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Our Chapters
Submitted by Mary Virnoche
Chapter Liaison, SWS National Membership Committee
- Contacts
Irene Padavic (ipadavic@fsu.edu) and Pat Martin (pmartin@fsu.edu).
- Activities
Since Spring 2005, we have met to hear and discuss student research on body projects. We have plans to meet during the spring term.
- Request for Funds
The Tallahassee Chapter requests $50 to fund refreshments at our first meeting of the year, scheduled for January 2006.
- Contacts
Kat Jones, University of Massachusetts
(kjones@soc.umass.edu)
- Activities
Invited speaker Patricia Yancey-Martin, Spring 2005.
- Request for Funds
$75 for speaker and spring recruitment meeting
- Contacts
Lori Baralt (baraltlo@msu.edu)
and Julie Hartman (hartma75@msu.edu)
- Activities
Fall 2005 we had a brown bag talk where two graduate students/sws members presented their current work; we also hosted a welcome brunch for new female faculty; we plan to continue to host brown bag discussion next semester and possible an end-of-semester potluck/social.
- Request for Funds
$50 for brown bag series
- Contacts
Jackie Skiles, (jsnyc@yahoo.com)
- Activities
A group of mostly retired faculty still meet. They would like to bring younger members into the group.
- Request for Funds
None
- Contacts
Jennifer Keene (jkeene@unlv.nevada.edu)
and Anastasia Prokos (prokosa@unlv.nevada.edu)
- Activities
We met in the Fall of 2005 for a "meet the new feminist faculty" evening. We meet once or twice each semester and our activities vary.
- Request for Funds
None
Activities
Students and faculty meet two to three times a semester for brown bag discussions and occasional pot luck dinners.
Request for Funds
$50 for social and recruitment
- Officers
- Kathy Feltey, Advisor
- Elizabeth Grossman, President (eg12@uakron.edu) (submitted report)
- Jean-Anne Sutherland, Treasurer
- Rachel Schneider, Secretary
- Activities
We are revitalizing the local chapter here and reorganizing. Akron U will now have its own local SWS chapter and Kent its own. We are working on finding an advisor and Graduate student president for the Kent chapter and as soon as those are firm Elizabeth Grossman will ask them to contact you.
Reforming the organization and selecting officers.
For 2006: We look to do at least one major fundraiser in the Fall and hopefully one smaller one this Spring; We hope to co-sponsor a conference (either a panel, speaker or the entire conference) at Akron U with CROW this spring, a multi-disciplinary group on campus of faculty and graduate students who are sharing, supporting and doing research on women; and we are helping to fund graduate students going to the SWS winter meeting.
- Request for Funds
We are looking to be involved with CROW, a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and graduate student scholars who research feminist issues, by helping to sponsor a conference on such issues either in March or April 2006. Specifically we would either like to co-sponsor the entire conference or help in sponsoring a specific speaker. We are asking $50 for this event. Also we would like to request $50 to jump start our grant fund for graduate student research on feminist issues. Total Funds Request: $100
- Contacts
Laura Steck (laurawesetsteck@yahoo.com)
- Activities
The Eastern group has formed in collaboration with the ESS Committee on the Status of Women. As a committee member, Tamara Smith is also working with the SWS East regional chapter.
- Request for Funds
None
- Contacts
Heather Laube (liaison), (hlaube@umflint.edu)
- Activities
Midwest SWS celebrated its 30th Anniversary in Minneapolis, March 31 to April 3, 2005, concurrent with the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociology Society. MSWS co-sponsored over 30 sessions and held our first "Honoring the Sociological Work of Women" session. This session was designed to honor women in the Midwest region who have contributed substantially to the discipline, their students, the MSS, the MSWS -- the myriad ways that women contribute. Our first honoree was Helen Moore, from the University of Nebraska, and instead of the traditional "dinner out," this year we held a banquet to celebrate our anniversary and Helen. Attendance was wonderful and many shared stories of the ways Helen and MSWS in general has impacted their lives. Michelle Miller turned the leadership over to Cheryl Childers at a packed business meeting. We are working on a website, and the following is a sampling of MSWS programming for the 2006 meeting in Omaha...
STITCH & BITCH
SESSIONS:
GENDER AND WORK I & II
GENDER, RACE AND SEXUALITY
GENDER AND SPORT
GENDER, RACE, AND JUSTICE I & II
GENDER, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE
WOMEN AND AGING
DOING FEMINIST RESEARCH
PANELS:
PREPARING FOR YOUR ACADEMIC JOB SEARCH
TEACHING SOCIOLOGY THROUGH LITERATURE AND FILM
SURVIVING THE FIRST FEW YEARS: A DISCUSSION IN TWO PARTS
PART I: ADVICE FOR NEW FACULTY
PART II: THE ART OF THE CV
CREATIVE COPING
WORKSHOPS:
FEMINISTS IN THE CLASSROOM: NEGOTIATING A CHILLY CLASSROOM
THE ART OF THE JOB SEARCH
TALKING IN SOUND BITES: HOW TO TALK TO THE MEDIA
- Request for Funds
None
- Officers
- President, Idee Winfield, (WinfieldI@cofc.edu)
College of Charleston
- Vice-President, Angela Lewellyn Jones, Elon University
- Secretary, Sandra Godwin, Georgia College & State University
- Treasurer/Membership Chair, Shannon Davis, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Newsletter Editor, Maria Febbo-Hunt, Wake County Public Schools
- Electronic List Keeper, April Brayfield, Tulane University
- Archivist, Susan Ambler, Maryville College
- Awards Committee Chairs
Rebecca Bach, Duke University & Tom Hood, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- SWS National Liaisons
Margaret Leaf, (ml04e@garnet.acns.fsu.edu)
Florida State University
Christine Wernet, (chrisb@usca.edu)
University of South Carolina Aiken
- Journal Referee Liaisons
Pat Yancey Martin, Florida State University
Shirley Laska, University of New Orleans
- Activities
- Organized 14 co-sponsored sessions at the Annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society
- Raised over $500 for the ASA Minority Scholarship at our annual Silent Auction Fundraiser
- Approved new SWS-South Bylaws more in line with SWS-National.
- Made donations to the American Red Cross and the Southern Sociological
- Request for Funds
$100 to offset liaison travel to SWS Winter Meeting.
- Officers
- President, Anastasia Prokos, (prokosa@unlv.nevada.edu), University of Nevada Las Vegas
- Vice President, Mary Virnoche, (Mary.Virnoche@humboldt.edu), Humboldt State University
- Secretary, Kathryn Hausbeck, (hausbeck@unlv.nevada.edu), University of Nevada Las Vegas
- Treasurer, Marjukka Ollilainen, (MOLLILAINEN@weber.edu), Weber State University
- Activities
SWS-West was established in April 2005 during a social sponsored by the Pacific Sociological Association Committee on the Status of Women. SWS members attending the event agreed to establish a regional chapter. SWS-West will meet concurrently with PSA. The officers listed above corresponded electronically to establish the chapter and make plans for the 2006 breakfast meeting of SWS West during the April PSA meetings in Hollywood, California.
- Request for Funds
We request $100 that we will use to co-sponsor with the Committee on the Status of Women a social at the 2006 PSA meeting in Hollywood, California.
Teresa Toguchi Swartz, University of Minnesota (tswartz@umn.edu) Sharon Preves and Melissa Embser-Herbert at Hamline University are also helping. They just got the Minnesota SWS list to use in recruiting for the Minnesota Sociology meeting.
Sally Dear (sdear@binghamton.edu) is still interested in forming a chapter. I recommended that she might try to organize something at the Eastern Sociological Association meeting.
Kent is in the process of forming its own chapter separate from Akron. They are working on finding an advisor and graduate student president for the Kent chapter. Elizabeth Grossman (Akron President) will ask the new Kent president to contact SWS.
- North Carolina: Triangle - Raleigh/Durham (Cheri Chambers was listed as the contact)
- North Central (Martha Schmidt was listed as the contact)
- Illinois: Chicago (Catherine Harnois was the contact. She suggested that Barbara Risman might start something up. Barbara said "maybe" in the future)
- Massachusetts: Boston (Christina Borel and Mary Churchill were contacts)
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia (Dina Pinsky was the contact)
- Washington, D.C. (Amy McLaughlin was interested in forming some time ago but has since moved away. She has had some trouble getting her name off of all the places that list her as a contact)
* Unless otherwise noted, I received no response from anyone from these chapters after several person-to-person and general SWS Listserv mailings. I contacted names listed on both the SWS Web page and on the Winter 2005 Network News.
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