| Faculty Fellows
2003
Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology,
FASDepartments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology,
FAS
Events in the last year have made it increasingly imperative
that our classrooms offer students strategies for grappling
with the realities of war and terror at a global scale. We
will develop curricular revisions for courses in Women’s and
Gender Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology. These teaching
“modules” will encourage student understanding of the lived
experiences, cultures and historical contexts of war and terror,
and of the intercultural factors underlying such forms of
human aggression. We will hone pedagogical techniques, through
readings and exercises, for allowing students to arrive at
their own informed conclusions about the ways that cultural
differences are related to these global phenomena.
We will cooperatively develop three 3-week teaching modules
for use in the following courses, representing three departments:
Women’s and Gender Studies 101, Women, Culture and Society;
Anthropology 318, Reading Ethnographic Writing; Sociology
270, Sociology of the Third World
Additionally, based on our research and training
in relevant literatures under the Bildner Fellowship program,
we hope to develop:
- An advanced undergraduate course, at the
300- or 400-level, in Women’s and Gender Studies that will
be offered under the title War, Gender and Terror in
Comparative Perspective;
- A reading and resource list for undergraduate
students and faculty with the theme of war and terror;
- An outline for a graduate seminar relating
to the theme to be taught in the Women’s and Gender Studies
Department.
Ethel Brooks teaches in the Departments
of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology. She offers courses
on relations of gender, race, class, labor practices and nation-state
formations, research methods, globalization, comparative and
historical sociology, and border crossing. Her research is
on critical political economy, transnational social movements,
urban geographies and post-colonialism, with close attention
to epistemology. She has done fieldwork in Bangladesh, El
Salvador, New York City, and Mexico, among garment workers,
union organizers, factory managers, indigenous activists and
development practitioners. Her book manuscript, The Empire’s
New Clothes: Transnational Protest, the New
International Division of Labor and Women’s Work in the Garment
Industry, is currently under review. Other publications
include articles in International Labor and Working Class
History, Asian Pacific Perspectives, Apuntes
de Investigacin and NACLA: Report on the Americas.
Louisa Schein teaches in the Departments of Anthropology and
Women’s and Gender Studies. She offers courses on ethnography,
diaspora and multiculturalism, introductory anthropology,
Asia and Asian Americans, transnationalism, gender and sexuality,
mass media and popular culture. Her research is on ethnicity,
gender/sexuality, cultural politics, media, diaspora and transnationalism.
She has done fieldwork in a rural minority area in China’s
southwest, in Chinese cities, and on Hmong refugees from Southeast
Asia in the urban United States. She is the author of Minority
Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics
(Duke University Press, 2000). Other publications include
a special issue on “East Asian Sexualities” for the journal
East Asia, and articles in Modern China,
Cultural Anthropology, Social Text, Postcolonial
Studies, Positions and other journals.
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