Women’s Research on Women Symposium
Texas A&M University
March 30, 2015
Rudder 401 and 404
AGENDA
Sponsored by
The College of Education and Human Development Office of Organization Development and Diversity
Initiatives, the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development’s
Educational Leadership Research Center, and TAMU Women’s and Gender Studies
Welcome
Dr. Douglas Palmer, Dean, College of Education and Human Development
Symposium Keynotes
Introduction
Dr. Beverly J. Irby, Professor, Chair of P-12 Educational Administration, Associate Department
Head, Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, and Director of
Educational Leadership Resource Center, College of Education and Human Development
Opening Remarks: Women’s Research on Women at TAMU
Dr. Karan Watson, Provost and Executive Vice President, Texas A&M University
The Spiritual Strivings of Black Women in the Academy: Unpacking our Collective
Realities
Dr. Chanda Elbert, Associate Professor, Department of Ag Leadership, Education, and
Communication, College of Agriculture
Giving Voice to the Female Hero
Professor Felice House, Assistant Professor, Department of Visualization, College of
Architecture
A Worldwide Database: The Woman Stats Project
Dr. Valerie Hudson, Professor and George H.W. Bush Chair, The Bush School of Government
& Public Service
Tokens No More
Dr. Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head, Department
of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
Introduction of the Gallery Tour
Dr. Nancy Watson, Assistant Dean, Office of Organization Development and Diversity
Initiatives, College of Education and Human Development
Gallery Tour
1. Paternity Fraud And How Laws Regulate Women's Sexuality
Dr. Susan Ayres, Professor, and Dr. Charlotte Hughart, Professor, School of Law
2. Silenced No More: Unearthing Black Females’ Inequitable Discipline Experiences
Dr. Jamilia Blake, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of
Education and Human Development
3.
(In)Visible Community: Examining Black Girls and Women’s Experiences in Sport
and Physical Activity
Dr. Akilah Carter-Francique, Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology,
College of Education and Human Development
4. Hearing 'Other Voices': Recovering 17th-century Women's Writings for the 21st
Century Classroom
*Dr. Margaret Ezell, Distinguished Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
5. When Gender Matters: Macro-Dynamics and Micro-Mechanisms
*Dr. Sarah Fulton, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal
Arts
6. I'm Not My Hair: Reclaiming Black is Beautiful
Professor Rebecca Hankins, Assistant Professor and Curator of Africana Studies, Cushing
Library
7. Mobility, Fidelity, and Technologies of Surveillance: Policing Migrants' Wives in
Senegal
Dr. Dinah Hannaford, Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, College of
Liberal Arts
8. Women in STEM: A Systematic Review of 20 Years of Dissertations
Dr. Beverly J. Irby, Professor and Associate Department Head, Director of Educational
Leadership Research Center, Department of Educational Administration and Human
Research Development, College of Education and Human Development (with Nahed
Abdelrahman and Totam Phuong, Graduate Research Assistants)
9. Dance, Gender, and Sexuality
Dr. Rumya S. Putcha, Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies, College of
Liberal Arts
10. Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and Fashion in South Asian America
*Dr. Vanita Reddy, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
11. From the Mouths of Principals: Infrastructural Support for Girl in Science in Highly
Successful, Highly Diverse High School Learning Environments
Dr. Carol Stuessy, Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture, College of
Education and Human Resource Development
12. How We Talk About Gender and Race
*Dr. Jyotsna Vaid, Professor in Psychology, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal
Arts
13. "I Is and I Am" : Academic Development and African American Girls
Dr. Gwen Webb-Hasan, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Educational
Leadership Research Center, Department of Educational Administration and Human
Resource Development and Dr. Patricia Larke, Professor, Department of Teaching,
Learning, and Culture, College of Education and Human Development
14. Gender, Migration and the Kazakh Diaspora in Central Asia
*Dr. Cynthia Werner, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal
Arts
15. My Work is My Future: A Case Study of an NGO’s Educational Programs for Women
Entrepreneurs in West Africa
*Dr. Jill Zarestky, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Administration and
Human Resource Development, College of Education and Human Development
Note: * = Faculty affiliated with the TAMU Women’s and Gender Studies