This will be the third year that the Center has hosted Fellows through a grant received from the Rockefeller Foundation on”

“ Social Change and Cultural Transformation”

The program focuses on the lived experiences and cultural expression of people who have or are currently enduring the transition of migration and immigration to the United States including the complex experiences of migration and immigration that are related to cultural forms of expression: their preservation, hybridization, origination and function as part of the process of social transformation. A substantial number of the College faculty do research related to issues of race, ethnicity, class and gender, with migration and immigration as a major emphasis.

Two Rockefeller Residency Fellowships have been awarded at UCR for the 2003-04 Winter and Spring Quarters.
 

FRANCES HASSO
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology
Oberlin  College

Education:
• B.A., UCLA (international relations, with a focus on the Middle East)
• M.A., Georgetown University (Arab studies)
• M.A., University of Michigan (sociology)
• Ph.D., University of Michigan (sociology)
• Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Short Bio:
Frances Hasso is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology at Oberlin College. Her research and teaching interests are eclectic. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and transregional, addressing issues of gender, race/nation, post-coloniality, identity, inequality, social movements, and epistemology. A significant proportion of her empirical research has focused on gender and nationalism in the Middle East. She has taught a range of courses, including social theory, race & ethnicity, gender roles & status, social inequality, research methods, urban studies, introduction to gender and women's studies, and introduction to sociology. At Oberlin, she will be teaching introduction to gender and women's studies, feminist theory, feminist research methodologies, global feminisms, women and social movements, and gender and the state in the Middle East. In 1995, Frances received a Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship. She also received the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies in 1996. Her publications include: "'The Women's Front:' Nationalism, Feminism and Modernity in Palestine" (Gender & Society, 1998). "Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women," co-authored with Laura M. Lopez, in Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries, edited by Jodi O'Brien and Judith Howard (Blackwell, 1998). "Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats," was published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 32 (November 2000): 491-510. Another article, "Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women's Lives," was recently published in the November 2001 issue of the American Journal of Sociology (vol. 107 no. 3).
 

JENNY SHARPE: Professor of English, UCLA

Education: B.A 1981, Ph.D 1987 University of Texas at Austin.

Interests: Colonial/Postcolonial Studies; Caribbean Literature; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Novel

Selected Works: The Haunting of History: A Literary Archeology of Slave Women's Lives (2002); "Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism" (1999); "Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race" (1995); Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text (1993); "'The Original Paradise': Grenada Ten Years After the U.S. Invasion" (1993).

Additional information: Jenny Sharpe is the author of an influential study of colonial literature, "Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text "(Minnesota, 1993) which combines interpretive analyses of British novels in relation to the both India and the West Indies. She is currently working on "The Haunting of History: A Literary Archeology of Slave Women's Lives" in which she discusses the negotiated practices that slave women employed in the Caribbean. Her interests embrace the long historical perspective on colonial and postcolonial studies.