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Gale Summerfield
Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 1986 RESEARCH
INTERESTS My research focuses on gender,
development and human security issues including strategies to support capabilities during economic and financial crises. I have written on gender
aspects of reforms in China and other developing countries, global economic crises, transnational migration, biofuels and food security. Current projects focus on human security issues of migrants
and their host communities in small towns and rural areas of the Midwest
in the US;, employment and land rights in China since WTO accession, and equity in
the global labor market. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS G. Summerfield, S. Gasteyer, and K. Taylor. (Submitted). “Biofuels, Food, and Trade: Social Impacts on a Small Farming Community in Illinois.” Pressman, S. and G. Summerfield. 2009.“The Economic Contributions of Amartya Sen.” In S. Pressman, ed, Leading Contemporary Economists: Economics at the Cutting Edge, London and New York: Routledge: 66-98. Chen, J. and G. Summerfield. 2009. “Gender and Rural Reforms in China: A Case Study of Population Control and Land Rights Policies in Northern Liaoning,” Feminist Economics, 13 (3&4), 2007: 63-92 and Routledge reprint. Berik, G., X. Dong, and G. Summerfield, eds.. 2009. China's Economic Transition and Feminist Economics, (Chinese translation of special issue of Feminist Economics, China, Gender and the WTO, 2007), Beijing. Liu, H., L. Zhang, G. Summerfield, and Y. Shi. 2009. “A Gendered View of Reforming Health Care Access for Farmers in China,” China Agricultural Economic Review, 1 (2): 194-211. Arends-Kuenning, M., G. Summerfield, and P. León. 2008. “Financial Practices of Latino Immigrants in a Mid-Sized Midwest City: Lessons for Consumer Educators,” Journal of Consumer Education, 25: 32-45. Summerfield, G. 2007. “Gender, Transnational Migration, and Human Security,” Development, 50 (4): 13-18. Summerfield, G., J. Pyle, and M. Desai, eds. 2006. Globalizations,Transnational Migration and Gendered Care Work, symposium of papers, Globalizations, No.3, Vol.4. Jaquette, J. and G. Summerfield, eds. 2006. Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources and Mobilization, Durham NC: Duke University Press. Aslanbeigui, N., S. Pressman, and G. Summerfield, guest eds. 2003. Toward Gender Equity: Strategies and Policies, special issue of International
Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 16 (3), Spring. Summerfield, G., guest ed of special issue. 2001. Risks and Rights in the 21st Century, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 15 (1), Sept. AWARDS AND HONORS Resident Associate and Initiative Co-Chair, Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the Campus-Wide Interdisciplinary Initiative on Immigration: History and Policy [with James Barrett], 2008-09. Arnold O. Beckman Award for projects of special distinction, special promise, or special resource value, Research Board, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Biofuel Production in Persistently Poor Communities, 2009. Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security: Critical Issues of Gender, Food, and Environment, Workshop with Jurgen Scheffren, Madhu Khanna, and David Zilberman, funded by Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), 2008. Faculty Fellow, Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership, UI, 2006-07.
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