Three presented winning work at gender conference

Three students presented their winning research papers at the Women’s Studies Annual Research Conference on Gender Tuesday, April 1. The guest-speaker of the two-hour event was Asian Studies Scholar Piya Pangsapa of SUNY at Buffalo.

Undergraduate winners were Rebecca Grady, who presented, “Musical Masquerades: Gender and Identity in Popular music,” and Carrie Halstead, for her “'I only escaped Alone to Tell the News': An Examination of Mary White Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative.” The graduate student winner was Sarah T. Schwab (“Beautiful dead Woman: Woman as Other, Woman is dead.”).

Professor Pangsapa’s lecture was entitled “Women and civic engagement in Southeast Asia: Integrating Social and Environmental Justice." She is an assistant professor in the Global Gender Studies program at SUNY at Buffalo (formerly, Women’s Studies) and is an affiliated faculty member of the Asian Studies Program at UB. Her areas of specialization include gender, work and civic engagement in Southeast Asia.  Professor Pangsapa is the author of Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand (2007) published by Cornell University Press (Ithaca and London).

The conference is an annual feature of the Women’s Studies program.