March 8 is International Women’s Day and a broad range of Carleton experts are available to discuss a variety of related topics.
Katharine Bausch
Instructor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute at Carleton University
Email: KatharineBausch@cunet.carleton.ca
Bausch is a feminist historian and interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the intersections of gender, race, popular culture consumption, sex and class. She examines the ways feminism and feminists have been represented in U.S. popular culture since the 1930s. Bausch is an advocate of feminist activism in educational communities inside and outside of the university and works closely with high schools to introduce feminist learning.
She is available to speak about students learning about gender bias, teaching about women’s achievements and commemoration, as well as pop culture and gender bias.
Clare Beckton
Executive in Residence, Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work (CRIW) at Carleton University
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 is the author of Own It, Your Success, Your Life, Your Future.
She served as the deputy head of Status of Women Canada, managing the departmental agency and providing advice to ministers. She led the development of public policy for the advancement of women and helped non-profits seek funding to benefit women.
Manjeet Birk
Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute at Carleton University
Email: ManjeetBirk@cunet.carleton.ca
Birk is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centres the lived experience of racialized and Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Her research focuses on women’s organizing, social justice and institutional racism. Her interests are grounded in her community activism working with women’s organizations locally, nationally and internationally.
Rebecca Bromwich
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University
Email: Rebecca.Bromwich@carleton.ca
Bromwich is the former program director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution. Her current role is manager, Diversity and Inclusion, for the law firm Gowling WLG. Bromwich has been a columnist for Lawyers Weekly and has authored and co-authored several books for students and legal system practitioners, including lawyers, paralegals and police.
Bromwich is available to speak on topics related to International Women’s Day and the law.
Merridee Bujaki
Professor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
Email: merridee.bujaki@carleton.ca
Merridee’s recent work looks at the careers of academic women and women accountants, with a focus on mental health and work. She has written about women on boards, how concepts of merit may disadvantage women, and the depiction of women in corporate annual reports and recruitment websites.
Merridee has also been involved in several women-only management/leadership training programs and can speak about the benefits such training provides women.
Linda Duxbury
Professor of Management, Sprott School of Business
Email: linda.duxbury@carleton.ca
Duxbury is available to discuss Issues relating to work-life balance and how COVID has impacted this balance for women and mothers.
Melissa Haussman
Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University
Email: melissa.haussman@carleton.ca
Haussman is currently working on a new book comparing the “leadership tightrope” of current U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi and former British PM, Theresa May. Both have faced polarized legislatures and intra-party discord, making it even harder for them to get important measures passed resulting in criticism of women being “less competent” leaders.
Haussman can discuss the anti-choice politics in the U.S. in the run up to November 2022 elections, anti-trans measures and the tack being taken by Republicans to stop schools from having curriculum discretion.
Kim Hellemans
Associate Dean (Recruitment & Retention), Faculty of Science, Instructor and Provost’s Teaching Fellow, Director, Stress, Trauma and Resilience Working Group, at Carleton University
Email: Kim.Hellemans@carleton.ca
Hellemans will be moderating a film screening and panel discussion called #BreakTheBias in Science on March 8, 2022 as part of International Women’s day. Details and registration information can be found here: https://science.carleton.ca/cu-events/iwd2022/.
Hellemans’ research interest lies in the study of vulnerability to mental illness. She is interested in sex differences in mental illnesses; depression is twice as common among women. She is a co-host of the Minding the Brain podcast.
Amina Mire
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University
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.
Dawn Moore
Professor, Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University
Email: dawn.moore@carleton.ca
Moore is available to speak to police brutality in responding to gender-based violence, investigation and evidence collection—especially as intimidation tactics, Canada’s vigorous prosecution and no drop polices as well as the impacts of COVID. Moore’s research explores theoretical questions about narrative and artifacts by looking substantively at the role of photographic evidence of victim’s injuries in cases of interpersonal assault.
Her work draws on feminism, queer theory, Actor-Network Theory and cultural studies to explore the relationships between victim’s own ‘stories’ and the ways in which photos of their bodies are used to narrate how their injuries were acquired.
Bailey Reid
Senior Advisor, Gender and Sexual Violence Prevention & Support, Equity and Inclusive Communities at Carleton University
Email: baileyreid@cunet.carleton.ca
Reid is available to speak to the impact that COVID-19 has had on sexual violence and sexual violence in general.
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