October 07, 2008
Enloe to receive honorary degree from University of London
Cynthia Enloe, a research professor in Clark University's International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE) Department, will receive an honorary degree from the University of London's School of Oriental and Asian Studies in July 2009.
Enloe will be recognized for her long and influential career researching and teaching about women's politics in the national and international arenas. Her work pays special attention to how women's labor is made cheap in globalized factories, and how women's emotional and physical labor has been used to support governments' war-waging policies. Racial, class, ethnic and national identities and pressures shaping ideas of feminities and masculinities are common threads through her studies.
The honorary degree is the latest in a string of awards for Professor Enloe. She was recently awarded the 2008 Susan S. Northcutt Award by the Women's Caucus for International Studies (WCIS) in recognition of her efforts to recruit and advance women and minorities in the international studies profession and her service to the International Studies Association (ISA). In February 2007, Enloe became the first female recipient of ISA's Susan Strange Award, an award that recognizes a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community.
Enloe received a Ph.D. from the University of California/Berkeley, and served as a professor in Clark's Government and International Relations Department from 1973 to 2003. She was the chair of this department between 1980 and 1986 and served as director of Clark's Women's Studies program from 1980 to 1986, and again from 2002 to 2003.
In 2003, she became a research professor in the IDCE Department. She presently teaches an intensive seven-week IDCE/Women's Studies seminar, "Gender, Militarization, and Development." During her 36-year career at Clark, Enloe has been awarded the "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" award three times and has been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.
Enloe has written for Ms. 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. She is currently writing what will be her 11th book, "Nimo's War, Emma's War," investigating Iraqi women's and American women's experiences of the Iraq War, and she has recently 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.
For more on Professor Enloe, visit http://www.clarku.edu/academicCatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=343
Enloe is a resident of Cambridge, Mass.