5:00 pm, Monday October 11,2004
Haven Hall - 3512
Reception to follow

Dr. Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco is a Dominican political scientist based in Santo Domingo at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).  Her current research focuses on lesbian and gay Dominican and Dominican American activism and culture, and in this capacity she is editing an anthology of Dominican lesbian essays, the first of its kind.  Dr. Jiménez Polanco is the author of a book on Dominican politics, Los partidos políticos en la República Dominicana: actividad electoral y desarrollo organizativo [Political Parties in the Dominican Republic: Electoral Activity and Organizational Development] (Santo Domingo: Editora Centenario, 1999) and has written on other topics such as Latin American women’s political participation.  During the 1990s, she was a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women’s Studies Program, and the Lesbian Gay Queer Research Initiative.

For more information please contact Prof. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes at lawrlafo@umich.edu.