Pauline Bart, Ph.D.
pbart@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2008
Projects : 1) Writing a book, Protean Women: The Liquidity of Female Sexuality. 2) Writing an article for Gender and Society focusing on the methodological and public interest issues and the construction of identity.
Elizabeth Callaghan, Ph.D.
bpcallaghan@gmail.com
Reaserach Scholar since 2009
Project: Revising the dissertation “Domestic Topographies: Gender and the House in the Ninetheenth-Century British Novel” for publication as a book.
Jill Cherneff, Ph.D.
cherneff@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1990
Projects: 1) Beginning a study of gender differences and similarities in the expereince of receiving a diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) better known as Lous Gehrig’s disease, and living out its consequences. 2) Working on "The Science and Culture of the Breast," a project which discusses the unique scientific qualities of the human female breast and the cultural value and significance of the human female breast in non-western cultures.
Ann Chisholm, Ph.D.
achisholm@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Projects: 1) Revising a manuscript entitled "Ladies of the House: Nineteenth-Century Gymnastics for U.S. Women, Disciplinarity, and the Incorporation of Femininity." 2) Developing a related project, “Angels and Acrobats: Gymnastic Bodies, (Un)balanced Womanhood, and (In)civility in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” that explains how nineteenth-century gymnastics promised to properly calibrate reciprocal relationships between women’s nerves of motion and sensation while pledging to safeguard female sanity and to enable the accrual of appropriate objects of desire. 3) Writing a book that maps the history and dynamics of body doubling in U.S. cinema.
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Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D.
mdexter@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: 1) Coauthoring monograph, "Apotropaic and Erotic Eurasian Female Figures," with Victor Mair. 2) Translating passages from Old Norse saga "Egil and Asmund." 3) Translating Atharvaveda 4.15.12. 4) Finishing for publication an invited conference paper on the Chalcolithic (ca. 4500 BCE) “Danube Script,” which was found on thousands of pots, figurines, and even some rare plaques throughout the connected Neolithic “Danubian” cultures of present-day Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania.
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Karina Eileraas, Ph.D.
keileraas@wesleyan.edu
Research Scholar since 2008
Project: Researching the constructions of multiracial identity in "American Girl" dolls.
Kim Elsesser, Ph.D.
elsesser@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2003
Projects: 1) Continuing analysis of dissertation data on gender and social support in the workplace. 2) Analyzing data collected from a survey on gender in the workplace designed for MSNBC.com and ELLE magazine.
Margarete Myers Feinstein, Ph.D.
margarete.feinstein@gmail.com
Research Scholar since 2009
Project: Examining the reintegration of German Jewish and non-Jewish concentration camp survivors into German society.
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Mary Fox, Ph.D.
maryfox@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Project: Clarifying an array of 'risk' theories, exploring their utilities in mediating information and emotion, and locating their place within and effect upon larger social theories. Applying 'risk' theory in a particular domain in order to explore the roles that 'risk' discourses play in that domain. Considering the theories and application of risk discourses in light of gender and feminist thought, which have been largely missing terms when risk is discussed.
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Rhonda Hammer, Ph.D.
rhammer@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: 1) Publication of Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches, a volume co-edited with Douglas Kellner. 2) Continuing research and writings on films using a critical feminist cultural studies perspective with emphasis on "the politics of representation."
Myrna Hant, Ph.D.
myrnahant@aol.com
Research Scholar since 2001
Projects: 1) Undertaking a study of television's portrayal of mature women, " Black and White Depictions of Aging on Television: Changing Cultural Expectations.” 2) Researching feminist activists in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Karon Jolna, Ph.D.
karonjolna@yahoo.com
Research Scholar since 2004
Project: A Woman's Guide to the Corner Office, a book focusing on the insights, pitfalls, and accomplishments of women executives, based on in-depth interviews conducted with a diverse range of top women executives.
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Penny Kanner, Ph.D.
kanhist@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1990
Project: Preparation of a manuscript about women who served on the Belgian, Eastern and Serbian fronts during WWI.
Martha E. Kadue, Ph.D.
m.kadue@gmail.com
Research Scholar since 2009
Projects: Revising the dissertation “Judicial Rhetoric and Gender Equality: Cuckolded Husbands and Abandoned Wives in Gilded Age America” for publication.
Gabriele Kohpahl, Ph.D.
gkohpahl@hotmail.com
Research Scholar since 2008
Project: Completing research on a project entitled “Women Immigrant Activism in Los Angeles: Resistance, and the New Border.”
Elline Lipkin, Ph.D.
elline@aol.com
Research Scholar since 2008
Projects: 1) Book, Seal Starter: Girls' Studies, an introduction to Women and Gender Studies. 2) Book chapter on the contemporary poet Alice Notley in American Women Poets in the 21st Century. 3) A series of articles on contemporary American women poets' use of form. 4) Working further on a second poetry manuscript, tentatively entitled "Cast," which explores themes of travel and identity, family and language, all refracted through the lens of a contemporary female speaker.
Gisele Maynard-Tucker, Ph.D.
gmaytuck@aol.com
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: 1) Attending the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Merida 2010, paper titled “Sub-Saharan Africa: Unmet Need for Family Planning Integration.” 2) Reviewed the book “Reproductive Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti," by M. Catherine Maternowska, in Studies in Family Planning. 3) Wrote the article "HIV/AIDS and Family Planning Services Integration: Review of Prospects for a Comprehensive Approach in Sub-Saharan Africa." 4) Participated in the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (Muslims in Guinea), a publication of the World Bank.
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Julie N. Ngue, Ph.D.
julienackngue@gmail.com
Research Scholar since 2008
Project: Composing a series of articles organized around the general theme: "Critical Conditions: Refiguring Bodies of Illness and Disability in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Writing."
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Becky Nicolaides, Ph.D.
bnicolaides@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2007
Project: Researching and writing early sections of the book On the Ground in Suburbia: A Chronicle of Social and Civic Transformation in Los Angeles since 1945.
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Juliet Nusbaum, Ph.D.
jsn2103@columbia.edu
Research Scholar since 2009
Projects: Conducting research for the project “Reading Women Writers: Italian Criticism and the Language of Female Exceptionality.”
Ernestina Osorio , Ph.D.
osorio@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2006
Projects: 1) Developing doctoral dissertation, "The Intersection of Architecture, Photography, and Personhood: Case Studies in Mexican Modernism," into a book manuscript. 2) Publishing articles on Mexican modernism and global architectural culture and pedagogy.
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Jennifer Price, Ph.D.
jjprice@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1998
Projects: Completing work on a book project, Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA, as well as, publishing pieces in GOOD, Environmental History, and other magazines and journals , as well as continuing work with the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, which will continue its "Malibu Public Beaches" project and will develop the next project in its "Public Access 101" series.
Beth Ribet, Ph.D.
Beth32@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2009
Project: Completing work on “Sex/Sexual Vulnerability, Systemic Violence & Disablement.”
Penny Richards, Ph.D.
turley2@earthlink.net
Research Scholar since 1999
Project: Transcribing and editing a private collection of letters written by Marion Brown (1843-1915), a Scottish woman, and setting up a website to share the work-in-progress with other scholars.
Denise Roman, Ph.D.
denizr@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 2002
Projects: 1) Editing the journal Women's Studies International Forum. 2) Writing a paper, "The Body in the New Wave of Romanian Cinema."
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Kathleen Sheldon, Ph.D.
ksheldon@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1989
Project: Revising "The Diary of Sylvia Thankful Eddy, 1919-1920" as an article for publication, and continuing to develop a book project based on the diary and the supporting and contextual information.
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Chiara Sulprizio, Ph.D.
chiarasulprizio@hotmail.com
Research Scholar since 2009
Project: Conducting research for a project entitled “Gender, Space and Warfare in the Early Plays of Aristophanes.”
Evelina Tverdohleb, Ph.D.
evelina_tverdohleb@yahoo.com
Research Scholar since 2009
Project: Preparing a project entitled “Searching for a Socio-Cultural Profile of the National Economy: the Gender Perspective” for publication as an article in the US and/or Moldova.
Alice Wexler, Ph.D.
arwexler@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1994
Project: Researching and beginning to write an article or essay ( "Moving Targets: Huntington's Disease in Popular Culture") on the relation of popular representations of Huntington’s disease in the 1980s and 1990s to cultural constructions of gender, ethnicity, heredity, class, and definitions of the “normal.”
Mari Womack , Ph.D.
mariwomack1@yahoo.com
Research scholar since 1999
Projects: Completing work on two book projects: The Artful Body: Reflections on the Human Form (forthcoming, December 2009), and Cultural Anthropology: Global Perspectives on Being Human.
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Patricia Zukow-Goldring, Ph.D.
zukow@ucla.edu
Research Scholar since 1996
Projects: Co-editing a special issue of Ecological Psychology on new theoretical explanations of affordances and how they develop in diverse cultures. Continuing research study, "Assisted Imitation: How Infants Grasp that the Perceiving and Acting of the Self is 'Like Others."
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