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Phone: (413) 585-
Office: 10 Prospect Street #204
E-mail: sbourque@smith.edu
 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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