Previous Visiting Scholar Colloquia
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Women Empowerment in IndiaB. Ratna Kumari, PhD
Andhra University, India
March 2009
Polish Women's Musical Life
During the Last 30 Years
Irena Olkiewicz, PhD
Wroclaw Academy of Music, Poland
January 2008
Challenges Facing an Abenaki (Algonkian) Woman
in the Provincial Massachusetts of 1699
Jeniveve Wahlquist, MA
Associate Professor, Utah Valley State College
November 2007
Women in Leadership
Swanee Hunt, PhD
Former US Ambassador, Director of Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University, President of Hunt Alternatives Fund
October 2006
Status and Roles of Women in Kyrgyzstan: Past and Present
Tcholpon Akmatalieva, PhD
Social Philosopher on Women's Issues, Wife of the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United States, 1996-2005
May 2006
The Peace Corps and Development in Mali
Yacouba Kone
Peace Corps Program Trainer for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, Mali
March 2006
-New US Policy on Sex Trafficking: A
Paradigm Shift
-Global Sex Trafficking: A Form of
Modern Day Slavery
Donna M. Hughes, PhD
Professor, University of Rhode Island
February 2006
-Workshop on Culture and Gender
-Culture and Beliefs about Gender: Policy Implications for Female Neglect in India
-Cultural Psychology and Social Marginality: An Intersectionality Perspective
Ramaswami Mahalingam, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
October 2005
Global Policies, Local Realities: The Increased Distance Between Educational
Policy and Social Transformation
Nelly Stromquist, PhD
Professor, University of Southern California
Are Women Still 'Emancipated' in
Post Soviet Russia?
Tania R. Lyon, PhD
Professor, Princeton University
January 2004
The Importance of Women in the
Ancient Near East
Lamia El-Khouri, PhD
Assistant Professor, Yarmourk University, Jordan
July 2003
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued
Ann Crittenden
Author, Pulitzer Prize nominee
October 2002
Health Promotion in Malawi and Uganda,
African Women
Susan Gennaro, PhD
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
October 2002
The Trafficking of Women
Elizabeth Sussekind, PhD
Former National Secretary of Justice, Brazil
September 2002
Professional Women in Islam
Da'ad Hakim, PhD
Director, Historical Documents, Syria
January 2002
Gender Studies and International Relationships: The Debate Between International and Indigenous Approaches to Women's Studies in China
Wu Ga, PhD
Professsor, Qing Hua University, Beijing, China
November 2001
Dulcinea, Killing Her Slowly
Clark Colahan, PhD
Professor, Whitman College, WA
April 2001
Current Research Regarding Women's Education
Elizabeth King, PhD
World Bank, Development and Gender Studies Issues
April 2000
Current Research Regarding Women and
Gender Issues
Donna J. Guy, PhD
Professor, University of Arizona
Position of Women in the Sisala Divination Cult
Eugene Mendonsa, PhD
Professor, Oxford University
March 2000
Conversations and Indigenous Populations: Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development
Dawn Chatty, PhD
Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Centre at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Lee Anne Miller
Dean
Cooper Union School of Art
New York City
Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD
Feminist Theology
Garrett-Evangelical Sem
Betty Burkes
President
Women's Int'l League for Peace and Freedom
Lyn Mikel Brown, PhD
Founding Member
Harvard Project on Women's Psychology
Halina Grzymala-Moszcynska, PhD
Religion
Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland
Serinity Young, PhD
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Monia Hejaiej, PhD
English
Bourguiba Institute
University of Tunis
Beth Zeleny, PhD
Human Geography Penn State University Pennsylvania