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DIRECTOR’S SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS will host the 4th annual meeting of our Interna‐ tional Consortium in Miami. We look forward to involving our students, colleagues, alumni, and friends in our endeavors to foster global Women’s Studies research and education. In Fall 2009, we co‐sponsored a panel on Gen‐ der Bias in the Media with the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. This provided our faculty and students an opportunity to learn about the work of the Commission, and to meet many of the Commissioners. We will continue to work with the Commission to organize similar events around the state. We have started planning for a Women’s Stud‐ ies M.A. degree focusing on international gender studies. We are also exploring a certificate pro‐ gram that will focus on sexual orientation and identity research. Last year, our curriculum com‐ mittee updated all of the course requirements for By Laurie Shrage, Ph.D. our Women’s Studies B.A., and our undergraduate In July 2009, Professors Aurora Morcillo, Vrushali and graduate certificates. We are grateful for the Patil, Dawn Addy, Maya Boutaghou, Dean Suzanna support of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Rose, our graduate assistant Christi Navarro, and I wonderful staff in our Dean’s office, who provide traveled to Morocco to participate in a conference ongoing support for our degree programs. at the University of Fes. The conference was or‐ We are very fortunate to have active Women’s ganized by our Gender and Women’s Studies Studies student organizations that sponsor events Across Cultures International Consortium part‐ throughout the academic year. Two of the major ners, Professors Fatima Sadiqi and Souad Slaoui. Our consortium partners from Colombia and Spain attended, as well as WS scholars from around Mo‐ rocco, the European Union, United States, and other countries. Several from our group presented papers about their scholarship, and we all at‐ tended several days of sessions covering topics ranging from marriage law reform to women and colonial history. We also traveled to a nearby uni‐ versity, Al Akhawayn in Ifrane, where we pre‐ sented a panel to a group of students on Gender and Women’s Studies in the United States. In the Spring of 2010, Professor Boutaghou traveled back to Fes and presented an invited pa‐ per in a conference focusing on the plight of so‐ cially marginalized women, and Professor Morcillo traveled to Fes to present an invited paper in a conference honoring the work of Professor Sadiqi. Dr. Shrage with members of WSSA at the Student Conference. This October 2010, FIU’s Women’s Studies Center 2 Women’s Studies Center Annual Report, 2009-2010
Left to Right: Drs. Suzanna Rose, Suoad Slaoui, Fatima Sadiqi, Laurie Shrage, and Dawn Addy in Morocco. highlights of our year are the annual performance of the Vagina Monologues (WSSA) and the gradu‐ ate student conference (WSGSA). Hundreds of stu‐ dents attend these events and learn about chal‐ lenges women face around the world. Lupe Juarez and Christi Navarro both deserve recognition for their exceptional leadership of these events and organizations over the past year. Paula Powell is the person we all rely on, daily and weekly, to provide administrative support for all the activities and programs of the center. She now knows more about the administrative proc‐ esses and systems at FIU than any of us, and we are thankful for her great sense of humor and her compassion. We have added two members to our Advisory Board, Katy Sorenson and Lourdes Castillo de la Peňa, and a new friend to the Board, Margaret McCaffery. Margaret led the planning and organi‐ zation for the production and performance of Body and Sold in January 2009, which was co‐sponsored with our Theater Department. I look forward to working with the Board this year, as we work to raise funds to support our students. I also hope to meet more of our alumni from past years, and hope those of you reading this report will stay in touch and involved with our Center. Leah Blumenfeld, a WS graduate assistant and academic advisor for the past two years completed her Ph.D in the spring. Dr. Blumenfeld has ac‐ cepted a teaching position at Barry University and will start there this fall. We will miss her very much, but we are glad that she will still be in Mi‐ ami. We are fortunate to have Sarah Otero (graduate student, History) as a GA in our Center this summer, who is helping us collect and organ‐ ize much of the information that you will see in this report. This past year, our center hosted many visiting scholars from the EU, through an EU‐funded ex‐ change program for professors and graduate stu‐ dents in Gender and Women’s Studies (GEMMA). Their visits have provided our faculty and stu‐ dents an opportunity to learn about the research and teaching interests and projects of scholars from England, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Spain. Prof. Morcillo will be traveling to Spain on a GEMMA scholarship next year. As you look through the pages of this report, you will see the many accomplishments and pro‐ jects of our faculty and students. Our faculty mem‐ bers continue to conduct and publish research in many fields, which enriches the education of our students and contributes to the intellectual life of our campus and our wider communities. We awarded three scholarships for next year, and rec‐ ognized a number of students for their academic excellence and their service. We sponsored more than two dozen public lectures and events. It is a privilege to work with so many talented, produc‐ tive, and devoted colleagues and students. Women’s Studies Center Annual Report, 2009-2010 3
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