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| RACE, GENDER, AND PUBLIC POLICY FELLOWS 2007-2008
 Vera Fennell received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago writing on Maoist women's policy. Working with Human Rights Watch's China division, she developed her interest in the role of the state in transnational culture and identity. She is working on a book on the concept of blackness the Communist Part of China deployed in the 1950s and 1960s. Since 2001, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Colorado College and has taught a wide variety of courses from "Race in America," to "The Women's Liberation Movement in China," to "Minority Politics," to "African-American Thought."
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 Julietta Hua received a BA in Women's Studies and Political Science from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. from UC San Diego in Ethnic Studies. She is currently an assistant professor of Women's Studies at San Francisco State University. Her dissertation was entitled "The Object of 'Rights': Third World Women and the Production of Global Human Rights Discourse." She is interested on how US policy imagines and constructs women's human rights victims in Southeast Asia, looking in particular at China's "one child," policy and policies on trafficking. In Minnesota, she hopes to conduct research on women's human rights organizations.
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 Roxanne Ornelas received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota. She studies Native American sacred sites, environmental justice, and public policy. Her dissertation was on the Garrison Dam project, which flooded the homes of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota in the 1950s. She is also interested in feminist theory and in particular, using feminist standpoint theory to understand the activism of Native American feminists. Last year, she held the Graduate Fellowship on Human Rights and Philanthropy funded by HECUA and the Otto Bremer Foundation |
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