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December 12, 2006		301-405-5223

Upcoming Article on Intersectionality Describes New Focus of Feminist Research

COLLEGE PARK, MD—The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE), a nationally prominent research organization that promotes scholarship as well as faculty and graduate student development across the University of Maryland campus, announced a new article written by CRGE faculty forthcoming in 2007.

Co-written by Drs. Bonnie Thornton Dill, Amy E. McLaughlin, and Angel David Nieves, the article, “Future Directions of Feminist Research: Intersectionality,” focuses on growth and dissemination of intersectionality through identity studies, globalization and transnationalism, sexualities and queer studies, and linking theory to practice.

The authors write, “We remain optimistic about the future of Intersectionality, particularly if this scholarship respects its commitment to laying bare the roots of power and inequality while continuing to pursue an active agenda of social justice.”

The article will be published in the Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (SAGE Publications, 2007). Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, the handbook comprises 43 articles from feminism experts in fields as diverse as sociology, psychiatry, social psychology and women’s studies.

Dr. Thornton Dill is the Founding Director of CRGE. Dr. McLaughlin serves as Associate Director, and Dr. Nieves is the Director of Graduate Research and Training and Co-Director of the Material Culture/Visual Culture Research Program Area for CRGE.

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. CRGE holds several events each semester, including monthly graduate colloquia and symposiums.

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