The Transformation Project is kicking off its new "Green Dot" Campaign
which is a social norms campaign designed to increase awareness of
violence against women on campus.  As a part of that effort, there will
be a curriculum integration project on March 21 from 1-4 in the Raccoon
Mountain Room.   This session is designed specifically for faculty who
are interested in learning more about integrating violence against women
in their courses.  No experience or knowledge base is required to
attend, just a desire to learn more about the issue and ways to teach
about it.  

The session will be led by a nationally known expert in the field, Dr.
Joanne Belknap.  She is a Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender
Studies at the University of Colorado.  Dr. Belknap has numerous
scholarly publications, most of which involve violence against women and
girls and female offenders.  Dr. Belknap recently published the third
edition of her book The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice.
She has secured almost a million dollars in grant money to conduct
research on women, girls, and crime (as a principal or co-principal
investigator).  Recent and forthcoming empirical publications are about
college campus fraternity rapes, the court processing of woman battering
cases, delinquent girls transferred to adult court, a gender comparison
of delinquent girls' and boys' trauma histories, and focus groups with
delinquent girls and those who work with them in Ohio and Colorado. She
has served on state advisory boards for female offenders and women in
prison, on U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's Violence Against Women
Committee, and gave expert testimony to the Warren Christopher
Commission investigating the Rodney King police brutality incident in
Los Angeles.  Dr. Belknap is the recipient of the1997 national award
"Distinguished Scholar of the Division on Women and Crime" of the
American Society of Criminology and won the Student-Nominated University
of Colorado Teaching Award in 2001 for her class "Violence Against Women
and Girls."  She is the past Chair of the Division on Women and Crime of
the American Society of Criminology.   Finally, Dr. Belknap is the 2004
recipient of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Award, the most
prestigious teaching award at the University of Colorado. 

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Sara Peters (x
5605).

 
Sara K. Peters
Women's Center Director
Coordinator for Education and Advocacy
The Transformation Project
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University Center, Room 334
Department 3203
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
Phone: 423-425-5605
 

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