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Message from the Chair: Dr. Jodie O’Gorman
With the end of Spring Semester now in sight, we have a new cohort of promising graduate students waiting in the wings and defending dissertators on center stage. It may be some sort of record for us this year as we anticipate that 17 Ph.D. students will have defended and submitted their dissertations between August of 2015 and August of 2016. Happy reports of jobs landed and dissertations completed make their way to my door in increasing numbers. Our newer graduate students are also impressive. With the revenue from our online courses we are able to offer recruiting packages to…
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Dr. Anne Ferguson
Dr. Anne Ferguson will retire this year from her position as co-Director of the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) and from the Department of Anthropology where she has been a professor since 1993. She leaves a remarkable legacy at MSU, including the creation of GenCen and the Gender Justice and Environmental Change (GJEC) graduate specialization. Dr. Ferguson’s research and teaching have focused largely on land and water issues, tenure, governance, and social inequalities including gender. An interest in gender emerged in part from her personal experience. When she attended graduate school at MSU in the 1970s, she faced…