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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 the University.
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 aerobics fitness.
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's- '60s and her latest curation "African American Graphic Work of Contemporary Women Artists."
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 media.
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.
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 the University who are involved.
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 result of this new hybrid of American and Japanese culture in the workplace.
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.
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 and myths surrounding sexual assault.
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.
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 a Islamic conservative Iran.
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.
Special Agent Candice DeLong, profiling coordinator at the San Francisco division of the FBI, discusses criminal profiling for investigations of violent and sex crimes.
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 course. She underscores the intergenerational relations of the experiences of these women, and their experiences as adolescents in retrospect.
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.
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.
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 1972.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 adult is a women's issue in regards to assistance as well as care giving.
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 less wage compensation, and concentrated in lower paying industries.
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 in China.
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 patterns in Antebellum Virginia.
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 Civil War.
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 mid 1960s.
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.
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" and where his inspiration came from.
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.
Virginia Himes, professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses her course on Native American women using their published life histories.
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 Iranian-born woman.
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 higher education. She focuses on New York City mayor's critique on the open-enrollment of public higher education.
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 identity and its meaning.
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.
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.
Michelle Kisliuk, professor of Music at the University of Virginia, discusses the transgeneric culture process through music focusing on socio-aesthetic.
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.
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.