Women's Studies Events

Frances Beal worked with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in the 1960s, and in 1968 became a founding member of the SNCC Black Women’s Liberation Committee, which evolved into the TWWA (Third World Women’s Alliance). A long-time activist, editor, and columnist, she writes on national black politics and other issues of peace and justice. Her 1970 article, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” (1970) became a seminal work for women of color.

Rita Schwerner Bender ‘64 and her husband, Michael Schwerner, went to Mississippi as field workers for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1964. In June 1964 Michael, along with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman,
was murdered in Mississippi. She continued to work with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In 1968 she graduated from Rutgers Law School and is a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility

Lucy Komisar '64 spent a year in Mississippi in 1962-63 as editor of the Mississippi Free Press, and went on to become a national vice president of the National Organization for Women and a founding member of the Tax Justice Network. She currently writes on international illegal finances: tax evasion by the rich; bribery and corruption; empowerment of dictators; drug, arms, and people trafficking; and terrorism.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn '63 is professor of history emerita at Morgan State University. She is co-founder of the Association of Black Women Historians and a founding member of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. Her most recent books include African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 and Black Women’s History at the Intersection of Knowledge and Power.

Dorothy Zellner '60 is a veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, where she worked with SNCC in Georgia, Mississippi, and Virginia. After spending twenty years in the South, she returned to New York City, where she was on the staff at the Center for Constitutional rights and the City University of New York. She is currently an activist on Israel/Palestine issues.

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Complimentary Luncheon. If you plan to come to the luncheon, RSVP to 718-997-3098 or

Donna Lopiano was Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Sports Foundation for fifteen years and served as a college coach of basketball, softball, and volleyball. As an athlete, she participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All-American in softball. The Sporting News lists her among “The 100 Most Influential People in Sports.” She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame.

Donna Orender is the president of the Women’s National Basketball Association, the WNBA. A graduate of Queens College, she played basketball at Queens and earned Regional All-American honors. After college, she was an All-Star player in the Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL). She served with the PGA Tour for seventeen years, most recently as senior executive. She has received many awards, including being named to the prestigious Sporting News’ annual “Power 100” list and FoxSports.com’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Sports” list.

Kym Hampton was one of the first players to play in the newly formed WNBA in 1997. She played for the New York Liberty for three years of her 15-year professional basketball career. She averaged 9.3 points per game and was voted Eastern Conference starting center for the WNBA All-Star Game in 1999. After her retirement from basketball due to a knee injury, she has worked as a model and appeared in films and on television. She is currently pursuing a music career.

Student Athletes : Women from various sports teams at Queens College will be available to speak to their experiences and answer questions from the audience.

12:30-1:30: Complimentary luncheon. If you plan to come to the luncheon, RSVP to 718-997-3098 or joyce.warren@qc.cuny.edu

Jill Kargman, Type A Women in a 'B' Role: Motherhood--Career With No Promotions

9-12 noon: Morning Panel

Aseel Sawalha, Professor of Anthropology, Pace College. Will give an anthropological view of women living under fire in wartime.

Houzan Mahmoud, representative of OWFI (Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq).

Yifat Susskind, Associate Director of MADRE. Has written on women’s human rights in liberated Iraq

Janis Karpinski, former Brig. General in charge of Abu Ghraib prison. Has spoken out and written about her treatment as a woman in the military. She was the only high-ranking officer to be sanctioned for the prison abuse even though, she maintains, it was done over her head and without her knowledge.

Amy Goodman, News journalist for Democracy Now!

12:15-1:30: Play

Performance of “Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq,” a play based on the blog of Riverbend, a woman writing from Iraq since before the invasion. The play has been adapted by Kimberly Gefgen and Loren Noveck with the cooperation of Riverbend.

1:30-3:00 p.m. Lunch

RSVP to 718-997-3098 or to joyce.warren@qc.cuny.edu

Monday, March 14, 2005, 9:00 - 3:30 p.m., Student Union, 4th Floor
"Feminism and Multiculturalism: How Do They/We Work Together?

Nurah W. Ammat’ullah, Founder and Executive Director of Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development: “Making the Distinction between Faith and Religion—A Challenge to Secular Feminism”
Jane Kramer, Writer for The New Yorker: "The Veil in Europe"
Robina Niaz, Founder of “Turning Point” for Muslim Women and Families: “Western Feminists’ Perceptions of Muslim Women: Do They Help or Harm Immigrant Women?
Manizha Naderi, Women for Afghan Women: "Afghan American woman: Helping Sisters One Step At a Time, in a Multicultural Community
Katha Pollitt, Columnist for The Nation: “Whose Culture?”

12 – 1 p.m.: Complimentary Lunch: RSVP: 718-997-3098 or
joyce_warren@qc.edu

Maria Lugones, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University: “Radical Multiculturalisms and Women of Color Feminisms”
Madhulika Khandelwal, Asian American Center, Queens College, with
Eugenia Paulicelli, European Languages and Literature, Queens College: “Gender, Dress, and Identity in Cross Cultural
Communities of New York City”
Gail Garfield, John Jay College of Criminal Justice: “African American Women’s Experiences of Violence and Violation”

Monthly meetings of Women's Studies faculty and students to discuss various topics related
to women's and gender studies.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:15 - 2:00 pm, Rosenthal Library, 5th floor, President's Conference Room #1

Holly Reed is an assistant professor of Sociology at Queens College and a faculty affiliate of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. A former program officer at the National Academy of Sciences, she has worked on projects in Ghana, South Africa, and Nigeria. Her research interests include migration within and from the continent of Africa.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 12:15 - 2 pm, Rosenthal Library, President's Conference Room #1

Kristina Richardson is an assistant professor of Islamic history in the History Department at Queens College. She is currently writing a book entitled People of Blights: Disability and Difference in the Early Modern Middle East.
Her broader interests include disabled people’s sexuality, male friendship, neuroenhancers, and husbands writing about wives.

Marcela Tovar teaches Latin American Area Studies and Anthropology at Queens College. She has worked

as a consultant for the United Nations in Chile, Colombia, and the United States, and has taught at universities

in each of those countries. She is currently working on a research project on indigenous women, the environment,

Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 12:15 - 2:00 pm, Rosenthal Library, 5th Floor, Pres. Conference room #1

Activist, writer, and scholar, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz earned a doctorate from the University of California at Berkley, where she taught the first Women’s Studies course. She was 17 years old when she began working with the Harlem Education Project, an affiliate of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She currently teaches in the Comparative Literature Department at Queens College and has published six books, the most recent of which is The Colors of Jews; Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism.

Monday, November 10, 2008, 12:15 - 2:00 pm, Rosenthal Library, 5th floor, Pres. Conference room #1

Katherine Pickering Antonova is in the History Department at Queens College. She is currently working on a book entitled “The Importance of the Woman of the House”: Portrait of a Russian Gentry Family, 1830-1866. A microhistory of the Chikhachev family of Vladimir Province, Russia, the book explores gendered family roles, the reception of ideas, and the relationships between the gentry family, the provincial village, and educated society.

Monday, October 20, 2008, 12:15 - 2:00 pm, Rosenthal Library, Alexander Braginsky Conference Room

Royal S. Brown is a professor of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College
and at the CUNY Graduate Center. An internationally known scholar and critic of film
and film music, he has lectured throughout the world and has published three books
and numerous articles and reviews. He serves on the editorial board of (Re)-turn:
A Journal of Lacanian Studies, which publishes articles on the work of French
psychoanalyst and language theoretician Jacques Lacan. Professor Brown is currently
working on a book entitled Images of Images: Myth, Lacan, and Narrative Cinema.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 12:15 - 2:00 pm, Rosenthal Library, Alexander Braginsky Conference Room

Victoria Pitts-Taylor teaches sociology at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
She is the author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture (2007) and
In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification (2003), as well as many articles and
book chapters. She also serves as editor of The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body (2008) and
co-editor of the journal Women’s Studies Quarterly. She has won an Advancement of the
Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:15 - 2:00 pm, Rosenthal Library, Alexander Braginsky Conference Room (formerly President's Conf. Room #1)

Veronica Schanoes is an assistant professor in the English Department. She has published work on the Harry Potter books and on interstitial literature and is currently

working on a book-length study of comtemporary feminist revisions of fairy tales and classical myths. In addition to her scholarship, Prof. Schanoes has published

fiction, including the short story "Rats," which recently was selected for inclusion in the forthcoming Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2007.

Monday, February 11, 2008, 12:15 - 2:00 pm, Rosenthal Library, Alexander Braginsky Conference Room (formerly President's Conf. Room #1)

Grace Davie is an assistant professor of African history at Queens College. She is the author of several articles, including one in The Journal of

Southern African Studies on dockworkers, poverty, and reform in South Africa. She has received awards from the National Science Foundation,

the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Institute.

Monday, November 26, 2007, 12:15 - 2 p.m., Rosenthal Library, Alexander Braginsky Conference Room (formerly President's Conf. Room #1)

Vasileios Marinis is the Kallinikeion assistant professor of Byzantine Art in the Department of Art and the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds degrees from the University of Athens, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, and Yale University. His research focuses on architecture and ritual in the Byzantine world and on Byzantine women.

Kristin Celello is an assistant professor of U. S. Women’s History at Queens College. She received her Ph.D. from the

University of Virginia in 2004 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University’s Center for Myth and Ritual

in American Life. She has a forthcoming book on Making Marriage Work: Marital Success and Failure in the Twentieth-Century United States.

"From Mammy to Nanny: Images of Black Women's Work In the Post-Reconstruction South"

Shirley Carrie is an assistant professor of English at Queens College. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson/Mellon Mayes

National dissertation fellowship in 2005, and received her doctorate in the spring of 2006 from SUNY-Stony Brook, where

she specialized in African-American and Caribbean literature. She is currently working on a book on "Acts of Remembrance:

Commemoration and the Literature of the Black Diaspora," which focuses on the intersections between popular memory, history, and

commenoration. She is also co-editing a collection of essays on the representations of the black body in visual culture.

Michele Malter is a graduate student in South Asian history at Tufts University. Her M.A. thesis, "Birth of a Cause: The National

and International Discourse on Birth Control in India, 1920-1960's" traces the interaction between individual and national and

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Rosenthal Library, 5th Floor, President's Conference Room #1

Lindsay Krasnoff teaches in the History Department at Queens College. She is a doctoral candidate in history at CUNY's Graduate Center,

where she is working on governmental youth sports training systems in the Fifth French Republic.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Rosenthal Library, President's Conference Room #1

Sujatha Fernandes is an assistant professor of Sociology at Queens College. She is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Ars, State

Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures. She is currently working on a new book on urban social movements in

Monday, November 13, 2006, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Rosenthal Library, President's Conference Room #2

Susanna Grannis (Pflaum) is President of CHABHA Inc., Children Affected by HIV/AIDS, a non-profit group that seeks to raise awareness of the effects of the AIDS pandemic in Rwanda, South Africa, and Namibia, and supports projects to help orphaned and vulnerable children there. She was Dean of Education at Queens College and Dean of the Graduate School at Bank Street College. She was a Fulbright Professor in Namibia and has written and edited books and articles on education, including (with Penny Bishop) Reaching and Teaching: Asking Students to Show What Works.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Rosenthal Library, 5th Floor, President's Conference Room #2

Penny L. Hammrich is a Professor of Science Education and Dean of Education at Queens College and Professor of Educational Psychology and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. The creator of six Sisters in Science programs and author of over one hundred articles, Dean Hammrich has a national reputation for her work in gender equity and science education.

Monday, September 11, 2006, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Rosenthal Library, President's Conference Room #2

Kelly Gates is Assistant Professor of Media Studies. Her research addresses visual culture, the politics of surveillance, and new media technologies. She teaches media criticism and media history. She is currently writing a book entitled “Our Biometric Future.”

Complimentary Lunch

1 CLIQ Point

Monday, April 10, 2006, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Library, President's Conference Room #1

Dana Weinberg is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department. She is the author of Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing (2003). She is currently working on a study of the work lives of nurses and nurses’ aides in nursing homes, focusing on the improvement of front-line jobs and the care that they provide.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Library, President's Conference Room

Rachel Scharfman is an Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies. She holds a PhD in History from New York university and an MA in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She is currently editing Religion and Politics, a forthcoming issue of Radical Politics.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Student Union, Corner Bistro, VIP Room

Helen Gaudette has been a member of the History Department and is currently Director of the College Preparatory Programs. She recently completed a full-length study of the piety, power, and patronage of the Latin Kingdom of twelfth-century Jerusalem's Queen Melisende and is working on a book about the Second Crusade.

Monday, September 19, 2005, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Student Union, Corner Bistro, VIP Room

Andrea Flores is an assistant professor in the Comparative Literature Department at Queens and a member of the CUNY Graduate Faculty in the French Department. She is the author of The Arab Avant-Garde: Studies in North African Art and Literature and is currently working on a book on North African film with a focus on issues of gender, religion, and postcolonial studies.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Student Union, Corner Bistro, VIP Room

Caroline Rupprecht is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature Department. She is the author of
"Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender" which will be published this fall by Northwestern
University Press. Her most recent work focuses on images of pregnancy in post-war European avant-garde
literature and film.

Monday, April 4, 2005, 12:15 - 2:00 p.m., Student Union, Corner Bistro, VIP Room

Monday, September 27, 2004, 12:15 - 2 p.m., President's Conference Room #2, Rosenthal Library

Alyson Cole is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department. She is the author of articles in American Studies and the National Women's Studies Association Journal and a book-length manuscript, "Victim-Claimers and Victim Blamers: The Politics of Victimhood in America." She is currently working on a study of post-post structuralist approaches to feminist politics.

Newsday columnist, Sheryl McCarthy, writes thoughtful and provocative commentary on a wide range of issues-including race and gender issues, social policies towards the poor, politics, and foreign policy. A Newsday columnist since 1989, Ms. McCarthy has received awards from the National Education Writers Association, the New York Society of Black Journalists, and won the Meyer Berger Award from Columbia University for her coverage of New York City. The judges cited her "passion and moral courage to cut through stereotypes and hypocrisy." A collection of her columns, Why Are Heroes Always White? was published in 1995.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 12:15 - 2 p.m., Student Union, VIP Room, Corner Bistro

SARAH COVINGTON
"Themes of Woundedness in Early Modern Female Mystical Writing "

Sarah Covington is an Assistant Professor in the History Department. She is the author of "The Trail of Martydom:
Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England" and the forthcoming "Wounds of the Flesh, Wounds of the
Soul: Mystical Writings and the Injured Body in Early Modern England".

Faculty members meet regularly to discuss readings on Women's Studies and gender issues. To obtain the date and
place of the next meeting and the texts to be discussed, call 718-997-3098 or e mail womens_studies@qc.edu