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New Directions in the Feminization of Agriculture in Poor Countries
(Special Event)
Join us for this presentation by Dr. Wilma Dunaway, a well respected and recognized scholar of African-American slavery, Appalachian studies, and world systems analysis. Dunaway received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. Her work focuses on those who have been silenced due to race, class, and gender. Dunaway's research interests include international political economy, world-systems analysis, racial and ethnic conflict, comparative slavery studies, Native American studies, Appalachian Studies, radical feminist perspectives on women's work, and qualitative research methodologies. At Virginia Tech, Professor Dunaway teaches Women Environment and Development in a Global Perspective; Global Change, Local Impacts; Comparative Social Movements; and Theories of Development and Globalization. In 2005, she received the College of Architecture and Urban Studies' College Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Dunaway has received many other awards and distinctions, including the Joseph Campbell Prize in Ethnography. The Joseph Campbell Prize is among the most significant honors for scholars of interdisciplinary ethnographic research. Her latest book is called Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South. (Cambridge University Press March, 2008). For more information on her other books, visit http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/vtpubs/mountain_slavery/index.htm
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