CRGE Faculty
Bonnie Thornton Dill, PhD
btdill@umd.edu
Bonnie Thornton Dill is Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies as well as the Founding Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE). She heads the research area "Intersections, Identities, and Inequality." She is an affiliate faculty with thedepartments of Sociology, Afro-American Studies, and American Studies. From 1995-1998, she coordinated a three year Afro-American Studies seminar/workshop funded by the Ford Foundation on "Meanings and Representations of Black Women’s Work." Before coming to Women’s Studies in the fall of 1991, Dr. Dill was a professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis, where she founded the Center for Research on Women and served as director from 1982-1988.
Her research focuses on the intersections of race, class, and gender with an emphasis on African American women and families. She is currently interested in the development of intersectional work across disciplines and has served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation on this topic. She oversees a research project studying single mothers in rural southern communities. Dr. Dill’s recent published works include: "A Better Life for Me and My Children: Low Income Single Mothers’ Struggle for Self Sufficiency in the Rural South," Journal of Comparative Family Studies (1998); "Valuing Families Differently: Race, Poverty and Welfare Reform," with Maxine Baca Zinn and Sandra Patton, Sage Race Relations Abstracts (1998), "African Americans in the Rural South: The Persistence of Race and Poverty," with Bruce Williams, in The American Countryside, ed. Castle (1996); "Theorizing Difference from Multi-racial Feminism," with Maxine Baca Zinn, Feminist Studies (Summer 1996).
Ruth E. Zambrana, PhD
rzambran@umd.edu
Dr. Ruth Zambrana is currently Professor and Graduate Director in the Women’s Studies Department and Director of CRGE at the University of Maryland, College Park and Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Zambrana has worked in the area of health disparities of low-income women and children for over 25 years. Her work focuses on the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status and institutional factors on the health outcome of low-income groups with an emphasis on Latino women and children. Two recent books include Health Issues in the Latino Community (co-editor, 2001) and Drawing from the Data: Working Effectively with Latino Families ( 2003). Recent work focuses on domains of patient-centered care and chronic conditions among women of color.
