RESEARCH AT EMORY

Connect the dots, one of us said. It is about time. The PCSW felt the need to make an initial attempt--incomplete, by our own admission--at summarizing the multiplicity of research at Emory being done by and about women.

It was like stepping outside with a rain gauge in the midst of a deluge. The results were overwhelming. Our minds got soaked.

The person we sent out into the wet was Alec Young, a nimble writer and 2004 graduate of Emory College. And he sat with a score or so of researchers, letting them rain down tales of suicide-prevention programs they had devised, poems they had written, and every other form of intellectual exertion in between.

At one point, Alec approached the chair of Women's Studies, Pam Hall, who laughed when he confessed, "My editor asked me to write about women, which is why I came to you." As she reminded him, "I'm never just a woman. If I was going to call myself a woman, I would also have to call myself white, middle class, gay, a former Catholic--it's hard to say one is more important." She then flipped the teal tie resting on her chest. To sum up, then: everywhere, in what you are about to read, boundaries are being tested.

We hope, with this research portal, to provoke shouts. "My research is not represented here; why not?" There is no reason "why not." We would like this tantalizing beginning to prove more comprehensive over time. So shout; someone is listening. If you would like to see your research included here, please contact the executive director of Emory Creative Group, Susan Carini, at susan.carini@emory.edu.

Women's Studies	Health Sciences	Arts and Sciences	Law
Overview of Women's Studies Rosemarie Garland-Thomson: Cultural Disabilities Studies Alicia Decker: Feminism in Africa	Nanette Wenger: Heart Disease in Women Gina Wingood: AIDS Prevention Jill Hamilton: Older African American Cancer Survivors Nadine Kaslow: Suicide Prevention among African American Women Debra Houry: Intimate Partner Violence	Sharon Stroccia: Female Monasticism Natasha Trethewey: African American Soliders in the Union Army Nina K. Martin: Third- Wave Feminism Leslie Harris: Transforming Community Project Raman Parimala: Mathematician	Roja Fazaeli: Islamic Feminism