Sondra Hale (University of California, Los Angeles)

Submitted: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 13:51:41 -0800


Sondra Hale
Adjunct Professor
Anthropology and Women's Studies
Department of Anthropology
341 Haines Hall, Box 951553
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California   90095-1553  USA

phone:   310-206-6505
fax:     310-206-7833
e-mail:  sonhale@ucla.edu

My research interests are in gender politics, social movements, and
cultural studies--North Africa and the Horn, with special emphasis on
Sudan and Eritrea. I have made six fieldtrips to Sudan (6 years) and two
fieldtrip to Eritrea (1994-1996); I spent a research summer in Cairo.  In
the last five years I have published a book, GENDER POLITICS IN SUDAN:
ISLAMISM, SOCIALISM AND THE STATE (Westview, 1996), and a number of
journal and book articles.  Among my essays are "Women in Sudan's National
Islamic Front" in POLITICAL ISLAM (ed. by J. Bienen and J. Stork, U. of
California, 1997); "Ideology and Identity..."in MIXED BLESSINGS: GENDER
AND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM" (J.  Brink and J. Menchen, eds., Routledge,
1997); "`The New Muslim Woman'..."  MUSLIM WORLD (1996); "Gender and
Economics," FEMINIST ECONOMICS (1995);  "Gender Politics and Islamization
in Sudan," SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN (1994);  "Gender, Religious Identity, and
Political Mobilization in Sudan," in IDENTITY POLITICS AND WOMEN (V.
Moghadam, ed., Westview, 1994; as well as essays in ARAB WOMEN (Indiana,
1993), REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY (1992), WOMEN WORDS: THE
FEMINIST PRACTICE OF ORAL HISTORY (1991); and a forthcoming essay on the
female circumcision debate in AFRICAN WOMEN AND IMPERIALISM: REFOCUSING
THE CIRCUMCISION DEBATE (forthcoming in Africa World Press). 

I have written extensively on Sudanese art and have curated and co-curated
art exhibition that have been on Sudan or multicultural/multimedia arts in
the U.S. 

I serve on editorial boards and on the boards of various community
organizations serving women and women of color.  At UCLA I am on the
Faculty Advisory Committees for African Studies and Women's Studies and
serve on the Steering Committee of the African Studies Rockefeller
Institute for the Study of Gender in Africa.  I am President Elect of the
Association for Middle Eastern Women's Studies (AMEWS).

The courses I teach include Africa and Postcolonialism; Women and Social
Movements, Gender Systems, and Feminist Theories.  I am a recipient of the
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA.