March 13, 2013
DRUCILLA K. BARKER
CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor of Anthropology and Women’s & Gender Studies
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-3200
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics, University of Illinois, 1988
M.S. Economics, Illinois State University, 1982
B.A. Philosophy, Cum Laude and With Distinction, Sonoma State University, 1980
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
University of South Carolina
Professor of Anthropology and Women’s & Gender Studies 2007 – present
Hollins University
Professor of Economics and Women’s Studies 2000 - 2006
Associate Professor of Economics 1992 - 1999
Assistant Professor 1988 - 1991
Instructor 1985 - 1988
University of Southern Maine
Visiting Professor of Economics 2003
Visiting Professor of Economics 2001
Illinois State University
Lecturer in Economics 1982 - 1985
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
University of South Carolina
Director of Women’s & Gender Studies 2007 – Spring 2013
Hollins University
Director of Women’s Studies 1998 – 2004, 2005- 2006
Chair of the Faculty 1997 – 1999 and 2004 – 2005
Chair of the Economics Department 1994 – 1997
Co-Chair of the Women’s Studies Elective Program 1992 - 1998
Chair of the Social Sciences Division 1992 - 1995
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts. 4 vols. Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper, eds.
London & New York: Routledge, 2009.
Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory and Policy, Edith Kuiper and Drucilla
K. Barker, eds. London & New York: Routledge, 2006.
Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, Drucilla K.
Barker and Susan F. Feiner, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper, eds. New
York & London: Routledge, 2003.
Forthcoming Books
Women, Women’s Work, Gobal Inequalities (Summer 2014 anticipated date for completion of
the manuscript).
“Forthcoming Articles and Book Chapters
Feminist economics as a theory and method,” Drucilla K. Barker, (summer 2014 anticipated
date for the completion of the manuscript), Deborah M. Figart and Tonyia L. Warnke,,Handbook
of Research on Gender and Economic Life. Edward Elgar.
“Gender, Class and Location in the Global Economy”
Authors: Drucilla K. Barker, University of South Carolina and Edith Kuiper, State University of
New York, New Paltz. forthcoming in the Handbook of Feminist Theory, Ania Plomien, Clare
Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Mary Evans, Sadie Wearing and Sumi Madhok, eds. Sage. (in
progress)
“Considering Social Justice in Economics,” Drucilla K. Barker, forthcoming in Practicing
Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy, Elizabeth Anne Springer, ed. Springer
Refereed Journal Articles
“Querying the Paradox of Caring Labor,” Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 24, No. 4: October 2012,
574-591.
“As the World Turns: Globalization, Consumption, and the Feminization of Work,” with Susan
F. Feiner, Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2010 , pages 246 – 252.
“Affect, Race, and Class: An Interpretive Reading of Caring Labor,” with Susan F. Feiner,
Frontiers, A Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2009. pp. 41-55.
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“Beyond Women and Economics: Rereading Women’s Work,” Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society, Vol. 30 No. 4, Summer 2005, pp. 2189 – 2208.
“Emancipatory for Whom? A Comment on Tony Lawson and Critical Realism,” Feminist
Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 103 -108.
“Dualisms, Discourse, and Development,” Hypatia, Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp 83-94,
reprinted in in Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and
Feminist World. Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding, editors, 2000, Indiana University Press.
“Economists, Social Reformers and Prophets: A Feminist Critique of Economic Efficiency,”
Feminist Economics, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 26-39.
“The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurance Markets: An Empirical
Analysis,” The Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Vol. 17, No 1, Spring 1992, pp.
143-163.
“An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Product Liability Laws on Underwriting Risk,” The
Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 58, No. 1, March 1991, pp. 63-79.
Refereed Book Chapters
“Feminism” with Darla Schumm in Handbook of Economics and Ethics, edited by Jan Peil and
Irene Van Staveren, Edward Elgar Publshing Lt.D. 2009.
“A Seat at the Table: Feminist Economists Negotiate Development”, in Feminist Economics and
the World Bank: History, Theory, and Policy, Routledge, 2005.
“Creating Spaces: A Comment On Contemporary Discourses In Economics,” in Postcolonialism
and Economics, S. Charusheela and Eiman Zein-Elabin, eds., Routledge, 2004.
“From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Poststructuralism: Philosophical Questions in Feminist
Economics,” Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy, John Davis, Alain Marciano, and
Jochen Runde, editors. Edward Elgar 2004, pp. 213-229.
“Rethinking Methodology," Research in the History of Political Economy and Methodology vol.
21A, 2003
“Neoclassical Economics,” The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, Janice Peterson and
Margaret Lewis, editors, Edward Elgar, 1999.
“Gender,” The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis,
editors, Edward Elgar, 1999.
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“Economic Welfare,” The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, Janice Peterson and
Margaret Lewis, editors, Edward Elgar, 1999.
Non-Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
“Introduction to Volume II: Households, Labor, and Paid Work,” in Feminist Economics:
Critical Concepts. 4 vols. Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper, eds. London & New York:
Routledge, 2009.
“Introduction to Volume III: Engendering Economic Development and Economic Well-Being,”
in Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts. 4 vols. Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper, eds.
London & New York: Routledge, 2009.
Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker, “The Dickensian world of Micro-Finance: Grameen
Might Not Be So Good for Women After All,” Women’s Review of Books, May/June 2007, Vol.
24, Issue 3, pp. 23-25.
Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker, “Microcredit and Women's Poverty: Granting This
Year's Nobel Peace Prize To Microcredit Guru Muhammad Yunus Affirms Neoliberalism,”
Dollars and Sense, November/December 2006, Issue 268, pp. 2189-2210.
“A Seat at the Table: Feminist Economists Negotiate Development.” In D. K. Barker & E.
Kuiper editors, Feminist economics and the World Bank (pp. 2009-217). London: Routledge,
2005.
“Feminist Economics and the World Bank: An Introduction,” with Edith Kuiper, in Feminist
Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory, and Policy, Routledge, 2005.
“Introduction: Sketching the Contours of a Feminist Philosophy of Economics,” in Toward a
Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper, editors, Routledge,
2003.
Reference Works and Conference Proceedings
Drucilla K. Barker and Laura Parisi, “Economic Globalization,” The Encyclopedia of Feminist
Theories, Lorraine Code, editor, Routledge, 2000.
“Feminist Economics,” The Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Lorraine Code, editor,
Routledge, 2000.
“Feminist Philosophy of Science,” The Encyclopedia of Political Economy, Phil O’Hara, editor,
Routledge, 1999.
“Neoclassical Economics: Critique,” The Encyclopedia of Political Economy, Phil O’Hara,
editor, Routledge, 1999, pp. 793-797.
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“Local Art Agencies, Accountability, and Artistic Quality,” Cultural Economics 88: An
American Perspective, N.K. Grant, W.S. Hendon, & V.L. Owen, editors, 1989 Association for
Cultural Economics.
“Quality and Variety in the Motion Picture Industry: A Comparative Analysis of the United
States and Europe,” Economic Efficiency and the Performing Arts, N.K. Grant, W.S. Hendon,
and V.L. Owen, editors, 1987 Association for Cultural Economics.
“Values, Subsidization, & Consumer Tastes,” Artists and Cultural Consumers, D.V. Shaw, W.S.
Hendon, & C.R. Waits, editors, 1987 Association for Cultural Economics.
BOOK REVIEWS
Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered, by Kanchana
N. Ruwanpura. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. Feminist Economics Vol. 15,
No. 2, 2009
Fragments of Development, Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan Press, Feminist
Economics, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2006.
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Productive, Reproductive, and
Virtual Economies, V. Spike Peterson, Routledge 2003 and Fragments of Development, Suzanne
Bergeron, University of Michigan Press, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol.
31, No. 4, 2006.
Reorienting Economics, Tony Lawson, 2004, Routledge, Feminist Economics Vol. 11, No. 3,
November 2005.
Living Wages, Equal Wage: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States, Deborah M.
Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power, 2002, Routledge, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol 31,
No. 3, Summer 2005.
Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw, Philip Mirowski, ed.
1994, Cambridge University Press, reviewed in Feminist Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1996.
Health Care Technology, and the Competitive Environment, H.P. Brehm & R.M. Mullner, eds.,
1989, Praeger, reviewed in The Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 58, No. 2, June 1991.
Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition and Regulation in
Communications, R.C. Crandall and K.Flamm, editors, 1988, Brookings Institute, reviewed in
The Eastern Economics Journal, Vol. 16, No.1, January-March 1990.
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GRANTS
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ADVANCE IT-Catalyst for Advancement of Women Faculty in the USC
61000 - FA02
Dr. Christine Curtis
Co-PI , $24, 815 (two years summer salary), 25% effort
9/1/10 - 8/31/12
$185,946
NSF
Approved
The broad objective of this study is to develop an institutional
transformation plan to increase the representation and advancement of
women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
disciplines at five campuses of the University of South Carolina system.
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Advance South Carolina Website Development 10030E151
Dr. Drucilla Barker
8/1/9 - 6/30/10
$10, 647
New Morning Foundation
Approved
The broad objective of this project is to create a virtual women’s center for
the women of the Midlands. It is a collaboration between the Women’s &
Gender Studies Program and the Women’s & Gender Studies Partnership
Council.
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Enduring Questions
Drucilla K. Barker
AY 13-AY15
$25,000
NEH Grant #10960942
Not Funded
The objective of this proposal was to develop a course around an enduring
question. In this case, it was “the woman question.”
Proposal to visiting scholar institute, October 2011:
Dr. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
Dr. Stephanie Mitchem
Fall 2012
$12,260
Internal, Provost’s Office
Funded
Dr. Haghighatjoo is an expert in Iran’s internal affairs and a leading
scholar of religions, gender, and human rights. She will be visiting our
campus during the first two weeks of the Fall 2013 semester. who can
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sharpen the scholarly focus and interdisciplinary dialogue around the topic
of religion, gender, and human rights at the University of South Carolina.
SEMINARS, FELLOWSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Symposium on Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and
Globalization, at the Rethinking Marxism 2006 conference, October, 2006.
Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, named a
Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2005.
American Association of Colleges and Universities Institute, Boundaries and Borderlands,
devoted to promoting diversity in undergraduate education, Brown University, Summer 2000.
Hollins University Cabell Fellowship, to support scholarship during the sabbatical leave,
Spring 2000.
Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies, Northeastern University, Spring 2000.
Hollins University Herta Freitag Faculty Legacy Award for excellence in scholarship, Spring
2000.
Feminist Economics Editorial Board 1999 - 2005.
Board of Directors of the International Association for Feminist Economics, 1998 - 2000.
Guest professor in a team-taught, graduate level course titled Feminist Economics, offered at the
University of Minnesota, Spring 1998, funded by the Ford Foundation.
Group leader at the National Science Foundation Conference, Inclusive and Interdisciplinary:
Building the New Curriculum, University of Southern Maine, September, 1997.
Staff member in the National Science Foundation Faculty Development Institute, Incorporating
Race and Gender into the Introductory Economics Curriculum, Susan Feiner, Director, Agnes
Scott College, Fall 1996.
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for College Teachers, Feminist
Epistemologies, Nancy Tuana, Seminar Director, University of Oregon, Summer 1996.
National Science Foundation Faculty Development Institute, Incorporating Race and Gender
into the Principles of Economics Course, Robin Bartlett and Susan Feiner, Directors, Dennison
University, Summer 1994.
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Wye Faculty Seminar, Citizenship and the American Polity, sponsored by the Aspen Institute,
Wye Center, Maryland, August 1993.
Dupont Seminar for College Teachers, The Uses and Misuses of Other Cultures, National Center
for the Humanities, Durham, N.C. Summer 1992.
Six-College Faculty Development Conference, Ethics at the Edge of Life, John Arras, Seminar
Leader, College of William and Mary, June 1990.
Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar, End of History, University of Virginia, February 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for College Teachers, New Directions in the
Philosophy of Law, Jules L. Coleman, Seminar Director, Yale Law School, Summer 1989.
Six-College Faculty Development Seminar, Thinking Critically, College of William and Mary,
June 1988.
Six-College Faculty Development Seminar, Popular Culture, Emily Toth, Seminar Leader,
University of Richmond, June 1986.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (Since 2000)
Panelist at the International Studies Association on Increasing the Number of Women in Male
Dominated Professions, San Francisco, CA, April 3-7.
Attended the American Philosophical Eastern Division Meeting, December 27-30, 2012.
“Querying Caring Labor," presented at the Crossroads of Cultural Studies Conference at the
Sorbonne, in Paris,France, July 3, 2012
Roundtable Participant and Chair at the session, “Theorizing Crises Otherwise: Querying
Families and Finances,” at the International Association for Feminist Economics, Universidad de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2012.
Delivered the Women’s History Month lecture at Coastal Carolina University, “Love’s Labor:
Economics and Domestic Work.” March 1, 2012.
Roundtable participant at the session, “Women in the STEM fields, at the Feminist
Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies conference, Fourth Biennial
meeting of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies Methodologies Metaphysics and Science
Studies, at the Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University. May 10-12, 2012.
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Delivered the Moe Lecture in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus
College. “Caregivers and Other Dangerous Strangers: Rethinking the Paradox of Caring Labor.”
April 8, 2010.
Delivered a lecture in the Social Change Lecture Series at the University of Louisville, “African
Women Writing Resistance,” sponsored by the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice, March
2010
“Caregivers and Other Dangerous Strangers: Rethinking the Paradox of Caring Labor,” Feb . 17,
2009, International Studies Association Meeting, June 27, 2009 International Association for
Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Annual Conference, and November 6, 2009, Rethinking Marxism
Conference
“Queering Care,” November 6, 2009, Rethinking Marxism Conference and November 13, 2009,
National Women’s Association (NWSA) Conference
“Feminist Economists Seeking Women’s Studies Partners,” (Roundtable) November 14, 2009,
NWSA Conference
Closing Plenary: Major Works in Feminist Economics, Panel Chair and presenter with 5 other
presenters at the IAFFE conference, Turin, Italy, June 19-21, 2008 (Invited)
Cultural Studies Association, New York, May 22-24, 2008 Seminar Participant in “Economics
After the Cultural Turn.” (Invited)
Allied Social Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2008, Discussant
URPE/IAFFE “Gender Bending: Expanding Feminist Political Economy.”
Presenter at the symposium on Fragments of Development, by Suzanne Bergeron, at the
Rethinking Marxism 06 conference, October, 2006.
Conference organizer for the IAFFE Pre-conference on Feminist Economics, University of
Sydney, Australia, July 2006
“Against Sentimentality,” presented (with Susan Feiner) at the IAFFE conference, University of
Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
“Globalizing the Women’s Studies Curriculum,” presented (with LeeRay Costa) at the NWSA
meeting, Oakland, California, June 2006.
Conference organizer for the IAFFE Pre-conference on Feminist Economics, American
University, Washington D.C. June 2005
“Caring Labor,” presented at the 2005 IAFFE Pre-conference on Feminist Economics,
American University, Washington D.C. June 2005
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“Rereading ‘Women’s Work’,” presented at the NWSA meeting, Orlando, Florida, June 2005.
“Marginalized Knowledge in Feminist Economics,” presented at the Rock Creek Ethics Institute
Conference, Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance, University of Pennsylvania, March 26-28,
2004.
“Rereading Women’s Work,” presented at the 2004 Conference on Feminist Economics, Oxford,
U.K. August 5-7, 2004.
“Exploring Feminist Economic Resources for Teaching about Globalization: Alternatives the
Neo –Liberal Policy Agenda,” with Susan Feiner, workshop at the National Women’s Studies
Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 17-20, 2004.
“Liberating Economics,” (with Susan Feiner) paper presentation at the National Women’s
Studies Association, New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, June 19-22, 2003 and at the Rethinking
Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 6-9, 2003.
“Feminist Economics and the World Bank,” invited presentation to the Gender Studies Faculty at
the University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany, January 2001.
Participant in the “Women’s International Feminist Alliances for Social and Economic Change
Roundtable,” and the “Postcolonialism Meets Economics Roundtable,” at the 2003 Conference
on Feminist Economics, June 27-29, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus,
Barbados.
“Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Gender and Globalization,” (with Laura Parisi)
presented at the International Studies Association Meeting, New Orleans, March 24-27, 2002.
"Emancipatory for Whom: A Comment on Critical Realism," and "Economics, She Wrote:
Teaching Feminist Economics (with Susan Feiner) presented at the 10 th annual conference on
Feminist Economics, Oslo, Norway, June 22-24, 2001.
"An Introduction to Feminist Economics," (with Susan Feiner) presented at the Eastern
Economic Association meetings, New York, 2001.
“Feminist Economics or Humanist Economics,” presented at the Rethinking Marxism’s 4 th
International Gala Conference, Marxism 2000, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
September 2000.
“Women, Knowledge, and Power: Methodological Challenges to Feminist Economics,”
presented at the 9th annual Conference on Feminist Economics, Boğazici University, Istanbul,
Turkey, August 15-17, 2000.
“Selling Reproductive Services: An Interrogation of the “Economic Approach” invited
presentation to the19th Women's Conference, Women in Exchange Society: (Self-) Deception
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and Other Imponderables, at the Vienna University for Economics and Business Administration,
Vienna, Austria, June 16-17, 2000.
“Feminist Economics: A Methodological Account,” public lecture as part of the Visiting Scholar
in Women’s Studies Program at Northeastern University, March 2000.
SELECTED OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (since 1995)
Invited speaker at the Liberty, Security, and Justice lecture series, Transylvania University,
December 5, 2005.
Invited speaker at Franklin & Marshall college, March 2005.
Invited speaker at the World AIDS Day event at Hollins University, December 1, 2004.
Conference organizer for the inaugural preconference to introduce new participants to feminist
economics at the 2004 IAFFE conference in Oxford, U.K. August 5-7.
Economic consultant to the Women’s Wall Street Journal, topic was gender issues in the 2004
lection. Summer 2004.
“Reproductive Rights are Human Rights,” (with LeeRay Costa) opinion piece for the Roanoke
Times, April 2004.
“The Bananna Budget,” letter to the editor, New Yorker, May 26, 2003.
Economic consultant to the Blue Ridge Business Journal, topic was women and business, Fall
2003.
“'Nightline' Series On Gays Ignored the Most Important Issues,” (with Mark Martin) opinion
piece for the Roanoke Times, June 3, 2002.
Participant in a WVTF radio show discussing the impact of 9/11. Fall 2001.
Participant in the Bob Denton Show to discuss the women’s attitudes toward President Clinton,
Fall 1999.
Economic consultant and participant in a television documentary on the lives of working women
in the Roanoke Valley titled, On the Issues: Women and Work, Spring 1997.
Participant in a WVTF radio show on gender equity in the labor market. Fall, 1995.
Referee for Feminist Economics, Hypatia, Routledge, and the University of Michigan Press.
Moderator for iaffe-l, the official email list of the International Association for Feminist
Economics.
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Editor, International Association for Feminist Economics, IAFFE Newsletter, 1996-1997.
Founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics.
TEACHING AREAS
Feminist Theory
Women's and Gender Studies
Feminist Methodology
International Political Economy
History of Economic Thought
Women and Development
COURSES TAUGHT
Interdisciplinary
Feminist Economics
Women and Economics
Gender and the Economy
International Political Economy
Economics and the Environment
Radical Political Economy
Women’s Studies
Feminist Theory
Introduction to Women's Studies
Seminar in Women's Studies
Gender and Globalization
Economics
Principles of Microeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Introduction to Statistics
Managerial Economics
Industrial Organization
Development
MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of University Professors
Association for Social Economics
Eastern Economic Association
International Association for Feminist Economics
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
National Women's Studies Association
REFERENCES
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Joint Appointment Women's & Gender
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Columbia, South Carolina 29208
(803)777-3109
V. Spike Peterson
Professor, Department of Political Science
With courtesy affiliations in Women's
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Studies, and International Studies
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University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
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