Research Symposium
Panelist and Faciliator Biographies

Shelley Anderson
Worked for over two decades in the peace movement at the community, national, and international levels. She has led conflict resolution trainings in many countries and written extensively on women's peace building initiatives. For the last five years she has coordinated the Women Peacemakers Program, which she developed for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). IFOR, founded in 1919, is an international movement for nonviolent social change with branches in over 40 countries.

Rita Arditti
Member of the Core Faculty at Union Institute. Born in Argentina, she earned a doctorate from the University of Rome and has held positions as a research scientist and associate in Rome, Geneva, Naples, and at the Harvard Medical School. Her most recent book, published by the University of California Press this past Spring, is Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina. She has written extensively on women's issues and cancer, new reproductive technologies, and questions of Jewish identity. She is an activist on women's medical issues; a founder of New Words, a women's bookstore in Cambridge; and a board member of the Sojourner Feminist Institute.

Amrita Basu
Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. Her main areas of interests are social movements, women's activism, and religious nationalism in South Asia. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest: Contending Modes of Women's Activism in India, the editor of The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective, and co-editor of Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia and Community Conflicts and the State in India.

Sara Cobb
Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Her research addresses the social construction and transformation of conflict narratives; she has examined the way stories function to create conflict, and how they can be transformed in conversations. Her current projects include research on human rights and co-existence in the context of international ethnic conflicts. She has published widely in books and journals and has consulted to national and international organizations, providing expertise on negotiation and systemic problem solving in the context of multi-party conflicts. Dr. Cobb earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Cynthia Cockburn
A researcher and writer based at the School of Social and Human Sciences at The City University in London, where she is an Honorary Research Professor in Sociology. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Linköping, Sweden, in 1991. Her interests have developed from local democracy and community action to gender (particularly masculinity) in contexts of changing technologies and labor processes, and to women and equality in trade unions and other organizations. Since 1995 her principal research focus has been gender and national identities in war and peace making, with particular reference to Northern Ireland, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her research interest is now closely linked to her chosen activism, which is in women's international movements opposed to war and militarism. Some of her published titles are The Local State: Management of Cities and People (1977), Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change (1983), Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how (1985), In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations (1991), and The Space Between Us: Gender and National Identities in Conflict (1998).

Malathi de Alwis
Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for Ethnic Studies (ICES) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and presently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research, NY. She received her Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago and is co-editor, with Kumari Jayawardena, of Embodied Violence: Communalizing Women's Sexuality in South Asia (Delhi: Kali for Women/London: Zed Press, 1996). Many of her articles focusing on feminist and peace movements in South Asia, gender, nationalism, militarism, and humanitarianism have been published internationally. Dr. de Alwis is a founder-member of the National Women's NGO Forum and the Womens' Coalition for Peace (Sri Lanka), and she is a regular contributor to "Cat's Eye" - a feminist column on contemporary issues - in the Island Newspaper.

Isha Lanla Dyfan
A lawyer and activist from Sierra Leone who has dedicated her life to the pursuit of peace and gender equality. She was born in Sierra Leone and educated there and the UK; she practiced law for 15 years in Sierra Leone before seeking asylum in the US. Ms. Dyfan was a leader in Sierra Leone's women's movement and participated in political and peace processes from 1991 to 1996; she presently supports peace efforts in Sierra Leone through the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's UN Office. She continues to work closely with civil society organizations in Sierra Leone and throughout the diaspora, and is the current public relations contact for the Federation of African Women's Peace Movements. Ms. Dyfan has acted as a consultant to UNDP and DESA and recently completed research on women's peace building efforts in Africa.

Cynthia Enloe
Professor of Government and Women's Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, and, just published, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. This year she is a Radcliffe Fellow at the Bunting Institute, Harvard.

Wenona Giles
An anthropologist and Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson College, York University; Associate Director, Centre for Feminist Research, York University; and Coordinator of the Women in Conflict Zone Network. Her research focuses on the areas of gender, ethnicity, nationalism, migration and refugee issues, militarization, and the gender relations of globalization.

Pumla Godobo-Madizikela
Visiting Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. She received her BA in Social Work and an Honors BA in Psychology from the University of Fort Hare, an MA in Clinical Psychology from Rhodes University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Cape Town. Dr. Godobo-Madizikela spent three years as a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, coordinating all TRC public hearings throughout the Western Cape. She will spend her year at the Carr Center completing And the Brokenhearted Shall be Healers, a book which utilizes psychology and political theory to examine the dynamic of forgiveness between perpetrators and victims.

Joshua Goldstein
Author of International Relations (Addison-Wesley Longman, 4th ed. 2001 [July 2000]), a best-selling college textbook. His first book, Long Cycles: Prosperity and War in the Modern Age (Yale University Press, 1988), traces the connections of economics and great power wars over five centuries. Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics (Chicago University Press, 1990; co-authored with John R. Freeman) analyzes Cold-War relations among the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. His new book, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. Goldstein has contributed articles on international relations to the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Development, Futures, and elsewhere. Goldstein's recent research on great-power management of regional conflicts includes articles on the Middle East, Kosovo, Bosnia, and Korea. He teaches courses at American University on world politics, international political economy, theory, and research methodology.

Donna Hicks
Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. PICAR is devoted to advancing the understanding of international and interethnic conflicts, and to developing interactive problem-solving processes that can be effective in managing or resolving such conflicts. Dr. Hicks has been involved in numerous unofficial diplomatic conflict resolution efforts including projects in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Colombia, and Cuba. Her research interests focus generally on issues of reconciliation and specifically on examining ways in which the conflict resolution, international development, and human rights communities can work together to develop an integrated approach to sustainable conflict transformation. In addition to teaching conflict resolution at Harvard and Clark Universities, Dr. Hicks conducts training seminars in the PICAR methodology in the US and abroad.

Deborah Kolb
Co-Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations and Professor of Management at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and a Senior Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where she co-directs the Negotiations in the Workplace Program. Her research examines how women (and men) can become more effective problem solvers by mastering the dual requirements of empowerment and connection in negotiation. She has published several books and numerous articles, including The Mediators (MIT Press, 1983), an in-depth study of labor mediation; and Making Talk Work: Profiles of Mediators (Jossey-Bass, 1994), a study of the practice of successful mediators; and The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success (with Judith Williams, Simon and Schuster 2000). Dr. Kolb is also involved in a number of projects that link strategic business concerns with gender, diversity, and work and personal life issues. She was the co-principal investigator of a major action research project carried out on work/life integration in three corporations. She is a Co-Faculty Editor of the Negotiation Journal, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Conflict Resolution. She received her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where her dissertation won the Zannetos Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship; a BA from Vassar College; and an MBA from the University of Colorado.

Radha Kumar
Senior Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the Council's Program on Ethnic Conflict, Partition, and Post-Conflict Resolution. Her books include Divide and Fall?: Bosnia in the Annals of Partition (1997), Bosnia-Herzegovina Between War and Peace (1993), and A History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India (1993). She has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, the World Institute of Development Economics Research in Helsinki, and the Women's Program at Sussex University, and she has been Executive Director of the International Secretariat of the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly in Prague and Special Rapporteur for Sarajevo for that organization. Ms. Kumer is a prolific writer of articles and op-ed pieces, is frequently interviewed on CNN, BBC and elsewhere, and has spoken to a wide variety of groups, including a recent keynote speech for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Rita Manchanda
Journalist, writer, researcher, and activist on human rights, democracy, and security affairs, with a specialty in South Asia and human security. Ms. Manchanda is currently a Programme Executive for the Peace Studies and Refugee Rights Advocacy Programme of the South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) in Kathmandu. She is also the coordinator of the project Strengthening Women's Agency for Peace: Living in Situations of Armed Conflict in South Asia, and is the joint coordinator with the Minority Rights Group (London) of the Workshop and Media Project on Impact of Armed Conflict on Minority and Indigenous Children held in Kathmandu in summer 2000. Ms. Manchanda is both a print and TV journalist and has been published in Express Group, The Telegraph, Indian Post, Sunday Observer, Far Eastern Economic Review, and is a contributor to The Observer London, South Magazine. Ms. Manchanda received a Masters in Philosophy and International Relations, with an unfinished Ph.D. thesis, "Iran and South Asia," at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva. She was a Research Officer for the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, New Delhi, and a Lecturer in English at Delhi University. She is also a National Committee member of the Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy and a member of the movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament.

Jane Mansbridge
Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Faculty Chair of the School's Women and Public Policy Program. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy and Why We Lost the ERA (co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award in 1987 and the Schuck Award in 1988), editor of Beyond Self-Interest, and co-editor, with Susan Moller Okin, of Feminism. Her current research includes work on feminism, representation, trust, coercion, and deliberation in democracy, the public understanding of collective action problems, and the effect of nonactivists on social movements.

Dyan Mazurana
Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Montana.h.D., Women's Studies, Clark University. Her research, publications, and teaching focus on women, peace, women's human rights, and armed conflict. Recent publications include Women and Peacebuilding (1999) and Raising Women's Voices for Peace 2001, both with co-author Susan McKay. Dr. Mazurnan was the 1999 Peace Research Fellow of the International Federation of University Women, Geneva, and has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences, and has taught courses in the US, Finland, the Netherlands, and Hungary. She is an External Faculty to the Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Centre where she designs and teaches courses on gender and armed conflict to UN peacekeepers and UN civilian police. She has also worked in this capacity with the Canadian and British governments and various UN agencies. Currently, she is writing a report on gender and peacekeeping and working with Susan McKay on research into the experiences of girls in armed forces, paramilitaries and armed opposition groups. She received her Ph.d in Women's Studies from Clark University.

Susan McKay
Professor of Nursing, Women's and International Studies at the University of Wyoming and a psychologist in private practice. Her current work focuses upon gender, armed conflict, and peace building, and she has published extensively in these areas. Recent publications include "The Effects of Armed Conflict on Girls and Women" in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (1998), "From War to Peace: Women and Societal Reconstruction" in The Women and War Reader (1998), Women and Peacebuilding (1999, with Dyan Mazurana) and "Gender Justice and Reconciliation" in Women's Studies International Forum (2000). Dr. McKay is past president of the Division of Peace Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has been recipient of multiple awards including a W.K. Kellogg Fellowship, DePauw University's Alumni Citation, Woman of Achievement designation by the Wyoming Commission for Women, the University of Wyoming College of Arts and Science award for Extraordinary Merit in Research in 1999, and the University of Wyoming's Year 2000 Presidential Faculty Achievement Award.

Valentine Moghadam
Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. Dr. Moghadam is president-elect of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and is also a member of the Core Group of the project on Peace and Change in the Euro-Mediterranean: Women Taking Action, coordinated by the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna, Austria. Born in Tehran, Iran, she obtained her Ph.D. in sociology from the American University in Washington, DC and taught the sociology of development and women at New York University. From 1990 through 1995 she was Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development at the World Institute for Development Economic Research Institute of the United Nations University and was based in Helsinki, Finland. She was a member of the UNU delegation to two UN conferences, the World Summit on Social Development (Copenhagen, March 1995) and the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, September 1995). Dr. Moghadam has written two books, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993), and Women, Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998). In addition, she has edited six books, including Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective (1994), Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies (1993), and Patriarchy and Development: Women's Positions at the End of the Twentieth Century (1996). Her current areas of research are on globalization, transnational feminist networks, and civil society and citizenship in the Middle East.

Katharine Moon
Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, teaching and researching in International Relations and East Asian Politics. Dr. Moon's Her areas of focus include gender and women in international politics, militarization, and social movements in East Asia. She is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in US-Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997) and is currently working on a book that examines the role of culture and gender in diplomacy and negotiation. Her most recent articles include "South Korean Movements Against Militarized Sexual Labor" (Asian Survey) and "Strangers in the Midst: Foreign Workers and Korean Nationalism" (Korea's Globalization. S. Kim, ed.). She serves on the editorial board of several international relations journals and as consultant to several NGOs in the US and Korea. Born in San Francisco, Moon received her BA from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Obioma Nnaemeka
Director of Women's Studies Program and an Associate Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African American Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is also a former Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence (University of Minnesota) and Edith Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor (Northwestern University, Evanston). Dr. Nnaemeka is Founder and current President of the Association of African Women Scholars and the List Administrator of an Internet discussion group on gender issues in Africa and the African Diaspora. She is on the Board of Trustees of several Africa-based non-governmental organizations. She has published extensively in the following areas: women/gender in development, literature by Black women from Africa and the African Diaspora, feminist theory, war and conflict resolution, gender and human rights, global feminisms, and African oral and written literatures. In addition to her two edited volumes, The Politics of (M)Othering (Routledge, 1997) and Sisterhood, Feminisms, and Power: From Africa to the Diaspora (Africa World Press, 1998), Dr. Nnaemeka has five books forthcoming: Marginality: Orality, Writing and the African Woman Writer (Routledge), African Women and Imperialism, Engendering Human Rights, Agrippa D'Aubigne and the Poetics of Power & Change, and Gender and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora.

Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School. Ms. Nussbaum has honorary degrees from twelve colleges or universities, including institutions in Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Belgium. Her nine books on ethics and practical philosophy have been translated into several languages and won numerous awards. They include For Love of Country: A Debate on Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism (1996), Sex and Social Justice (1999), and Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (2000). Some of the ten books she has edited include Women, Culture and Development (1995), Sex, Preference and the Family: Essays on Law and Nature (1997), Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse (1998), Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning (1998), and Is Multiculturalism Good for Women? (1999).

Susan Perry
Political economist and specialist on development with degrees from Brown and Yale Universities and the Sorbonne. Dr. Perry teaches International Affairs at the American University of Paris and is the co-founder and organizer of the "Women, Culture and Development Practices" an international conference series held at the French Senate and funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNESCO and the OECD. She has taught in China as a Yale-China fellow and written numerous articles on Chinese politics, economics and gender. She appears regularly on French television and Web T.V. to discuss China's economy and entry into the WTO. Her most recent article on women's political activism in China will be published in her co-edited volume, Eye to Eye: Women Practicing Development Across Cultures (Zed Books, forthcoming 2001). As a consultant on women's issues for the US State Department's Africa Regional Services Program, She has traveled widely in Africa. Dr. Perry was the State Department's Africa Regional Services representative at the Women As Partners for Peace conference held in Kigali, Rwanda in June 2000. Her work on the political economy of peace and reconstruction will result in two forthcoming publications.

Samantha Power
Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the US News and World Report and the Economist from 1993-1996. In 1996 she joined the International Crisis Group (ICG) as a political analyst, helping launch the organization in Bosnia. Ms. Power is currently writing a book, The Quiet Americans (Random House, forthcoming), which examines US responses to genocide since the Holocaust. She is a frequent contributor to the New Republic and the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (St. Martin's, 2000). Ms. Power is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, and moved to the United States from Ireland in 1979.

Sara Ruddick
Author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Sara Ruddick has co-edited three anthologies, most recently Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas. Currently she is co-editing the series Feminist Constructions for Rowman and Littlefield. She has written essays on ethics, feminist theory, and social philosophy and has contributed to several collections on women and peace. Ms. Ruddick taught for many years at Eugene Lang College and the Graduate Faculty of New School University and is now a Faculty Emerita. She is writing a book on aging tentatively entitled Initiates of Time: Essays on Virtue and Age.

Sabine Sabimbona
Member of the Parliament of Burundi and has been active as a negotiator in the Burundi peace talks. Dr. Sabimbona is a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Burundi Lawyer Women Association. She is also a founding member and Legal Representative of the Association of Native-born, Friends of Mugano. She is a member of the Executive Committee of CAFOB, which is an umbrella of 40 Associations of Burundi Women, and an activist for women's rights.

Martha Eugenia Segura
Executive Director of the Colombian Confederation of NGOs. The Confederation of NGOs was created in 1989 as a United Nations project to act as a liaison between the government, private sector, international agencies and NGOs. Ms. Segura has published the NGO magazine "Colombia Responde" and several TV programs about the project's experiences. During the last year, she also served as the director for the Capacity Building Project for three NGO federations in violent regions. Ms. Segura has worked in several different areas of the Colombian government, including the Ministry of Education, the Rural Development Fund, and the Program for State Modernization, where she was responsible for developing labor adjustment programs for displaced workers. In 1994, she worked for the NGOs network in Colombia as the director of labor adjustment project with 56 NGOs in five regions. Ms. Segura graduated in 1978 with a BA in Social Communication and Social Marketing from Xavier University in Bogota, Colombia. In 1990, she received an MBA, Master in Rural Development from Xavier University. She attended formal training in the production of educational materials for teachers in Germany and she participated in a formal training program in Japan on the use of media in education.

Eunice Smith
Since joining UNESCO two and a half years ago, Ms. Smith has worked in the Women and a Culture of Peace Programme, which seeks to mainstream a gender perspective in the UNESCO transdisciplinary project Towards a Culture of Peace. Activities undertaken have been in support of women's peace initiatives, to empower women for democratic participation in political processes, and to contribute to gender-sensitive socialization and training for non-violence and egalitarian partnerships, focussing particularly on boys and young men. She has also been actively involved in the development of UNESCO's print and electronic publications, particularly the web site, "shadow editing" of the WCP flyer and the recent UNESCO publication Male Roles, Masculinities and Violence: a Culture of Peace Perspective, and drafting presentations, articles, and speeches related to women and a culture of peace. Presently she is assisting in the organization of the "Asian Women for a Culture of Peace" conference which will be held in Hanoi, Viet Nam in December 2000, and in planning two sub-regional meetings for Latin America and the Caribbean on overcoming gender-based violence. Her academic background is in management studies (business and tourism) with a Bachelors degree from the University of the West Indies and a Master's degree from New York University.

Judith Stiehm
Professor of Political Science at Florida International University where she served as Provost and Academic Vice President for four years. Dr. Stiehm has taught at the University of Wisconsin, UCLA, and the University of Southern California. She has been a Visiting Professor at the US Army Peacekeeping Institute and at the Strategic Studies Institute at Carlisle Barracks. She earned a BA in East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, an MA at Temple University in American History, and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Columbia University. Her books include Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance, Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Arms and the Enlisted Woman, and It's Our Military Too! Stiehm has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military, the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the California Vocational Education Commission, and as a consultant to the United Nations Commission for the Advancement of Women. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds the US Army Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, and appears in the most recent edition of Who's Who.

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she serves as Director of the Project on Women's Human Rights. The project explores the ways in which the increased economic and political participation of women within their various societies and at the international level may further US international security goals, and helps situate the issue within the discussion of US interests for both scholars and officials, focusing on how fundamental changes for women call into question the usual definitions of US interests. Her work on Africa started with her two-year stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria. Her own publications during that period included Africa and the United States: Vital Interests (NYU Press, 1978), and Crisis in Southern Africa (A Headline Series Book, Foreign Policy Association, 1978). Subsequently, as Senior Fellow for Africa, she initiated and co-directed the Committee on African Development Strategies, which presented a commission report, The Compact for African Development, at the UN Special Session for African Development in 1985. She also published Strategies for African Development, winner of the World Hunger Media Award, 1986 (ed. with Robert J. Berg, University of California Press, 1986) and How Can Africa Survive? (Harper & Row, 1988 and CFR paperback, 1989). Whitaker has published numerous articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces in periodicals including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and USA Today. Her most recent book is Salvaging the Land of Plenty (William Morrow & Co., 1994).

Richard Wrangham
Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Dr. Wrangham major interests are the relationship between ape and human behavioral evolution, and the conservation of chimpanzees and other apes, which he has studied in Uganda since 1987. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Cambridge University and was a Research Fellow at King's College (Cambridge) prior to joining the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and then the Biological Anthropology Wing of Harvard University. Dr. Wrangham has authored over 100 publications, including (with Dale Peterson) Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.

Nira Yuval-Davis
Professor and Post-Graduate Course Director in Gender and Ethnic Studies at the University of Greenwich, London. Dr. Yuval-Davis is past fellow or former visiting professor at the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Peace Research Centre and the Arts Faculty at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics, the Institute of Social Studies at the Hague, Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and UMEA University in Sweden. She has organized many conferences, workshops, and panels on Israel and the Palestinians; Power and the State; Women and National Reproduction; Race, Ethnicity, Gender and the State; Israeli Society; Gender, Race, and Class; Nationalism; and Women, Citizenship and Difference. Her extensive publications include Gender and Nation (1997), Woman-Nation-State (1989), Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Class (1995), and Women, Citizenship and Difference (1999).