The GCWS is governed by a dedicated Board of Directors, Advisory Board, and the original six founding faculty members, known as the ‘Mother Board.’ Board members are selected by each participating insitution’s Women’s Studies Program Director. The Board of Directors each receive one vote and are responsible for course development and selection, community outreach, and the financial and GCWS staff governance. Each year, the Board elects a co-chair to act as the lead Board member. This position changes annually, rotating across institutions.

2007-2008 Board of Directors

BOSTON COLLEGE

Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Sociology) Professor Hesse-Biber's early research was on rural-urban migration in Sweden and she then spent several years working in the areas of population, ecology, and demography. During the 1980s her research and teaching interests shifted to "women and work." She is co-founder of the Women's Studies Program and is currently interested in the area of women and health. Since 1984 she has been conducting a longitudinal study of eating disorders among women. Her most recent book is Am I Thin Enough Yet? (Oxford University Press 1996). She is currently conducting research on self-esteem and body image issues among white and black female adolescents in the Boston area. She has co-developed a software program called Hyper-research which will greatly facilitate the analysis of qualitative data.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Barbara Gottfried (Women's Studies ) has been teaching in the Women's Studies Program at Boston University since 1994. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawaii and then at Bently College. She attended Boston University as an undergraduate and received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, Sexual and Textual Politics in Bleak House: Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Readings, was a feminist reading of Dickens's Bleak House. She has published feminist critiques on both Dickens and Philip Roth, and also on gender in advertising and in popular culture.

Barbara Gottfried teaches WS 114; Women and Film; Women, Gender, and Race in theMedia; and Women in Popular Fiction. She is particularly interested in feminist literary/film criticism and theory, gender and feminist theory, clasic and contemporary fiction and film, and popular culture.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Erica Harth is Professor Emerita (as of 2006) of Humanities and Women's Studies at Brandeis University.   Her original scholarly field is early modern French literature and culture.   Among her several published books in this field is Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992); and she is the author of numerous articles and essays.   Her most recent book is an edited collection of original essays, which she commissioned, on the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II,   Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans (New York: St. Martins/Palgrave, 2001 and 2003).

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Robin Bernstein is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of History and Literature at Harvard University. My most recent book, a solo-edited anthology titled Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater, was just published by the University of Michigan Press. My other books include Generation Q, a co-edited collection of essays by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth; and Terrible, Terrible!, a children's book. Her current book project, "Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation, 1852-1930," uses performance theory to argue that cultural constructions of childhood played a key role in American racial formation from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Ian Condry (Foreign Languages & Literatures) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes contemporary Japan, with a focus on media, popular culture, and globalization. My first book Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization was published in October 2006 from Duke University Press. It is an ethnography of the Japanese rap music scene, exploring issues of race, gender, language, popular music history, and cultural politics primarily through the perspectives of Japanese musicians. Through fieldwork starting 1995-97, I focused on the "genba" (nightclubs, or "actual site") of Japan's hip-hop scene. I argue that the paths of cultural globalization lead through specific sites of performance, such as nightclubs and recording studios. Such locations help us more deeply understand the dialogue between global/local, producer/consumer, artist/industry.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

Heather Hindman (Anthropology): Professor Hindman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern University. Her areas of research include Globalization, Science, Technology and Society (STS), History of Anthropology, Gender, Sexuality and Domesticity, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Social Theory, and South Asia.

SIMMONS COLLEGE

Jyoti Puri is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Simmons College and is the current Director of the Gender and Cultural Studies graduate program. She writes and teaches in the areas of sexualities, states, nationalisms, and transnational feminisms. Her book, Woman, Body, Desire in Post-colonial India (Routledge 1999), addresses how constructs of gender and sexuality are shaped across national and transnational contexts. Encountering Nationalism, (Blackwell Publishers 2004), is a feminist sociological exploration of nationalism and the state. A number of related articles and chapters are published in journals and edited volumes on sexuality and gender. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants, including a Rockefeller Research Fellowship and a Fulbright Senior Research award. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Sexualizing the State: Biopolitics and Sodomy Law in India.

TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Sonia Hofkosh is Associate Professor of English and a former Director of the Women's Studies Program at Tufts. She is also a former co-chair of the GCWS Board and has taught a course in feminist research methods at the Consortium as well. Her work focuses on 18th- and 19th-Century British literature, with an emphasis in material and visual cultural histories. She has published _Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author_ (Cambridge 1998) and co-edited _Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture_ (Indiana 1996). Her current work is about the meanings of ordinary objects within the discourse of subjectivity developed in literature during the turn into the 19th century.

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON

Chris Bobel (Women’s Studies): Chris Bobel is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she teaches Intro to Women's Studies, Feminist Thought, Feminist Research Methods, Women and Activism, & Gender & the Body. Chris completed her BA in Speech Communication from Miami University, her MA in Speech Communication (with a concentration in Gender & Communication) from University of Maine and her PhD in Urban Studies with a specialization in race, Gender and ethnicity from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Before joining the UMB Women's Studies program in 2002, Chris directed the Women's Center at the University of Cincinnati.
As a feminist ethnographer interested in woman-led social movements, her book *The Paradox of Natural Mothering* (Temple University Press, 2002) examined activist mothers who choose alternatives in their parenting practices. Her new research is concerned with a related form of resistance, what she terms 'menstrual activism' and combines her interests in social change and *personalized politics*, *third wave* feminism, and the social construction of the body.

Publications by or about GCWS Board Members

• Wendy Luttrell received the Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award by the American Sociological Association for her recently published book: Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens.