Research Scholars

The Research Scholars Program provides formal affiliation for local independent scholars. Below is a list of 2003-2004 scholars with their research interests. If you are interested in becoming a CSW Research Scholar click here for an application.

Jamila Allouane, Ph.D.
jallouane@yahoo.com
*Introduce and preserve Algerian women’s struggles, resistance, and memories through a cultural studies lens. Study the genre of Algerian women’s resistance to masculine domination through women singers of rai in the old versus new music.

Laetitia Argenteri, Ph.D.
argenteri@nethere.com
*Biographical study of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), a socially engaged photographer, and political activist before and during the Spanish Civil War
*Romaine Brooks project

Pauline Bart, Ph.D.
pbart@ucla.edu
*Women who lived as lesbians and are currently living with heterosexual men
*The work of Catherine MacKinnon
*The Illinois Sexual Assault Statute and cases of non-stranger rape

Sharman L. Babior, Ph.D.
sbabior@ucla.edu
*Women and gender
*Family and social organization
*Domestic and sexual violence
*Contemporary status and problems of women in Japan and cross-culturally

Jacqueline R. Braitman, Ph.D.
jrb@ucla.edu
*Katherine Philips Edson and Elizabeth Snyder
*Women and California politics

Judy Branfman, MA
branfman@ucla.edu
*History of Jewish/Yiddish community of Boyle Heights between the 1910s and 1960s
*Orange Groves and Jails video project/1930s civil liberties Supreme Court case

Jill Cherneff, Ph.D.
cherneff@ucla.edu
*Biography of Hortense Powdermaker
*Women in the Hollywood film industry

Ann Chisholm, Ph.D.
kc28668@csun.edu
*Female body, acrobats, gymnasts and contortionists,

Nancy Cohen, Ph.D.
ncohen1@ucla.edu
*The political economy of contemporary Los Angeles

Kimberley Cook, Ph.D.
hbkcook@earthlink.net
*“Matrifocality” and female aggression in Margariteno society
*Wayuu women of northwestern Venezuela

Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D.
mdexter@ucla.edu
*Translation of myths and ancient texts relating to the underworld and the female figures who both ruled it and descended to it
*Realms and functions of ancient Indo-European female figures
*Phenomena of descent

Anne Eggebroten, Ph.D.
aeggeb@ucla.edu
*feminism and religion

Karina Eileraas, Ph.D.
keileraas@wesleyan.edu
*fantisies of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality circulated in French colonial or "travel" postcards of the 1800's

Kim Elsesser, Ph.D.
elsesser@ucla.edu
*gender differences in social support in the workplace

Fatima Festic, Ph.D.
festic@hotmail.com
*Cultural semiotics and feminist psychoanalytic theory and criticism

Jaclyn Greenberg, Ph.D.
jgreenbe@ucla.edu
*Women and the industrialization of agriculture: women cannery workers
*Women and the myth of agrarian west
*Designing gender-equitable secondary schools

Donna Gregory, Ph.D.
donnagre@ucla.edu
*Northwood: A Historical Novel - traces the lives of seven generations of women from 1740-1920, starting in a remote Norwegian mountain village and moving to North Dakota.

Rhonda Hammer, Ph.D.
rhammer@ucla.edu
*Feminism beyond the first and second waves
*Feminist perspectives on male violence against women and the escalating contemporary conservative backlash

Myrna Hant, Ph.D.
myrnahant@aol.com
*Popular Culture/Television - Portrayals of Older Women
*Women in Transition

Erith Jaffe-Berg, Ph.D.
eandaberg@hotmail.com
*women, language and the Sixteenth-Century "Commedia dell'Arte

Penny Kanner, Ph.D.
kanhist@ucla.edu
*British women’s autobiographies
*Bibliomethodology as an analytical tool

Rex King, Ph.D.
rexdking@ucla.edu
*Leadership and self-esteem issues among women in nontraditional careers/lifestyles.
*Ecofeminism and women’s activism in environmental grassroots movements

Sherry May, Ph.D.
sherrymay@aol.com
*Evangelical, Pentecostal, and other Christian groups in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the impact on women

Gisele Maynard-Tucker, Ph.D.
gmaytuck@aol.com
*Research design and the evaluation of family planning programs and health services
*AIDS prevention

Jennifer Price, Ph.D.
jjprice@ucla.edu
*“Reinventing Nature” environmental history, gender relations and the American West

Vivian Price, Ph.D.
blues3@gte.net
*Analyze the gendering and racializing of work in the construction industry, with focus on Asia, and to map the effects of globalization on women’s work. Study will also examine the strategies workers use to improve their status and respond to the threats of job loss created by global mechanization trends. Gather information and analyze data in preparation of an edited book of essays by international scholars and labor practitioners. Gathering footage for a series of documentaries on this topic.

Penny Richards, Ph.D.
turley2@earthlink.net
*American history of special education, women’s educational history

Donna Schuele, Ph.D., J.D.
dcsclv@pacbell.net
*Women in law and politics in California during the 19th century

Kathleen Sheldon, Ph.D.
ksheldon@ucla.edu
* The history of women, work, and politics in Mozambique
* African women's history
* African women and urbanization

Cynthia Strathmann, Ph.D.
strathma@ucla.edu
*Study explores how representations of masculinity and whiteness in the media relate to actual behavior and beliefs by studying people who do outdoor and adventure sports, media representations of these activities, and the producers of those media texts.

Anne Troutman, Ph.D.
atrout@ucla.edu
*Investigation of the interrelations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy as hidden dimensions of the modern domestic environment constitutive of modernist spatiality. The intimate space of the boudoir is examined as a lens through which to view the shifting relations of intimacy and community, private and public, female and male in modern Western architectural culture; a growing institutionalization and regulation of the individual and private life from the 18th century to the present.

Alice Wexler, Ph.D.
arwexler@ucla.edu
*History of Huntington’s disease with a focus on women and gender
*Biography of blacklisted film actress Dorothy Comingore

Irene Wolt, Ph.D.
otteriw@ucla.edu
*“Second Wave” feminism in Los Angeles
*Women’s cultural institutions in Los Angeles, 1970-1990

Mari Womack, Ph.D.
author@mariwomack.com
*Gender for the third Millennium

Patricia Zukow-Goldring, Ph.D.
zukow@ucla.edu
*Role of women in cultivating cultural knowledge as their children grow and change.