, one of Brazil’s five largest universities. She served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan in 1993, and later became an Adjunct Faculty Associate at the U of M Institute for Social Research’s Center for Political Studies, where she has coordinated a cross-national research project – The Social Hubble Project. The current wave of that research focuses on poverty and inequality (gender, class, race, social capital, work, division of labor, and political) in Brazil, South Africa, and Russia. She also coordinated the “Global Environmental Survey” which involved research in Brazil, China, Japan, The Netherlands, Germany, and Canada. Her other research areas are women’s political participation; middle class structural positions and collective action; research methods; and race and identity. Her research has applied dimensions, and she has used her findings to inform public policy makers and NGOs. She is has a passion for teaching and student mentoring, and in the Winter of 2007 will be teaching a new cross-listed graduate course: WGST/SOC 592: Global Women: A Cross-Cultural Approach.

Student:
A number of students accociated with the Women's and Gender Studies Program demonstrated excellence during 2005-06. They are as follows: