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 the departments
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).
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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.
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Amy
E. McLaughlin, PhD
amclaugh@umd.edu
Amy E. McLaughlin is the Associate Director of CRGE. She earned her Ph.D in UM's Department of Sociology in 2001, and has worked at CRGE since that time. She is responsible for the enhancement of the Consortium through proposal writing, facilitating the research activities of the consortium, and the day-to-day management of CRGE. Dr. McLaughlin recently served as P.I. on a grant from the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University, entitled “Instituting a Legacy of Change: Transforming the Campus Climate through Intellectual Leadership.” Research interests include intersectionality, inequality, and gender violence. Dr. McLaughlin received her Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine in 1991, and her M.A. at the University of Maryland in 1996.
Recent publications include:
Dill, B.T., A.E. McLaughlin and A.D. Nieves. “Future Directions of Feminist Research: Intersectionality,” in Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis,Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, (Ed.) Sage Publications (2007)
McLaughlin, A.E. and B.T. Dill. “Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Class: What Can They Tell Us about Wages, Occupations, and Poverty?” In Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor (Eds.) Poverty and Social Welfare: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. (2004).
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Angel
David Nieves, PhD
anieves@umd.edu
Dr. Angel Nieves is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also serves as Director of Graduate Research and Training at CRGE, as well as Co-director (with
Dr. Mary Corbin Sies) of the Material Culture/Visual Culture Research
Program Area for CRGE. He is also a Resident Fellow at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). He is an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of American Studies, Women’s Studies, African American Studies, and Anthropology. He is also an affiliate member of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies and the Program in LGBT Studies. He completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana studies at Cornell University in 2001. His book manuscript, ‘We Gave Our Hearts and Lives To It:’ African American Women Reformers and Nation-Building in the Post-Reconstruction South, 1877-1968, is currently being revised for publication with Duke University Press. His scholarly work and activism critically engages with issues of heritage preservation, gender, and nationalism at the intersections of race and the built environment in the Global South.
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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).
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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.
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Lillie
Powell Roberts, MA
lroberts@umd.edu
Lil Roberts holds the position of Manager of Finance and Administration for the Consortium. She joined the staff of the CRGE in August 1999. Prior to that, Roberts served as Executive Administrative Assistant in the office of the President for sixteen years. She completed her Bachelor's degree in 2000 with the double major of Sociology and Afro-American Studies at University of Maryland, College Park. Roberts now holds a Master's degree in Organizational Communication at Bowie State University, which she received in May 2006.
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Maren Cummings
marenabc@umd.edu
A recent graduate of The College of New Jersey, Maren Cummings holds two B.A. degrees in Women and Gender Studies and Philosophy and minors in African American Studies and French. An optimistic skeptic and a shy leader, Cummings grew up in Camden, NJ and is currently excited about settling into a community to call her own, where activism, dance, love, and perpetual learning can reign free. She has worked on social justice issues for the past four years, from anti-war organizing and Straight But Not Narrow Programs, to Books Not Bombs and her most recent stint as the Student Environmental Action Coalition's National Council Coordinator. Cummings has always tried to recognize the connections between all social movement(s) and is nervously looking forward to delving into further studying the re-definition of activism by black lesbian activists, past, present, local and global, as well as black women's involvement and leadership in Maroon communities and communes. When she is not studying, Cummings is dancing (salsa, hip hop, Bhangra), biking to and from campus, or cooking with her housemates.
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Shana Kent
skent5@umd.edu
Shana Kent completed her B.A. in Africana Studies with a correlate in Music & Culture in 2006 at Vassar College, where she earned the June Jackson Christmas Award for Academic Excellence in Africana Studies. Her research interests are representations of identity in television and popular media, and constructions of multiracial identity in popular culture. In particular, she is interested in examining different television genres in relation to race representation and viewer demands, and in film, music, television and memoirs as evidence of American multiracial experience. Kent's essay, "'Illmatic': A Journey into Nas's State of Mind" will be published in The Hip Hop Reader in February 2007. She is currently a doctoral student in American Studies.
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Ana Maria Perez
amperez@umd.edu
Ana Maria Perez is a second year doctoral student in the department of Women's Studies. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of South Florida in Women's Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her research interests are in feminist cultural studies, particularly looking at formations of identity and cultural production among Mexican and Chicano/a communities. She is also interested in looking at formation of academic knowledge and the power implied in these processes. A work in progress looks at the current debates among Latina feminists: 1) examines how one comes to identify as Latina 2) how feminism is perceived, if that particular knowledge/experiences are articulated as feminist, and 3) explores the production of academic knowledge in this burgeoning field. In her spare time, Perez enjoys dancing at local clubs, spending time with friends, and traveling back and forth to Tampa, FL.
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Vanessa D. Lopes
vlopes@umd.edu
Vanessa D. Lopes is a CrISP Scholar at the CRGE. She is pursuing an M.A. and Ph.D in Sociology at the University of Maryland. She received a B.A. in International Studies and in Spanish at Emory University in 2002. She was previously employed at NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia and the National Partnership for Women & Families. Her research interests are in race, ethnicity, theories of race and racism, social inequality, and immigrants of African-descent.
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