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Current Fellows
During the 2007-2008 academic year the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership welcomes the following Fellows
Naida Lehmann
Biology
Naida Lehmann is a CWIL Fellow with appointment to the Department of Biology. She received her BS in Botany from the University of Washington in Seattle, a Master’s degree in Botany from the University of Texas in Austin, and PhD in Biology from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Naida has spent several years mapping and restoring native landscapes in Northern Indiana. Her research explores plant population and vegetation changes over time, and her teaching interests lie in intercultural ecology and environmental studies.
Contact Information
Saint Mary's College
250 Science Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone (574) 284-4816
Colleen O'Brien
Humanistic Studies
Colleen O’Brien is a current CWIL fellow and teaches in Humanistic Studies. She received her Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oregon and Johns Hopkins University as well as a Fulbright research grant at the University of Botswana. Before arriving at Saint Mary’s, she taught at Wake Forest University and, prior to that, worked as a curriculum specialist at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century reform movements and transnational American studies. Outside the campus, she enjoys the outside—the natural world.
Contact Information
Saint Mary's College
#7 Library Mezzanine
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone (574) 284-4178
Fozia Qazi
Mathematics
Fozia Qazi is CWIL Fellow and a visiting professor in the Department of Mathematics. She received her undergraduate degree from Kashmir University in India and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Syracuse University with focus on theoretical probability. Before coming to Saint Mary's College, she taught at St. Mary's College of Maryland and Clarkson University. Her current research interests lie in exploring the relationship between politics, geography, and culture in the development of mathmatics across cultures, with special focus on Islamic mathematics. Besides her mathematical work, she has written and lectured on issues of culture, gender, and social justice. She is the President of Child Nurture and Relief, an organization working for the psychosocial rehabilitation of children impacted by armed conflict. She is also an avid painter and a photographer.
Contact Information
Saint Mary's College
Box 59, Madeleva Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 284-4489
email: fqazi@saintmarys.edu
Shannon Rose Riley
Communication and Performance Studies
and Intercultural Studies
Shannon Rose Riley is a CWIL fellow with joint appointment to the Department of Communication and Performance Studies and the Intercultural Studies Program at Saint Mary’s College. She has a PhD in Performance Studies and Critical Theory from the University of California, Davis, and an MFA in Studio Art (performance, video, and installation) from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her doctoral exam categories were in 20th century U.S. performance, African American theatre, Caribbean performance, and critical theory, particularly critical race studies, theories of identity, postcolonialism, and histories of U.S./Caribbean relations. Her dissertation, _Imagi-Nations in Black and White: Cuba, Haiti, and the Performance of Difference in U.S. National Projects, 1898-1940_, explores the ways that images of Haiti and Cuba mediated national and racial identities in U.S. culture at the turn of the 20th century. Her current work is increasingly concerned with the ethics of intercultural contact and draws on methodologies from ethnography and the area of performance as research.
Dr. Riley has delivered papers and chaired panels at professional conferences, including the American Society of Theatre Research 2006, National Association of Ethnic Studies 2006, and American Theatre in Higher Education 2005. Her work has been published in peer review journals including Theatre Topics, and an article titled “Kathy Goes to Haiti: Sex, Race, and Occupation in the Postmodern Travel Narrative,” is forthcoming in a collection titled Kathy Acker, Transatlanticism, and the Transnational. She has also performed and exhibited internationally, most recently in Cuba, at the 2006 Festival Nacional de Pequeño Formato in Sta. Clara. She has taught a range of undergraduate courses in critical theory, performance studies, theatre, art history and the humanities at Maine College of Art and the University of California, Davis, and has been a visiting artist/speaker in graduate and undergraduate programs at Syracuse University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, University of Florida, Gainesville, and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, among others. At Saint Mary’s, she teaches Introduction to Performance Studies and Performing Whiteness.
Contact Information
Saint Mary's College
101 Moreau Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 284-4822
email: sriley@saintmarys.edu
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