1991 - Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Politics | |
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Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Women's and Gender Studies | |
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Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts | |
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2012 - 2013 | Member, Core Curriculum Committee (Common Good and Community Engagement), Saint Mary's College of California | |
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2011 - 2011 | Faculty Representative, Slow Food Chapter, Saint Mary's College of California | |
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2005 - 2008 | Faculty Representative, School of Liberal Arts on the College Academic Senate, Saint Mary's College of California | |
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1999 - 2002 | Faculty Representative, School of Liberal Arts on the College Academic Senate, Saint Mary's College of California | |
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1999 - 2002 | Member, Women's Studies Executive Board, Saint Mary's College of California | |
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1993 - 1997 | Member, Advisory Board for the Women's Studies Program, Saint Mary's College of California | |
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1991 - 1991 | Faculty Member, California State University, East Bay | |
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1987 - 1989 | Faculty Member, University of California - Berkeley ‐ Political Science & Italian | |
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1984 - 1988 | Teaching Assistant, University of California - Berkeley ‐ Political Science | |
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1984 - 1984 | Italian Translator/Interpreter, American Translators International | |
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1983 - 1983 | Assistant, Praxis International | |
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1982 - 1983 | Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania | |
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1981 - 1983 | Instructor of Italian, Translator, and Interpreter, Berlitz School of Languages | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2006 - 2009 | Learn-and-Serve Grant |
Princeton University/Bonner Foundation | |
2001 - 2001 | NEH Grant |
National Endowment for the Humanities | |
1996 - 1996 | NEH Grant |
National Endowment for the Humanities | |
1994 - 1994 | Irvine Grant Workshop |
Irvine | |
1993 - 1993 | Irvine Grant Workshop |
Irvine | |
1993 - 1993 | NEH Grant |
National Endowment for the Humanities |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2009 - Present | Member, Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) | 2009 - Present | Member, Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) | 2009 - Present | Member, Slow Food USA | Present | Member, American Association of University Professors | Present | Member, American Association of University Women | Present | Member, American Political Science Association | Present | Member, Bay Area Women in Political Science | Present | Member, Society of Utopian Studies | Present | Member, Western Political Science Association | Present | Member, Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association | 2010 - 2013 | Member, UEPC | 2002 - 2002 | Program Chair, "Ecological and Transformational Politics", 88th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association | 1999 - 2001 | Discussant, Western Political Science Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession | 1996 - 1996 | Coordinator, Bay Area Women in Political Science (BAWPS) | 1995 - 1995 | Member, Editorial Advisory Board for the Collegiate Press for the evaluation of The New World of Politics | 1989 - 1991 | Bay Area Convener, Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT) |
Honors and Awards
- Distinction in academic and professional career - St Mary's College (1992) Honored by the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts for distinction in academic and professional career in the academic year 1991-1992 (Seventh Annual Reception, November 11, 1992)
- Women’s Studies Alumnae Faculty of the Year Award - Saint Mary's College (May 2005)
- Oxford Round Table on women’s rights and gender discrimination in education and the workplace (by invitation/nomination only) - Oxford University, UK (August 2003)
- Dean Thomas Earl Brown Faculty Award - (2003)
Courses
- Food Politics
- Gender Politics
- Politics and Race
- Theories of Justice
- Introduction of Political Thought
- Theories of Nonviolence
- Introduction to Women's Studies
- Italian 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Modern Political Thought
- Collegiate Seminar
1989 | Ph.D. Political Science, University of California - Berkeley | |
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1984 | M.A. Political Science, University of California - Berkeley | |
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1983 | B.A. Political Science & European History, University of Pennsylvania | |
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1980 | B.A. Languages [Italian, English, German], Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori | |
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Links
Contact Information
Office: Garaventa 215
Phone: 4140
Fax: 631-2411
Mail: P.O. Box 4730
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