CRGE Staff
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.
Mary Corbin Sies, PhD
marycorbinsies@yahoo.com
Mary Corbin Sies serves as Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Co-director (with Dr. Angel David Nieves) of the Material Culture/Visual Culture Research Program Area for CRGE. She is an affiliate faculty member of the African American Studies Department, the Women's Studies Department, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, and the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education. Her research and teaching interests span material culture studies, planning history, architectural history, urban history, and cultural and social history of the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is an authority on American suburbs and on housing and community studies from 1850 to the present.
Dr. Sies is interested in theorizing and studying issues of race, gender, space, neighborhood and the domestic built environment. She is engaged in reconfiguring the field of historic preservation to center on the heritage and landscapes of marginalized subgroups in the United States. She also maintains an active interest in issues of professionalization and graduate study, especially with preparing students to compete for positions in academe and in various kinds of cultural resource management positions. Visit the Academic Job Resource Pages on her Web site. Her most recent articles are "Letting Our Guard Down: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Planning History," with Gail Dubrow, Journal of Planning History (September 2002); "North American Urban History: The Everyday Politics and Spatial Logics of Metropolitan Life," Urban History Review/Revue d'histoire (Fall 2003); and "Regenerating Scholarship on Race and the Built Environment," (Fall 2005).
Wendy Hall
hallw@umd.edu
Wendy Hall serves as the Administrative Assistant for the Consortium. She joined the staff of CRGE in July 2002. Prior to that, Hall served as an Office Manager for a local CPA firm. Wendy passed her A+ Certification exam in July 2002 and is currently pursuing her Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) Certification.
