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Susan
C. Bourque is the Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government, Provost,
and Dean of the Faculty at Smith College. She joined the Smith College
department in 1970 after completing her Ph.D. at Cornell University. From
1989 to 1994, she was chair of the Smith College Government Department
and director of the Project on Women and Social Change, an interdiciplinary
faculty research group. From July 1, 1994 until June 30, 1997, she served
as Dean for Academic Development at Smith College.
Dr. Bourque's research
focuses on a wide-range of political issues in Latin America and the United
States. Her books include: The Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives
from Asia, Africa and Latin America, co-edited with Jill Ker Conway
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993); Learning About Women:
Gender, Politics and Power, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1989), Women Living change: Cross-cultural Perspective, co-edited
with Donna Robinson Divine (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985),
and Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian
Towns, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981).
Women of the Andes
was awarded the Alice and Edith Hamilton Prize in 1979 and her article,
"Democracy without Peace: The Cultural Politics of Terror in Peru,"
(co-authored with Kay B. Warren; Latin American Research Review,
24:1, 1989) won the New England Council of Latin American Studies Best
Article Prize in 1987.
Her most recent articles
are "Reassessing Research: Liberal Arts colleges and the Social Sciences,"
in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Volume 128, Number 1, Winter 1999 and "Fault Lines of Democratic
Governance: A Gender Perspective," with Marysa Navarro in Fault
Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America.
Dr. Bourque lectures
and teaches in Latin America and is involved with an international team
of scholars developing research programs on gender in Latin American universities.
The Ford Foundation and the Latin American Studies Association fund this
project. She is at work on two volumes of essays: the first on Gender
and Race in Latin America and the second on women and Leadership.
Professionally, Dr.
Bourque has served as the President of the Women and Politics section
of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and as a member of
its Executive Council. In 1993, she was elected Treasurer of the APSA.
She is a Trustee of the APSA Trustee and Development Committee and a member
of the Executive Committee of the APSA Centennial Committee. She also
served on the executive councils of the Latin American Studies Association,
the New England Council of Latin American Studies, and the Association
for Women and Development.
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