Engaging difference: Racial and global perspectives in graduate women's studies education

Feminist Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 327-332

  Guy Sheftall, Beverly ^a  

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EID: 0032093421     PISSN: 00463663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3178700     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. See the abbreviated version of this lengthy consultant's report: Beverly Guy-Sheftall (with Susan Heath), Women's Studies: A Retrospective (New York: Ford Foundation, 1995).
2. As of 1995, Emory University, the program with which I am most familiar, had 32 students enrolled and approximately 100 students in the certificate program. In May 1997, five Ph.D.'s in women's studies were granted, the largest number ever granted at Emory. Its distinguished speaker series brings a number of women of color to the campus for lectures, and the program has one faculty woman of color with a joint appointment with women's studies and English; she was recently granted an endowed chair. Women's studies also cosponsors with the Program of African American Studies an annual "Intersections of Race and Gender Lecture Series" which brought to the campus, in March 1997, Paula Giddings, research professor of African, African American, and women's studies at Duke University. There are plans for a faculty search for a position in women and development, a joint appointment with anthropology or sociology, which will enhance the program's international component.
3. See Karen Kidd and Ande Spencer, eds., Guide to Graduate Work in Women's Studies (College Park, Md.: National Women's Studies Association, 1994); and Ann B. Shteir, "The Women's Studies Ph.D.: A Report from the Field," Women's Studies Quarterly 25 (spring/summer 1997): 388-403, for a discussion of the current status of doctoral training in women's studies. The latter discusses the graduate program in York University in Canada, as well as emerging programs at the University of Iowa, University of Washington, and University of Minnesota. Several other major universities are also proposing doctoral programs. The University of Michigan has a joint Ph.D. in women's studies and English and women's studies and psychology, which began in 1994. Several institutions offer Ph.D. minors in women's studies, and a larger number of universities offer graduate certificates in women's studies where the student's home base is in a discipline-based program. None of these discussions of doctoral programs mentions that Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta offers a doctor of arts in Africana women's studies, although I cite this in the Ford Report.
4. See Karen Kidd and Ande Spencer, eds., Guide to Graduate Work in Women's Studies (College Park, Md.: National Women's Studies Association, 1994); and Ann B. Shteir, "The Women's Studies Ph.D.: A Report from the Field," Women's Studies Quarterly 25 (spring/summer 1997): 388-403, for a discussion of the current status of doctoral training in women's studies. The latter discusses the graduate program in York University in Canada, as well as emerging programs at the University of Iowa, University of Washington, and University of Minnesota. Several other major universities are also proposing doctoral programs. The University of Michigan has a joint Ph.D. in women's studies and English and women's studies and psychology, which began in 1994. Several institutions offer Ph.D. minors in women's studies, and a larger number of universities offer graduate certificates in women's studies where the student's home base is in a discipline-based program. None of these discussions of doctoral programs mentions that Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta offers a doctor of arts in Africana women's studies, although I cite this in the Ford Report.
5. The first student to receive the doctorate in women's studies at Clark University (established in 1992) was an African American, Angela Bowen, who wrote a dissertation on "Audre Lorde, Life and Politics," and is now in a tenure-track position at the University of California at Long Beach. (See Bowen's contribution to this issue of Feminist Studies.) Similarly, among the first two students at Emory to complete the Ph.D. (1995) was an African American woman, Ise Williams, who is now director of the program in Women, Leadership, and Social Change at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.
6. Shteir, 399. Although this article alludes to the diversity requirement, it does not discuss how it might be fulfilled.