Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research

Contact


Gainesville, FL 32611
Ph. (352) 392-3365
Fx. (352) 392-4873
http://web.wst.ufl.edu
tuckey@ufl.edu


The Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research offers an interdisciplinary forum for the study of gender, its function in cultures and societies, and its intersection with race and class. Students may choose from three areas of concentration within the BA program: General Concentration, Concentration in Theories and Politics of Sexuality, Concentration in Gender and International Development. A minor in Women's Studies and a minor in Theories and Politics of Sexuality are also available. The Center offers master's and doctoral students the Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies in conjunction with (other) degree programs. Graduate students may choose a thesis or non-thesis Master of Arts degree.

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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History, Stephanie Y. Evans (2008) Resource
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Principal Staff

Judith W. Page, Interim Director, Dept. Of English Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor of Arts and Sciences
Ph. (352) 273-0387
Fax: (352) 392-4873
E-mail: page7@ufl.edu

Amanda Davis, Adjunct lecturer, Women's Studies
Ph. (352) 392-3365
E-mail: ajdavis@ufl.edu

Tim Fogarty, Adjunct Lecturer
Ph. (352) 846-6083
E-mail: tfogarty@ufl.edu


Donna Tuckey, Office Manager
Ph. (352) 392-3365
E-mail: tuckey@ufl.edu


Areas of Expertise:

Sexuality & Gender, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

Member Experts:


Projects & Campaigns

Global Issues

Gender Studies and Linguistics. A collaborative effort with the Nizhny Novgorod Linguistics University for an international conference and research projects related to gender studies and linguistics.

Development and the Environment. Graduate and undergraduate courses in collaboration with the University of Florida's Institute for Food and Agricultural Science in Ecuador and Uganda in 2002.

Women and Development. A project funded by a US AID grant to explore issues raised by development.

International Scholars. In 2001-02, the center will host a visiting Fulbright scholar from Russia, and a member of the Women's Studies faculty from Makere University in Uganda.


Health and Health Care

Leadership in Women's Health Conference. A conference co-sponsored each year with the Center for Research on Women's Health at the University of Florida.

 

 

 

Reports & Resources

Judith W. Page, Director - British women writers (18th-19th centuries); Women, literature, and landscape; Gender and ecology

Anita Anantharam - Transnational Feminism; Postcolonial theory; South Asian cultural history (19th century-present); Asian-American diaspora
 
Florence Babb, Graduate Coordinator - Feminist anthropology; Gender and sexuality; Culture and political economy of globalization; Latin America and the Caribbean
 
K.L. Broad - social movements; sexualities; methodologies
 
Stephanie Evans - Black women’s educational and intellectual history; Early 20th century U.S. and higher education history (Jim Crow & the Jazz Age); Research methods in African American history; Graduate training in Black Studies; Cultural identity, community service-learning, and experiential education
 
Tace Hedrick - Chicana/o & Latina/o Cultural Studies; Afro-Latino/a Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; Transnational American Intellectual History; Feminist Art History
 
Angel Kwolek-Folland - Gender and business history; U.S. women’s history; History and sexuality; Gender and international rights
 
Milagros Peña - Women of Color in U.S. Society; Feminist Social Science Research Methods; Local and Global Perspectives on Women’s Activism; Latina Activism in the U.S. and Latin America; Latinos and Latinas and Civic Engagement in the U.S.; Religion and Gender
 
Trysh Travis, Undergraduate Coordinator - 20th century US literary and cultural history; Gender and popular culture/media studies; Men and masculinities; History of US feminism
 

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