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Responses to SWS Annual Survey of ASA Election Candidates
Compiled by Adia Harvey Wingfield SWS Vice President
Submitted to the Membership (2015)
Candidates
President-Elect: Michele Lamont ................................................................................................ 4
President‐Elect: Min Zhou ...................................................................................................... 8
Vice President‐Elect: Kathleen Gerson ................................................................................... 9
Vice President-Elect: Verta Taylor........................................................................................... 10
Secretary-Elect: Mary Bernstein ............................................................................................. 11
Secretary Elect: David Takeuchi ............................................................................................... 13
Council Members At-Large: Mabel Berezin ................................................................................ 14
Council Members At-Large: Daniel F. Chambliss ........................................................................ 15
Council Members At-Large: Cynthia Feliciano ............................................................................ 16
Council Members At-Large: Mignon R. Moore ........................................................................... 17
Council Members At-Large: Wendy Ng ...................................................................................... 18
Council Members At-Large: Wanda Rushing .............................................................................. 19
Council Members At-Large: Brent Simpson ................................................................................ 20
Council Members At-Large: Frederick Wherry ............................................................................ 21
Committee on Nominations: Japonica Brown-Saracino ............................................................ 22
Committee on Nominations: Rodney D. Coates ..................................................................... 23
Committee on Nominations: D’Lane Compton ...................................................................... 24
Committee on Nominations: James Elliott ............................................................................. 25
Committee on Nominations: David G. Embrick...................................................................... 26
Committee on Nominations: Brian Gareau ............................................................................ 27
Committee on Nominations: Maria Krysan ............................................................................ 28
Committee on Nominations: Nancy Lopez ............................................................................. 29
Committee on Nominations: Becky Pettit .............................................................................. 30
Committee on Nominations: Rhacel Parrenas ....................................................................... 31
Committee on Nominations: Jiannbin Shiao .......................................................................... 32
Committee on Nominations: Tom J. Waidzunas .................................................................... 33
Committee on Publications: Jessica Collett ............................................................................ 34
Committee on Publications: Matthew O. Hunt ...................................................................... 35
Committee on Publications: Jodi O’Brien............................................................................... 36
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Committee on Publications: Claire M. Renzetti ..................................................................... 37
Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Ben Carrington ................................................... 38
Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Ruth N. Lopez-Turley .............................................. 39
Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Ann J. Morning .................................................. 40
Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Iddo Tavory........................................................ 41
Committee on Committees Masters/Four Year Schools: Peter Callero .................................. 42
Committee on Committees Masters/Four Year Schools: Charles Gallagher ........................... 43
Committee on Committees Two Year Schools: Kira N. Arthurs .............................................. 44
Committee on Committees Two Year Schools: James McKeever ........................................... 45
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President-Elect: Michele Lamont
Lamont Harvard University
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES _X
NO
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that
apply.
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
Attendance at Summer Meetings
Attendance at Winter Meetings
Presentation at SWS
Meetings If other service,
please list:
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social
equality for women:
My main contributions to fostering gender equality have occurred in the
context of service,
mentoring,
and
research.
At Princeton I served on a committee appointed to look into how to hire, foster and
retain women on the faculty, for which I coauthored a document that reviewed the
relevant social science literature. When I moved to Harvard in 2003, I became a member
of the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW), which played a leadership role in the
movement that led to the resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers in 2006,
following an incident in which he suggested that women lag behind men in science due
to differences in aptitude. This mobilization facilitated the emergence of a network of
women who felt empowered to create institutional change. This is the context in which I
was asked to serve as Senior Advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity for the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. While a post-­­2008 hiring freeze limited what could be
achieved through recruitment, there was room for change in the mentoring culture.
Thus in my new role I was charged to develop and implement our first universal
mentoring program for junior faculty in 2009 and 2010 (previous programs were
denounced because they targeted only women). This program has been credited for a
significant improvement in the experience of junior faculty (women in particular)
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documented in Harvard’s institutional climate surveys. It has also contributed to a
significant increase in the promotion to tenure of junior faculty at Harvard. As someone
who has been frustrated by many aspects of the elite institutions where I have spent
most of my academic life, it has been incredibly meaningful to me to be able to
contribute
to
such
changes.
My contributions to gender equality have also occurred by serving as primary advisor to
more than 40 women graduate students and postdocs over thirty some years. My
mentoring work has been recognized by two awards: the 2010 Master Mentor Award
from the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity; and
the 2010 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Graduate
Student Association. My mentoring has taken the form of coauthoring a number of
papers with female graduate students. I am now finishing a collaborative book titled
Getting Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization in the United States, Brazil and Israel,
which has involved fourteen women collaborators (including a number of women of
color). The book draws on interviews with African Americans, Black Brazilians, Ethiopian
Jews, Arab Palestinians and Mizrahim. It is inspired in part by the literature on everyday
feminism and by my own experience with stigmatization (as a woman and a
Québécoise) and by what I have learned from my various leadership experiences in
environments where women are in the minority. I take pride in the fact that I am not
“male-­­identified” nor the kind of “men enabler” that Joan C. Williams wrote about in
her work on gender stereotyping in academia. This year I am taking the leadership of
the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA), which is the largest social
science center on our campus. This is where Kissinger and Brzezinski left their mark at
Harvard, in the context of the Cold War. My hope is to lead the center through a
transition where the study of globalization, transnationalism, and comparative and
international research will come together and complement the historical focus of the
center. Comparative inequality will be the integrative focus of the substantive agenda,
and the comparative study of gender inequality will be a lynchpin of the intellectual
program. Indeed, we recently awarded a grant of half a million dollars for the study of
gender inequality to colleagues Mary Brinton, Jason Beckfield, Claudia Goldin and
others. They will bring to WCFIA a large network of social scientists to consolidate and
expand
social
science
research
on
gender
at
Harvard.
Finally, I have behind me thirty years of scholarship devoted to deepening our
understanding of how cultural processes contribute to inequality. I have focused on the
sociological analysis of the doing and undoing of differences in a range of contexts.
While my prime focus has been class and racial inequality, I have studied the multiplicity
of overlapping group boundaries, particularly in The Dignity of Working Men. I think it
will be important to spell out how the study of group boundaries can illuminate aspects
of intersectionality (as described by Choo and Ferree (Sociological Theory 2010)). In
another realm, my book on peer review, How Professors Think, has analyzed social
processes of definition of excellence and the culture of evaluation in the world of
research, including gendered aspects. Thus, although I am not a gender researcher, I am
certainly an ally by temperament and taste, as well as a self-­­defined “everyday
feminist.” If elected, I will be committed to contributing to making our discipline more
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inclusive while working to raise its profile and intellectual ambition and serving the
needs of the wide swath of sociologists who are members of the association.
My main contributions to fostering gender equality have occurred in the context of
service,
mentoring,
and
research.
At Princeton I served on a committee appointed to look into how to hire, foster and
retain women on the faculty, for which I coauthored a document that reviewed the
relevant social science literature. When I moved to Harvard in 2003, I became a member
of the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW), which played a leadership role in the
movement that led to the resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers in 2006,
following an incident in which he suggested that women lag behind men in science due
to differences in aptitude. This mobilization facilitated the emergence of a network of
women who felt empowered to create institutional change. This is the context in which I
was asked to serve as Senior Advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity for the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. While a post-­­2008 hiring freeze limited what could be
achieved through recruitment, there was room for change in the mentoring culture.
Thus in my new role I was charged to develop and implement our first universal
mentoring program for junior faculty in 2009 and 2010 (previous programs were
denounced because they targeted only women). This program has been credited for a
significant improvement in the experience of junior faculty (women in particular)
documented in Harvard’s institutional climate surveys. It has also contributed to a
significant increase in the promotion to tenure of junior faculty at Harvard. As someone
who has been frustrated by many aspects of the elite institutions where I have spent
most of my academic life, it has been incredibly meaningful to me to be able to
contribute
to
such
changes.
My contributions to gender equality have also occurred by serving as primary advisor to
more than 40 women graduate students and postdocs over thirty some years. My
mentoring work has been recognized by two awards: the 2010 Master Mentor Award
from the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity; and
the 2010 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Graduate
Student Association. My mentoring has taken the form of coauthoring a number of
papers with female graduate students. I am now finishing a collaborative book titled
Getting Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization in the United States, Brazil and Israel,
which has involved fourteen women collaborators (including a number of women of
color). The book draws on interviews with African Americans, Black Brazilians, Ethiopian
Jews, Arab Palestinians and Mizrahim. It is inspired in part by the literature on everyday
feminism and by my own experience with stigmatization (as a woman and a
Québécoise) and by what I have learned from my various leadership experiences in
environments where women are in the minority. I take pride in the fact that I am not
“male-­­identified” nor the kind of “men enabler” that Joan C. Williams wrote about in
her work on gender stereotyping in academia. This year I am taking the leadership of
the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA), which is the largest social
science center on our campus. This is where Kissinger and Brzezinski left their mark at
Harvard, in the context of the Cold War. My hope is to lead the center through a
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transition where the study of globalization, transnationalism, and comparative and
international research will come together and complement the historical focus of the
center. Comparative inequality will be the integrative focus of the substantive agenda,
and the comparative study of gender inequality will be a lynchpin of the intellectual
program. Indeed, we recently awarded a grant of half a million dollars for the study of
gender inequality to colleagues Mary Brinton, Jason Beckfield, Claudia Goldin and
others. They will bring to WCFIA a large network of social scientists to consolidate and
expand
social
science
research
on
gender
at
Harvard.
Finally, I have behind me thirty years of scholarship devoted to deepening our
understanding of how cultural processes contribute to inequality. I have focused on the
sociological analysis of the doing and undoing of differences in a range of contexts.
While my prime focus has been class and racial inequality, I have studied the multiplicity
of overlapping group boundaries, particularly in The Dignity of Working Men. I think it
will be important to spell out how the study of group boundaries can illuminate aspects
of intersectionality (as described by Choo and Ferree (Sociological Theory 2010)). In
another realm, my book on peer review, How Professors Think, has analyzed social
processes of definition of excellence and the culture of evaluation in the world of
research, including gendered aspects. Thus, although I am not a gender researcher, I am
certainly an ally by temperament and taste, as well as a self-­­defined “everyday
feminist.” If elected, I will be committed to contributing to making our discipline more
inclusive while working to raise its profile and intellectual ambition and serving the
needs of the wide swath of sociologists who are members of the association.
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President‐Elect: Min Zhou
Nanyang Technological University
4. Are you a member of SWS? YES
NO _X
5. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
Attendance at Summer Meetings
Attendance at Winter Meetings
Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
6. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
Actively involved in an informal group of faculty in the Division of Social Sciences, UCLA,
to address the issue of gender inequality in pay and promotion.
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Vice President‐Elect: Kathleen Gerson
New York University
1.Are you a member of SWS?
Yes, I am a member of SWS
I have participated in the following SWS activities:
X Gender & Society Reviewer
X Attendance at Summer Meetings
X Attendance at Winter Meetings
X Presentation at SWS Meetings
X Other Service for SWS
Other Service includes:
– SWS Co_President, 2015
– SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecturer, 1998 (published Feminist Lecture in Gender & Society)
– More generally, I have been a member of SWS since my graduate student years -- that is, the
beginning of my professional life and almost the beginning of SWS itself! I have always looked to
SWS as a beacon for cutting edge ideas, influential professional engagement, and thoughtful
political action.
Contributions I have made to the promotion of social equality for women:
Throughout my professional life (and well before), I have been committed to seeking the sources
of gender inequality and to creating the conditions for achieving women's equality in the public
and private spheres. These efforts have taken the form of both scholarship and activism. My
research and writing have consistently focused on illuminating the sources, nature, and
consequences of gender inequality and the contours of gender change. In the public realm, I have
endeavored to contribute to public debates and the formation of progressive social policy that
expands the possibilities for equality and women’s empowerment. More specifically, in the
academy and the profession, I have sought to put feminist goals into practice by mentoring
graduate and undergraduate students, advocating for gender equality in the university (including
chairing the Gender Equity Committee for NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science), and participating
actively in feminist oriented ASA initiatives and groups (such as chairing the ASA Family Section).
In the public arena, I have sought to achieve these goals in a variety of ways over many years,
including as a board member for the Council on Contemporary Families, a founding board
member of the Work-Family Researchers Network, and a contributor to numerous policy oriented
and nonprofit initiatives to promote gender equity, work-family integration, and equal economic
and social opportunity for all. In short, a commitment to gender justice and women's equality has
informed my life's work and continues to inspire all that I do as a sociologist and engaged public
citizen.
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Vice President-Elect: Verta Taylor
University of California – Santa Barbara
No Response
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Secretary-Elect: Mary Bernstein
University of Connecticut
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES
X
NO
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
_X
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
_X Attendance at Summer Meetings
_X Attendance at Winter Meetings
_X Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
I am currently past-­­president of SWS and I have been involved with SWS since I first
became an assistant professor and learned of SWS. I have participated in the
organization in many capacities ever since. I have presented papers and/or served on
panels and attended almost every meeting since I joined. More importantly, Tracy Ore
had the inspired idea to start the Social Action Committee and I was at the first meeting
and helped the Committee to grow, develop fact sheets, and to become an important
part of SWS. I have served as a member of the program committee and done local
arrangements for the SWS Winter meetings both in 2000-­­2001 and again in 2003-­­2004.
From 2004-­­2006, I served as secretary of SWS. I became president-­­elect of SWS in 2013
and president in 2014. I serve as one of the deputy editors of Gender & Society (2011-­­
2015).
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
My younger years as an activist as well as my scholarship and service at the University of
Connecticut (UConn), in the profession, and in the community have had a central focus
on promoting social equality for women across race, sexual orientation, and gender
identity. / / My contributions to the promotion of social equality for women began in
college with my work in the Sanctuary movement, toward divestment from South Africa
and with Amnesty International. Upon graduating college, I worked for the feminist
organization, 9 to 5: The National Association for Working Women on issues such as pay
equity. Working with these various social movement organizations sparked my
scholarly interest in understanding the dynamics of collective action and social change.
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Thus my scholarship has focused on understanding social change through a focus on the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement and more recently, the multi-­­
racial Hapa movement, and Islamic movements in Turkey and LGBT activism in Turkey
and Autralia. My publications have also examined the politics of family formation.
Another current research project involves examining how women with early breast
cancer make decisions about their medical treatment. / / In addition to my scholarship,
I have had a long-­­term commitment to advancing the position of people of color, women,
and LGBT people in the academy and to supporting a variety of activist efforts in this
regard. / / I have been involved in promoting women’s studies through my affiliation
with Women’s Studies (4 years at Arizona State University and 12 years at UConn,
including 6 years on the Women’s Studies Advisory Board). I helped to rewrite the
bylaws of the Women’s Studies Program (which has since become the Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program) and to create a vision for the Program at UConn.
At UConn, I served as a member of the ALTERR committee-­­-­­ the Academic
Leadership
Team for Effective Recruiting and Retention-­­-­­ whose goal was to ensure that recruitment
efforts at UConn did not disadvantage women and people of color and to create
strategies for retaining women faculty and faculty of color once they were at UConn.
The Committee conducted training with every department in the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences that was hiring to ensure that committees were aware of the subtle and not­­so-­­subtle ways in which recruitment practices might disadvantage women and people of
color. When I served as Director of Graduate Studies in my department at UConn, I
wrote and received a grant for graduate student recruitment and initiated an
“Ambassador Program” designed to recruit and retain students of color. The
Ambassador Program, under my direction, was highly successful. I also served as
advisor from 2003 – 2012 to the UConn group, Allies and Queers Undergraduate
Association (AQUA) as well as to the UConn group Queers United Against Discrimination
(QUAD) and have been a guest speaker at various groups on campus, such as Graduate
Queers, LGBT graduate student association and the Rainbow Center. / / At the
professional-­­level, I served as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on
Sexualities and council members of the section on Collective Behavior and Social
Movements. In 2011-­­2012, I organized the ASA Section on the Sociology of Sexualities’s
first mini-­­conference, entitled “Crossing Boundaries: Workshopping Sexualities” where I
helped to raise money to provide 24 grants to graduate students so that they could
attend the conference. I have also developed a lecture designed to help LGBT graduate
students prepare for the job market entitled, “Going on the Market With A Lavender
CV” which I have given at several professional meetings, including ASA and the Easterns.
/ / I have also contributed to community efforts to promote social change regarding
gender and sexual orientation through serving as a board member of the Arizona
Human Rights Foundation and the Arizona Human Rights Fund and as a guest speaker in
various community groups such as Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gay Men.
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Secretary Elect: David Takeuchi
Boston College
No Response
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Council Members At-Large: Mabel Berezin
Cornell University
No Response
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Council Members At-Large: Daniel F. Chambliss
Hamilton College
No Response
15
Council Members At-Large: Cynthia Feliciano
University of California -­­ Irvine
No Response
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Council Members At-Large: Mignon R. Moore
University of California – Los Angeles
No Response
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Council Members At-Large: Wendy Ng
San Jose University
No Response
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Council Members At-Large: Wanda Rushing
Memphis University
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES
X
NO
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
_X Attendance at Summer Meetings
_X Attendance at Winter Meetings
_X Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
Now serving as President-­­Elect. I previously served as Treasurer, as well as Treasurer-­­
Elect and Past Treasurer. I have contributed to Hey Jane and Network News, and have
organized and participated in SWS workshops.
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
I am a former Director of Women's and Gender Studies, and have served as a faculty
affiliate with the Center for Research on Women, and a member of the Faculty Advisory
Boad of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change. I have served as a panelist or
speaker for a number of non-­­profits in Memphis including: The Women's Foundation for
a Greater Memphis, The Memphis Urban League, and others whose efforts focus on
racial and gender equality and empowering minorities.My research and teaching
combine an intersectional race,class and gender approach with theories of
globalization, focusing on economic and educational changes, and stabilities and
disruptions in raced, classed, and gendered institutions and identities.
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Council Members At-Large: Brent Simpson
University of South Carolina
No Response
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Council Members At-Large: Frederick Wherry
Yale University
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES
NO _X
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
Attendance at Summer Meetings
Attendance at Winter Meetings
Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
Mentoring the only junior faculty women in my department, even those outside of my
area of expertise / Insisting on gender diversity as we look at new hires (working on a
strategy and buy-­­in over the next few months) / Insisting on gender-­­balance for the
panels in economic sociology that I have controlled at the ASA regular section and
section sessions.
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Committee on Nominations: Japonica
Brown-Saracino
Brown University
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: Rodney D. Coates
Miami University
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: D’Lane Compton
University of New Orleans
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: James Elliott
University of Oregon
No Response
25
Committee on Nominations: David G. Embrick
LoyolaUniversity-­­ Chicago
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: Brian Gareau
Boston College
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: Maria Krysan
University of Illinois -­­ Chicago
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: Nancy Lopez
University of New Mexico
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: Becky Pettit
University of Washington
No Response
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Committee on Nominations: Rhacel Parrenas
University of Southern California
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES
X
NO
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
_X Gender & Society reviewer
_X Gender & Society editorial board
Attendance at Summer Meetings
_X Attendance at Winter Meetings
_X Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
My research focuses on issues relevant to women, particularly women's migration and
labor. I have conducted studies on migrant domestic work, the intersections of labor
migration and human trafficking, and gender relations in transnational families. In my
work, I examine relations of inequality between men and women and also among
women.
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Committee on Nominations: Jiannbin Shiao
University of Oregon
4. Are you a member of SWS? YES
NO _X
5. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
Attendance at Summer Meetings
Attendance at Winter Meetings
Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
6. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
I have supported the hiring of female job candidates whose expertise would break
certain gendered associations in my department.
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Committee on Nominations: Tom J. Waidzunas
Temple University
No Response
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Committee on Publications: Jessica Collett
University of Notre Dame
No Response
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Committee on Publications: Matthew O. Hunt
Northeastern University
No Response
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Committee on Publications: Jodi O’Brien
Seattle University
No Response
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Committee on Publications: Claire M. Renzetti
University of Kentucky
No Response
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Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Ben Carrington
University of Texas -­­ Austin
No Response
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Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Ruth N. Lopez-Turley
Rice University
No Response
39
Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Ann J. Morning
New York University
No Response
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Committee on Committees Member at-Large: Iddo Tavory
New York University
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES
NO _X
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
Attendance at Summer Meetings
Attendance at Winter Meetings
Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
In my work with graduate students and undergrads, I work to maintain gender equality.
I end up working with more female than male students (though, frankly, this probably
simply mirrors the gender distribution). I also explicitly try to maintain a gender balance
when organizing workshops and edited issues.
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Committee on Committees Masters/Four Year Schools: Peter Callero
Western Oregon University
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES
NO _X
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
Attendance at Summer Meetings
Attendance at Winter Meetings
Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social equality for
women:
This is a difficult question to answer in that I am not sure I can identify a specific
contribution, but I can tell you that I have been a strong advocate for gender equality in
my work as a union leader, in my work as a political activist, in my leadership positions
on my campus, in my scholarship on identity, and in my classroom. On my campus I
have been active in promoting Take Back the Night, The Vagina Monologue, the WOU
Center for Women and Families, as well as a campus committee on sexual violence. As
the VP for Political Action for our union I have also worked to recruit and elect women
to political office and have lobbied to advance gender equality/justice.
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Committee on Committees Masters/Four Year Schools: Charles Gallagher
Lasalle University
No Response
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Committee on Committees Two Year Schools: Kira N. Arthurs
Paul River Community College
No Response
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Committee on Committees Two Year Schools: James McKeever
Pierce Community College
1. Are you a member of SWS? YES
X
NO
2. If yes, have you participated in any of the following SWS activities: check all that apply.
_X
Gender & Society reviewer
Gender & Society editorial board
_X Attendance at Summer Meetings Attendance
_X at Winter Meetings
Presentation at SWS Meetings
If other service, please list:
Honorable mention for the Beth Hess Fellowship. I also served as a a
reviewer for the fellowship for two years.
3. Please describe any contributions you have made to the promotion or social
equality for women:
I have created a program and a guest lecture to deal with issues of Misogyny
Patriarchy and the Creation of a Rape Culture to try to combat sexualized
violence. I have volunteered this lecture to numerous college campus and
even a few high schools in the Southern California area.
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