Students
Mailing lists for Students
Paper Prize Winners
Recent Dissertations and Job Placements
Resources for Students
Mailing Lists for Students Interested in the GenCen Programs:
GenCen Mailing List: If you would like to be on the GenCen mailing list for opportunities and events, you may subscribe by sending an email to gencen@msu.edu
GJEC Mailing List: If you would like to receive emails about opportunities and events related to Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change, you may sign up for this mailing list by sending an email to gencen@msu.edu.
Paper Prize Winners:
Rita S. Gallin Award for Graduate Student Research
2006
Holly Dygert, Anthropology
"Especially Encultured: Indigenous Women's Struggles in Mexican Development"
2005
Suzanne Schneider, Anthropology
"On the Periphery of Midwifery: A Critical Analysis of a Community-Based Cancer Screening Program in Mexico"
2004
Carmen Bain, Sociology
"Auditing Labor Standards in the Global Agrifood Chain: The Social and Ethical Implications for Chile's Farm Workers"
2003
Undergraduate Paper Competition: (information forthcoming)
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Recent Graduate Student Dissertations and Job Placements*
Suzanne Schneider, Anthropology PhD, 2006
Dissertation Title: "Community Health Organizing and the Political Economy of Health Care in Morelos, Mexico"
Job Placement: Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow in Cultural Anthropology, Moravian College.
Theobald Mosha, Human Nutrition 2004
Dissertation Title: "Nutritional Quality of Low-cost Supplementary Foods for Supporting Growth and Rehabilitation of Undernourished Populations in Tanzania"
Job Placement: Senior Lecturer, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
Diane Ruonavaara, Natural Resources 2004
Dissertation Title: "From Adaptive to Critical Learning Organization: Participatory Research and the Evolution of a Grassroots Organization in Southern Mexico
Job Placement: Extension Specialist, Michigan State University
Edna Wangui, Geography 2004
Dissertation Title: "Links between Gendered Division of Labor and Land Use in Oliotokitok Division, S.E. Kajiado District, Kenya"
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Geography, Ohio University
Angela Jancius, Anthropology PhD, 2004
Dissertation Title: "Second Markets, Third Sectors, and Rubber Boot Brigades? Defining Work and Unemployment in Reunified Eastern Germany"
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, Youngstown State University.
Beth P. Duford, Sociology PhD, 2003
Dissertation Title: "The Shifting Sands of Authority and Ambiguity in Natural Resource Management in Eastern Mauritania"
Job Placement: USAID Office of Assets and Livelihood Transition, Ethiopia
Nancy Mezey, Sociology 2002
Dissertation Title: "Dropping the Motherload: Lesbians' Decisions to Become Mothers or Remain Childfree"
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology Program Coordinator, Department of Political Science, Monmouth University
Ellen Foley, Anthropology PhD, 2002
Dissertation Title: "In Sickness and in Health: Responding to Disease and Promoting Health in Senegal"
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Dept. of International Development and Social Change, Clark University.
David Simmons, Anthropology PhD, 2002
Dissertation Title: "Managing Misfortune: HIV/AIDS, Health Development, and Traditional Healers in Zimbabwe"
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Mariaelena Jefferds, Anthropology PhD, 2001
Dissertation Title: "The Intersection of Household Food Security and Economic Development among Miskitu Indians in Honduras"
Job Placement: Behavioral Scientist and Anthropologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Brent McCusker, Geography PhD, 2001
Dissertation Title: "Livelihoods and Land Use Change in Rural South Africa: The Unfinished Transformation"
Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Geology and Geography, West Virginia University
*Since the GenCen formed in 2007, these students were not affiliated with it but rather utilized the resources now housed within the Center.
