Could not complete log in. Possible causes and solutions are:
Cookies are not set, which might happen if you've never visited this website before.
Please open https://avalon.lib.virginia.edu/ in a new window, then come back and refresh this page.
An ad blocker is preventing successful login.
Please disable ad blockers for this site then refresh this page.
Central Spokesperson for Palestinian people and author of This Side of Peace discusses the moral imperative for obtaining a central and recognized place for Palestinians. She focuses on her commitm...
Professor of criminal Law at Vanderbilt University discusses the significance of the verdict of OJ Simpson Trial; the larger cultural context of racial politics in the L.A. police department; and t...
Anne Firor Scott, Professor at Duke University, writer, activist and pioneer in the history of women, discusses her work and the importance of the African-American women activists and their part in...
Student leaders discuss the history of Take Back the Night beginning in the 1970s, and the importance of protesting against general violence and reclaiming safe spaces.
Bella DePaulo, professor of social psychology, has focused on the field of study of day to day lies. In this episode she discusses Bill Clinton scandal and lying.
Doctor Bernice Sandler, whose focus has been on the "chilly climate" of women in society discusses the gendered interactions in every day lives that lead to domestic violence.
Doctor Bernice Sandler discusses her the issues underscored in her literature: The Chilly Classroom Climate: A Guide to Improve the Education of Women, with others and Sexual Harassment on Campus: ...
Special Agent Candice DeLong, profiling coordinator at the San Francisco division of the FBI, discusses criminal profiling for investigations of violent and sex crimes.
Chinta Gaston, graduate of Virginia Law is discusses her role in the United States Attorney's Office, and her role in Kroll Law Firm with bringing justice in the lawsuits dealing with sex discrimin...
Derek Nystrom discusses his dissertation for the English department at the University of Virginia on men's involvement in feminism and class identity in American film in the 1970s.
Elisabeth Ladenson, professor of French and comparative literature at Columbia University, discusses her book Proust's Lesbianism that focuses on the metaphors and symbols in Marcel Proust's novels.
Ellen Contina Morava, program chair of Linguistics at the University of Virginia, discusses the origin, stigmas, and the importance of considering Ebonics as a valid form of communication.
Ellen Contini Morava, program chair of linguistics and professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses the different feminist moral stands on the Clinton White House's controversy.
Ellen Fuller discusses her doctoral research focusing on women working in an American corporation in Japan and how they are adapting to cultural changes as well as the different choices that are a ...
Ellen Phipps is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and the Director of the Adult Day Care at Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) in Charlottesville discusses how caring for an elderly ...
Erin Davis discusses her dissertation focusing on the lives of people living in a different a gender from the one assigned to them at birth, and further explains the newer term of transsexuality.
Doctor Eugene A. Foster discusses his role as the organizer of the chromosomal research on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings to determine the paternity of her children.
Farzaneh Milani, professor of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Virginia, discusses her latest op-ed piece for The New York Times and the experience of women in...
Franny Nudelman, professor at the department of English at the University of Virginia, discusses her book John Brown's Body focusing on masculinity and the representation of martyrdom during the Ci...
Gene Brosok, music critic and program host of Listening of Women and Men for WOMR, discusses the exclusionary practices in the hiring of women and racial minorities in the Vienna Philharmonic Orche...
Gertrude Fraser author of African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogue of Birth, Race, and Memory discusses her ethnographical study on how older African-American women narrate their life cour...
Gertrude Fraser, professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses the Holsinger Studio Collection - a collection of local Charlottesville studio portraits, including a significant...
Gertrude Fraser professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia discusses her focus on medicine as a cultural system. She shares her life course as being a compilation of migratory movement...
Grace Hale, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, discusses her book Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 that focuses on white racial identi...
Gweneth West, associate professor in the drama department at the University of Virginia, discusses the practice of Costume Design and its connection to historical and cultural contexts.
Helena Lewis is a cultural historian of 20th Century France discusses the life of Jewish Russo-French "committed" writer Elsa Triolet. Her focus has been on surrealism and intellectuals from World ...
Ingrid Sandole-Staroste, professor of Sociology at George Mason University, discusses her research of women in East Germany and how the unification affected their daily lives.
Janet Beizer, associate professor of French at the University of Virginia, discusses her book Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in 19th Century France and her research on cultural conce...
Jenny Ganell, discusses her role in the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York City, which hopes to create a safe space for gay, lesbian, and transgender students in their high school years.
Recent University of Virginia graduates, Jessie Blundell and Sarah Curtis-Fawley, discuss their long-term project regarding the widespread problem of sexual assault at the University of Virginia an...
Shu Jinghuan, professor of Education in Beijing currently in a Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Maryland, discusses the cultural revolution's effects on gender issues, women and e...
Johanna Drucker, the first Robertson Professor of the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia, discusses how the new program will focus on history, criticisms and the deconstruction of ...
John Generri, research fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses the history of intellectual debates and cultural politics of Jazz from the early 1950s to m...
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the new Diversity Initiative and how the hopes to bring change to admissions and hiring practices at th...
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses Affirmative Action and the consideration of race in admission decisions.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education focusing on peer-to-peer sexual harassment.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the program's goals and sexual harassment in the White House.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses sexual harassment and the recent Supreme Court decisions.
Kate Doyle, member of the National Security Archives, discusses the series, Human Rights Guatemala: A Nation Toward Peace, that focused on human right violations from 1960-1996.
Katherine Thorton, recruited by NASA, discusses her experiences as a woman astronaut. She was part of four different space missions, and obtained a PhD in physics from the University of Virginia.
Kathy Peiss, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, discusses her latest book "Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture" that focuses on the historical context...
Kim Roberts, founder of Young Women Leaders Program, discusses the purpose and logistics of the program and how it is being received by both the Charlottesville community as well as the students at...
Kyra Gaunt, doctorate from the University of Michigan, discusses her dissertation "The Games Black Girls Play" that focuses on how young black girls in urban settings learned social identities thr...
Kyra Gaunt discusses the McIntire Arts Board sponsorship of the University of Virginia's Jazz Fest and the upcoming concerts where women are being represented.
Leslie Nuchow, New York singer songwriter, discusses her offer from the label Phillip Morris: Women Thing Music and what led to her to anti tobacco industry activism.
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses her experience as a person living with MS and the new grant that hopes to slow down the effects of MS in women through water ...
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses the gender wage gaps and her dissertation focused on theory of Human Capital. Her research finds that women were obtaining le...
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, fellow at the Carter Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses her project concerning black on white rape in Virginia from 1900 to 1960s.
Author Luise White, discusses her book that focuses on the rumors of vampirism in Central Africa as well as the general phenomenon of rumors in our culture.
Dr. Margaret Mohrman, discusses the difference between herself and the male doctors in the ICU, and the importance of ethics in medicine in order to better serve the patients.
Martha Craven Nussbaum discusses her book "Love's Knowledge" and her work as an expert witness on Colorado's Amendment 2 dealing with sexual orientation and state laws.
Mary Gaston's has a great sensibility towards Jane Austen's literature. She discusses the morality and romanticism of Jane Austen's novels made into films (Emma, Sense and Sensibility).
Mary Hugues discusses her position as the Landscape Architect at the University of Virginia, and what landscape architecture entails. She focuses on the importance given to large scale public desig...
Mary Rorty, professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Virginia, discusses bio-medical ethics as a movement that began in the 1960s and its recent institutionalization.
Michelle Kisliuk, professor of Music at the University of Virginia, discusses the transgeneric culture process through music focusing on socio-aesthetic.
Miki Liszt, dancer and founder of the Miki Liszt Dance Company, discusses her latest modern dance performance based on the book Veils and Words as an avenue of self-exploration and the veil as an I...
Ning de Coninck-Smith, Professor of Education at Odense University in Denmark, discusses the history of child laborers in the five Scandinavian countries and the concept of children as social agents.
Phillip Troutman, research fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses his dissertation focusing on family and market geography in the slave migration patter...
Phyllis Lefller, director of the institute of public history at the University of Virginia, discusses the project of collecting the history of 9,500 women at the University of Virginia from 1920 to...
Rae Blumberg, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, continues her discussion of policy implications on gender in economic development during the African food crisis.
Rae Blumberg, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, discusses policy implications on economic development research carried out in 31 different countries in all continents.
Rebecca Young, 1999-2000 Bayly McIntire Graduate Student Fellow, discusses her dissertation that focuses on the relationship of non-conformist communities to art production in San Francisco in 1950...
Sandi Cooper, the Chair of the University Faculty Senate and professor of European History at CUNY, discusses her talk for the Curry School of Education regarding the endangered fate of public high...
Sharon Hays, professor at the University of Virginia, discusses her book The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, and the idea of intensive mothering is an ideological construct.
Stephen Margulies, curator of works on paper at the Bayly Art Museum, discusses his new exhibit "The Power of Woe, the Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present" ...
Stephen Margulies, curator of works on paper at the Bayly Art Museum, discusses his inspiration for the latest exhibit: Universes in Coalition- Men and Women in 19th Century Japanese Prints.
Susan Fraiman, associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, discusses sex in the White House with a feminist lens, the issues over oral sex, and the public's perception of Monica L...
Susan Fraiman, associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, discusses "Crashing the Party: Women in the Academy Now" and feminist literary criticism.
Virginia Himes, professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses her course on Native American women using their published life histories.
Xiaolin Li was born in mainland China and obtained her PhD from the University of Maryland focusing on women in the military; in this episode she discusses Mulan and the history of women warriors i...
