Visiting Scholars

Spring 2012

Dr. Cecilia Balli, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin

In 2006, Mexico elected a new president, Felipe Calderon. In an effort to curb the drug trade and end years of government complicity, Calderon embarked on an aggressive military campaign against the drug cartels. In 2007, he dispatched federal forces to Ciudad Juarez in what became the largest front in Mexico's own war on drugs. Dr. Balli has spent much of the last decade conducting research in the region and has explored the profound human implications of this policy shift. Now, as Mexicans prepare to elect President Calderon's successor and residents on both sides of the border grapple in their own way with the ongoing violence, Dr. Balli will assess the local impact of this complex conflict. This presentation is FREE and open to the Texas Tech and greater Lubbock communities.

This program was hosted by the Department of History and made possible in part by a grant from the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center. Additional funding has been provided by the Women's Studies Program

Fall 2011

Ellen Ratner - White House Correspondent and Bureau Chief for The Talk Radio News Service, covering the White House and providing exclusive reports to talk radio stations from the Congress and government agencies. In addition, she is a credentialed reporter at the United Nations in New York where Talk Radio News Service has a bureau. Ms. Ratner is currently seen on Fox News' “The Strategy Room” and is heard on over 400 radio stations across the United States.

Spring 2011

WS 2300, Intro to Women's Studies classroom visit
Guest included:
Shelby Knox - itinerant feminist organizer traveling across the country speaking, blogging, and promoting thought around how gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation and intersections thereof impact the individual and collective lived experience.

Lisa Shannon - founder of the first national grassroots effort to raise awareness and funds for women in the DR Congo through her project Run for Congo Women.

Spring 2010

"The Myth of the Chastity Belt" lecture by Dr. Albrecht Classen
This lecture was made possible by the generous support of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, The Graduate School, The School of Arts and Sciences, Women's Studies, and the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center.

Fall 2008

WS 2300, Intro to Women's Studies classroom visit
Guest included:
Ambassador Frances Cook –former U.S. Ambassador to Oman, Cameroon and Burundi
Ambassador Hunaina Al-Mughairy –Ambassador of Oman to the U.S.
Brown Bag Lunch - Dr. Mike Johnson
“Social Activism in the Academy: How did a guy like me end up in the shelter movement, advising LBGT groups, and in Women’s Studies and African American Studies?”
Assoc. Prof. Emeritus of Sociology, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies at Penn State University, Presented by Women’s Studies and the Department of Human Development and Family Science. Open to all students, staff and faculty.
Public Lecture - Dr. Mike Johnson
"Intimate Terrorism and Other Types of Domestic Violence"
Assoc. Prof. Emeritus of Sociology, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies at Penn State University, Presented by Women’s Studies and the Department of Human Development and Family Science. Open to all students, staff and faculty.
Performance & Lecture - Tim Miller
Internationally recognized performance artist TIM MILLER presented a lecture-performance SEX / BODY / SELF. Tim Miller was one of the NEA Four; four performance artists who had his funding by the National Endowment for the Arts overtly vetoed in 1990 by NEA chair John Frohnmayer on the basis of his subject matter resulting in a winning lawsuit by artists that caused the NEA to cease funding to individual artists. Tim Miller has taught performance in the theater departments at UCLA, Cal State LA and NYU.

Miller's visit was presented by the Association of Creative Writing and supported by the College of Visual & Perfroming Arts, College of Architecture, Department of English, School of Art, Theater & Dance, Presidents Office of Diversity, University Student Housing and the Women's Studies Program