CGS Staff
- Jane Dailey
Interim Director, 2009-2010
- Email: dailey@uchicago.edu
Jane Dailey is Associate Professor History and the College. Her first book, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), analyzed the conditions that facilitated and, ultimately, undid interracial democracy in the post-Civil War South. An edited collection, Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (Princeton University Press, 2000, with Glenda E. Gilmore and Bryant Simon), continued the theme of African American resistance to white domination from Reconstruction through the 1950s. A third book, The Age of Jim Crow: A Norton Documentary History (Norton, 2008), examines the creation and dissolution of legal segregation in America through primary sources. The recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Academy in Berlin and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Prof. Dailey is currently finishing a book on race, sex and the civil rights movement from emancipation to the present that will be published by Harcourt. She is also writing the second volume of The American Republic, a two-volume textbook on United States history for Bedford Books. A graduate of Yale and Princeton, Prof. Dailey taught at Rice University and Johns Hopkins before joining the University of Chicago in 2006.
- Stuart Michaels
Assistant Director of Curriculum and Development; Undergraduate Program Chair
- Email: stuartm@uchicago.edu
Stuart got his PhD in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1997 and teaches sections of GNDR 10100 & 10200, the Center's core courses in gender & sexuality studies. In 2005 Stuart was designated the Undergraduate Program Chair. Together with the chair of the Curriculum Committee, Stuart is leading a new initiative to review and develop the Gender Studies curriculum. Stuart managed the large University of Chicago-generated national survey of sexuality in the early 1990s and is a co-author of The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1994), for which he wrote the chapter on homosexuality. Afterwards, he lived and worked in France for four years, where he pursued comparative research on sexuality and homosexuality in the U.S. and France. His current research is on the relation between quantification and the development of gay identity. Stuart has a long history of involvement in queer politics.
- Gina Olson
Assistant Director for Programming and Administration
- Email: golson@uchicago.edu
Gina has been the Assistant Director for Programming and Administration at the Center for Gender Studies since July 2000. She initiates or plays a key role in organizing most of the Center's conferences, lectures, and other programs while also overseeing the administration and operation of the Center.
She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and minor degrees in Women's Studies and Ethnic and Cultural Studies from Illinois State University in 1991. She also chaired the local affiliate and served on the national steering committee of the Progressive Student Network.
Upon graduation, Gina worked with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) in Chicago, first as an organizer and fundraiser, and later as the Midwest Regional Director from 1993-1995. In addition, she chaired the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Caucus of CISPES, led a women's delegation to El Salvador for the VI Encuentro Centro-Americano de Mujeres, and played a leadership role in the organization's internal anti-oppression work.
Her interest in women's health and HIV prevention brought her to the Chicago Department of Public Health as a public health administrator, where she supervised patient education programs, distribution of safer sex materials, and data systems in the city-wide STD clinics. Later she joined the Midwest development office of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an international peace and justice organization.
Gina was a co-founder of the local activist group Queer to the Left and co-wrote and co-designed "It's Time to End the Gay Rights Movement as We Know It." Gina has volunteered with Women in the Director's Chair, a media-arts/activist group where she served on the Board of Directors from 1997-2001. She has served on film selection juries for the Chicago International Film Festival and the Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival and has participated in curating events of the Women in the Director's Chair International Film and Video Festival.
Office Assistants
- Melissa Rosenzweig
Events Coordinator
- Email: mrosenzw@uchicago.edu
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