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Letter from the AWF President:

Dear Colleagues:

It is with great pleasure and a sense of certain resolve that I welcome you to the 2008-09 academic year. Last year was in many ways a watershed for our Association. In particular, the awarding of an honorary doctorate to Phyllis Schlafly united nearly all of our membership in collective protest against the conferral of the award as well as a university culture that would give rise to and sanction the tribute of one whose public life has been devoted in sizable measure to disparaging the academy and particularly women academicians. This and several other key events have served to fortify our mission of advocacy for women faculty at Washington University. It is that mission which will be of highest priority for me this year as president of the Association of Women Faculty.

I would also like to extend an invitation to all members, old and new, to voice your concerns, and to offer suggestions for ways in which the AWF can enhance the lives and promote the professional accomplishments of women faculty on the Danforth Campus.

I look forward to meeting you in person at the Fall Reception in September.

Sincerely,
Rebecca Messbarger
President AWF




THE ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN FACULTY
of                            
Danforth (Hilltop) Campus
Washington University in St. Louis



invites you to a
fall
reception


Thursday, September 18th
4:00 – 6:00 pm*
north brookings 300

*4:30 p.m. Welcome, remarks by former board presidents, and overview by assoc. vice Chancellor for academic affairs gerhild williams on work of new committee to implement strategies to better support women faculty

Contact: Rebecca Messbarger (rmessbar@wustl.edu) for Questions
No R.S.V.P. necessary




About the Board:

NAME:
POSITION:

Rebecca Messbarger

President
Rebecca Messbarger, President of AWF, is associate professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Her research and teaching center on Italian Enlightenment literature and culture. Her first book, The Century of Women: Representations of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), studies the expansive discourse about women among Italian Enlightenment thinkers and the authoritative counter-discourse women authors produced to assert their own authority over constructions of femininity and the public sphere. She also edited and translated with Paula Findlen the The Contest for Knowledge for the University of Chicago Press series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Her forthcoming book, The Lady Anatomist, with University of Chicago Press reclaims from obscurity the story of the pioneering anatomist and antaomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774). Messbarger has been the recipient of a Fulbright, a Mellon Foundation "New Directions" fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society.

Tonya Edmond

Secretary
Tonya Edmond, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, with a joint appointment in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her substantive area as a researcher is violence against women, with a specific interest in and experience with testing and implementation of evidence based trauma focused interventions for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. She has 20 years of experience working as a practitioner in both clinical and administrative roles, predominately in domestic violence and rape crisis centers. In addition, she has been advancing the importance of evidence based practice in the field of social work through publications and her leadership in the development of a comprehensive evidence based curriculum at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

Tava Olsen

Treasurer
Dr. Tava Olsen, a professor in Operations and Manufacturing Management at the Olin Business School since 2001, specializes in stochastic operations management and has published widely in her field. As a native of New Zealand, Dr. Olsen received her undergraduate degree from the University of Auckland and studied at Stanford University, receiving her Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1994. In addition to her work as treasurer of the Association of Women Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as her many academic and professional endeavors, Dr. Olsen is a wife and mother to her two daughters, Ebba and Kaia.

Emily Hughes

Councilor-at-Large

Professor Emily Hughes joins us after teaching at two other law schools, Iowa and DePaul. At DePaul, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Justice in Capital Cases, where she taught a substantive seminar on death penalty jurisprudence and supervised students working on pending capital cases. At Iowa, Professor Hughes taught several courses in an adjunct capacity, including Criminal Procedure (Investigations and Adjudication), Professional Responsibility, Client Counseling, and Trial Advocacy. She has also taught capital trial advocacy at the Clarence Darrow Death Penalty Defense College (co-sponsored by the University of Michigan and DePaul).

Professor Hughes received her B.A. in English with High Honors from the University of Michigan. She received her law degree, cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Michigan Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy (then Chief Judge of the Northern District of Iowa; now serving on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals); she was a Sacks Fellow at Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Institute; and she worked as a state public defender in Iowa. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Hughes received a Masters Degree in International Relations from Yale University, where she was a Hochschild Fellow. She also taught undergraduate writing at the University of Michigan, where she continued to teach while she was in law school.

Ursula Goodenough

Councilor-at-Large

Ursula Goodenough is professor of biology. Her research explores the molecular evolution of green algae; she teaches undergraduate courses in cell biology and evolution. She chairs the Women in Cell Biology Committee for the American Society for Cell Biology. She has 5 children and 4 grandchildren.

Rebecca Lester

Councilor-at-Large
Rebecca Lester is a medical and psychological anthropologist as well as a practicing clinician. Her work concerns how individuals in institutional settings (nunneries, eating disorder clinics, community mental health organizations) grapple with local imperatives about "healthy selves" and the cultural values about gender, temperament, and sociality contained within. Recent publications include Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in an American Convent (UC Press, 2005), "Critical Therapeutics: Cultural Politics and Clinical Reality in Two Eating Disorder Treatment Centers" (2007), and "Anxious Bliss: A Case Study of Dissociation in a Mexican Nun" (2007). She works in Mexico and in the United Sates.

Rafia Zafar

Councilor-at-Large
Rafia Zafar is Professor of English, African American, and American Culture Studies. Her research interests range from 19th century slave autobiographers to the role of food in U.S. literature. She is a member of the executive council of the american studies association [was elected for a three year term this past spring] and the recent Walt Whitman Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Utrecht University (NL).

Barbara Baumgartner

Councilor-at-Large

Barbara Baumgartner is a senior lecturer and associate director for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she went on to get her Ph.D. is in English, with a focus on nineteenth-century American women writers. She teaches classes on women writers, women in science, women's health, and Introduction to Women & Gender Studies.

Corinna Treitel

Councilor-at-Large

Corinna Treitel is an assistant professor of history. She published her first book A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern in 2004 and is now writing a second book titled The Way to Paradise: Food and the Politics of Nature in Modern Germany. She has been on the AWF board since 2006.
 

 

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