UNC-CH Curriculum in Women's Studies

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

	Joanne Hershfield works in the area of Mexican cinema and popular culture and has recently completed a book on the visual representation of the modern woman in post-Revolutionary Mexico
	Michele Tracy Berger studies gender and community activism and in her most recent book, Workable Sisterhood, examines how sixteen stigmatized HIV-positive women became skilled political actors in Detroit.
	Karen Booth has worked on the local politics and global science of women and HIV/AIDS in Africa. She is currently writing a book on the global history of AZT.
	Jane Burns's research projects have focused on representations of women in medieval French literature and culture in a range of guises: from the courtly lady, the garrulous shrew, and the Grail maiden to the Virgin Mary who guides pilgrims (pictured here), black madonnas, and the woman-headed serpent.
	Barbara Harris, author of a book on English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550, is now working on their neglected but significant role as patrons of art in churches.
	Tanya Shields's work focuses on the relationship between literary production and political change throughout the Caribbean. This statue represents "Solitude," a pregnant biracial woman who fought the reimposition of slavery in Guadeloupe. She stands for the often submerged stories of women who fought and continue to fight for Caribbean freedom. Photo: Josely Lacroix Sculptor: Jacky Poulier.
	Silvia Tomášková was trained as an anthropological archaeologist whose fieldwork takes place mainly in Central and Eastern Europe. Interested in the social lives of people who lived during the Paleolithic, some 20-40 thousand years ago, she is currently tracing the emergence of the "shaman" as a standard figure in archaeology.