Dewi H. Susilastuti

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

1569 Patterson Office Tower

Phone: 257-4413
email: dsusi2@uky.edu

Areas of specialization

Gender & Development

Social inequality

Planning for Developing Areas

Political Islam

Indonesia, South-East Asia & Middle East

 Recent publications/Presentations

 “Female and foreign: the intersection of gender, class, race and citizenship in international migration” – paper presented at the Anthropologists & Sociologists of Kentucky conference, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, October 27-28, 2006

 Current Projects

 2007.  Susilastuti, Dewi.  “Voice from the margin: globalization and gender in developing areas” in Amy Lind (ed.) Battleground:  Women and Gender.  Greenwood Publication. This paper addresses how the impacts of globalization are different for men and women in developing areas (or “third world countries”)

 2007.  Susilastuti, Dewi (to be submitted for consideration for summer 2007 publication of Journal of Critical Planning).  “Women and Children Last: aid distribution in the aftermath of the Indonesian tsunami”. This paper focuses on how gender relations in Aceh, Indonesia affect social and spatial justice in tsunami devastated areas.