Lectures and Keynote Talks and Workshop Presentations
Papers/Talks at Professional Meetings and Invited Lectures

Papers/Talks at Professional Meetings and Invited Lectures

Monday, November 8, 2004. Murray Research Center, Harvard University: Body Image, Identity, and Eating Disorders Among African American Females

Paper, “Recent Developments and Applications in Social Research Methodology.” August 14th, 2004. RC33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 16-20, 2004

Session Chair, Feminism, Methodology and Methods Rc 33 Conference.

Keynote Talk: “The Cult of Thinness: The Impact of the Mass Media on Women's Body Image: A Slide Show Talk and Presentation.", Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, February 2, 2004

Keynote speaker: “ The Cult of Thinness” Body Image Awareness Week sponsored by the Health & Wellness Committee at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. on March l6th, l998.

Presentations On Body Image and Eating Attitudes Among Adolescent Girls and Women.

" Mass Marketing of the Cult of Thinness: Implications for Women's Health and Well-Being,"on March 31, l998 at Miller Children's Hospital, Long Beach Memorial, Long Beach, California as part of Forum 98! Women’s Agenda for the New Century sponsored by the Elizabeth Blackwell Health Institute to help set the agenda for Women's Health in the year 2000.

Keynote Speaker :“Women and The Cult of Thinness “. St. Olaf College March l5th.1999

Didactic Seminar. “ Computers and Qualitative Data Analysis.” Paper presentation at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, Illinois. August, l999.

June 2001 – “Racial Identity and the Development of Body Image Issues in Black and White Samples.” (with Stephanie Howling) Paper Presented at the annual conference of the National Women’s Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota .

October 13, 2001. Women’s Studies in China. Roundtable. New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.

November 2001- "Body Dissatisfaction, Self-Esteem, and Dieting AmongWhite and African American Adolescent Families." Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Council on Family Relations Rochester, N.Y.

November 16, 2001. Workshop : Introduction to HyperRESEARCH for Analysis of Qualitative Data. Henry A. Murray Research Center and W.T. Grant Foundation. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

November 30, 2001. “Teaching (and Learning) in the Contact Zone: A Panel Presentation on GCWS's Workshop in China Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Photos and itinerary of our trip on-line at http://www.radcliffe.edu/gcws/faculty/china.html).

This past summer, a team of Boston-based women's studies practitioners affiliated with the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies traveled to the People's Republic of China to share strategies of feminist pedagogy and syllabus design with Chinese women's studies faculty. They invite you now to come learn more about their adventure and to explore the implications of this experiment for building stronger, more globally-connected, women's studies programs at Boston area universities.”