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Patricia Zavella honored at UCSC

Hola mujeres,
I thought you’d like to know that our comadre Profesora Pat Zavella is being honored by our campus for her outstanding research and academic accomplishments. We are very proud of her so I thought I’d share it with our network. Please forward to anyone that may be interested. Abrazos, Aida [Hurtado]

2nd annual UCSC ‘Founders Day’ gala dinner at Cocoanut Grove to honor three exceptional individuals

UC Santa Cruz hosts its second annual Founders Day gala dinner at the Cocoanut Grove on Friday, October 24, beginning at 7 p.m. Launched last year to celebrate the spirit of community that resulted in the founding of a University of California campus in Santa Cruz,the event recognizes and honors extraordinary individuals and their outstanding contributions to society.

This year’s featured honorees will be:
* Dana Priest-UCSC alumna and award-winning reporter for the Washington Post, who earned her second Pulitzer Prize in April for a 2007 exposé of the mistreatment of wounded Iraq war veterans at Walter Reed Medical Center.
* Narinder Singh Kapany-Research scientist, professor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is acknowledged by many as the “father of fiber optics.”
* Patricia Zavella-UCSC professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, and one of the world’s leading scholars in the fields of feminist ethnography and Chicana studies.

With a theme of “Fulfilling the Promise,” the evening will include a celebratory dinner, awards presentation ceremony, and video tributes to each of the three recipients.

….Zavella is known for her pioneering research on Chicana/Mexicana social life-including issues of labor, migration, family, gender, feminism, health, sexuality, and popular culture. Her work has been instrumental in setting the Latino research agenda.

Zavella directs UCSC’s Chicano/Latino Research Center and chairs the statewide UC Committee on Latino Research–a multi-campus unit that advises the Office of the President about research related to Latinos in California. Her public service work includes contributions such as helping to organize Binational Health Week in 2001–a collaboration between the state of California and the government of Mexico to improve the health of Mexicans in California.

Zavella has been a leader in national organizations, serving as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Anthropological Association, chair of the Feminist Studies track for the Latin American Studies Association, and as president of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists.

JOB: Race & Ethnic Studies, U of Redlands

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Redlands invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in the Race and Ethnic Studies Program (REST). We seek applicants whose areas of specialization include: the comparative study of race and racialization, with a particular focus on the experiences of Chicana/os or Latina/os; and the intersections between race and forms of stratification, such as gender, class, and sexuality.
[Read more…] about JOB: Race & Ethnic Studies, U of Redlands

UC Berkeley Scholar in Residence, 2009

BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP
Scholars In Residence Program
Call for Applications for Academic Year 2009-2010
(Deadline: March 15, 2009)

The Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG) is the University of California at Berkeley’s critical feminist research center, established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines. The BBRG is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality, globalization and transnational feminisms.

Update From Michel Tam at the BBRG:

While we very much appreciate you linking our program, may I please ask that you remove any specific information about the Scholars in Residence Program (including application information) and simply link us at the following URLs?:
Home page – https://bbrg.berkeley.edu/index.html
Scholar in Residence Program – https://bbrg.berkeley.edu/scholarprog.html
I am asking this because prospective scholars have been getting outdated application information from external sites such as yours, which has created confusion among applicants. We’d like to ask that you simply link us so that anyone who visits your site can get the most up-to-date application information by visiting our site directly.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. Thank you for referencing our program on your website.

Thank you,
Michel Tam
Website Administrator
Gender & Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley

New book / Speaking from the Body: Latinas on Health and Culture

Speaking from the Body:  Latinas on Health and Culture
Edited by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian; Adela de la Torre
Forthcoming from University of Arizona press

In compelling first-person accounts, Latinas speak freely about dealing with serious health episodes as patients, family caregivers, or friends. They show how the complex interweaving of gender, class, and race impacts the health status of Latinas—and how family, spirituality, and culture affect the experience of illness.

Here are stories of Latinas living with conditions common to many: hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, Parkinson’s, lupus, and hyper/hypothyroidism. By bringing these narratives out from the shadows of private lives, they demonstrate how such ailments form part of the larger whole of Latina lives that encompasses family, community, the medical profession, and society. They show how personal identity and community intersect to affect the interpretation of illness, compliance with treatment, and the utilization of allopathic medicine, alternative therapies, and traditional healing practices. The book also includes a retrospective analysis of the narratives and a discussion of Latina health issues and policy recommendations.

These Latina cultural narratives illustrate important aspects of the social contexts and real-world family relationships crucial to understanding illness.  Speaking from the Body is a trailblazing collection of personal testimonies that integrates professional and personal perspectives and shows that our understanding of health remains incomplete if Latina cultural narratives are not included.

Speaking from the Body:  Latinas on Health and Culture
Edited by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian; Adela de la Torre
University of Arizona Press / 264 pp. / 6.0 x 9.0 / 2008
Paper (978-0-8165-2664-2) [s]

**SIGNS CFP: Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

* * CALL FOR PAPERS * *
* The Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship*

Deadline: September 20, 2008

The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the competition for the 2009 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.  Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is  designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars. [Read more…] about **SIGNS CFP: Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship