Department of Women’s Studies
Noël Sturgeon
Advances in Interdisciplinary Gender Research
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Noël Sturgeon supports interdisciplinary research on gender, violence, and indigenous women in global contexts.
The faculty cluster she represents investigates the connections between culturally specific forms of hyper-masculinity violence, conflict, and militarism. Examples include comparing gun violence in U.S. and international arenas; violence in prison and violence toward women; and militarized masculinities in tribal, colonized, and post-industrial nations. This cluster’s ultimate aim is to influence policy frameworks.
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The second cluster—a unique concentration of graduate student researchers with cross-border, scholarly native perspectives—explores the impacts of globalization on the researchers’ own indigenous nations and the disproportionate burdens that tribal women have borne under multiple waves of colonization. This group focuses on problem solving and creative solutions—especially those incorporating traditional tribal knowledges and practices—to challenges such as the criminalization of racialized groups; poverty; environmental injustice; and state-sponsored sexual violence and genocide.
Sturgeon seeks funding for these researchers for travel for qualitative research, and for the development of materials to enable the sharing of solutions between impacted communities and/or policy-makers and educators. The ultimate goal is to facilitate community-situated sustainable strategies for improving our quality of life and advancing equity and justice.
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Noël Sturgeon
Chair
Department of Women’s Studies
Co-Facilitator of Gendering Research Across the Campuses (GRACe)
Washington State University
PO Box 644007
Pullman, WA 99164-4007
Telephone: 509-335-1794
E-mail: sturgeon@wsu.edu
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