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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 associated with the Women's and Gender Studies Program demonstrated excellence during 2008-09. They are as follows: Nicole April Carter, Graduate Research Fair participant: The Implications of Silence on Survivors of Sexual Assault in the African-American Community (sponsored by Professor Paul Leighton) David Endresak, Graduate Research Fair participant: The Birth of Venus: A History of Women in Simulations and Electronic Games (sponsored by Professor Gary Evans) Christine Lezotte, Graduate Research Fair participant: Women and Car Culture in Cyberspace: Empowerment and Car Talk on the Internet User Group (sponsored by Professor Denise Pilato) Adeyemi Owoduni Obanjoko, Undergraduate Symposium participant, presented his paper titled: Miss Understood: The Passion of a Black Woman's Feminism vs. the Masculinity of a Black Male (sponsored by Professor Dyann Logwood) Karen A. Tachian, Undergraduate Symposium participant, presented her paper titled: Sexploitation and the World of Advertising (sponsored by Professor Daryl Barton) Christine Lezotte, winner of the Margaret L. Rossiter Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper: Getting into Cars: Women, Engineering and the Automotive Industry (nominated by Dr. Carol Haddad) Matthew O'Brien, winner of the Donald Drummond Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper: The Early Life and Work of Lee Krasner (nominated by Dr. Ellen Schwartz) Nicole April Carter, Recipient of the Lloyd-Russell Prize for Best Paper: Michigan's Same Sex Partner Benefits Revisited (nominated by Dr. Konnie Kustron) Taylor Hayden, Recipient of the Margaret M. Smith Endowed Scholarship for the Advancement of Women Laura Hoehner, Recipient of the Margaret M. Smith Endowed Scholarship for the Advancement of Women Michell Reynolds, Recipient of the Margaret M. Smith Endowed Scholarship for the Advancement of Women |
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