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Biographical Statement
Women's Studies International Forum 33 (2010) I–II
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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Mounira Maya Charrad is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas in Austin. She earned her PhD from Harvard University. Her book, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, won several awards, including the Distinguished Book Award for the Outstanding Book in Sociology from the American Sociological Association, and the Best Book on Politics and History Greenstone Award from the American Political Science Association. Addressing issues of gender and women's rights, Islamic family law, the formation of national states and citizenship, her recent publications include “Kinship, Islam or Oil: Culprits of Gender Inequality?” Politics and Gender, 5 (4), 2009; “Tunisia at the Forefront of the Arab World: Two Major Waves of Gender Legislation.” in Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change, F. Sadiqi and M. Ennaji, eds., Routledge, forthcoming; and “Contexts, Concepts and Contentions: Gender Legislation in the Middle East.” Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. 2007. Vol. 5 (1): 55–72. She is the co-editor of The Power of Kinship: Patrimonial States in Global Perspective, with J. Adams Vol. 636 of The Annals, New York: Sage, forthcoming in 2011. Her current research on “Modernity within Islam: The Politics of Law” is funded by a grant the National Endowment for the Humanities.
F. Umut Beşpınar, Ph.D., is currently on the faculty of the department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, with a specialty in women and gender studies. She is the author of “Women in Turkey: Caught in the Bind between Tradition and Modernity” in Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change, F. Sadiqi and M. Ennaji, eds., Routledge, 2010. She conducted fieldwork in Turkey and Mexico during 2005 for her dissertation entitled “To Work or Not to Work: Women's Experiences in Mexico and Turkey” with the financial support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Field Research Award and the David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship of the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests center on gender, and the sociology of work and organizations.
doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(10)00146-9
Sonia M. Frias, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she conducts research about violence against women and children, discrimination and sexual harassment. She is the author of Gender, The State and Patriarchy: Partner Violence in Mexico, Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken (Germany): VDM Publishers, 2009; and “Socialización y Violencia: Desarrollo de un Modelo de Extensión de la Violencia Interpersonal a lo Largo de la Vida” (Estudios Sociológicos, 2011. She is coauthor of the report Violence against Children in Mexico (Estudio sobre Violencia contra la Infancia en México; UNICEF 2010).
Deniz Gökalp obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Middle Eastern Studies Program and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University in New York. She is the co-author of “From the Myth of European Union Accession to Disillusion: Implications for Religious and Ethnic Politicization in Turkey.” With S. Ünsar, Middle East Journal, 2008, 62 (1): 93–116. She is currently working on a book project entitled “From Mountains to Streets: The New Kurdish Politics in Turkey.” Her areas of interest are the State, Political Violence, Neoliberalism, Urban Movements, Mobilization and Contentious Politics. Her research aims to shed light on the transformation of the nation-state and of urban spaces in connection with neoliberal restructuring, market-oriented democracy and political violence.
Melissa Hamilton received her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where she was associate editor of the Texas Law Review, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the book, Expert Testimony on Domestic Violence: A Discourse Analysis (El Paso, TX: LFB Academic Publishing, 2009). After serving as Assistant Professor at the University Of Toledo College of Law and as affiliate of the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, she is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Her research interests include the empirical analysis of law and legal
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procedure, the legal and social implications of expert evidence, and the criminal consequences of interpersonal violence.
Ana Prata, is an Assistant Professor at California State University Northridge and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of "The Portuguese Women's Movement — A Brief Characterization and Demystification” in FINISTERRA- Revista de Reflexão e Crítica (Journal of Reflection and Critique), 2008: 259-264; “Friends in High Places? — The Trajectories of the Spanish and Portuguese Women's Movements” in Michel Dumoulin and Antonio Ventura Díaz Díaz (eds.) Portugal and Spain in Europe in the 20th Century. Yuste: Fundacion Academia Europea de Yuste, 2005. “Women's Political Organizations in the Transition to Democracy: An Assessment of the Italian and Spanish Cases.” Journal of Women's History, 2003, 15(3): 143-148. She conducted fieldwork in Spain and Portugal for her dissertation, “Women's Movements, the State, and the Struggle for Abortion Rights: Comparing Spain and Portugal in Times of Democratic Expansion (1974-1988).” She is a Portuguese National Science Foundation Fellow, a University of Minnesota Graduate Fellow, and a Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow. She is currently part of the FEMCIT research group on Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements. Her research centers on Political Sociology, Social Movements and Gender.
Rita Stephan, Ph.D., is an Analyst at the United States Census Bureau. Covering a range of issues on gender in the Middle East, her publications include “Arab Women Writing Their
Sexuality.” Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World. 4:2–3; “The Veil and Sexuality: The Perspective of Arab ChristianWomen” in The Veil: Women Writers on the History, Lore and Politics of the Head Covering, J. Heath, ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008; and “Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution” in Muslim Women in War and Crisis F. Shirazi, ed., Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. She was a lecturer of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a research associate at the Lebanese Emigration Research Center at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. She is the recipient of the P.E.O. Scholar Award, and the American Association of University Women's Dissertation Fellowship. Her areas of research include gender, Arab-Americans, social movements, and peace and conflict.
Roberta Villalón, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. John's University, New York City. She is the author of Violence against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community (New York: New York University Press, 2010) and “Neoliberalism, Corruption and Legacies of Contention: Argentina's Social Movements, 1993–2006,” Latin American Perspectives 2007 (34:2). From social movements in Argentina and Latin America, to Latina battered immigrants in the United States, and human trafficking in the Americas, her interest in the struggle to end extreme inequality links her past, current and future activist research.
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Women's Studies International Forum j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / w s i f
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Mounira Maya Charrad is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas in Austin. She earned her PhD from Harvard University. Her book, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, won several awards, including the Distinguished Book Award for the Outstanding Book in Sociology from the American Sociological Association, and the Best Book on Politics and History Greenstone Award from the American Political Science Association. Addressing issues of gender and women's rights, Islamic family law, the formation of national states and citizenship, her recent publications include “Kinship, Islam or Oil: Culprits of Gender Inequality?” Politics and Gender, 5 (4), 2009; “Tunisia at the Forefront of the Arab World: Two Major Waves of Gender Legislation.” in Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change, F. Sadiqi and M. Ennaji, eds., Routledge, forthcoming; and “Contexts, Concepts and Contentions: Gender Legislation in the Middle East.” Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World. 2007. Vol. 5 (1): 55–72. She is the co-editor of The Power of Kinship: Patrimonial States in Global Perspective, with J. Adams Vol. 636 of The Annals, New York: Sage, forthcoming in 2011. Her current research on “Modernity within Islam: The Politics of Law” is funded by a grant the National Endowment for the Humanities.
F. Umut Beşpınar, Ph.D., is currently on the faculty of the department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, with a specialty in women and gender studies. She is the author of “Women in Turkey: Caught in the Bind between Tradition and Modernity” in Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change, F. Sadiqi and M. Ennaji, eds., Routledge, 2010. She conducted fieldwork in Turkey and Mexico during 2005 for her dissertation entitled “To Work or Not to Work: Women's Experiences in Mexico and Turkey” with the financial support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Field Research Award and the David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship of the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests center on gender, and the sociology of work and organizations.
doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(10)00146-9
Sonia M. Frias, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she conducts research about violence against women and children, discrimination and sexual harassment. She is the author of Gender, The State and Patriarchy: Partner Violence in Mexico, Saarbrücken. Saarbrücken (Germany): VDM Publishers, 2009; and “Socialización y Violencia: Desarrollo de un Modelo de Extensión de la Violencia Interpersonal a lo Largo de la Vida” (Estudios Sociológicos, 2011. She is coauthor of the report Violence against Children in Mexico (Estudio sobre Violencia contra la Infancia en México; UNICEF 2010).
Deniz Gökalp obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Middle Eastern Studies Program and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University in New York. She is the co-author of “From the Myth of European Union Accession to Disillusion: Implications for Religious and Ethnic Politicization in Turkey.” With S. Ünsar, Middle East Journal, 2008, 62 (1): 93–116. She is currently working on a book project entitled “From Mountains to Streets: The New Kurdish Politics in Turkey.” Her areas of interest are the State, Political Violence, Neoliberalism, Urban Movements, Mobilization and Contentious Politics. Her research aims to shed light on the transformation of the nation-state and of urban spaces in connection with neoliberal restructuring, market-oriented democracy and political violence.
Melissa Hamilton received her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where she was associate editor of the Texas Law Review, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the book, Expert Testimony on Domestic Violence: A Discourse Analysis (El Paso, TX: LFB Academic Publishing, 2009). After serving as Assistant Professor at the University Of Toledo College of Law and as affiliate of the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, she is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Her research interests include the empirical analysis of law and legal
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procedure, the legal and social implications of expert evidence, and the criminal consequences of interpersonal violence.
Ana Prata, is an Assistant Professor at California State University Northridge and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of "The Portuguese Women's Movement — A Brief Characterization and Demystification” in FINISTERRA- Revista de Reflexão e Crítica (Journal of Reflection and Critique), 2008: 259-264; “Friends in High Places? — The Trajectories of the Spanish and Portuguese Women's Movements” in Michel Dumoulin and Antonio Ventura Díaz Díaz (eds.) Portugal and Spain in Europe in the 20th Century. Yuste: Fundacion Academia Europea de Yuste, 2005. “Women's Political Organizations in the Transition to Democracy: An Assessment of the Italian and Spanish Cases.” Journal of Women's History, 2003, 15(3): 143-148. She conducted fieldwork in Spain and Portugal for her dissertation, “Women's Movements, the State, and the Struggle for Abortion Rights: Comparing Spain and Portugal in Times of Democratic Expansion (1974-1988).” She is a Portuguese National Science Foundation Fellow, a University of Minnesota Graduate Fellow, and a Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow. She is currently part of the FEMCIT research group on Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements. Her research centers on Political Sociology, Social Movements and Gender.
Rita Stephan, Ph.D., is an Analyst at the United States Census Bureau. Covering a range of issues on gender in the Middle East, her publications include “Arab Women Writing Their
Sexuality.” Hawwa, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World. 4:2–3; “The Veil and Sexuality: The Perspective of Arab ChristianWomen” in The Veil: Women Writers on the History, Lore and Politics of the Head Covering, J. Heath, ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008; and “Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution” in Muslim Women in War and Crisis F. Shirazi, ed., Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. She was a lecturer of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a research associate at the Lebanese Emigration Research Center at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. She is the recipient of the P.E.O. Scholar Award, and the American Association of University Women's Dissertation Fellowship. Her areas of research include gender, Arab-Americans, social movements, and peace and conflict.
Roberta Villalón, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. John's University, New York City. She is the author of Violence against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community (New York: New York University Press, 2010) and “Neoliberalism, Corruption and Legacies of Contention: Argentina's Social Movements, 1993–2006,” Latin American Perspectives 2007 (34:2). From social movements in Argentina and Latin America, to Latina battered immigrants in the United States, and human trafficking in the Americas, her interest in the struggle to end extreme inequality links her past, current and future activist research.