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Gender and Practice

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Advances in Gender Research

Series Editors: Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos

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Advances in Gender Research Volume 27

Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field

Vasilikie Demos

University of Minnesota Morris, USA

Marcia Texler Segal

Indiana University Southeast, USA

Kristy Kelly

Columbia University and Drexel University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Editorial Board

Miriam Adelman

Universidade Federal do

Paraná, Brazil

Franca Bimbi

Universita Degli Studi di

Padova, Italy

Max Greenberg

Boston University

USA

Marla Kohlman

Kenyon College, USA

Chika Shinohara

Momoyama Gakuin University

(St Andrew’s University), Japan

Tiffany Taylor

Kent State University, USA

Volume Editor Biographies

Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Morris, USA, is Co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series. She is also a Past President of the North Central Sociological Association and Sociologists for Women in Society, a Recipient of the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award, and Chair of the SWS subcommittee on CEDAW.

Marcia Texler Segal, Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, USA, is Co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape. She is a Past President of the North Central Sociological Association and also co-chairs the American Sociological Association Retirement Network.

Kristy Kelly, Ph.D., is a Sociologist specializing in policy and politics, transnational feminisms, and gender mainstreaming in Southeast Asia. She is jointly affiliated with the School of Education at Drexel University and Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is Co-President of the Society of Gender Professionals.

Contributor Biographies

Bankole S. Allibay, Ph.D., is a Social Performance Expert, an international ESG Practitioner–Researcher and Managing Consultant, TDL – www.tdltd.org. He manages environmental and social risks on large infrastructure and development projects, looking specifically at project-induced fragility, conflict, and vulnerabilities. His work spans across Africa and other emerging economies.

Soma Chaudhuri, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, USA. Her research focuses on gender, development, social movements, and violence against women. She is currently researching the impact of empowerment programs in India.

Peggy (Peg) Spitzer Christoff is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University, USA. Her research, in the field of International Relations, evaluates Transnational Advocacy Networks (TANs) relating to women’s roles in climate change adaptation in Asia. Since 2017, she has co-authored four book chapters and two articles on this topic.

Anna S. CohenMiller, Ph.D., is qualitative research methodologist who examines issues of social justice and equity in education. She is Founder of the Motherscholar Project and both Co-Founding Director of the Consortium of Gender Scholars and Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education (Kazakhstan).

Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University’s Poverty and Inequality Research Lab in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Some of her recently published articles appear in Socius, City & Community and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Kris De Welde, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the College of Charleston, USA. Her research focuses on intersectional inequalities in higher education, as well as the kinds of organizational change and bold leadership that is required for a more just postsecondary educational system.

Alexandra M. Fleck is a Graduate Student in criminal justice at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, Sarasota, Florida. Her areas of interest include crimes against women, sexual assault, stalking, and serial killers.

Jessica M. Grosholz is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her research interests include prisoner reentry and recidivism, health and crime, and community-based program evaluation. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Deviant Behavior.

Alice Merab Kagoda, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education at Makerere University, School of Education, Uganda. Her interest is in the development of the education of the girl child especially where access to quality education is a privilege rather than a right. Her recent research concerns gender, teacher education, and teaching geography in secondary schools of Uganda.

Kristy Kelly, Ph.D., is a Sociologist specializing in policy and politics, transnational feminisms, and gender mainstreaming in Southeast Asia. She is jointly affiliated with the School of Education at Drexel University and Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is Co-President of the Society of Gender Professionals.

Barbara Kirsh, Ph.D., is an Applied Sociologist who retired after a 47-year career at Educational Testing Service, a private non-profit research and assessment company based in Princeton, NJ, USA. She participated in child development projects in the research department and, for the substantial part of her career, worked in progressively responsible corporate positions focused on fairness and quality in assessments.

Jenifer L. Lewis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), where she was a member of the first cohort of faculty to start the university. She holds a Ph.D. in communication studies. Her research examines women in leadership. She is Co-Founding Director of the Consortium of Gender Scholars (Kazakhstan).

Merry Morash, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA. Her research has focused on violence against women who reside in the United States after immigrating from Mexico, India, and Vietnam. She also studies the effects of probation and parole supervision on women.

Gary Mundy is the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser at Helen Keller International, Asia-Pacific Region. He has spent the past 15 years supporting the evaluation of a range of public health development programs, mainly in Asia and Africa. He is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Fawn T. Ngo is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her research interests include criminological theory, interpersonal violence, cybercrime, and predictive analytic techniques. Her recent articles appear in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management.

Marjukka Ollilainen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Weber State University, USA. Her research examines academia as a workplace, academic motherhood, and faculty parental leave policies and work/life issues in the United States and internationally.

Ramona Ridolfi is a Regional Gender Advisor at Helen Keller International, Asia-Pacific Region. Based in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), she provides strategic and programmatic support on gender equality and social inclusion to HKI’s programs in South and South East Asia. Her research interests include gender transformative approaches and their impact on women’s empowerment and improved nutrition and health.

Edwin S. Segal, Professor Emeritus for Anthropology, University of Louisville, KY, USA. His interests include southern and eastern Africa, gender, ethnicity, and development with a focus on the intersection of gender and ethnicity, especially in circumstances of socio-cultural changes. Recent publications appear in Advances in Gender Research, Volume 21; Angle Orthodontist, Volume 84; Sex and Society, Marshall Cavendish 2009; and Heritage, Apprentice House Publishing, 2017.

Catherine Richards Solomon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University, USA. She studies how societal inequalities and occupational norms shape work/family management. She wrote The Lives of Stay-at-Home Fathers: Masculinity, Carework, and Fatherhood in the United States and has widely published on faculty’s work/life issues.

Jamie M. Sommer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, USA, with interests in environmental sociology, development, climate change, and mixed-methods research. Her research concerns how governance impacts environmental and development outcomes. Her recent articles appear in Sociological Inquiry, Sociology of Development, Journal of Development Studies, and Environmental Sociology.

Sandra S. Stone is a Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. Her research interests include juvenile delinquency/juvenile justice, gangs, domestic violence, women and crime, program evaluation, and public policy. Her research has appeared in Violence and Victims, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Journal of Gang Research.

Ame Stormer, Ph.D., is Helen Keller’s Senior Technical Advisor for the Asia Pacific Region. Based in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), she provides strategic, programmatic, monitoring and evaluation guidance and support to programs in South and Southeast Asia. Her research interests involve nutrition, maternal and child health, and food security and resilience.