Department Info - New Courses

Ana Croegaert
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies AY 2008-09

Ana Croegaert, FP '97, an anthropologist who studies refugees, migration, and urban social networks, will offer two new courses for the Department of Gender Studies this fall.

Gender and the City (GNDST 212-01) will meet MW, 1:15-2:30. This course examines the dynamic relationship between gender and urban space in the United States and will consider theories of place (Chicago School urban ecology, Hannerz, Lefebvre, de Certeau, Zukin, Sassen) to understand cities as symbols and as products of political and economic processes. Racism, gentrification, labor migration, immigration—and designations such as slum, ghetto, neighborhood, and cosmopolitan—are topics central to this course.

Traveling Women and Tired Bodies: Gender, Migration, and Immigration (GNDST 333-08) will meet on Thursdays, 1:15-4:05. This course examines contemporary global population movements through the lens of gender studies and explores the ways in which neoliberal political and economic frameworks shaped gendered migration experiences since the 1990s. Other areas that will be considered include refugee sites in Africa and Europe; the market for maids in Indonesia and the Philippines; the role of social networks, documentation, and family reunification policies in the United States; differences in status for refugees, displaced persons, immigrants, and asylum seekers; and theories of transnational social organization while being especially attentive to symbols of group identity linked to race, ethnicity, nation, language, and labor.