Health and Life Sciences

April 2007 Mission
Amit Dhingra
David Kramer
Bernd Markus Lange
Dorrie Main
Pat Okubara
Sanja Roje

November 2006 Mission
Wendy Brown
Mark Dybdahl
William Snyder
Andrew Storfer

March 2005 Mission
Michael Alfaro
Dean Glawe
Howard Hosick
Sylvia Oliver
Buel D. Rodgers
Bernard J. Van Wie

December 2004 Mission
Sayed Daoud
Linda Eddy
Amy G. Mazur
Mike Morgan
David Pietz
Francis Pierce

Dr. Amy Mazur is professor of political science at Washington State University. She received a joint Ph.D. in political science and French studies from New York University. Her expertise in comparative gender policy research and in coordinating large-scale interdisciplinary research projects on gender, as well as her record in securing grants positions her to coordinate GRACe’s research program. Dr. Mazur’s articles have appeared in numerous journals and her books include Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France; Theorizing Feminist Policy; Comparative State Feminism (co-editor); Making Democracies Work for Women: State Feminism, Women’s Movements, and Job Training Policy (editor). She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the French Ministry of Social Affairs. She was the 2003 Havens Center Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the 2001-02 Marie-Jahoda Chair in International Women’s Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. She also co-directs the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State.

Political Science
Amy G. Mazur
GRACe Researchers Offer a Multi-Faceted Approach to the Study of Gender Inequity

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Each research cluster in the multi-disciplinary research group GRACe is comprised, on average, of 15 members and is coordinated by a GRACe faculty member. Dr. Amy Mazur (project coordinator) coordinates the research planning and funding application strategies of all four clusters and will represent GRACe in Washington D.C. The following is a brief description of each cluster’s research program. For more on GRACe visit the GRACe Web site.

Health Sciences Policy Coordinated by Tracy Skaer—health policy administration. Members are from sociology, English, and nursing. Researchers in this cluster will be investigating stress-related illnesses of women in the work place with the intent of determining how stress reduction can be achieved for them through the development of new health programs.

Pedagogy, Education, and Work Coordinated by Kim Vincent—mathematics. Members are from mathematics, education, the writing program, sociology and anthropology. This group seeks to explore the impact of feminist pedagogy on gender and education in terms of content and promoting gender/sex equality in society at large and at the role of feminist academics in this
process.

Representation and Culture Coordinated by Linda Arthur—apparel, merchandising, design and textiles. Members are from history, music, anthropology, psychology, economics, women’s studies, German studies, and sociology. Research projects are being developed to understand how the movement of people and ideas across national boundaries has had an impact on the textual and visual conceptualizations of gender, womanhood, and femininity across a variety of societies throughout the world.

Violence, Militarism, and Hyper Masculinities Coordinated by Jeannette Mageo—anthropology. Members are from women’s studies, history, criminal justice, sociology, and English. This cluster aims to produce a radio program on masculinity, violence, and war and a film on how masculinities relate to war. Members are also interested in conducting research on the relationship of women’s mental health and sex/gender differences and the mental health consequences of trauma for women.

Contact Information
Amy Mazur, Ph.D.
Professor
Political Science

Washington State University
PO Box 644880
Pullman, WA 99164-4880

Telephone: 509-335-4615
E-Mail: mazur@mail.wsu.edu