CRGE Director Bonnie Thornton Dill Quoted in Time Magazine about Duke University Scandal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2006
College Park, MD -- Time Magazine spoke with Dr. Bonnie Thornton
Dill, Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity,
last week about the lacrosse team scandal at Duke University. Dr. Dill offered her expert opinion on the various aspects of race, class, sexuality and gender that shape the current social, legal and political crisis on the Durham, N.C. campus.
"You cannot understand this by looking at it through a single lens of any one of these dimensions," said Dr. Dill. "Race, class, gender and sexuality are woven together so tightly here that they cannot be separated," she said to reporter Jeninne Lee-St. John, who interviewed Dr. Dill for her article, "Southern Discomfort."
The full text of the article is available at Time Magazine's Web site (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1187380,00.html). Dr. Dill is the key figure quoted in the piece, which asks, "what the Duke lacrosse scandal tells us about women and race in America."
Dr. Dill, who also serves as a professor
and chair of the Department
of Women's Studies at the University
of Maryland, has been the director of CRGE since its inception
more than five years ago. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in
1979 from New
York University and has been actively involved
in the greater sociology and Women's Studies communities for decades.
The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE) is a nationally prominent research organization that promotes scholarship and faculty and graduate student development across the University of Maryland campus. CRGE's interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of difference as they shape identities, behavior and complex social relations.
For more information, please contact Patrick
Grzanka, Communications Coordinator by email (pgrzanka@umd.edu)
or phone at 301.405.5223.
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