Women's and Gender Studies Program
Date of this Version
Fall 2016
Citation
Women's and Gender Studies. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Fall 2016
Abstract
For those of you who don’t know me, let me introduce myself. I am a professor of history specializing in the history of cross-cultural relations between Indigenous and white women in settler colonial nations, such as the United States, Australia, and Canada. My last two books focused on Indigenous child removal and white women’s roles in promoting, carrying out, and sometimes challenging the practice. I teach cross-listed U.S. women’s and gender history classes, a cross-listed graduate seminar on Women, Gender, and Empire, and courses on the history of the American West. I served as Director of Women’s and Gender Studies from 2006-2011.
It has been bittersweet to become Director of Women’s and Gender Studies again. I was deeply saddened by the death of Chantal Kalisa, the previous director and a close friend. There is a big hole in the WGS program and in my personal life without her. WGS is honoring Chantal and her legacy by cosponsoring a fellowship fund with the Department of Modern Languages (see pg. 4).
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