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Kathryn B.
Ward
Department
of Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
Illinois 62901-2454
(618) 453
2494 (Sociology)
Email:
kbward@siu.edu
Education
Ph.D.
(Sociology) The University of Iowa, 1982
M.A.
(Sociology) The University of Iowa, 1978
B.A.
(Sociology) Fort Hays State University, 1977, Summa Cum
Laude
Current
Position
Professor of
Sociology and Women’s Studies, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale,
Summer,
1994-present; Professor of Women’s Studies, Summer 2002-
Director of
Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale, August 2005-
Fulbright
Senior Fellowship, Bangladesh, Fall 2004-Summer 2005.
Research/Teaching Experience
Assistant to
Associate Professor, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale, Fall 1982-Spring 1994
Coordinator
(half-time), Women's Studies, Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale, Fall 1989-Spring 1993
Teaching-Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Fall
1977-Summer 1981
(University
of Iowa); Instructor in Women and Society; Women in
Development 1981-2
Areas of
Interest
Courses
taught: Sociology of Gender, Quantitative & Qualitative
Methods, Seminar in Social Change, Race and Ethnic
Relations, Sociology of Development, Women in Development,
Demography, Social Stratification
Research:
Women, Work, and Empowerment in Bangladesh; Domestic
Violence; The Legacy and History of the Cairo, Illinois
Civil Rights Movement; Women in Development; Effects of
Gender and Race on Mentoring, Collaboration, and Science
Dissertation
"The
Influence of the World Economic System on the Status of
Women and
Their
Fertility Behavior." Co Chairs: Toby L. Parcel and Fred C.
Pampel.
Books
Women in the
World System: Its Impact on Status and Fertility.
New York:
Praeger Publishers, 1984. (Reviewed in Contemporary
Sociology, 1987; Gender & Society, 1987; Signs, 1988).
Women
Workers and Global Restructuring. Kathryn Ward, Editor.
Ithaca, New
York: ILR Press, 1990. (Reviewed in Monthly Labor
Review,1990; Choice, Gender & Society, Teaching Sociology,
Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Association for
Women in Development Newsletter, Canadian Woman Studies/Les
Cahiers De La Femme Social and Economic Studies, Women
Library Workers Journal, African Economic History,1991;
Contemporary Sociology and Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, 1992; Women's Studies International Forum,1993;
Signs, 1994).
Articles
(selected relevant)
Ward,
Kathryn, Fahmida Rahman, A.K.M. Saiful Islam, Rifat Akhter,
and Nashid Kamal.. "The Effects of Global Economic
Restructuring on Urban Women’s Work and Income-Generating
Strategies in Dhaka, Bangladesh." Critical Sociology
30:1-40. 2004
Pyle, Jean
L. and Kathryn Ward. " Recasting our Understanding of Gender
and Work During Global Restructuring." International
Sociology 18:461-489. 2003
.
Ward,
Kathryn “Grounded? Embedded?” The News Today Dhaka,
Bangladesh
30 March
2003, page 5 print edition, http://www.newstoday-bd.com/(essay
in Word format available on request)
Linda M.
Grant, Marybeth Stalp, and Kathryn Ward. “Women’s
Sociological Research and Writing in the Pre-World War II
Era.” The American Sociologist.” 23(3):76-99 2002
Ward,
Kathryn "Nari Jiban: Tracing Women's Migration and Work
Lives." Pp. 8-11 in Udbastu: A Newsletter on Refugee and
Migratory Movements , Research on Refugees and Migratory
Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (Issue 17
July-September) 2001
Linda Grant,
Ivy Kennelly, and Kathryn B. Ward, "Revisiting the
Gender,Marriage, and Parenthood Puzzle in Scientific
Careers," Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28:62-85. 2000
Linda Grant
and Kathryn Ward, "Women in Academia." in Paula Dubeck and
Kathryn Borman (eds.), Women and Work. 1997
Rachel
Rosenfeld and Kathryn Ward, "Evolution of the Contemporary
U.S. Women's Movement." Current Research in Social
Movements. Vol. 19:51-74. 1996.
Kathryn Ward
and Linda Grant, "Gender and Academic Publishing" Chapter in
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Vol. 11,
pp.172-222, John Smart (ed.). New York: Agathon Press. 1996.
Kathryn Ward
and Jean Pyle, "Gender, Industrialization, and Development,"
in Chris Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen (eds.), Women in the
Latin American Development Process:From Structural
Subordination to Empowerment. Philadephia: Temple University
Press. 1995.
Kathryn
Ward, "Moving Beyond Adding Race, Class, and Gender and
Stirring..." Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and
Recreation Education 9:55-62. 1994.
Kathryn Ward
"Lifting as We Climb: How Scholarship By and About Women of
Color Has Shaped My Life as a White Feminist." In Gay Young
and Bette J. Dickerson (eds.) Color, Class, and Country:
Experiences of Gender. London Zed Books. 1994.
L. Grant, K.
B. Ward, and C. Forshner. 1993. Mentoring experiences of
women and men in academic physics and astronomy. Pp. 81-86
in Women in Astronomy: Proceedings of a Workshop held at the
Space Telescope Science Institute, Sept. 8-9, 1992. John
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Davita
Silfen Glasberg and Kathryn Ward, "Foreign Debt and Economic
Growth in the World-System." The Social Science Quarterly.
December, 1993.
Kathryn
Ward, "Reconceptualizing World-System Theory to Include
Women." Pp. 43-68 In Paula England (ed.) Theory on
Gender/Feminism on Theory. Aldine. 1993.
Kathryn
Ward, Julie Gast and Linda Grant, "Visibility and
Dissemination of Women's and Men's Sociological
Scholarship." Social Problems. Vol. 39. (3):291-298. 1992.
Rachel
Rosenfeld and Kathryn Ward, "The Contemporary Women's
Movement: An Empirical Example of Competition Theory."
Sociological Forum. Vol. 6 (3):471-500. 1991.
Kathryn Ward
and Linda Grant, "On a Wavelength of Their Own: Women in
Sociological Theory." Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Vol. 11:117-140, 1991.
Linda Grant
and Kathryn Ward, "Gender and Publication." Gender
&Society.5(2):207. 1991.
Kathryn Ward
and Linda Grant, "Co-authorship, Gender, and Publication
Among Sociologists." Pp. 248-264 in M. M. Fonow and J. Cook
(eds.), Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived
Research. Indiana University Press. 1991.
Kathryn
Ward, "Introduction and Overview." Pp. 1-21 in K. Ward
(ed.), Women Workers and Global Restructuring. Ithaca, New
York: ILR Press. 1990.
Xue Lan Rong,
Linda Grant, and Kathryn Ward, "Funding and Sociological
Publica¬tion: Effects of Author Gender, Article Topic, and
Methods." The American Sociologist 20:95-100, 1989.
Kathryn
Ward, "Female Resistance to Marginalization: The Igbo
Women's War of 1929." Pp. 121-136 in Joan Smith (ed.),
Racism and Sexism in the World-System. Westport: Greenwood
Press. 1988.
Kathryn
Ward, "Women in the Global Economy." In B. Gutek, L. Larwood,
and A. Stromberg (eds.), Women and Work: Annual Review Vol.
3:17-48. Sage. 1988.
Kathryn
Ward, "The Impoverishment of U.S. Women and The Decline of
U.S.Hegemony." Pp. 275-290 in T. Boswell and A. Bergensen
(eds.), America's Chang¬ing Role in the World System. New
York: Praeger. 1987.
Linda Grant,
Kathryn Ward, and Xue Lan Rong, "Is There an Association
Between Gender and Methods in Sociological Research?"
American Sociological Review, 52 (6):856-862, 1987.
Kathryn Ward
and Fred Pampel, "Structural Determinants of Female Labor
Force Participation in Developed Nations, 1955 1975." Social
Science Quarterly, 66 (3):654. 1985.
Kathryn Ward
and Charles Mueller, "Sex Differences in Earnings: The
Influence of Industrial Sector, Authority Hierarchy, and
Human Capital Variables." Sociology of Work and Occupations,
l2 (4):437 463, l985.
Kathryn Ward
and Linda Grant, "The Feminist Critique and a Decade of
Research in Sociology Journals." The Sociological Quarterly
26 (2):139 157, 1985.
Kathryn
Ward, "The Social Consequences of the World Economic System:
The Eco¬nomic Status of Women and Fertility." Review 8(4):
561 594, 1985.
Kathryn
Ward, "Women and Urbanization in the World System." Pp. 305
323 in M. Timberlake (ed.), Urbanization and the World
Economy. New York: Academic Press. 1985.
Kathryn
Ward, "The Economic Status of Women in the World System: A
Hidden Crisis in Development." Pp. 117 39 in A. Bergensen
(ed.), Crises in the World System. Sage, 1983.
Awards and
Grants (selected)
American
Institute of Bangladesh Studies, "Nari Jibon Project AIBS
Post Doctoral Fellowship Proposal" $24,000 2002-2003.
Research
Institute for the Study of Man, “Field Training Grant” Five
students for fieldwork in Bangladesh. $15,000. (SIUC match
$10,000) December 2002-January 2003.
ALO/USAID,
“Removing Barriers of Domestic Violence from Women’s Full
Participation in Civic Society and Democracy in Bangladesh”
$99,999. (with Ainon Mizan (SIUC), Khan Foundation, Women
for Women, and Independent University of Bangladesh)
December 2002-May 2005.
National
Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research on Economic
Restructuring,Women's Work, and Empowerment in Bangladesh."
2003. (with Nashid Kamal, Independent University of
Bangladesh, Co-PI). Approved for funding,$199,000 Spring
2003. Duration May-June 2003-May June 2005.
American
Sociological Association/NSF International Travel Award,
$500, 2002
Multimedia
Teaching Fellowship Cairo Project. Southern Illinois
University, Summer, 1998.
Special
Research Grant for the Cairo Oral History and Multimedia
Project. Southern Illinois University, 1995-1997.
University
Women's Professional Advancement Grant for Cairo Project,
1995. $750
Faculty
Woman of Distinction, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale. 1992.
U.S.
Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement, "Mentoring, Gender, and Publication Among
Social, Natural, and Physical Scientists," 1990, $63,100, 18
months. (Collaborative research with Linda Grant, University
of Georgia).
Radcliffe
Research Support Program Grant, Arthur and Elizabeth
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, "The
Rise of the Contemporary Women's Movement and
Organizations," 1986-7, $1,500 (with Rachel Rosenfeld).
Mini
Sabbatical for Research, Southern Illinois University 1987,
Study of Women's Organizations, Schlesinger Library.
Young Alumni
Award, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, 1987.
Mini
Sabbatical for Teaching, Southern Illinois University, 1986,
Incorporating Women into the Curriculum Workshop, Memphis
State Uni¬versity.
Special
Research Project Grant, Southern Illinois University,
1985-1987, U.S. Women's Movement.
Summer
Research Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, 1985,
U.S. Women's Movement.
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