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Teaching Staff
Professor Estelle
Freedman
Office hours: Monday 3:15-4:15; Thursdays 2:00-3:30
pm
(EXCEPT 9/27, 10/11, 10/18, and 11/1)
History room 7, (650)
723-4951
Professor Freedman
is a United States historian specializing in the history
of women, gender, and sexuality. Her most recent project
is the forthcoming book, No Turning Back: The History
of Feminism and the Future of Women. Earlier works
include the recent Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters
and the Female Reform Tradition which studies the charismatic
figure of prison/social reformer Miriam Van Waters, and
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America,
co-authored with John D'Emilio. Professor Freedman has taught
at Stanford since 1976. She has received the Dinkelspiel
Award and the Rhodes Prize for Teaching and Service to Undergraduate
Education, among others.
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Cari
Sietstra
Office
hours: tba
Cari
is a third year law student at Stanford who likes law school
much more now that it's almost over. As an undergrad, she
majored in Women's Studies and focused in public policy,
history of science, and religion. Last year she thoroughly
enjoyed being a TA for FS101 and followed up the experience
by facilitating a small group directed reading seminar that
explored issues in race, gender, and sexuality. Before coming
to Stanford for grad school she worked on Capitol Hill for
awhile, did some consulting for non-profit organizations,
and was a substitute middle-school teacher back in her hometown
in South Dakota (oh yeah). Currently, her primary academic
and legal interests are reproductive rights and work/family
issues.
Manishita
Dass
Office hours: 9:30-11:30 am Wednesdays at FS office
(upstairs, rm 25)
I am a graduate
student in Modern Thought and Literature (MTL), an inter-disciplinary
program that studies critical isssues in the formation of
modern and contemporary cultures. My research/teaching interests
lie in the areas of film history/theory, postcolonial studies,
gender studies, and South Asian cultural history. I am particularly
interested in looking at cinematic mediations of modernity,
nationhood, and gender in South Asia and in a comparative,
transnational perspective; in my dissertation, I examine
some of these processes through a historically situated
analysis of images of the city as a space of modernity in
Indian cinema.
I sometimes
think of myself as a "wandering scholar" as my
scholarly interests have taken me wandering both across
disciplines -- literature, film studies, cultural anthropology,
and cultural history -- and across continents -- from Calcutta,
the city in India where I grew up, to graduate school in
L.A., Stanford, and Chicago to archives in India. Having
just returned to Stanford after a year of doing archival
research in India, I am looking forward to a somewhat more
sedentary year devoted to teaching, finishing my dissertation,
and learning to ride a motorbike.
Catherine
Bae
Office hours: tba at History 206
I am a third
year PhD student in the history department; my focus is
on the cultural history of Japan since World War II. My
dissertation will be on images of girlhood and adolescent
femininity in the realm of popular culture--girl's comic
books, television, advertisements, etc. I am interested
in exploring the limits of, and possibilities within, media-produced
images as they convey visual information about proper womenhood,
adulthood, etc. What is the relationship between these images,
which describe and prescribe what it means to be female,
and the experiences of girls themselves during the fifties?
I love exploring these
issues as a historian because history allows me to understand
how some key social truths, such as 'femininity', 'the family'
'the maternal instinct' and so forth have been created,
and change, over time. It also instills the desire in me
to explore how people, living in different places and eras,
are impacted by gender and other hierarchical systems in
profound ways.
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