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 Education
 
1992 Ph.D., Comparative Education, State University of New York at Buffalo. Major fields of concentration: International Education, Sociology of Education, Women's Studies

1985 M.A., Women's Studies/American Studies, SUNY at Buffalo. Major fields of concentration: Cross Cultural Studies, African and African-American Women Writers

1982 Maîtrise, British and American Literature and Civilization, Faculté de Lettres Aix- Marseille, France. Major fields of concentration: African-American Women Writers

1981 D.E.A.V. (Diploma of Teaching French as a Foreign Language), Faculté de Lettres Aix- Marseille, France

1978 Licence, British and American Literature and Civilization, Faculté de Lettres Aix- Marseille, France
 
Teaching Appointments
 
2003- Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, New Jersey City University, New Jersey

1994-03 Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

1994-03 Adjunct Appointment, Sociology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

1993-94 Visiting Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

1992-93 Visiting Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene and Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

1991-92 Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology and Women's Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

1982-83 Visiting Lecturer, French Language and Civilization, University of Michigan
 
 Administrative Appointments

2003- Coordinator, Women’s and Gender Studies, New Jersey City University

2000-03 Graduate Program Director, The Center for Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati

1994-03 Associate Director, The Center for Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati

1993-1994 Acting Director, Women's Studies Program, University of Oregon
 
Current Projects

Book:
Re-Inventing the Republic: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France (Under Contract, Stanford University Press)
 
Essays:
“Mothers Under Construction: Gender and Racial Technologies of Power in French Politics of  Immigration.” In Images of “Motherhood” – African and Nordic Perspectives edited by Eva Evers Rosander and Signe Arnfred. Forthcoming.
 
Published Works (selection)

Book:
Becoming Women/Becoming Workers: Identity Formation in a French High School, Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
 
Essays and Reviews:
 
“Muslim Women in France: Impossible Subjects?” in DarkMatter (Special Issue: Racism in the Closet: Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality) Forthcoming.
 
“French Immigration Laws: The Sans-Papières’ Perspectives.” In Women and immigration law in Europe: New variations of feminist themes. Glass House Publishers. 2007.
 
Review in Signs, of Joan Wallach Scott, Parité! Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, and Enda McCaffrey, The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France. (Winter 2007).

“Women from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa in France: Fighting for Health and Basic Human Rights.” In Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socioeconomic Realities in Africa, edited by Obiama Nnaemeka and Joy Ezeilo. St. Martin Press. 2005.

Review in Signs, of Arnoldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan, eds., Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism and Dennis Altman, Global Sex. Summer 2004. (co-authored with Lycette Nelson)

“Ces mères qui dérangent.” In Cahiers du CEDREF: Genre, Travail et Migrations en Europe. Coordonné par Madeleine Hersent et Claude Zaidman. Décembre 2003. pp. 25-43.

Review in Gender and Society, of Michèle Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. In Gender and Society. Vol 16, No. 1., 2002.

“The Sexual and Racial Politics of Civil Unions in France.” In Radical History Review. Issue 83. Spring 2002. pp.73-93.

“Scattered Markets, Localized Workers: Gender, Work, and Immigration.” In Black Women, Globalization and Economic Justice: Studies from Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Filomena Steady. Rochester, Vermont: Schenkman Books, 2002.

“Gender, Race, and Exclusion: A New Look at the French Republican Tradition.” In International Feminist Journal of Politics. Vol. 1, No. 3, 1999. pp.435-457.

“School and the Construction of Marginal Identities.” In Feminism, Postmodernism and Development, edited by Marianne Marchand and Jane Parpart, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1995. pp. 79-93. Rpt. “The Construction of Marginal Identities.” In Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology, edited by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Oxford University Press. June 1999. “Is Gendering Immigration Enough? The Case of France.” In Shifting Bonds, Shifting Bounds: Women’s Mobility and Citizenship in Europe, edited by Virgínia Ferreira, Teresa Tavares, and Sílvia Portugal . Oeiras: Celta Editora, 1998. pp. 139-148.

Review in Journal of Curriculum Studies, of Ann Locke Davidson, Making and Molding Identity in Schools: Students Narratives on Race, Gender and Academic Engagement, July/August 1998.

“Negotiating School, Identity and Desire: Students Speak Out from the Midwest.” In Educational Foundations, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 1997. pp.31-54.

 

 

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