Support Staff & Faculty of the Embrey Women's Human Rights Initiative

Our remarkable staff team bring their expertise to developing the Women’s Rights Initiative in addition to their ongoing administration of CWGS programs. Read about our staff team here: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/about/staff/list.php

In addition to our continuing staff team, we have two new positions and a new committee dedicated to guiding the work of the Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative. Our Project Director will coordinate and develop support infrastructure for initiating and continuing the varied interdisciplinary endeavors; our graduate student CWGS and Rapoport Center Human Rights Scholar will serve as liaison for CWGS and the Rapoport Center and will accomplish yearly projects; and the CWGS Grant Advisory Committee will collectively inform the focus of the Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative.

Kristen Hogan, Project Director, Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative

Kristen Hogan has experience as a literary activist teaching classes and workshops as well as organizing with non-profits, foundations, and academic programs. She served as co-manager and book buyer at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, then a board-run nonprofit bookstore with a feminist antiracist vision; she taught Women’s and Gender Studies and English at LSU Baton Rouge, where she co-founded a community and academy collaboration around queer antiracist performance; on her return to Austin, she began teaching for CWGS and fostering feminist information systems. She has a PhD in English with a Graduate Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies as well as an MS in Information Studies, both from UT Austin. To contact Kristen, email: hogank@austin.utexas.edu

Lydia Crafts Putnam, CWGS & Rapoport Center Human Rights Scholar, 2010-2011

Lydia Crafts Putnam graduated from Williams College in 2004 with a B.A. in English. Since she graduated, she has worked as a journalist for newspapers, public radio, and magazines. In 2008, she received her certificate in documentary from the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies. Lydia also worked for the Texas After Violence Project, an Austin-based non-profit organization that conducts qualitative research on capital punishment and violent crime. This fall she has begun to work on her Master’s at the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies where she hopes to research human rights issues affecting women in the U.S. and abroad.

Members, CWGS Grant Committee, 2010-2012

Barbara Harlow
Gloria González-López
Jeanette Herman
Kamala Visweswaran
Karen Engle
Kristen Hogan
Lindsey Schell
Mary Neuburger
Omi Osun Joni Jones
Susan Sage Heinzelman
T-Kay Sangwand
Yolanda Padilla