Dr. Suzanne Spencer-Wood (Oakland University) and Dr. Jennifer Trunzo (Augusta University) are co-organizing a session for SHA 2018 in New Orleans, LA.  The session will address the intersectional aspects of identity. Papers should incorporate gender and how it intersects with other aspects of personal identity. Please see the abstract below.

If you would like to present, please email Jennifer Trunzo ([log in to unmask]) by Thursday June 29 at 5 pm with the following info:

Your preferred name
Email address
Academic Affiliation

Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Age, Religion, the Military, etc.
organized by Jennifer Trunzo and Suzanne Spencer-Wood

The framework of intersectionality was coined by Kimberlé  Williams Crenshaw for the intersections between racism and sexism, following theorizing and research on these intersections by Bell Hooks in 1984, Joan Smith in 1988, and others. In historical archaeology intersectionality was addressed without using that term in some conference papers starting with the 1989 SHA gender symposium organized by Suzanne Spencer-Wood. Intersectionality was the theme of the 1992 SHA symposium that became the 1994 volume "Those of little Note: Gender, Race and Class," edited by Elizabeth Scott. Intersectionality is being applied more broadly, but its theoretical foundation is the intersections of gender and other social dimensions, which is the focus of this symposium.


Sincerely,



Jennifer M. Trunzo, Ph.D.
Assoc. Prof. of Archaeology and Anthropology
Dept. of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
Augusta University
2500 Walton Way
Augusta, GA 30904
706-667-4562