WiSE at Duke

Angela Johnson - recommended by Erica

Hi Tong and PC members,
I don't know why this idea didn't occur to me before but here goes:
I would like us to consider bringing Angela Johnson in as a WiSE speaker. She's a professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland in Education, but she works on issues relating to retention of women and minorities in science and higher education. She particularly works with minority groups (so we could consider getting some other group to co-sponsor it), and she's thought a lot about what allows women and minorities to succeed in science or not, and about the culture of science and how that affects the demographics of science. Basically, she's an ethnographer of minorities in science, and I think this viewpoint could be very interesting to WiSE. While most of our speakers can only speak about their personal experience in science, she's someone who actually researches how women navigate their way through science. I know her quite well from my undergraduate years, and I think she would be an excellent speaker.
Anyways, I thought I should bring her up before I forget again!
--Erica

posted by Tong @ 9:35 PM