Millie Thayer is an assistant professor of sociology and a research associate in the Social and Demographic Research Institute. She currently serves on the Latin American Studies Association Gender and Feminist Studies Section Advisory Council.

Curriculum Vitae:
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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

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

Works in Progress:
Negotiating the Global: Northeast Brazilian Women's Movements and the Transnational Feminist Public.  To be submitted to Duke University Press.

"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.