Josephine Beoku-Betts, President
Josephine Beoku-Betts is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. She earned her B.A. in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Hull University, U.K., M.A. in Sociology and West African Studies at Birmingham University, U.K., and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on women’s political activism in post-war Sierra Leone and African women in academic scientific careers. She has published book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in several feminist and other scholarly journals. She is currently completing two co-edited books: War, Women and Post-Conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone (with Fredline M’Cormack Hale-Seton Hall University) and Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South (with Akosua Adomako Ampofo-University of Ghana). She is the current President of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) and former Co-President for Research Committee 32 (Women, Gender and Society) of the International Sociological Association. Josephine was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sierra Leone in 2011 and 2018.
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Kumiko Nemoto, Parliamentarian
Photo and Bio Coming Soon
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Tracy Ore, Incoming Co-Chair for Committee on Discrimination Chair
Tracy E. Ore is a professor of Sociology and Director of Civic Engagement and Service Learning at St. Cloud State University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan, is an active member of the American Sociological Association, and is Past-President of the Sociologists for Women in Society. Professor Ore does research in the areas of social inequality, food access, and sustainable communities. Her most recent text is The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality (seventh edition), published by Oxford University Press in 2018. In 2018 she was named Educator of the Year by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees. In addition to this work, professor Ore is a long-time activist and community organizer, from ACT-Up in the ‘80s to her current work around food justice. The connections between her scholarly work and activism are made real in the SCSU Community Garden, which she established in 2005.
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Marisela Martinez-Cola, Incoming Co-Chair for Committee on Discrimination Chair
Marisela Martinez-Cola is an assistant professor of Sociology at Utah State University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Dr. Martinez-Cola’s areas of research are critical race studies, comparative/historical sociology, culture, and social movements. Her book, The Bricks Before Brown v. Board of Education, is under contract with The University of Georgia Press Race and Ethnicity Series edited by Drs. David Brunsma and David Embrick. It is a study of race, gender, class, and age across three school desegregation cases argued before Browninvolving Chinese, Native, and Mexican American plaintiffs. She is also published in The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Journal, and Teaching Sociology.
Shuchi Sanyal, SWS Intern
Shuchi Sanyal is the SWS Intern. She uses she/her pronouns and identifies as an Asian American woman of Indian descent. Shuchi is in her third year studying sociology and psychology at Hollins University – a small, liberal arts, women’s college in Virginia. She aspires to someday become a child advocate with a concentration in educational rights, as she is a firm believer that our future is dependent on education reform across the globe. During her time as the SWS Intern, she has been a member of the CEDAW Subcommittee and launched the Colleges for CEDAW Program. As of recently, she is taking a more active role in the administrative aspect of this organization and looks forward to giving back to SWS all that it has done for her.
Contact Shuchi at: sanyal@socwomen.org