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WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES STUDENT NEWS
The Results of the 2008 Women's and Gender Studies Essay Contest
First Place, Introduction to Women's Studies Division – Ashley Ward, "Calculating Clinton's Campaign"
Honorable Mention, Introduction to Women's Studies Division – Nancy Effner, "Viva Viagra: The Reinforcement of Masculine Ideals and Heterosexism"
First Place, Undergraduate Course Other Than Introduction to Women's Studies Division – Ashley Ward, "Caldecott Book Analysis: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study"
Honorable Mention, Undergraduate Course Other Than Introduction to Women's Studies Division – Amy Sarraf, "Changing Notions of Heterosexual Masculinity in Condom Advertising
First Place, Graduate Course – Tara Aveilhe, "Evolution, Activism, and Female Consciousness: Bergsonian Philosophy in Gertrude Colmore's Suggragettes: A Story of Three Women
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Jennifer Riter was voted Vice President of Recruitment for Panhellenic Council for 2008.
Kate McLeod is this year's recipient of the Marcy Lawless Service Award!
Melody Charles been accepted to write for an forthcoming feminist blog run by Katie Stone called "Little Miss Matriarch." Stone formerly worked for the Denver Post, writing opinion pieces about issues such as birth control access in Colorado and feminist blogs like Feministing.com.
WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES FACULTY NEWS
Lara Foley, associate professor of sociology, is the new chair of the Faculty of Sociology
Peggy Hill, associate professor of biological science, has written the book Vibrational Communication in Animals, which will be published by Harvard University Press in May 2008.
Russell Christopher, associate professor of law, and Kathryn Christopher, member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, co-authored an article about
the intersection of the laws of statutory rape and rape by fraud
("Adult Impersonation: Rape by Fraud as a Defense to Statutory Rape") published in Northwestern University Law Review in 2007. They also co-taught the class "Sex Crimes" during the Fall of 2007.
Holly Kruse, assistant professor of communication, presented research on home media technologies and gender at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Vancouver in October 2007. She published an article about online markets in the internet studies journal First Monday in late 2007.
Women's and Gender Studies students and faculty, please email your news to
holly-kruse@utulsa.edu
