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 The
Center for Women’s
Health and Human Rights
Suffolk University
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
Tel: 617.573.8487
Fax: 617.720.0490
Email: cwhhr@suffolk.edu
Recent
Highlights
The Center’s “launching”
event was the Conference
“International Feminism,
Human Rights, and the Women’s
Studies Curriculum,”held
at Suffolk Law School. The
Center co-organized, coordinated,
and co-sponsored this highly
successful New England Women’s
Studies Association annual
conference. Over 120 participants
came from throughout New
England, and beyond, to
learn and teach about these
important linkages. 2003.
The Center Co-Sponsored
the Lowell Lecture
given by
Samantha Power, Esq., Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of
A
Problem from Hell: America
in the Age of Genocide.
Center Director Amy Agigian
gave introductory remarks.
2003.
Alexandra
Todd, Chair of Sociology,
Speaker Samantha
Power,
Amy Agigian, CWHHR
Director, and
Steve Spitzer, Professor
of Sociology at
Suffolk University.
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The Center is working
with the Massachusetts coalition
for CEDAW/CERD to
develop workshops on the
local implementation of
these important international
human rights treaties. CEDAW,
often referred to as “the
Women’s Convention,”
is the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against
Women. CERD is the Convention
on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination.
 Center
Staff
Founder and Director
Amy Agigian, Ph.D
Amy Agigian is an Assistant
Professor of Sociology at
Suffolk University. Trained
in medical sociology and
the sociology of women,
gender, and sexuality, she
received her Ph.D. from
Brandeis University in 1998.
She is an activist for social
justice and the mother of
a young son. Her book Baby
Steps: How Lesbian Alternative
Insemination is Changing
the World will be published
by Wesleyan University Press
in Spring 2004.
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curriculum vitae (132k pdf)
Visiting Scholar
Laura Roskos, Ph.D.
Dr. Roskos is conducting
research for a book that
explores the evolution of
municipal and state initiatives
implementing international
human rights treaties (with
a focus on CEDAW) in the
absence of U.S. Senate ratification
of the same. She earned
her M.A. and Ph.D. in the
interdisciplinary Modern
Studies Program at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
where she also taught courses
in the Women’s Studies
and Peace Studies programs.
For several years, she served
as coordinator of the Graduate
Consortium in Women’s
Studies at the Radcliffe
Institute (Harvard University),
where she produced the public
radio series “Voices
of Public Intellectuals,”
and in 2002 was awarded
a post-doctoral fellowship
for the study of Gender,
Security and Human Rights
by the Center for Gender
in Organizations at Simmons
School of Management.
Senior Research Associate
Susan Sered
Susan Sered, PhD, has published widely in the fields of medical anthropology, religious studies, and gender studies. She is author of six books and dozens of articles including Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (University of California Press, 2005). She currently is studying the health and health care experiences of low wage women and of women in the criminal justice system.
Visiting Artist
Elena Stone, Ph.D.
Visiting Artist Elena Stone,
Ph.D. is an artist, poet,
activist, and intellectual
with a broad background
in women’s human rights
issues. Currently a Development
Officer at Oxfam America,
Dr. Stone is also leading
a project to bring potable
water to a remote village
in Guatemala where she has
lived. As a Visiting Artist
at the Center, she will
work on a series of paintings
on themes of spirituality,
women, and human rights,
which will be exhibited
at Suffolk in the Spring.
Her book, Rising From Deep
Places: Women’s Lives
and the Ecology of Voice
and Silence, was published
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