GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES PROGRAM

GSS Event Archive

Christine Walley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT

April 21, 2014 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Evanston

John Evans Alumni Center
1800 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL60208

Christine Walley is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She received a Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University in 1999. Her first book Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park (Princeton University Press, 2004) was based on field research exploring environmental conflict in rural Tanzania. Her current project Exit Zero uses family stories to examine the long-term impact of deindustrialization in the United States. It includes a forthcoming book with University of Chicago Press (2013) as well as a documentary film made with director Chris Boebel. Chris Walley and Chris Boebel are also the co-creators and co-instructors of the documentary film production and theory class DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media.

"Afghan Good Enough: Gender & Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan" with Helen Kinsella

January 16, 2014 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Evanston

John Evans Alumni Center
1800 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL60208

Helen M. Kinsella is an associate professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Her research and teaching interests include contemporary political theory, feminist theories, international law, especially international humanitarian and human rights, armed conflict, and especially gender and armed conflict.  She is a graduate of University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and prior to her appointment at Wisconsin held pre and post doctoral fellowships at, respectively, Harvard University and Stanford University.   

Beth Richie ~ Arrested Justice: Race, Gender Violence & the Carceral State

November 14, 2013 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Evanston

John Evans Alumni Center
1800 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL60208

Beth Richie is engaged in several research projects designed to explore the relationship between violence against women in low-income African American communities and violence. The specific focus of one study is girls who are both violent and perpetrators of violence. Another project is looking at the factors that influence recidivism and re-arrest rates for women and young people being released from a large urban jail. A third project is concerned with the public policy and social factors that lead to the rise in incarceration rates of women and conditions of confinement once they are sentenced. Currently Dr. Richie is leading a multi-million dollar research sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researching women and youth issues at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She was the recipient of three major awards: the National Advocacy Award by the Department of Health and Health and Human Services, Office of Violence Prevention; the Audre Lorde Legacy Award of the Union Institute stemming from her work with the National Network for Women in Prison; and the Visionary Award Of the Violence Intervention Project.