January 17, 2007
Enloe to receive prestigious ISA Award
 Worcester, Mass. - The International Studies Association (ISA) has chosen Clark University research professor Cynthia Enloe to receive the Susan Strange Award, established in 1998 to recognize a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community during the previous year. Professor Enloe is the first woman to receive this prestigious honor.
Professor Enloe expects to accept the Susan Strange Award at ISA's annual convention in February 2007 in Chicago. The convention is a major international scholarly event, including well over 800 panel sessions and involving participants from more than fifty countries.
Professor Enloe is Research Professor of International Development (IDCE) and Women's Studies. She has served as chair of Clark's Government Department and Director of Women's Studies. Professor Enloe teaches the intensive seven-week IDCE seminar, "Gender, Militarization, and Development." She has been awarded Clark's "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" three times and has been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.
Enloe's feminist teaching and research has focused on the interplay of women's politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how women's labor is made cheap in globalized factories (especially sneaker factories) and how women's emotional and physical labor has been used to support governments' war-waging policies—and how many women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic, and national identities and pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities have been common threads throughout her studies.
Her career includes a year as an Invited Fellow at the Bunting Institute and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, as well five years as an Honorary Professor, Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, from 1996-2001. In addition, Enloe has received a Ford Foundation International Conflict Fellowship. She has conducted research in Malaysia and Guyana on Fulbright grants.
She received a B.A. from Connecticut College and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
In recent years, Enloe has been invited to lecture and give special seminars on feminism, militarization, and globalization in Japan, Korea, Turkey, Canada, Britain and numerous colleges across the U.S. She has written for Ms. Magazine and Village Voice and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC. She serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her latest book is "Globalization and militarism: Feminists Make the Link," part of Roman & Littlefield Publishers' Globalization series. Other books by Enloe include the groundbreaking Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics" (2000), "Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives" (2000), and "The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire," (2004). All of these are published by the University of California Press.
A group of scholars and practitioners founded the ISA in 1959 to pursue mutual interests in international studies. Representing eighty countries, ISA has over four thousand members worldwide and is recognized as the most respected and widely known scholarly association in this field.
Susan Strange (1923-1998) was a British academic who was influential in the field of international political economy. She was the first female president of the ISA and was instrumental in setting up the British ISA.
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