East Lansing, MI 48825-1210
Ph.D., University of Chicago; Sociology
Professor
Professor See specializes in comparative race and ethnic relations, social stratification, gender relations, and political sociology. She has written First World Nationalisms: Class and Ethnic Politics in Northern Ireland and Quebec. With Professor Linda Racioppi, she has completed Women’s Activism in Contemporary Russia 1998.
She was a Rockefeller Fellow in Human Rights, received an MSU 1980 Teacher Scholar Award, a research award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a 1991 State of Michigan Teaching Excellence Award, the 1992 Mid-Michigan Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and a 1997 MSU Distinguished Faculty Award and has received several national grants.
Professor Katie See is the recipient of the Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students, an award given annually to a faculty or staff member who has made exceptional contributions to Honors College students through teaching, advising, or mentoring. The recipient receives an honorarium of $1,000.
Linda Racioppi and Katie See co-edited "Gender Politics in Post-Communist Eurasia," published by MSU Press. Reflecting on two decades of experience, "Gender Politics in Post-Communist Eurasia" offers new and important insights into contemporary global gender politics by leading scholars from Central Asia, Europe, and the United States - into the contemporary dynamics of gender politics in a critical area of the world.
Linda Racioppi and Kate See organized a workshop on "Gender and Politics in Post-Communist Eurasia." The workshop was held at Koç University, Istanbul, in June, and brought together leading scholars from Russia, Central Asia, Turkey, Europe and the United States to explore significant aspects of gender politics in the post-communist period. Participants included Ayse Ayata (Middle East Technical University), Mary Buckley (Cambridge University), Eleonora Faizullaeva (Uzbek State World Languages University), Timur Koçaoglu (Koç University), Eniko Magyari Vincze (Babes-Bolyai University), Nadezhda Shvedova (USA-Canada Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences), Zulaikho Usmanova (Khujand State University), and Madison graduate, Amanda Sloat (National Democratic Institute, Washington DC). Papers took up such issues as human trafficking, the impact of EU accession on women in Eastern Europe, the interplay of ethnicity and gender in public policy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the gender effects of labor migration in Central Asia, the interaction between state-based women's organizing and international feminist activism. Professors See and Racioppi will be editing the papers and writing an introductory essay for a volume that will be published by MSU Press.
Professors Linda Racioppi and Katie See co-authored an article, "Engendering Democratic Transition from Conflict: Women's Inclusion in Northern Ireland's Peace Process," which was published in the January 2006 issue of Comparative Politics.
Linda Racioppi and Katie See will be presenting a paper on "Women's Political Mobilization in Ethnic Conflicts" at the annual meeting of the Mid-West Political Science Association in Chicago this April.
With the support of the College and the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Linda Racioppi and Katie See are coordinating a workshop to be held this summer (June 28-30) at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. The workshop "Gender and Transitions in Post-communist Societies" will bring together leading scholars from Europe, the U.S. and Eurasia to examine both case studies that address women’s political, economic and social positions and activism in particular societies and regional/transnational analyses on such matters as EU accession, ethnic and religious conflict and mobilizations, and human trafficking Among the participants will be JMC alum, Amanda Sloat.
Professor See (and Professor Racioppi) presented a paper, "Springing into Politics? How Have Women Been Engaged in the Renewal of Democracy in Northern Ireland?" at the Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, April 2005).
