Q & A with Sally Engle Merry
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Sally Engle Merry, a senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women
(WCW), is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Law and
Society Program at New York University. Previously, at Wellesley
College, she was Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas
and professor of anthropology. Her primary areas of research include
the rule of law in various contexts of community life and the
adaptation of international standards of human rights to life in local
communities.
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Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents
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Two years ago, scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW)
launched a study of racial and ethnic identification among adolescents
of mixed ancestry. The reasons for pursuing the research were several.
Most literature about ethnic/racial self-identification patterns
derived from adult respondents. For example, the series of studies that
led to the change in wording of racial self-identification in the 2000
Census was carried out with adults.
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Update on Work to Empower Children for Life
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The Robert S. and Grace W. Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives Grant
Program, Empowering Children for Life, was established at the Wellesley
Centers for Women (WCW) in 2003. This program provided support for
research and evaluation that advance understanding the role of
relationships in fostering child and adolescent well-being and healthy
human development. Researchers from across the country were invited to
submit proposals for funding to support dissertation research or larger
research projects.
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Dual-Trauma Couples: Why Do We Need to Study Them?
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The notion of the intergenerational transmission of abuse has been
accepted for some time. Both research and our own observations lead us
to expect that having been abused or neglected or having witnessed
violence between parents as a child will contribute to an individual’s
increased risk to abuse or neglect one’s own child or to be involved in
an abusive relationship as an adult.
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SEED Project Moves Educational Equity and Diversity Forward
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Twenty-two years ago, Peggy McIntosh founded a teacher professional
development project to work for gender equity in schools. She thought
of it as an experiment in faculty-led faculty development – empowering
teachers to work within their own schools, and within themselves, for
change.
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