Affiliates and FellowsSenior Academic Affiliates
Department of Economics, UCSD
Kate Antonovics is a labor economist whose primary research interests are gender and race inequality, discrimination and affirmative action. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2000 and has been on the faculty of the Economics Department at UC San Diego ever since. She has authored several papers on gender inequality and gender discrimination, including one that examines differences in the performance of men and women in competitive settings. She has also done research of the link between women’s schooling choices and the education of their children.
Department of Medicine Dean of Graduate Studies, UC San Diego
Dr. Kim Barrett, a native of the United Kingdom, obtained her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Chemistry at University College London. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, she joined the faculty of UCSD School of Medicine in 1985, and rose to her current rank of Professor of Medicine in 1996. Her research interests center on the normal and abnormal biology of the intestinal epithelium and their relevance to a variety of digestive diseases including inflammatory bowel diseases, infectious diarrheal diseases, and peptic ulcer disease. She has received a number of honors for her research, including the Bowditch and Davenport Lectureships of the American Physiological Society, and being awarded the degree of Doctor of Medical Science, honoris causa, by Queens University Belfast. She has been highly active in professional societies and in scholarly editing. She is also the author or editor of several books and monographs and more than two hundred peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and reviews. She has a long-standing interest in the status of women in academia. She served as Chair of the Committee on Women in Physiology of the American Physiological Society, and Co-Chair of the Gender Equity Taskforce of the UCSD School of Medicine. In 2006, she was also appointed as Dean of Graduate Studies at UCSD. In this capacity, she serves as a member of the senior academic management team of the institution and oversees the recruitment, academic advancement and climate for more than 4000 masters and doctoral students. She also guides the development of new graduate programs and planning for an anticipated 50% growth in the graduate population in the next 10-12 years.
Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA
Professor Bisom-Rapp is an expert on employment discrimination, occupational safety and health, and international and comparative workplace law, who writes and lectures internationally. Her co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press 2007), is the first law school text on the subject. She is presently at work on the second edition, which will be published in 2012. A member of the Thomas Jefferson faculty since 1996, Professor Bisom-Rapp also serves on the international council of the Doctoral Research School in Labour and Industrial Relations at the Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena, Italy. She is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal’s editorial board. Professor Bisom-Rapp served as Director of Thomas Jefferson's Center for Law and Social Justice from 2004-2008, was Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2003, and has taught law in China and France. As a doctoral student at Columbia University, she was a Wien Fellow and received a dissertation grant from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Before beginning her academic career, Professor Bisom-Rapp practiced workplace law at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City.
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
Dr. Mandy Bratton is the Director of Global TIES - Teams in Engineering Service and a Lecturer in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and prior to joining the Jacobs School, served as a senior faculty member in Psychology and Human Development and Interim Associate Dean at Prescott College for the Liberal Arts, the Environment and Social Justice. During her thirty years in higher education, she has held a number of clinical, teaching, and administrative positions at a variety of institutions, including Arizona State University and Cornell University. Her research interests include the impact of experiential and service learning on students and their clients, and gender issues in academic settings.
Department of Medicine, UCSD
I was raised in Anchorage, Alaska and trained mostly at Stanford University where I received my undergraduate and medical degrees and finished my residency in Internal Medicine. I spent years in private practice but returned to academic practice at UCSD in 2008 with a goal to mentor and teach medical professionals in training. I enjoy my clinical practice at UCSD with a particular interest in women’s health. I am fortunate to have an ongoing opportunity to teach and mentor both medical students and residents at UCSD. Most recently, I have a new role as faculty liason for UCSD's American Medical Women's Association.
Department of Communication, UCSD
Department of Sociology, Rice University Erin Cech joined the sociology department as an Assistant Professor in 2012. She was recently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2011 from the University of California, San Diego. She earned undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Sociology from Montana State University. Related Papers: Cech, Erin, Brian Rubineau, Susan Silbey, and Carroll Seron. 2011. “Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering.” American Sociological Review, Vol.76(5): 641-66.
Cech, Erin A. and Tom Waidzunas. 2011. "Navigating the Heteronormativity of Engineering: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, and Besexual Students." Engineering Studies, 3(1): 1-24.
Cech, Erin A. and Mary Blair-Loy. 2010. "Perceiving Glass Ceilings? Meritocratic versus Structural Explanations of Gender Inequality among Women in Science and Technology." Social Problems, 57(3): 371-397
Charles, Maria and Erin Cech. 2010. “Women’s Beliefs about Maternal Employment.” Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective, edited by Judith Treas and Sonja Drobnič. Stanford University Press.
Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Religion and Public Life Program, Rice University
Esther Chan graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 2012. Part of the Sociology Honors Program, she wrote her thesis on a church schism (in the Evangelical tradition) over different theological views of women in pastoral leadership entitled: “Gender as Doctrine and Governance: Ideological Tools Framing Modes of Actions in the Advent of an Evangelical Church Schism Over Women in Pastoral Leadership.” She examines the respondents’ views of women in pastoral leadership, how congregants made their decision to stay or leave the church, and the affect of the split on female student leaders’ perceptions of their ministry. She is currently employed at Rice University in the Religion and Public Life Program. Her research interests lie in religion, gender, work-life balance, and culture.
Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
Maria Charles (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously she was a member of the Sociology faculty at UC San Diego (1994-2008), and a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1991-1994). She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, and Bachelor’s degrees from UCSB in Environmental Studies and Political Science. Professor Charles specializes in the international comparative study of social inequalities with particular attention to cross-national differences in women's economic, educational, and family roles. Her teaching specialties include quantitative methods, social inequality, and sociology of class, race, and gender. She has published extensively on the phenomenon of sex segregation, most recently on the ideological and organizational factors that contribute to female underrepresentation in engineering and the physical sciences around the world. Her coauthored book, Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men (Stanford University Press) received the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 2005. Related Publications: Charles, Maria and Karen Bradley. 2009. “Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 114:924-76. Charles, Maria. 2008. “Culture and Inequality: Identity, Ideology, and Difference in ‘Post-ascriptive Society’.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 619:41-58. Charles, Maria and David Grusky. 2004 (2005 in paperback). Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Associate Dean, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Jeanne Ferrante is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Equity, Associate Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. She received her B.A. from New College at Hofstra University in 1969, and her Ph.D. from MIT in 1974. Prior to joining UC San Diego in 1994, she taught at Tufts University until 1978, and was subsequently a Research Staff Member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. As Associate Dean, she co-founded UCSD Teams In Engineering Service (TIES), which partners multidisciplinary teams of undergraduates with non-profit organizations to provide long-term technical solutions. Dr. Ferrante also co-founded the UCSD Women’s Leadership Alliance, whose aim is to advance leadership development, networking, and recognition of women campus leaders at UC San Diego. She was honored as a UCSD Community Champion for Diversity in 2004, and received the 2007 Athena Educator Pinnacle Award for her diversity leadership efforts.
William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Ruben J. Garcia is a tenured Associate Professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego, where he has taught since 2003. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Davis School of Law and at the University of California, San Diego. Garcia's research focuses on labor and employment law, with particular attention to the effects of race, gender, immigration and globalization on the world of work. He teaches primarily in the Labor and Employment Law Concentration at California Western, as well as Professional Responsibility and a course in Constitutional Law at the University of California, San Diego. Before teaching, Garcia specialized in labor and employment law while in private practice in Los Angeles. He now serves on the executive boards of the Society of American Law Teachers and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. Garcia is also active in the Law and Society Association and the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Related Publications: "New Voices at Work: Race and Gender Identity Caucuses in The U.S. Labor Movement," 54 Hastings Law Journal 79 (2002)
Department of Sociology Kathleen Gerson is Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science at New York University. Her work focuses on the connections among gender, work, and family life in post-industrial societies. She conducts research that seeks to combine the deep understandings of qualitative, life history interviews with the rigor of systematically collected samples and carefully situated comparisons. Her theoretical concern aims to explain the interactive links between processes of social and individual change, with special attention to how institutional conflicts and contradictions prompt creative human action. Kathleen’s most recent book, The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America (Oxford University Press, 2010), addresses a new generation’s experiences growing up amid changing families and blurring gender boundaries. The Unfinished Revolution shows how irreversible but incomplete change has created a growing clash between new egalitarian ideals and resistant social institutions. Although young women and men hope to fashion flexible, egalitarian gender strategies, they are falling back on less desirable options that are fostering a new gender divide between “self-reliant” women and “neo-traditional” men. The solution to these 21st century conundrums is to finish the gender revolution by creating more flexible, egalitarian workplaces and more child-supportive communities. Related Publications: The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming December, 2009). No Man's Land: Men's Changing Commitments to Family and Work. New York: Basic Books (paperback edition, 1994). (with Jerry A. Jacobs) The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (paperback edition, 2005; Korean translation, 2009).
Department of Sociology, University of Virginia Elizabeth Gorman is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia. She earned her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard. Before beginning her graduate studies in sociology, she practiced law for five years in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Professor Gorman teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on organizations, work, gender, and quantitative methods.
Researcher, Work Research Institute; Oslo, Norway Sigtona Halrynjo is a social scientist and work as a researcher at the Work Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. She uses multiple methods to study the explicit and implicit “rules of career” and its consequences for men and women – with and without children. She has published nationally and internationally on gender, childcare and career and on work-family conflict in high-commitment professions. She has currently finalized her PhD dissertation within the research project “Gender, Participation and Achievement in Working life and Family life – Childcare as Excluding Mechanism?” financed by the Norwegian Research Council, as well as the Norwegian Association of Lawyers and the Norwegian Bar Association. The data collected within this research project – co-conducted by Halrynjo and colleague Selma Therese Lyng – consist of:
This sample of professionals living in a well-developed, family-friendly welfare state is particularly apt to explore the processes and mechanisms upholding the statistically gendered pattern of traditional work-family adaptations entailing that even highly career dedicated women – in contrast to men – reduce their work commitment after childbirth. Challenging the adequacy of established explanations emphasizing constraints vs. individual preferences, publications by Halrynjo and Lyng on these data examine the circumstances, mechanisms and steps in a seemingly individual process of making the shift in commitment from a promising career to a family-friendly job. Moreover, these analyses demonstrate how generous parental leave arrangements designed to enhance gender equality and work-family balance by simply reducing practical constraints may have limited – or even counterproductive – impact within high-commitment occupations where the ‘irreplaceability’ of workers is taken for granted. The findings indicate that unless the culturally (re)produced discourses, demands and expectations of both work and family are exposed and challenged, even intentionally gender neutral work-family policies will continue to facilitate mothers’ career withdrawals, expressed as modified individual preferences.
Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Rosanna Hertz is the Classes of 1919-1950 Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College where she has taught since 1983. She chaired the Women's Studies Department from 1999-2008. She is the past president (2009-2010) of the Eastern Sociological Society, the oldest regional sociological association. "Productive Rule Breakers and Innovators,” Professor Hertz’ current project, seeks to better understand the motivations and the tactic of men and women who stretch everyone’s thinking about what’s possible. They “stretch the envelope” while remaining loyal to the organizations and communities that nurtured them. They inspire others to have similar aspirations and to challenge the status quo – rather than withdrawing or complaining from the sidelines. The specific focus of this study is the experience of women who have become productive rule breakers and innovators in developing economies – specifically India, China, South Africa, and Israel. It examines the context of their lives – the “intersection of biography and history” – in an effort to understand how education, family background, social structure and social networks influenced their distinctive personal and professional trajectories. It seeks to understand the critical moments and events that encouraged each woman to become a different kind of leader – a productive rule breaker. In broadest terms, Hertz’s scholarship focuses on families in a changing economy and how social inequality at home and in the workplace shape the experiences of women and men. She is interested in how people weave together a life on their own, despite lack of government or workplace supports. She has recently completed a study of the interplay of genetics, social interaction, and culture expectations in the formation of web-based donor sibling kin groups. Books she has written in this vein include, Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford University Press, 2006) and More Equal than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages (University of California Press).
Department of Sociology, University of Jena, Germany
Stefanie Hiss is assistant professor of economic sociology/sociology of financial markets at the University of Jena, Germany, and visiting scholar at The Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University from January to July 2012. As a Schumpeter fellow funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, she heads the Junior Research Group "Sustainability and Financial Markets." Additionally, she is working on a research project on corporations and gender. She is also a member of the Junge Akademie of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In 2005, she received her PhD from the University of Bamberg. In her dissertation, Stefanie dealt with the question of why corporations act socially responsible. Her research interests focus on sustainability (socially responsible investment, corporate social responsibility) and financial markets (credit, rating).
Department of History, UCSD
Christine Hunefeldt has been teaching for the History Department at UCSD since 1990. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnology, Americanistics, and History from the University of Bonn, Germany in 1982. Her research focuses on Latin American history with an emphasis on Andean history, life of women, and indigenous populations and slaves.
Department of Sociology, Penn State
Jerry A. Jacobs has been a member of the faculty in sociology at Penn since 1983, when he completed his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard. He has served as the Editor of the American Sociological Review and the President of the Eastern Sociological Society. His research has addressed a number of aspects of women's employment, including authority, earnings, working conditions, part-time work and work-family conflict, and entry into male-dominated occupations. His most recent book, The Changing Face of Medicine, with Ann Boulis, (Cornell University Press, 2008), is a multi-faceted portrayal of women’s entry into the medical profession over the last 30 years. This project examines the lives and careers of busy professionals, themes that were developed in his earlier book, The Time Divide, with Kathleen Gerson (Harvard University Press, 2004). Jacobs’ current research projects include a study of interdisciplinary scholarly communication with grant support from the Aflred P. Sloan and Lyle M. Spencer Foundations.
Department of Sociology, UCSD Martha Lampland received her B.A. (summa cum laude) and M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her specialties include: political economy, history, feminist theory, science studies, social theory, and the symbolic analysis of complex societies. Her book, entitled The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary, analyzes the collectivization of agriculture in Hungary and its social consequences. Other projects include a study of nineteenth century agrarian history in Hungary, analysis of gender images of the Hungarian nation in the nineteenth century, and patterns of Hungarian historical consciousness and revolution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is now starting a project on scientific management in Hungary during the capitalist and socialist periods (1940s-1960s). Lampland is a core faculty member of the Science Studies program.
Researcher, Work Research Institute; Oslo, Norway
Selma Therese Lyng is a sociologist and work as researcher at the Work Research Institute, Norway. Main research interests are conditions, mechanisms, processes and consequences of inclusion and exclusion in meritocracies. She has studied such issues in empirical contexts as secondary school and high-commitment elite professions. She is currently finalizing her PhD within the research project “Gender, Participation and Achievement in Working life and Family life”, financed by the Norwegian Research Council as well as the Norwegian Association of Lawyers and the Norwegian Bar Association. The data collected within this research project – co-conducted by Lyng and colleague Sigtona Halrynjo – consist of:
This sample of professionals living in a well-developed, family-friendly welfare state is particularly apt to explore the processes and mechanisms upholding the statistically gendered pattern of traditional work-family adaptations entailing that even highly career dedicated women - in contrast to men - reduce their work commitment after childbirth. Challenging the adequacy of established explanations emphasizing constraints vs. individual preferences, publications by Halrynjo and Lyng on these data examine the circumstances, mechanisms and steps in a seemingly individual process of making the shift in commitment from a promising career to a family-friendly job. Moreover, these analyses demonstrate how generous parental leave arrangements designed to enhance gender equality and work-family balance by simply reducing practical constraints may have limited - or even counterproductive - impact within high-commitment occupations where the ‘irreplaceability’ of workers is taken for granted. The findings indicate that unless the culturally (re)produced discourses, demands and expectations of both work and family are exposed and challenged, even intentionally gender neutral work-family policies will continue to facilitate mothers’ career withdrawals, expressed as modified individual preferences.
Department of Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook
Associate Vice Chancellor –Academic Planning and Resources, UCSD Professor Emeritus, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Professor Miller is interested in such things as thin magnetic cluster films, friction at the molecular level and gas dynamics of supersonic free-jet expansions. He also has an interest in supercritical fluids. These fluids exhibit liquid-like density and gas-like diffusivities, and are therefore good mixers, making them ideal for chemical reactions. Miller spends much of his time studying the fluid mechanics, physics and chemistry involved in supercritical fluid reactions. He is also interested in molecular beam scattering experiments in which a molecular beam is formed and bounced off of a surface in a vacuum; studying the process to shed new light on chemical reactions. Apart from using molecular beams, Miller's current research involves experiments using gas dynamics, and physics of the gas-surface interface. In his current administrative position he works closely with the SVCAA. He plans and coordinates new academic programs and initiatives, instructional technology, and resource allocations of faculty, space and general campus operating budgets. David R. Miller is Associate Vice Chancellor - Academic Planning and Resources, as well as Professor of Chemical Engineering in the MAE Department. He received his BS degree from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University before joining the faculty at UCSD in 1966. He has served as Chairman of AMES, as Acting Dean of Engineering, and as Associate Dean of Engineering. He has received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, the Alumni Association Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, and the Chancellor's Associates UCSD Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Minda D. Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (January-July, 2012)
Liza M. Mügge is assistant professor in gender & ethnicity at the political science department of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and visiting scholar at The Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University from January-July 2012. Trained in both anthropology and political science, she combines ethnographic fieldwork with systematic comparative analysis in her research. She has published widely on transnational migrant politics and is currently developing a new comparative project on the political representation of ethnic minority women in Europe. Her research agenda integrates insights from Migration and Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies. Liza serves on the advisory board of the interdisciplinary Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender & Sexuality (ARC-GS) and the Program board of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), both at the University of Amsterdam, and sits on the editorial advisory board of Migration Letters. Key research interests: intersectionality, gendered representation, qualitative methodology and transnationalism.
Department of History, UCSD Rebecca Jo Plant is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of California, San Diego. Her work focuses on gender relations and the rise of a therapeutic culture in the twentieth-century U.S. She is especially interested in exploring how people in the past have constructed a sense of selfhood, and the ways in which historical forces have shaped emotional life and interpersonal relationships. Her book, Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2010. It is based on her Ph.D. thesis, which was awarded the Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best dissertation in U.S. women’s and gender history in 2003. Plant has also held fellowships from the American Association of University Women and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Iceland
Dr. Gudbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir is professor in Sociology at the University of Iceland. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Lund, Sweden. She has an experience in sociological and interdisciplinary researches on work organization, occupational health, well being and welfare. Her research interests include new trends in working life, well being at work, work-family balance and gender theory. Now she is working on a research project about the gendering of the time. Linda has published a number of articles and book in several languages within this field. Related Papers: Rafnsdóttir G.L. 2011. "Lack of gender diversity in business leadership; Potential barriers and solutions." In Rašticová M. (eds), Diversity is Reality. Brno: Vutium Press. Rafnsdóttir, G. L. and Heijstra, T. M. 2011. "Balancing Work–family Life in Academia: The Power of Time." Heijstra T.M and Rafnsdóttir G.L. 2010. "The Internet and Academic’s Workload and Work-Family Balance." Internet and Higher Education 13(3): 158-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2010.03.004 Click here for more of Linda's publications.
Department of Economics, UCSD Valerie Ramey received her B.A. in Economics and Spanish from the University of Arizona, graduating summa cum laude, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. She is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Chair of the UCSD Institute for Applied Economics. She has served as Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and as a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel. She currently serves on the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee and was recently elected to the Executive Committee of the American Economics Association. Professor Ramey has published numerous scholarly articles on the role of inventories in the business cycle, trends in wage inequality, the effects of monetary and fiscal policy, the impact of volatility on growth, and trends in time use over the 20th Century. She has received a number of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Bradley Foundation.
Department of Sociology, University of Essex, United Kingdom Dr. Ruiz Ben is currently working at the Department of Sociology of the University of Essex in the UK and previously at the Institute of Sociology of the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) as Assistant Professor. Her recent research areas include technology and society, the sociology of work, gender and professionalization processes of emergent occupations, innovation, sustainability and social change in relation to globalization and the expansion of information technologies. Selected Publications: Ruiz Ben, E. (forthcoming). Internationale Professionalität: Transformation der Arbeit und des Wissens in internationalen Arbeitsfeldern. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Ruiz Ben, E. (2007). "Defining Expertise in the Practice of Software Development while doing Gender." In: Gender, Work and Organisation. Vol. 14: 312-332. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Ruiz Ben, E. (2005). Professionalisierung der Informatik: Chance für die Beteiligung von Frauen? Wiesbaden: Deutsche Universitätsverlag.
Associate Dean, UCSD Rady School of Management He has also served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences, most recently on organ donation, and on cost-effectiveness of federal health-related policies, programs and regulations. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Hewlett Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Electric Power Research Institute, Exxon and IBM. He teaches negotiation, decision analysis, organizational behavior, managerial decision making, statistics, and research methods. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of several major journals, and on review panels of the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. He won both the top research and MBA teaching awards at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, and was selected to Who’s Who in Economics 1990-2000. His research on punitive damages has been cited in numerous court cases, including opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and the California State Supreme Court. His editorials, quotations and references to his work have appeared in numerous media outlets, among them the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, LA Times, Dallas Morning News, Time Magazine, CNN, UPI, Reuters, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, and BBC.
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
Professor Schieman's research and teaching interests fall into three broad areas: the sociology of religion, health/medical, and work/stratification. He is currently engaged in a large, national survey of work, stress, and health among Canadians. This project will investigate the social causes and health consequences of stress in the lives of Canadian adults and the ways that these processes change over time. The aim is to replicate and extend research that he recently completed in the United States. A substantial component of his research on work and health seeks to investigate the stressors associated with higher status positions and activities in the workplace---or the “stress of higher status.” His analyses focus on the implications of these processes for the work-family interface, health, satisfaction, and well-being. He is also currently conducting research about the ways that religious beliefs affect our health, our social lives, and the nature of our politics. In these analyses, he draws from different disciplines and data sources to describe the impact of beliefs in a personal God who intervenes in the events and outcomes of our lives. Recent Related Publications (more listed here): Glavin, Paul, Scott Schieman, and Sarah Reid. 2011. “The Impact of Boundary-Spanning Work Demands on Negative Emotions and Psychological Well-Being.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 52:43-57. Schieman, Scott and Marisa Young. 2011. “Economic Hardship and Family-to-Work Conflict: The Importance of Gender and Work Conditions.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 32(1): 46-61.
Schieman, Scott, Melissa Milkie, and Paul Glavin. 2009. “When Work Interferes with Life: The Social Distribution of Work-Nonwork Interference and the Influence of Work-Related Demands and Resources.” American Sociological Review 74:966-87.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeremy Schulz is finishing his PhD in the Department of the Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. While Jeremy has researched, written, and published on wide range of topics, including consumerism, the social and cultural determinants of ideology, and qualitative methods, his thesis uncovers the influences of national and societal environments on the ways in which business professionals approach working life and private life. Contrasting the work lives and private lives of similar French, Norwegian, and American business professionals, the dissertation pinpoints transatlantic differences and commonalities among these groups in terms of practices, discourses, and orientations relating to work, career, family life, and leisure. Jeremy's dissertation research has received support from the Labor and Employment Research Fund of the University of California, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies Program. Related Papers: Schulz, Jeremy. 2011. "Framing Couple Time and Togetherness Among American and Norwegian Professional Couples," in At the Heart of Work and Family: Building on the Work of Arlie Hochschild, edited by Karen Hanson and Anita Garey. Rutgers University Press. Schulz, Jeremy. (forthcoming). "Talk of Work: Divergent Cultural Repertoires in French, Norwegian, and American Justifications for Hard Work." Theory and Society. Schulz, Jeremy. "Zoning the Evening: How and When Elite Professionals End the Workday in Paris, Oslo, and San Francisco." R&R from Qualitative Sociology. Schulz, Jeremy. "Social, Cultural, and Institutional Counterpressures to Extreme Work Among Norwegian and Non-Norwegian Business Professionals," in preparation for submission to Sociology.
Department of Political Science, SDSU
Ronnee Schreiber is an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. Schreiber’s research interests are in the area of women and politics, particularly women in American political institutions and women and public policy. In 2008, Schreiber published Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics with Oxford University Press. The book examines how conservative women at the elite level seek legitimacy as representatives of women’s interests and was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. In addition to her book, she has published a number of articles that examine women in Congress, how feminist organizations adapt to conservative political climates and how conservative women challenge feminist understandings of gender consciousness. Schreiber’s work has also been featured on CNN.com, Pacifica Radio, Sirrius Radio and various other media outlets. Her new work examines conservative women’s construction of motherhood since the 1970s.
Department of Communications, UCSD
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Department of Criminology, Law & Society, UC Irvine
Carroll Seron is on the faculty of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She has conducted a number of studies of the legal profession that focus on issues related to women. In an ethnographic study of solo and small-firm lawyers, Seron examined how these practitioners balance and enact professional values in a world that allows legal advertising and other entrepreneurial techniques of business development; as part of this study, she focused on the ways in which men and women enjoy differential resources of time to construct a professional career. With Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Bonnie Oglinsky and Robert Suate, she studied how new policies to allow part-time and flexible work schedules affect the mobility patterns and careers opportunities of lawyers who who opt for this career track. Her current research has taken a different turn. In a study with Susan Silbey, they are examining the persistent gender gap in engineering. While academic fields, law, and medicine experienced dramatic change in the gender composition during the second half of the 20th century, engineering did not. The question is, why? Is the gender gap in engineering explained by, for example, cultural factors of professional socialization, social psychological factors such as self-confidence, or background? Seron and Silbey have followed cohorts of entering students at four schools for five years using a variety of data gathering techniques, including yearly surveys, in-depth interviews, diaries, and observations. With Brian Rubineau (Cornell) and Erin Cech (UC San Diego) they are in the process of analyzing these data. Carroll Seron was also the Editor of Law & Society Review where she handled a wide range of articles dealing with questions of gender and the legal profession.
California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA
Professor Slotkin, former director of the Legal Skills Program and a Legal Skills professor for 15 years, is director of the LL.M. and M.C.L. Programs for Foreign Lawyers. She developed California Western's Academic Support Program for entering diversity students. Her doctoral research was a cross-cultural study of role conflict experienced by college-educated women. She taught at the University of Arizona. After law school graduation, Slotkin practiced in a San Diego law firm before returning to teaching. When she is not teaching or recruiting students for the graduate program, she is a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and community volunteer. Rabenmutter and the Glass Ceiling: An Analysis of Role Conflict Experienced by Women Lawyers in Germany Compared with Women Lawyers in the United States, 38 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 287 (2008). "It's Harder in Heels": Essays by Women Lawyers Achieving Work-Life Balance, co-authored with Samatha Slotkin-Goodman, Vandeplas Publishing; 1st edition (July 16, 2007)
Rady School of Management, UCSD
Pamela K. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy at the Rady School of Management. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from New York University in 2004. Her dissertation on power and information processing received the prestigious Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award. Prior to joining Rady, she worked in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, and Radboud University Nijmegen. Dr. Smith's primary research interests are centered on how having or lacking social power affects low-level processes, particularly its nonconscious effects on basic cognition, motivation and interpersonal behavior. She also studies how particular cognitive styles are perceived as signs of power. Her other research is focused on basic systems - the BAS/BIS, approach vs. avoidance motivation, promotion vs. prevention - and how they explain the way people think, feel and behave.
Department of Sociology, Boston University
Laurel Smith-Doerr is a sociologist who investigates how science, gender, and organizations are connected and become institutionalized in contemporary knowledge-based communities. Smith-Doerr conducts research on interorganizational collaboration, implications of different organizational forms for women’s equity in science, gendering of scientific networks and scientists’ approaches to social and ethical responsibilities, and tensions in the institutionalization of science policy. Results of this research have been published in her book, Women’s Work: Gender Equity v. Hierarchy in the Life Sciences (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004) and scholarly journals including Nature Biotechnology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Minerva, Regional Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Sociological Forum, Industry & Innovation, Sociological Perspectives, and Gender & Society. Professor Smith-Doerr has held faculty appointments in the Boston University Department of Sociology since 1999. In 2004-5 she received a Jean Monnet fellowship to the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Study at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 2007-9 she was appointed as a Visiting Scientist and Program Officer in Science, Technology and Society at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA. She received the NSF Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration for her work at NSF in leading the Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program and on the committee implementing the ethics education policies of the America COMPETES Act of 2007. She has been elected as a Council Member at-large to both the American Sociological Association (2012-14) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for a three year term (2011-13). She received her BA from Pomona College in Claremont, CA and her MA/PhD from University of Arizona.
Department of Surgery, VA Hospital, UCSD Dr. Elaine Tanaka is a General Surgeon in the VA San Diego Healthcare System in La Jolla, CA where she teaches residents and medical students. She is currently creating a Breast Program at the VA Hospital and is an advocate for Women’s Health. She is also Founding President of the San Diego Chapter of the UCSD Medical Alumni Association and is actively involved in mentoring medical students. As faculty liaison for the Women in Medicine Group/American Medical Women’s Association at the UCSD School of Medicine, she is actively involved in and interested in gender equity. She received her M.D. from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She completed her internship at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas and her residency in general surgery at the University of California, San Diego.
Director, UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Edwina Welch, Ed.D. (ewelch@ucsd.edu) has served as the Director of the UCSD Cross-Cultural Center since spring of 1996. In this capacity she works with students, staff and faculty on issues of climate and multiculturalism for UCSD and the surrounding San Diego community. Edwina Welch serves on numerous campus wide committees including the Chancellor’s Diversity Council, the Community Building Collaborative, and the 2004 Chancellor’s Diversity Summit. Edwina also serves as a consultant to Staff Council, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation and other campus wide committees. Edwina works in the San Diego Community as a “Working Group Member for Civil Society” at the San Diego Foundation our region wide community foundation. Working with her Colleagues at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center and the Women’s Center, Welch has also dose extensive training to staff and student organizations at UCSD and in the community. Prior to coming to UCSD Edwina worked for the University of Oregon as the Director of the ASUO Women's Center. She also worked in Multicultural Recruitment and Academic Advising for the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Admissions Office. Edwina received her BA in Communication Studies and Business Administration from California State University Sacramento, a Master’s of Science in Higher Education Administration from the University of Oregon and her Doctorate of Education through a joint program with UCSD, San Diego State University, and the California State University at San Marcos. Edwina is also a founding member of the California Council for Cultural Centers in Higher Education (CaCCCHE) a regional wide collaborative of higher education cultural centers. Her specialty work areas include workshops on social justice and diversity, organizational capacity building, and small group communication.
Professor of Law, UC Hastings Director of the Center for WorkLife Law
Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law, 1066 Foundation Chair, Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. According to The New York Times, “she has something approaching rock-star status“ among work/life advocates. She won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000). She has authored or co-authored five books, including RESHAPING THE WORK-FAMILY DEBATE: MEN AND CLASS MATTER (Harvard Univ. Press, fall 2010). She has also written sixty academic articles, which have been excerpted in law school casebooks on six different subjects. She has lectured at scores of major universities, both in North and Latin America. In 2006, Williams received the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award for Women Lawyers of Achievement. In 2008, she gave the Massey Lectures in American Civilization at Harvard University. Follow her on her Huffington Post blog; the WorkLife Law website is www.worklifelaw.org.
Affiliates in Industry
Principal, Centauric, LLC
Tina has been advising senior executives and aspiring leaders for over 20 years. She has worked in a wide variety of organizations with people at various stages in their careers. Tina knows what it takes to be effective at places like Hewlett-Packard, Deloitte & Touche and Citibank as well as small and mid sized businesses that few have heard of – yet.
Prior to founding her own consulting firm, Tina was a senior manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and a professor in the Industrial Relations program and Department of Sociology at McGill University in Montreal. She has an ability to communicate behavioral science and human dynamics in ways that are understandable to, and practical for, technically oriented people.
Equal Opportunity Advisor, California Air National Guard Investigative Support Assistant, Equality Employment Opportunity Commission
Jessica Huerta received her BA in Sociology with a minor in Psychology from UCSD in 2011. As a participant of the honors research program, Jessica’s thesis focuses on sex discrimination and sexual harassment against women in male-dominated fields, particularly the military. She examined the conditions where service members are most likely to speak up against violations of policy. Her research consists of organizational analysis with use of neo-institutionalism, hegemonic masculinity, and feminist theories. Along with insights from the scholar community, Jessica’s research benefitted from her experience in the active duty Air Force as a Ground Radar Maintenance Technician for Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems and her deployment to Iraq as a Force Protection Controller and Dispatcher. Currently, Jessica is undergoing the application process for graduate school. She continues to serve the Air Force as an Equal Opportunity Advisor in the California Air National Guard and works as an Investigative Support Assistant for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Through these institutions, Jessica applies her research in systemic discrimination against race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and family care-giver responsibilities.
Student Affiliates
Graduate Fellow Department of Sociology, UCSD
Laura Pecenco is a PhD candidate in sociology at UC San Diego. Her main research interests are in the sociology of gender, sociology of art, penology/corrections, and criminology. Her dissertation, entitled "Creativity and Art within Prison," explores the gendering of incarcerated male artists and the art they create within the confines of the prison. Her work challenges previous assumptions regarding the hypermasculinity of the prison, as the art objects created often feature feminized iconography and media. Laura received her MA in Sociology from UC San Diego in 2010 and her BA, with Highest Honors, from UC Berkeley in 2006. Her undergraduate honors thesis, entitled "The Ultimate Garage Sale: Trust Issues on eBay," received the UC Berkeley Sociology Departmental Citation Honorable Mention.
Graduate Fellow Department of Sociology, UCSD
Stacy Williams is primarily interested in studying the relationship between food and gender. She would like to focus on how food and eating practices influence gender norms, and vice versa. A large piece of her research will include analyzing cultural objects related to food, such as cookbooks, cooking magazines and cooking TV shows to study the gender messages that are mixed with cooking lessons. At Northwestern University, Williams wrote an undergraduate honors thesis about the portrayal of American middle-class housewives’ gender roles in the 1943 edition of the Joy of Cooking. She found that this edition of Joy represents the domestic housewife ideal of the mid-20th century while, surprisingly, criticizing the contemporary gender norms. Joy’s criticism bears strong resemblance to the later second-wave feminism. This connection piqued Williams’s interest in researching how subversive ideas can exist in the mainstream during climates unfavorable to change. She would like to explore whether this process in mid-century cookbooks produced widely understood critiques of the housewife role that second-wave feminists could expand upon and apply towards their quest for gender equality.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
Erica Bender received her B.A. in Sociology from Chapman University. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her primary research interest is in gender and the military, particularly in the United States Marine Corps. Her current research addresses how Marines navigate a cultural context that emphasizes mutual respect and unity, but also simultaneously maintains cultural and structural boundaries between male and female Marines. Erica’s previous research investigated how the process of becoming a Marine influences an individual’s gender identity and the ways individuals ‘do gender’. Her dissertation will focus on the construction of the soldier as a cultural object in the early 21st century. She will address how significant gender integration of the military, the persistence of an All-Volunteer force, repeal of the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy, and proliferation of technological warfare influence the cultural construction of soldiering as a gendered activity.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
I graduated from Notre Dame in 2010 with a degree in Philosophy. After graduating, I worked at Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Religion and Society from 2010 until 2011, at which point I moved to San Diego to begin my PhD in Sociology at UCSD. My research seeks answers to the question: how do universities shape their students’ moral orientations toward economic life? More specifically, I want to understand whether organization-level differences among universities, like ownership, size, urban setting and religious affiliation, create unique social environments for each institution’s students. Then, I want to understand if and how those university environments shape students’ occupational goals, consumption patterns, and altruistic behavior.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
Dan has an MA in religious studies and in sociology, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Sociology at UC, San Diego. His interests are in the sociology of higher education, including where gender inequalities exist at all levels of campus life. He is also executive editor of Praxis Educator (www.praxiseducator.com) a online video journal of book reviews in the sociology of higher education.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of History, UCSD
Suzanne Dunai completed a dual BA in International Studies and History at Texas A&M University in 2007 with a focus on women in modern Europe. She continued her education at the University of New Mexico where she received an MA in Modern European History in 2012. While there, she received awards from the Feminist Research Institute and the Graduate and Professional Student Association to write a thesis analyzing the cooking publications of the Women’s Section of the Falange during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in Spain (1939-1975). She has presented research at the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies conference in Lisbon, Portugal in 2011 as well at the Graduate Resource Center Interdisciplinary Conference in Albuquerque in 2012. She currently works in the History Department at UC San Diego where she intends to complete her PhD in Modern European History. Her current research examines cuisine culture expressed in cookbooks, women’s magazines, and home economics manuals during the post-Civil War period in Spain, known as the “years of hunger.” She focuses on the agency of Spanish housewives and reassesses the totalitarian dictatorship to only play a peripheral role in the daily lives and habits of the women she studies. Her main investigation is to understand the role of totalitarian food politics (such as rationing, black marketeering, price-setting, and distribution restrictions) in the production and circulation of cookbooks of the time. More broadly, Suzanne aims to incorporate transnational, trans-temporal, and interdisciplinary comparisons into her own research on motherhood, home economics movements, the historical significance of conservative women, food culture, and expressions of femininity and feminism.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of History, UCSD
I received my BA in Secondary Education and a minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Akron in 2007. I completed my MA in History from the University of Akron in 2011, during which I researched televisual representations of African American womanhood and motherhood. My thesis, “Mamie Till and Julia: Black Women’s Journey from Real to Realistic in 1950s and 60s TV,” examined how media coverage following the 1955 murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi presented Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till Bradley, to a cross-race national audience transforming the gender and racial discourse regarding motherhood and housewifery by visually altering what families in general, and mothers in particular, looked like. Bradley’s glamorous appearance and strategic intervention in the popular press altered pubic sensibilities regarding black womanhood and had a ripple effect on the televisual aesthetic of programs featuring chic middle class black families in shows such as Julia. My current research as a PhD student at UCSD (2011-present) has transitioned to focus more broadly on televisual representations of women activists in print media and the news, in addition to portrayals of women in sitcoms during the 1960s and 1970s. With this research I hope to contribute to literature on women’s intervention in the politics of portrayals of women by tracing the genealogy of critiques made against media representations of motherhood and womanhood. Focusing on how media as an industry is shaped by American political and social ideologies, this study examines who has the power to represent such televisual images, what it means to have that power, and how women came to understand certain images as oppressive by analyzing the triangular relationship between television writers and producers, audiences, and actors and activists.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Visual Arts, UCSD
Emily Elizabeth Goodman received her BA in Art History and Psychology from McGill University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department of the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on 20th Century American Art, with a particular emphasis on Feminist art practices in New York and California in the 1960s and 70s. Her research specifically examines the issue of domesticity in relation to the conception of femininity and womanhood in Midcentury America as manifest in a myriad of art forms from this period. She is particularly interested in the relationship between food and gender as explored in the work of several women artists during this time. Her dissertation will examine how the concept of femininity is related to a series of dynamic relationships between food and the body and food as a site of cultural discourse. She will look at the ways that these artists simultaneously critique and challenge the tenable link between femininity and domestic labor, maternity, and the form of the female body in American culture during the period of Second Wave Feminism.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
Melissann Herron received her M.A. in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology with specializations in social inequality and culture at the University of California, San Diego. Her master’s thesis, “Patronymy as Taken-for-Granted and Enforced Patriarchal Practice? Analysis of Marital Naming Practices and Plans,” examined the experiences of womyn who kept their birth names after marriage (keepers), as well as the ways in which engaged couples discuss marital naming options prior to marriage. Significantly, as a result of their deviance from patriarchal naming practices, keepers face overt hostility and condemnation, sometimes leading this small group (fewer than 10 percent of U.S. womyn) to comply with patronymy as a survival mechanism. This, along with constructions of masculinity and the gendered nature of the institutions of marriage and the family, lead very few engaged womyn to consider non-traditional naming options. Unsurprisingly, there is little to no discussion of alternatives amongst men. Melissann plans to continue exploring the ways patronymy, as a deeply embedded cultural norm, seamlessly perpetuates gender oppression, even amongst otherwise liberal individuals. She also plans to conduct additional interviews with engaged couples and explore the gendered dynamics of their relationships beyond the topic of patronymy. More broadly, she is interested in studying inequality, particularly in the areas of marriage/family, motherhood, and womyn’s health.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, University of Maryland
Sidra Montgomery received her B.A. in Sociology from Beloit College. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her primary research interests are military families, military spouses, veterans, and identity. Her master’s research focused on an analysis of factors related to military spouses’ embracement of the traditional military spouse role. Her dissertation focuses on the rise of “wounded warrior” as a socially constructed category, examining the social meaning of “wounded warrior” by connecting public discourse and the impact this socially constructed category has on wounded OEF/OIF veterans.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
My dissertation examines continuities and changes in the dominant gender cultures of France and America from the 1950s to the present. My main source of data is fiction, advice columns and feature articles from large-circulation women’s magazines, both mainstream and avowedly feminist. I am supplementing this material with an assortment of demographic, time-use, survey and interview data. The main thrust of the dissertation is to trace how different deep-seated assumptions about what makes a good person and a good life in each country have influenced their gender cultures, including feminism itself and anti-feminist reactions.
My teaching interests are first and foremost in the sociology of culture and in sociological theory. Both fields deal with the intellectual issue that fascinates me most: how social contexts shape people’s imagination and motivations. My background in economics, political science and history gives me a heightened awareness of sociology’s distinctive strengths and weaknesses, and hence, of what the sociological approach has to offer—and learn from—neighboring intellectual fields. Of course, my work gives me a natural interest in and affinity for anthropology.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
Julia Rogers is a graduate student in Science Studies and Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She completed a BA in Psychology and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Her current interests in the production of scientific knowledge stem from her experience working as a Social Worker and Research Technician. Julia became interested in how psychological knowledge was deployed and utilized in a clinical setting differently than the way that knowledge was constructed in a research and academic settings. This sparked Julia's interest in the ways that science and society intersect to produce scientific knowledge. Julia's research interests pursue the moments of struggle, opposition, and negotiation between social groups and scientists in the production of scientific facts.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
Laura Rogers received her Bachelor’s of Science in Sociology at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego specializing in culture and inequality where she recently received her M.A. At JMU, Rogers wrote an undergraduate honors thesis using ethnographic methods to look at how boundaries are maintained within a homeless shelter. She is currently working on a project on oncologists and how they discuss the gendered-body experiences of their patients. Her primary research interests are culture, the body, boundaries, and the reproduction of inequality.
Medical Student Affiliate UCSD School of Medicine
Dr. Praveena Selvaduray began her training at San Diego City College then continued on to UC San Diego where she earned her BS in Molecular Biology. She continued her education at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas where she earned a Ph.D. in Immunology. Desiring more of a connection to people, Praveena redirect her career towards medicine which has brought her back to UCSD where she is currently earning a medical degree and serving as the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) UCSD Branch President. Through AMWA, and the extensive mentorship program she has developed at the UCSD School of Medicine, Praveena is creating a forum for candid dialogue between female physicians and students thereby empowering students to follow their dreams without being hindered by societal/familial/professional expectations that may be incongruent with their own desires. To ensure that this culture of mentorship continues, Praveena is currently working on an independent study project entitled, "Creating a Sustainable Program of Mentorship for Female Medical Students at UCSD.”
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
Website Working Paper: “Strengthening, Goal Setting, and Upward Aspirations: The Discourses of MaleRecreational Weight Trainers.”
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Communication, UCSD
Cristina Visperas received her B.S. in biotechnology at UCD and her M.A. in media studies at SDSU. She has been a research assistant in both academic and industry laboratory settings, including research in stem cells, burn injuries, parasitic plants, and the biochemistry of membranes. She is now a graduate student in Communication and Science Studies. Her current research interests sits at the cross-overs between disability/freak studies, gender studies, and science and technology studies. Her theoretical leanings and approaches are primarily underwritten by scholarly work in Black studies, notably those in Afro-pessimism. Cristina’s work is focused on how blackness, gender, and disability were entangled in the context of science and medicine under slavery in the U.S., or how the slave structures and figures in the grammar and optics of scientific objectivity, expertise, and narratives of evidence.
Graduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
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Undergraduate Student Affiliate Department of Sociology, UCSD
I am currently an undergraduate student at UC San Diego studying sociology. I will be studying at L’Institut de Science Politique in Paris during the 2012-2013 academic year. As a former pageant contestant with a keen interest in critical gender studies I am currently working on an independent research project titled “The Sport of Beauty” – Investigating the Lure and Economics of Beauty Pageants. “The Sport of Beauty” aims to understand the cultural phenomenon of Beauty Pageants within the United States. We aim to examine whether pageants meet their stated goals of promoting educated, self-confident women, or whether it is a purely economic venture aimed at profiting off hopeful pageant contestants. Our goals are to identify and help explain the social mechanisms that entice women to enter pageantry as well as trace the career progressions of both pageant title-holders and contestants. The media portrays beauty pageants in both a positive and negative light within American culture. Through this study I seek to answer whether the “dream industry” is bigger than the career or personal advancement of pageant participants. In other words, do pageant executives make more money off the pageant industry than contestants make from participating in pageants, or does participating in pageants significantly benefit both the contestants as well as the pageant producers? Additionally, I also seek to further explore the cultural structure of emphasized femininity within beauty pageants and explain how this concept plays into a women’s decision to enter a beauty pageant. After graduating from UCSD, I plan to continue my education by pursing a Ph.D. in Sociology.
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News and Events Gender in STEMM Professions Workshop UCSD GradWISE presents the Gender in STEMM Professions Workshop, which will be held on Thursday, May 9, 2013, from 5:30-7:30 pm in Bonner Hall Room 2130 at UCSD. CRGP Director Mary Blair-Loy will begin the event by delivering the keynote speech, which will provide a framework of the obstacles women in STEMM face as they attempt to advance and become leaders in their fields. This lecture will be immediately followed by interactive tasks with participants to train leadership skills for navigating the aforementioned obstacles, facilitated by a member of the UCSD Center for Communication and Leadership. Register for this free event here; please see the flyer for additional details. Funding for the Institute of Social Research, Oslo The Institute for Social Research, located in Oslo, Norway, where CRGP Senior Academic Affiliate Sigtona Halrynjo serves as Senior Research Fellow, has received funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion to become the Norwegian National Center for Research on Gender Equality. Women and the Gun Control Debate CRGP Senior Academic Affiliate Ronnee Schreiber, author of Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics, has analyzed the positions of women across the political spectrum regarding gun control. In a KPBS interview, she discussed the comments made by Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and conservative Independent Women's Forum activist Gayle Trotter. Although the two women differ on their political stances, they both utilize motherhood as the frame for their arguments. New Research by Erin Cech and Mary Blair-Loy A new issue of Gender News, published by Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research, cites CRGP Affiliate Erin Cech and Director Mary Blair-Loy's new research about high-powered women's beliefs in the glass ceiling. Cech and Blair-Loy find that women recognize glass ceilings when they are exposed to work-family balance issues (such as working long hours, being the family breadwinner, and having very young children) themselves. Women tend to not recognize glass celings when they have advanced business degrees, are married, and hold the highest positions in their organization. Whether organizational leaders believe success is affected by personal achievement or organizational factors may impact whether they implement policies in their workplaces designed to help employees overcome structural barriers. Mary Blair-Loy's Book One of Most Cited Works in Sociology Competing Devotions (2003), by CRGP Founding Director Mary Blair-Loy, is listed as one of the top 102 works cited in sociology between the years of 2008-2012. The list, in full here, was created by UNC Assistant Professor Neal Caren.
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