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Overview > Scholar Directories > 2004-2005

The following scholars will be researching themes involving "Toward Equality: The Global Empowerment of Women" during 2004.

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi

• Director, Center for Arab American Studies/Associate Professor of Sociology
• University of Michigan-Dearborn, United States
• Research: From Self-Determination to Self Rule (and Back to Occupation): What Prospects for Palestinian Women?

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Dr. Meena Acharya

• Resource Person to Women's Studies in Padma Kanya College in Nepal,
• Tanka Prasad Acharya Memorial Foundation, Nepal
• Research: Making Markets Work for Women

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Dr. Bolanle Adetoun

• Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development and Gender Issues (CESDEG), Nigeria
• Research: Fostering Women's Empowerment: Gender and HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Nigeria

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Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo

• Associate Professor, Institute of African Studies
• University of Ghana, Ghana
• Research: The Socialisation of Young People and the reproduction and contestation of Patriarchy in Ghana

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Dr. Kawango Agot

• Project Coordinator, UNIM Project Lumumba Health Center
• University of Nairobi, Kenya
• Research: Empowering HIV-Positive Widows to Modify Subordinating Sexual Norms: The Case of Bondo District, Kenya

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Dr. Mona Ali

• Associate Professor, English Department
• The University of Cairo, Egypt
• Research: New Feminism in the Making: Recent Trends in Gender Theories: A Reader

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Mr. Amanuel Asghedom

• Head of Planning & Statistics & ACC
• Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Energy & Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Eritrea
• Research: The Impact of war on the role of women

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Dr. Kelly Askin

• J. Skelly Wright Fellow, Visiting Lecturer, School of Law
• Yale University, United States
• Research: Empowering women Through International Law and Process

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Dr. Margot Badran

• Professor, Department of Religon
• Northwestern University, United States
• Research: Islamic Feminism in Africa, a Nigerian Case: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

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Dr. Isabella Bakker

• Chair, Political Science Department
• York University, Canada
• Research: Governance, Gender and Social Reproduction in an Era of Intensified Globalization

Dr. Wendy Chavkin

• Professor, School of Public Health
• Columbia University, United States
• Research: Fertility Decline and the Empowerment of Women

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Dr. Fanny Mui Ching Cheung

• Chair, Psychology Department
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Research: Work-family balance for women in Chinese and American societies: Implications for enhancing women leadership

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Dr. Esther Chow

• Full Professor, Sociology Department
• American University, United States
• Research: Empowering Women in Migration and Development in China

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Dr. Christina Ewig

• Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Center for Women's Studies
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States
• Research: Is Neoliberalism Bad for women? Gender & the politics of health reform in Latin America

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Dr. Nicola Gavey

• Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department
• University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Research: Rape and the politics of trauma

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Ms. Pregaluxmi Govender

• Associate, Africa Gender Institute
• University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Research: Politics and Power: Assessing the lessons of the first decade of South Africa's democracy for the empowerment of women nationally and globally

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Dr. Agnieszka Graff

• Assistant. Professor, American Studies Center
• University of Warsaw, Poland
• Research: Between Politics and Poetics: Rhetorical Strategies of Modern American Feminism, viewed from an Eastern European Perspective

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Dr. Lynne Haney

• Associate Director/Professor, Sociology Department
• New York University, United States
• Research: Transnational States of Punishment: Gender and Incarceration in the East and West

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Dr. Gioconda Herrera

• Director, Gender Studies
• FLASCO, Ecuador
• Research: Gender in Transnational Families: The Case of Ecuadorian International Domestic Workers

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Dr. Hella Hoppe

• Visiting Researcher
• Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany
• Research: Engendering Globalization: Interlinking WTO/GATS and Financing for Development

Ms. Vesna Kesic

• Research Coordinator
• Centre for Women War Victims, Croatia
• Research: The Gender Dimension of Memory in Transition, Conflict and Reconciliation: Women Recollecting &Reconstructing Memories

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Dr. Lakshmi Lingam

• Professor, Women's Studies Unit
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
• Research: Micro-credit and Women's Empowerment: Negotiations with Multiple Patriarchies

Dr. Kamala Liyanage

• Professor, Political Science Department
• University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
• Research: Strategies for Empowering Women in Local Governance in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study Learning from India, USA, Sweden

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Dr. Maria Loenen

• Professor, School of Law
• Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Research: Gender, multiculturalism and human rights in a comparative and international perspective

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Dr. Monica Maher

• Tutor, Ethics/Ecumenical Studies
• Union Theological Seminary, United States
• Research: Religion as a source of women's empowerment: gender violence and women's theological creativity in Latin America

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Ms. Julissa Mantilla

• Professor, School of Law
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru
• Research: Sexual Violence against women and the experience of the Truth Commissions: A Comparative Study

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Dr. Shanti Parikh

• Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
• Washington University, United States
• Research: Bargaining with Female Sexuality: Assessing the age of consent as a feminist strategy in Uganda

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Dr. Olga Pyshchulina

• Senior Consultant
• National Institute of Strategic Studies, Ukraine
• Research: Trafficking in Human Beings and Illegal Migration as a security problem

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Dr. Rhoda Reddock

• Head and Professor, Centre for Gender and Development Studies
• University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
• Research: Competing Victimhoods: Feminist Analyses of Diversity and difference in the Caribbean

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Dr. Rachel Silvey

• Assistant Professor, Geography Department
• Universityof Colorado, United States
• Research: Gender and Transnational Islam: Social Networks, Religious Spaces and Indonesian-US Migration

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Dr. Omar Sougou

• Associate Professor, Literature Department
• Gaston Berger University, Senegal
• Research: Transformational Creativity: Women Writing Resistance and change

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