Announcements/News

The Women's Studies Program has relocated. The main office is now permanantly housed in room 214-J of the William Johnston Building .

Congratulations to Dr. Joyce Carbonell, a recipient of the 2001-2002 University Teaching Award.  This award "recognizes teaching excellence as multi-faceted, ... providing a positive role model to students; imparting a respect for truth and a love of learning; challenging students' thinking and assumptions; showing respect for all persons, and innovative instructional techniques."  This recognition carries an honorarium of $2000.

Congratulations to the recent and upcoming Women's Studies graduates:
Minors:Genevieve Hay, Bambi Ray, Beth Purvis.
Majors:Sheila McLain, Stacey Liska.

Dr. Jean Bryant, Women's Studies Program Director and Professor of History, was honored on April 9, 2001 at the Beth Moore Lounge of the Longmire Building on the FSU Campus, with the dedication of the Women's Studies Library in her name. The Jean Gould Bryant Library of Women's Studies is currently housed in 214-Q of the William Johnston Building. Dr. Bryant was presented with a replica of a plaque that will be permanantly placed in the library. The inscription reads:

    With energy and courage, Jean Gould Bryant molded a program of excellence in Women’s Studies at The Florida State University.  As a founding mother of the program, Dr. Bryant worked on a voluntary basis as the program’s first coordinator in 1975, returning to that position in 1977. Beginning in 1980, she served as Director of the Program for 21 years while simultaneously working as a professor in the Department of History. In her multiple roles, she promoted awareness of women’s issues, worked with local civic groups and governmental agencies, brought prominent speakers to campus and organized numerous scholarly conferences in women’s studies and history. She also worked tirelessly to gain the approval for the creation of the Women’s Studies Major. Dr. Bryant inspired the university and its larger community to a new vision of the identity of women and men in the modern world, based on mutual respect and free of preconceptions. Among her many pioneering achievements was the development of a library for Women’s Studies that would serve to assist students in their academic endeavors and to celebrate diversity and the multicultural resources of past and contemporary societies.

Dr. Jean Gould Bryant
Director of Women’s Studies, 1980-2001
Department of History, 1972-2001
 

In Memoriam:

The Women's Studies Program faculty, staff, students, and instructors are saddened by the death of our highly respected and much loved colleague and mentor, Dr.Tessa Bartholomeusz.  Before her death, Dr. Bartholmeusz was recently promoted to full professor in the Dept. of Religion. She was author of Women Under the Boa Tree and a teacher of Gender and Religion. You can make a donation in Dr. Bartholmeusz' name to the American Cancer Society.

 
 

Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty Recent Accomplishments

Irene Padavic, Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, is currently participating as a visiting fellow in the inaugural Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study Fellows Program.  Dr. Padavic has written a book, Women and Men at Work, produced in collaboration with Barbara Reskin, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, which provided an overview of recent research on the role of gender in the workplace. While at Radcliffe, her primary goal has been developing an analytical sythesis of two research literatures: workplace inequalities that stem from gender and also workplace inequalities that stem from race/ethnicity.

Carrie E. Sandahl, PhD, (Theatre) is co-editing the anthology of criticism,Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance, with Philip Auslander, to be published by the University of Michigan Press; received a five-week, $3,700 National Endowment for the Humanities grand for collaborative study on building a disability-studies curriculum for use on college campuses across the nation at the Institute on Disability Studies, San Francisco, CA; was featured in the award-winning Brace Yourself Productions video Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back.

 

Leo Sandon, PhD, (Religion, American and Florida Studies) read an invited paper, "1968: America's Second Great Awakening," at the Fifth Annual International Conference on Millennialism, Boston University, October 2001.

Anita Gonzalez, PhD, (Theatre) was selected for one of 25 slots nationally to travel on a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar through the Mayan world that took her to Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and South Dakota; has received a $25,000 Rockefeller Foundation grant and a $15,000 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation grant for her multimedia performance project, "The Mother Courage Project."

 

For her internationally recognized research in ecology and evolutionary biology, Oceanography Professor Nancy H. Marcus has been named FSU's Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor for 2001-02. President Sandy D'Alemberte conferred the honor Friday, April 27, during spring commencement. The Lawton Distinguished Professor Award is the highest honor FSU bestows on a faculty member for excellence in teaching, research and service on national and international levels. "Since her first days at FSU she has been a valuable member of the community with a desire for education, a love for the sciences and a willingness to serve those around her," D'Alemberte said.

Melissa Gross, an assistant professor of information studies, received the National American Association of University Women (AAUW) Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars for 2000-01. Gross, who came to FSU in 1999, was chosen in recognition of her achievements in the field of library and information studies, her teaching record and her commitment to women's issues. The annual award, which includes a $5,000 honorarium, recognizes the professional achievement of an untenured woman scholar who has a record of exceptional early accomplishments and shows promise of future distinction. It is given by the AAUW Educational Foundation. Gross was  presented with the award during a banquet at the AAUW's annual convention on June 25, 2001 in Austin, Texas.