Bryn Mawr College Faculty
Allen, Michael H.Assoc. Professor, Political Science, Bryn Mawr CollegeYR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1985 Ph.D.:London School of Economics and Political Science, 1984 M.S.: University of West Indies (1979) BA: University of West Indies (1974) FIELD EXPERIENCE: South Africa CURRENT RESEARCH: Political economy of South Africa; aspects of transnational negotiations to end apartheid; international political economy MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: “Bargaining Environments of a Post-Apartheid State: Market, Class and Ethnic Dimensions” in Paul B. Rich (ed), The Dynamics of Change in Southern Africa, Macmillan, London, 1994. “Rival Workers: Bargaining Power and Justice in Global Systems” in Roger Moran et al. (eds.) New Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World: Essays for Susan Strange, Macmillan, London, 1993. “Struggle and Synthesis: Toward Theory for the Dutch Caribbean Experience” in Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg (ed) The Dutch Caribbean: Prospects for Democracy Gordon and Breach, New York and London, Spring, 1990. “Dutch Caribbean Decolonizationand Transitions in United States-Caribbean Relations” in Ibid. 1990. <<back to faculty subject index | faculty name index>>
Beard, Linda-SusanAssoc. Professor, English, Bryn Mawr CollegeYR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994 Ph.D.: Cornell University, 1979 BA: Bennington College, 1973 LANGUAGES: French, Spanish, Latin FIELD EXPERIENCE: Republic of South Africa and Nigeria MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: “Bessie Head’s Syncretic Fictions: The Reconceptualization of Power and the Recovery of the Ordinary,” Modern Fiction Studies, Autumn, 1991, pp 575-586. “Interview with Bessie Head; A Remembrance.” Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women (Spelman College), Fall, 1986, pp. 44-47. “The Problem of Definition in Contemporary Southern African Fiction” in Language and Literature; ACLALS Proceedings (ed) Satendra Nandan (Suva, Figi; University of the South Pacific, 1983), pp. 54-65. “Doris Lessing, African Writer” in When te Drumbeat Changes (eds.) C. Parker and S. Arnold, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1981. <<back to faculty subject index | faculty name index>>
Gunkel, Cassandra StancilLecturer, English, History and Africana Studies Program, Bryn Mawr CollegeYR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1996 Ph.D. Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, 1995 M.A. Telecommunications Management, Ohio University, 1985 B.A. Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1975 MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: “Stitching Stories—African American and Ethnic Quilting Traditions in Philadelphia,” Exhibit Curator, African American Museum of Philadelphia, June—October, 1998. “Nancy Riddick’s Quilts: Autobiographical Texts,” Uncoverings 17 (1996):1-28. “Block Party—Art of the Quilt,” Exhibit Curator, Free Library of Pennsylvania, March—May, 1996. “The Dozens,” The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, Robert O’Meally and Jack Salzman (Eds.) New York: Columbia UP, 1995 <<back to faculty subject index | faculty name index>>
Kilbride, Phillip L.Professor, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr CollegeYR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1969 Ph.D.: University of Missouri, 1970 MA: Pennsylvania State University, 1968 BS: Millersville State College, 1964 LANGUAGES:Swahili FIELD EXPERIENCE: Mexico, Uganda; Kenya CURRENT RESEARCH: African ethnology and urbanproblems; women in informal economies;family and child development in East Africa. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: Changing Family Life in East Africa; Women and Children at Risk, (with J. E. Kilbride),University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. “Sociocultural Factors and Perinatal Development of Baganda Infants: The Precocity Issue”, Pre-and Perinatal Psychology Journal, special issue on “Pre-and Perinatal Anthropology,” Charles Laughlin, (Ed.) Vol. 4, No. 4, 281-300. (with J. E. Kilbride, 1990. “Female Violence Against Related Children: Infanticide as a Modern Form of Deviance in Kenya.” chapter in Deviance: Anthropological Perspectives, M. Freilich, D. Raybeck, J. Savishnisky (eds.) Bergin and Garvey, 115-133, 1991. <<back to faculty subject index | faculty name index>>
Osirim, Mary J.Assoc. Professor, Sociology, Bryn Mawr CollegeYR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1985 Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1990 M.S.: The London School of Economics and Political Science A.B.: Harvard-Radcliffe, 1976 LANGUAGES: French FIELD EXPERIENCE: Zimbabwe, 1991, 1994, 1995; 12 African countries CURRENT RESEARCH: Women in the Third World; Women entrepreneurs in Africa; the informal sector in Africa and the Caribbean;political economy MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: “Trading in the Midst of Uncertainty: Market Women, Structural Adjustment and the Prospects for Development in Zimbabwe.” in African Rural and Urban Studies, January, 1995. “Trade, Economy and Family in Urban Zimbabwe,” in Ekechi and House-Midamba, eds. African Market Women and Economic Growth, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers, pp: 157-175, January, 1995. “Women, Work and Public Policy: Structural Adjustment and the Informal Sector in Zimbabwe,” in Ezekiel Kalipeni, ed., Population Growth and Environmental Degregation in Southern Africa, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, pp. 61-84, September, 1994. “The Dilemmas of Modern Development: Structural Adjustment and Women Micro entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Zimbabwe,” in Lorentzen and Turpin, eds., The Gendered New World Order: Militarism, the Environment and Development, New York: Routledge, April,1994. <<back to faculty subject index | faculty name index>>
Ross, Marc HowardWilliam Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor, Political Science, Bryn Mawr CollegeYR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1974 Ph.D.: Northwestern University, 1968 MA: Northwestern University, 1966 B.A.: University of Pennsylvania, 1964 MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: The Culture of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective: New Haven: Yale, University Press, 1993. The Management of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993 Grass Roots in an African City: Political Behavior in Nairobi. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975. The Political Integration of Urban Squatters, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. <<back to faculty subject index | faculty name index>>
Washington, Robert E.Professor, Sociology, Bryn Mawr CollegeYR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1971 Ph.D.:University of Chicago, 1978 M.A.: University of Chicago, 1970 B.A.: Columbia University, 1966 FIELD EXPERIENCE: East and Southern Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; South Asia CURRENT RESEARCH: Kenyan activist churches, “colorism” in Kenya MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: “West Africa and Tanzania Examined,” The Black Sociologist, Fall, 1976 p. 25-35. “Development and Deviance” in The Crisis and Challenge of African Development (ed.) Harvey Glickman (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), pp 201-228. “Brown Racism and the Formation of a World System of Racial Stratification,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, V.4, No. 2 Winter 1990, pp. 209-227. “Minority Identity and Self-Esteem (with Judy Porter) in Annual Review of Sociology, 19:139-61, 1993. “Reclaiming the Civil Rights Movement,” in Politics, Culture and Socity, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1996. <<back to faculty subject index | faculty name index>> 
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