The 2008-09 Gender Studies TAs are:
Amanda Baugh (AmandaBaugh2008@u.northwestern.edu) is a graduate student in Northwestern's Religion Department and is in the Gender Studies certificate program. Baugh is interested in the "greening" of American religion, and is working on an ethnographic study of a Chicago-based environmental group, run entirely by women, that encourages people to see the environment as a religious concern. Baugh is a co-chair for the Religion, Ecology and Culture section of the Midwest American Academy of Religion.
Laura Ephraim (LauraEphraim2009@u.northwestern.edu) is a graduate student in the Political Science Department, where she is working on a dissertation called "Towards a Democratic Theory of Science." She is pursuing a certificate in Gender Studies, and co-organizes the Gender Studies Doctoral Colloquium. She is also co-editor of a book manuscript, Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural Through Politics, based on an event series of the same name at Northwestern in 2006-7, which the Gender Studies Program co-sponsored. Ephraim previously TAed for the Program in 2006-7, and is very excited to work with students and faculty in Gender Studies again this year.
