Students from Hamilton’s Women’s Studies classes were invited to attend a question and answer session with 2003 Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi before her Great Names Series lecture on April 24.

Lolita Buckner Inniss, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, presented a lecture titled “James C. Johnson and the Princeton Fugitive Slave Case” on Feb. 25 at Princeton University.

In an opinion piece appearing in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Lolita Buckner Inniss, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor of Women's Studies, wrote that, “along with other aspects of the discourse on reproductive rights, [Roe v. Wade] forms part of a broader contemporary cultural battle.”

Anne E. Lacsamana, associate professor and chair of the Women's Studies Department, presented her paper "'Feminism Seduced'? Theory and Practice at the Crossroads" at the 33rd Annual National Women's Studies Association Conference in Oakland, Calif.  The conference took place November 8-11.

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal by Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Joyce M. Barry was recently published by Ohio University Press as part of the series on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia.

Anne E. Lacsamana, associate professor of women’s studies and chair of the Women’s Studies Department, has authored a new book. Revolutionizing Feminism: The Philippine Women's Movement in the Age of Terror was published this month by Paradigm Publishers.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Joyce M. Barry was invited to participate in a workshop on “Environmental Displacement in a Global Context” on May 4-5 at York University in Toronto. Barry presented a paper titled “Dislocating Appalachia: Gender, Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, and Climate Change.”

Michele Paludi,  Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, has edited a four-volume book set for Praeger Publishers. Managing Diversity in Today's Workplace: Strategies for Employees and Employers provides updated empirical research and best practices for understanding and managing workplace diversity in the 21st century, including issues of gender, race, generation, disability, sexual orientation, national origin and age.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Crystal Leigh Endsley was featured as the keynote performance for the 2012 Southeastern Women’s Studies Association conference hosted by George Mason University. This year’s conference was titled “Politics of Justice: New Visions of Culture and Society.”

Joyce M. Barry, visiting assistant professor of women’s studies, participated in a panel discussion during the annual Association of American Geographers conference in New York City on Feb 27.