ARLENE AVAKIAN
Professor and Director
EDUCATION:
- Ed.D., University Of Massachusetts, 1985
Dissertation Title: “Culture and Feminist Theory: An Armenian
American Woman’s Perspective”
- M.A., University of Massachusetts, 1975
History Department--The Social History Of American Women
- B.A., Columbia University, 1961
Art History
PUBLICATIONS:
- Editor, Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate
Meanings of Food and Cooking. 1997. Boston: Beacon Press.
- Co-editor, African American Women and the Vote 1937-1965. 1997.
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
- Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian American Memoir. 1992. NY: The
feminist Press.
- "Took Hye Genir Ick? Armenian American Women’s Ethnic Self-
Identification and Community Involvement," in Armenian Women in
a Changing World: Papers Presented at the First International
Conference of the Armenian International Women’s Association.
1995. Belmont, MA: AIWA Press.
- "Athletes, Engineers, Computer Jocks: The Future We Never
Envisioned- Women’s Studies and General Education Requirements,"
in Revisioning Feminism Around the World. 1995. NY: The Feminist
Press.
COURSES TAUGHT:
- Introduction to Women’s Studies
- Critical Perspectives in Women’s Studies
- U.S. Women’s Lives in Contexts: Reading and Creating Political
Autobiography
- The Social Construction of Whiteness and Women
- Ethnic Women of the United States
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality;
Armenian American women; whiteness as a construction
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