Faculty
Sondra Hale
sonhale@ucla.edu
sonhale@ucla.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Class Websites
Office: 329B Haines Hall
Phone: 310-206-6505
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: sonhale@ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
UCLA Department of Anthropology
341 Haines Hall - Box 951553
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553
Subfield
Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests
Gender; political economy; social movements; postcolonial and cultural studies; diaspora; aesthetics; Islam/Islamism; Middle East and Africa (mainly Sudan and Eritrea).
Selected Publications
Co-Editor, The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2005--present.
1996 Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State. Boulder: Westview Press.
1997 Ideology and Identity: Islamism, Gender and the State in Sudan. In Mixed Blessings: Gender and Religious Fundamentalism. J. Brink and J. Mencher, eds. New York: Routledge. Pp. 117-142.
1998 “International Gender Discourses: Comparative Research Agendas and Methodologies—the Middle East and the United States.” Cairo Papers in Social Science, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 68-93.
1998 "Islam in Africa: Particularisms and Hegemonies" Reviews in Anthropology, vol. 3, pp. 57-69.
1998 "Some Thoughts on Women and Gender In Africa" Journal of African Studies, vol. 16, pp. 21-30.
1999 "Mothers and Militias: Islamic State Construction of Women Citizens of Sudan" Citizenship Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp 373-386.
2001 "Soldier and the State-Post-Liberation Women: The Case of Eritrea" In Frontline Feminisms: Women, War and Resistance. Eds. M. Waller and J. Rycenga. New York: Routledge, pp. 349-370.
2001 "Alienation and Belonging--Women's Citizenship and Emancipation: Visions of Sudan's Post-Islamic Future" New Political Science, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 25-43.
2002 "'Liberated, But Not Free': Women in Post-War Eritrea, In Aftermath: Women in Post-War Reconstruction. S. Meintjes, A. Pillay, and M. Turshen, eds. New York: Zed Press, pp. 122-141.
2003 "Introduction/Preface," Resistance: My life for Lebanon by Soha Bechara (a memoir). Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, pp. vii-xiii.
2003 "Sudanese Women in National Service, Militias and the Home" In Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East. M Pripstein and E. Donmato, eds. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 195-213.
2005 "Colonial Discourse and Ethnographic Residuals: The 'Female Circumcision' Debate and the Politics of Knowledge. In Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses. Obioma Nnaemeka, eds. Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 209-218.
2005 "Activating the Gender Local: Transnational Ideologies and 'Women's Culture' in Northern Sudan. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 29-52.
2005 "Testimonies in Exile: Sudanese Gender Politics." Northeast African Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 83-127.
2006 "The State of the Women's Movement in Eritrea." Northeast African Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 155-178.
Grants
Visiting Fellow, University of California, Humanities Research Institute (Irvine). "Gender and Citizenship in Muslim Countries; "National Endowment for the Humanities; American Association of University Women; Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare; American Research Center in Egypt; Fulbright-Hays
Awards
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award
Academic Senate Award for Contribution to a Fair and Open University Environment (Diversity)
Women's Studies Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
Women's Studies Program, Award of Excellence (1997); Women's Studies Program, Award of Excellence (1998)
Yosano Akiko Award for Courage and Heroism, Campus and Community Women, California State University, Long Beach (twice awarded)
Grad Students
Ph.D. Students in Anthropology and Women's Studies, Chair: Elaine Gerber, Kesha Fikes, Judith Stevenson, Jennifer Esperanza, Worku Nida, Camila Pastor y Campos, Jan Bramlett, Bayard Lyons, Azza Basarudin, Khanum Shaikh, Bert Cueva, Sharmila Lodhia, Sabah Uddin, Helena Beyene, Rana Sharif
M.A. Chair: Brent Luvaas (Anthropology), Brian Zentmyer (Anthropology), Gina Singh (Asian American Studies), John Kilgore (African American Studies), Rahel Sahle Woldegabre (African Studies), Susan Serjak (African Studies), Heather Barahmand (Women's Studies)