CAS Resident Associates Archive

Jane Desmond is Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty Gender/Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She also directs the International Forum for U.S. Studies,  a center for transnational studies of the U.S. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in American Studies, and has served on the faculties of Cornell University, Duke University, and the University of Iowa. In 2000 she held the Otto Salgo Chair in American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. She is the current President of the International American Studies Association (2009-2011).

Her academic work focuses broadly on issues of embodiment and social identity, in the arenas of performance, visual culture and tourism. Her books include: Staging Tourism:  Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (U of Chicago Press, 1999) and her current animal studies book project: Displaying Death/Animating Life: Human/Animal relations in Art, Science, and Engineering.

Her work has been published in leading humanities and social science journals in many countries, including the American Quarterly, Signs, Cultural Studies, American Studies International, and the Hungarian Journal of American Studies, and is forthcoming in journals in Korea, Brazil, and China.

2009-10
Interpreting Technoscience: Explorations in Identity, Culture and Democracy

Rayvon Fouché, History

Professor  Fouché's work explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technological design. His first book Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press) produced a broader understanding of black inventive experiences. He has co-edited Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power (University of Minnesota Press) and edited the four volume Technology Studies (Sage Publications). His current book project examines how sport governing bodies use technoscientific power and authority to authenticate athletic performances.

2008-2009
Immigration: History and Policy
James Barrett, History

Professor Barrett specializes in U.S. and comparative working-class history and class, race, and ethnicity in twentieth-century U.S. social history. His most recent book is a new edition of Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of Labor (1907: reprint, Urbana, 2004). His current research interests focus on racial and ethnic identity and relations in working class communities and the relationship between personal and historical experience. He is writing a book about the interactions among Irish Americans, “New Immigrants,” and various peoples of color during the early twentieth century.

Gale Summerfield, Women and Gender in Global Perspective Program (WGGP)

Gale Summerfield is Director of WGGP) and Associate Professor of Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since receiving her doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, she has written extensively on gender, development, and globalization addressing issues of human security, such as employment, property rights, and migration.

Science and Technology in the Pacific Century
Glenn Hoetker, Business Administration

STIP--Fall 2007 events
STIP--Spring 2008 events

2006-2007
Mega-Disasters: Science, Policy and Human Behavior
Sue Kieffer, Geology
Robert McKim, Religious Studies
Fall 2006 events
Spring 2007 events

Academic Year 2006 and Academic Year 2005
The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections
Noshir Contractor, Speech Communications
Dan Schiller, Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Academic Year 2005
The Memory Project: An Interdisciplinary Study of Memory and the Construction of Identity and Culture
Lillian Hoddeson, History

Academic Year 2004
Who Gets What? The Interactions of Health Policy and Social Welfare Policy
Brad Schwartz, Medicine
Noreen M. Sugrue, Institute of Nursing

Academic Year 2003
The Ethnography of the University of Illinois
Nancy Abelmann, Anthropology
William Kelleher, Anthropology

Academic Year 2003
An Examination of the Interaction Between Human Subject Protection Regulations and Research Beyond the Biomedical Sphere
C.K. Gunsalus, Law

Academic Year 2002
The New Biology: Issues and Opportunities
Chip Burkhardt, History
Harris Lewin, Animal Sciences

Academic Year 2001
Defining Values of Research and Technology: The University's Changing Role
Jay Kesan, Law
Phillip McConnaughay, Law