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Art
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Institute News.........................................................
Scholars' News........................................................
Scholars' New Books...............................................
GDF News..............................................................
Scholars' Seminars, Fall 2002...................................
Jing Lyman Lecture................................................
Book Review...........................................................
Co-sponsored events.................................................
Difficult Dialogue News.............................................
Awards ..................................................................
Calendar of Events...................................................
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INSTITUTE
STAFF
Barbara C. Gelpi, Ph.D.
The Barbara D. Finberg Director
Sally Schroeder
Acting Associate Director Operations Administrator
Ali Abdollahi
Program Coordinator
Editor and Designer, Newsletter
Amita Kumar
Administrative Associate
Jennifer Pagano
Foundation Relations Administrator
Pamela
Zalameda
Difficult Dialogues Program Coordinator
Michael O'Neill
Webmaster
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Barbara
C. Gelpi is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Stanford
University, and joined the Institute for Research on Women and
Gender in January of 2002 as The Barbara D. Finberg Acting Director.
Her husband, Albert Gelpi, is also an English Professor at Stanford.
Gelpi earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University
of Miami, and received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College.
Professor Gelpi worked closely with the Institute when it was
still the Center for Research on Women, serving as the editor
of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 1980-85.
Gelpi was interviewed in January 2002. |
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What
made you decide to take the position of acting director of the
Institute?
I knew from George Dekker, a friend and also the Associate Dean
responsible for the Institute's welfare, that Laura Carstensen
had already given up a quarter of sabbatical to stay on as director
and that the search for a new director was still at a temporary
halt. I have real love and concern for the Institute, and so
when George said, "You know the situation; will you help
us?"' I said, "Yes."
What was your impression of the Institute before coming here,
and what about now?
Since I'd been involved in different ways with the Institute
over the years, I thought myself well acquainted with its programs.
But there have been surprises. For example, I had no idea how
big a program there is for graduate students, nor of the size
of the Difficult Dialogues Program. So, even in the few days
I've been here, I've learned a lot about how complex an operation
this is.
What do you hope to accomplish in the time you spend here?
I see my first responsibility as making sure that the search
for a director gets under way in a very timely fashion. That
is my strongest concern. Then I'm also interested in working
on those ways in which we can articulate a vision for the Institute
so compelling that it arouses wide interest and thus expands
the number of those who might be interested in serving as director.
I want to make the challenge and the interest of this job something
that comes to the notice of gender scholars.
What personal influence do you hope to have, and what kind
of stamp would you like to leave on the Institute?
Stamp seems like a big word. I will fulfill my task best if
we quickly come to find a really wonderful director. But I think
I do have an important part in these next few months in helping
to articulate a vision for the Institute that is based on its
history, but that envisions a |
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