Scholar to Place Sarah Palin into Historical Perspective

"Thinking about Sarah Palin through the Lens of Western Women's History" will be the topic of the first Katherine Jensen Memorial Lecture Thursday, March 31, from 4-5 p.m. in Room 302 of the University of Wyoming Classroom Building. Melanie Gustafson, associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Vermont and one of Jensen's former students, will present the lecture. She received a B.S. degree in sociology at UW in 1980.

Gustafson's scholarly work has focused on women and political parties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is the author of "Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924" and co-edited an anthology, "We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960," published by the University of New Mexico Press. She is now a series editor of UNM Press's new American Women's Biography series.

Jensen, who died in October, was a distinguished professor emerita in gender and women's studies, as well as one of the co-founders and former directors.

Before earning her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jensen taught high school and lived and worked on the Navajo (Dine) reservation in Arizona. She joined the UW Department of Sociology and, in 1978, with the support of Dean Joan Wadlow, she and her colleague and friend, Janice Harris, co-founded the UW Women's Studies Program, making it one of the nation's oldest such programs.

While Jensen was a strong role model for many as a scholar and teacher, she also made numerous administrative contributions to the university. She was associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1988-1991 and also worked with the International Studies Program, serving on the International Studies Committee, including a term as director.

All I needed to see was a degree in “sociology.”

Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Womyns/Gender studies (degrees in homosexuality)

These amount to the soft sciences, the psuedo sciences that are full of pseudo intellectuals. They are near all, 99% secular (Statistic pulled from my rectal database), bourgeois liberals (who else can and would pay for a worthless degree), often confused about their sex and sexuality, ethical relativists that obfuscate otherwise simple issues a four year old can figure out with their 20 year education. They go through life contributing little to mankind or in their case “people-kind” or whatever new word they came up with.

All a waste of time and breeding place for morons that have a hard time with math or can't deal with abstract thought as applied in the hard sciences, engineering or computers.

All these people are good for is writing more books and giving speeches.

“You can bet this pin head university seminar will be a Palin bashing session.”

You betcha’!!

From their site:

The Center for Research on Gender and Women organizes campus events, including lectures, workshops and conferences featuring campus, national, and international speakers. It runs a colloquium series and hosts a speaker series on Women’s International Policy & Gender Activism. In 2011-12 the center will sponsor a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Globalization and the New Politics of Women’s Rights,” coordinated by Professors Aili Tripp (Fall 2011) and Myra Marx Ferree (Spring 2012).

The Center has sponsored research circles and projects on transnational feminism and women’s movements, gender and citizenship, gender equality training, women and human rights, internationalizing the curriculum, and many other topics. It was involved with Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton’s initiative “Wisconsin Women= Prosperity” to address the status of women in Wisconsin. In particular, by Janet Shibley Hyde and Joy K. Rice led her Task Force on Women and Depression in Wisconsin and we sponsored a year long speaker series on the initiative.

The Center facilitates networking of gender and women’s studies scholars acrosscampus through our database of women’s studies scholars at University of Wisconsin-Madison and a weekly email bulletin, which announces events, news, grant and award competitions, jobs, and much more. We have also engaged in sustained exchanges with women’s studies scholars in Uganda, Peru, Argentina, Thailand, Germany, United Kingdom and many other parts of the world. We have fostered collaborative research projects and a wide variety of research connections between our faculty and scholars abroad.

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