CWIL Research Abstracts Series: Aim and Scope

Through its online Research Abstracts Series, The Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership (CWIL) at Saint Mary’s College aims to disseminate work-in-progress by fellows and visiting scholars that promotes intercultural understanding and change through performance, research and classroom instruction. The Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership invites contributors to further publish their work in anthologies, monographs or scholarly journals.

Given its mission to foster the intercultural knowledge and competence critical to educating the next generation of women leaders, the Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership promotes intercultural engagement across the Saint Mary’s College campus, and connects this engagement with communities at the local, state, national and global levels. The Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership believes intercultural engagement to consist of two essential parts which combine to result in growth: one is interacting across the boundaries that define identities, circumscribe participation, and shape encounters, and the other is reflection on and interpretation of the complexities of those interactions. Such boundaries include, but are not limited to, race, ethnicity, area of origin, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, educational level, sexual orientation, age, varying ability, and language. This Research Abstracts Series aims to support, in distinctive ways, the promotion of this kind of transformative intercultural engagement.

This online Research Abstracts Series contains the titles, author(s) and abstracts of various papers and projects that reflect current fellows and scholars’ completed work or work-in-progress at the time of submission. The Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership welcomes interested parties to contact the authors directly. Author(s) contact information is available by clicking on his/her name.

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