International Women’s Day is March 8 and Carleton experts are available to comment.
Rebecca Bromwich
Program Director for the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution program, Department of Law and Legal Studies
Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 2621
Email: rebecca.bromwich@carleton.ca
Bromwich is a per diem Crown attorney with the Ministry of the Attorney General in Ottawa. She has been a columnist for the Lawyers Weekly, and has authored and co-authored several books for students and legal system practitioners, including lawyers, paralegals and police.
Clare Beckton
Executive in Residence, Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work
Phone: 613-795-5026
Email: clare.beckton@carleton.ca
Beckton has extensive experience in a broad range of areas, including leading large organizations, strategic planning, governance, leadership to change systems, risk management, gender, diversity, inclusion, Indigenous policy issues and advancement of women’s leadership.
She served as the deputy head of Status of Women Canada, managing the departmental agency and providing advice to ministers. She led development of public policy for the advancement of women and helped non-profits seek funding to benefit women.
Micheline White
Associate Professor, College of the Humanities
Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 1356
Email: micheline.white@carleton.ca
White is a literary historian with expertise on Renaissance women in England. Her main field of study is English Renaissance literature and she is particularly interested in women’s writing and Reformation history. Her areas of research include powerful queens such as Katherine Parr and Queen Elizabeth, and women in war during the 16th century. White’s work examines the education of women and girls, political activism of elite women, the role of mothers in the Renaissance household, as well as male and female relations. She edited a collection of essays on Renaissance women who collected large libraries and circulated their books.
Amina Mire
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Email: amina.mire@carleton.ca
Mire’s areas of research interest include women and health; racialization and bio-medicalization of women’s bodies and skin; anti-aging; women, science and technology; political thought; sociology of gender; sociology of knowledge; gender and the cinema; as well as anti-racist and anti-colonial research.
Mire’s current research projects include examining the social, ethical, political and pedagogical implications of anti-aging discourse and practice; investigating the extent to which the female body continues to be a contested site of social investment and regulation; and a project examining changing skin-whitening technologies by tracing their emergence from colonial encounters, in which white skin was accorded social and cultural capital, toward the contemporary global marketing of biotechnology products that promise smooth, brightened and youthful-looking skin to affluent women.
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Thursday, March 7, 2019 in Experts Available
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