St. Bonaventure to Host Oct. 25 Lecture About Chile's First Woman President
Dr. Gwynn Thomas, assistant professor of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo, will give a public lecture at St. Bonaventure University on Chile’s first woman president. Her talk, “Creating a Virtuous Circle: Advancing Gender Equality in Chile under President Michelle Bachelet,” will be held at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, in Walsh Auditorium.
Bachelet stepped down from the presidency in March and was just appointed to head the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
Thomas received her doctorate in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 and is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo.
Her first book, “It’s a Family Affair: Mobilizing Citizens, Claiming Leadership and Contesting Legitimacy in Chilean Politics,” will be published by Penn State Press in 2011. She is presently writing a book about Bachelet, “When a Woman Leads: The Presidency of Michelle Bachelet and Promoting Gender Equality in Chile.” Work from this ongoing study appears in the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, and in a volume on the global rise of women to national office.
Other work appears in the ISA Compendium Project, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Latin American Perspectives. Thomas received the Elsa Chaney Award given by the Gender and Feminist Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (2007). Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Baldy Center, and the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender.
The talk is sponsored by the Visiting Scholars Committee, Department of Political Science, International Studies Major, and Clare College.
Bachelet stepped down from the presidency in March and was just appointed to head the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
Thomas received her doctorate in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005 and is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo.
Her first book, “It’s a Family Affair: Mobilizing Citizens, Claiming Leadership and Contesting Legitimacy in Chilean Politics,” will be published by Penn State Press in 2011. She is presently writing a book about Bachelet, “When a Woman Leads: The Presidency of Michelle Bachelet and Promoting Gender Equality in Chile.” Work from this ongoing study appears in the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, and in a volume on the global rise of women to national office.
Other work appears in the ISA Compendium Project, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Latin American Perspectives. Thomas received the Elsa Chaney Award given by the Gender and Feminist Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (2007). Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Baldy Center, and the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender.
The talk is sponsored by the Visiting Scholars Committee, Department of Political Science, International Studies Major, and Clare College.
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