Women's Studies - College of Arts & Sciences - Florida International ...

WOMEN’S STUDIES VISITING SCHOLARS
Michaela Moura­Koçoğlu studied New English Lit‐
eratures and Cultures at Goethe‐University in Frankfurt,
Germany. In 2009, she completed her doctoral thesis with
the title “Narrating Indigenous Modernities: Transcultural
Dimensions in Contemporary Māori Literature”. Her current
research focuses on Indigenous Women’s Studies, Native
Pacific Writing, Postcolonial Literatures and Transcultural‐
ity as a critical methodology. Michaela lives in the United
States and will teach her first class as an adjunct professor at
Florida International University’s Women’s Studies Center
this Fall (2010) at the Pembroke Pines FIU campus.
Recent publication:
“Swarming With Ghosts and Tūrehus: Indigenous Language
and Concepts in Contemporary Māori Writing”, in Translation
of Cultures, ed. Petra Rüdiger & Konrad Gross, Amster‐
dam/New York, NY 2009.
Asia Eaton served as a Post Doctoral Associate at Florida
International University with a joint appointment in Psy‐
chology and Women's Studies in 2009‐2010. As a social psy‐
chologist, Dr. Eaton's interests include gender and sex roles,
social power, and attitudes and persuasion, and she has
published research in these areas in journals such as Per‐
sonality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social and Personal‐
ity Psychology Compass, and the European Review of Social
Psychology. In the 2009‐2010 school year Dr. Eaton taught a
special topics Psychology course on "Power, Women, and
Relationships" at FIU in conjunction with her research lab
(i.e., the "PWR Lab") with Dr. Suzanna Rose. Dr. Eaton's ac‐
complishments for this year include the submission of a 3‐
million dollar grant to the Institute of Education Sciences
proposing to assess the effectiveness of an early intervention program for the development of chil‐
dren born prematurely. She co‐organized FIU’s 1st ever Leadership Institute for Women Faculty
successfully held in April 2010. She also received a FIU Technology Fee Proposal Award for her pro‐
posal to adopt online survey software at the University‐wide level. Currently, Dr. Eaton is teaching
"Social and Personality Development" in the Psychology department over the Summer of 2010. In
2010‐2011 Dr. Eaton will be serving as a Visiting Assistant Scholar/Scientist at FIU with a joint ap‐
pointment in Psychology, the College of Business, and Women’s Studies.
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