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Opportunities and Challenges
UT Conference Center, 600 Henley St., Knoxville, TN 37902
March 31 - April 1, 2006
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Rosemarie Mincey
Rosemarie Mincey is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in
Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. An educational
anthropologist and extensive world traveler, she has traveled to or
conducted research in 46 countries. She has been a Foreign
Expert-in-Residence and Visiting Professor of Foreign Languages at Hebei
Normal University (Shijiazhuang, Hebei, P.R. China), where she is a
Research Fellow with the World Politics and Economics Institute. She has
worked as a consultant with Chinese Ministry of Education, as well as the
Chinese Department of Foreign Affairs and Intercultural Exchange and
Cooperation.A consultant on ethnic minority outreach education and family
literacy, her research interests include Latin American popular education
and politics; gender, labor, and trade; race, gender, social class,
migrancy, and schooling; multicultural education; cultural performativity,
and education as participatory democracy. She speaks frequently on issues
related to her work as an educational, economic, and immigrant rights
activist. Her dissertation research was conducted in Guatemala as a
recipient of the University of Tennessee's McClure Fellowship for the
Study of World Affairs (1997). In her post-doctoral research, she examined
the effects of the global economy on women working in the textile industry
in southern Appalachia (conducted as a Rockefeller Scholar [Fall 2000] at
the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia [CSEGA],
Marshall University, Huntington, WV). She is a researcher/consultant with
the U.S. section of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN,
Center of Concern, Washington, D.C.), a global network of feminist gender
specialists who conduct and disseminate research and provide technical
information on trade policies and practices to women's groups, NGOs,
social movement groups, governments, and academic institutions. She was a
Project Scholar for the Tennessee Latino Community Initiative Oral History
Project (sponsored by Humanities Tennessee). She is currently
collaborating as an oral historian for the Hurricane Katrina Oral History
Project with the University of Southern Mississippi, and is a member of
the Global Studies Association.
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