United States
I received my BA and first MA in Women's Studies from San Francisco State University and my second MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. I am a Teaching Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Global Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. Specialties: I write and teach about feminism and revolution in Latin America; social movements and culture; political exile; diaspora; critical development studies, and feminist research.
I am an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies - and - Latin American and Caribbean Studies departments at UW Seattle. http://jsis.washington.edu/latinam/about_us/faculty/ http://depts.washington.edu/webwomen/
I am in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and the First Year & Pre majors Programs. I teach several classes at UWB: Histories and Movements of Gender and Sexuality; Women, Culture, and Development; Culture and Resistance in the Americas; History and Globalization; Interdisciplinary Inquiry; and Place and Displacement in the Americas.
I taught "Feminist Revolutions in Latin America" for the Sociology/Anthropology and Women Studies departments.
I taught at Emory University in Atlanta, GA straight from graduate school until 2005. I formally resigned in 2006. While at Emory I had a joint appointment in Women's Studies and Sociology. I taught three undergraduate classes: Introduction to Women's Studies: Latin America perspective; World Inequality and Underdevelopment; Women, Culture, and Development, and three graduate seminars: Women and Development, Qualitative Field Methods, and Methods and Topics in Women's Studies. I resigned as an advanced Assistant Professor because my family and I desperately wanted to move back to the west coast. It was a long and painful decisions but I am forever grateful I made it.