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SADRI

Social and Demographic Research Institute

Millie Thayer

Millie Thayer
(Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley 2004)
Sociology

524 Thompson Hall
(413) 545-3577
thayer@soc.umass.edu

Millie Thayer is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and currently serves as Graduate Program Director. She was awarded a Fullbright Fellowship to do research in Brazil during academic year 2010-11. The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences selected Professor Thayer for its 2010 outstanding teaching award, and her book Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil is the winner of the SSSP Global Division's 2011 Outstanding Book Award.

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Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Gender, Feminist Theory, Social Movements, Sociology of Globalization and Development, Qualitative Methods, Gender and Globalization, Women's Movements in the Global South, Feminisms in the Latin/a Americas, Feminist Methodologies

Recent Grants:

2006-10.  UMass/FRG-CSBS Research Grant. Strings Attached: International Donor Agencies and Latin American Women's Movements

Selected Publications and Works in Progress:

Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil. New York: Routledge, 2010.

"Translations and Refusals: Resignifying Meanings as Feminist Political Practice." Feminist Studies 36, 2010.

Negotiating the Global: Northeast Brazilian Women's Movements and the Transnational Feminist Public. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.

"Feminists and Funding: Plays of Power in the Social Movement Market." To be submitted to Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

"The Leverage of the Local: Rural Brazilian Women's Movements in the Global Arena." To be submitted to Latin American Research Review.

"When they Write Back: Negotiating with the Transnational Subjects of Ethnography." To be submitted to Qualitative Sociology.