Visiting Scholars

The Visiting Scholars Program provides formal university affiliation for independent scholars researching on women or gender-related issues. We offer access to the UCLA library facilities, a campus mailing address, a UCLA email account, computer and internet access, shared office space, and the opportunity to attend the CSW lecture series and present work-in-progress. In return, we ask that you acknowledge the Center's support in any publications that result from your affiliation with us. Please note we do not offer stipends or financial support.

To apply, please submit to women@women.ucla.edu the following:

* CV, which includes current organizational or institutional affiliation and your visa type (if applicable)
* A letter of intent (to include a description of the proposed research project and why you want to do research here at UCLA and/or in Southern California)

Below is a list of current Visiting Scholars with their research interests.

Cindy Donatelli, Ph.D.
Women's Studies Program
University of Manitoba
*Gender and Television
*TV Moms, Media, and the Sponsorship of Motherhood

Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Ph.D.
Department of History and Archaeology
American University of Beirut
* Research project to examine The Qahram’na in the Harems of the Abbasid Court in Tenth Century Baghdad.
* Women’s political power in medieval Islam

Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Title IX Officer
Occidental College
*Editor in Chief, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner's Sons, forthcoming 2004-2005)
*Currently also preparing a Lilly Endowment Course on "Vocations and Women's Meaningful Work"
Selected publications:
Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998). Winner of Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society.
Race, Gender, and Rank: Early Modern Ideas of Humanity, ed. M. Horowitz, Library of the History of Ideas VIII (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1992); author of Introduction, ix-xx.

Dr. Azza Karam
UCLA Regents Lecturer
Program Director
World Conference on Religion and Peace
*Gender and development, human rights, international conflict resolution, democracy, Middle East politics and religion and ethnic conflict.

Nadera Kevorkian, Ph.D.
School of Social Institute of Criminology & Faculty of Law
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
* Main theoretical and research interest has focused on the study of victimization or vulnerable groups in society, especially females. Research categories include, women, law, and social control; perceptions and attitudes towards the victimization of women; mental health of vulnerable groups; and rights and identity of children and females.
*Teaching Women's Studies/Law course tentatively titled "Women and Domestic Violence: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (winter quarter).

Jalil Iranmahboob, Ph.D.
UNFPA & Shiraz University
Shiraz, Iran
National project Director of UNFPA
* Increase in women participation in labor force to further economic development in underdeveloped countries.
*Examining a survey designed to study the relationship between socio-economic factors on women occupation in some southern provinces of Iran.

Denise Roman, Ph.D.
Comparative Politics and Women's Studies
York University, Canada
* Work on article, "Jewish Women in Romania" and continued work on book featuring gender politics.

Penka Skatchkova, Ph.D.
Sociology
* Working on an anthology of oral histories of Somalian, Mexican, and Hmong immigrant/refugee women in the U.S.