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PhD Students - Ayana K. Weekley

E-mail: week0030@umn.edu

Education
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, May 2002
Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri

Awards
Fall 2003 Philanthrophy and Human Rights Fellowship, Otto Bremer Foundation
Fall 2003 Helen Hawthorne Hartung Fellowship
Fall 2002 MacArthur Scholars Fellowship

Research interests
Black Feminism, HIV/AIDS: AIDS and globalization; representations of AIDS in the media; national and international discourses of the pandemic; AIDS among African American communities

Community and/or University Activities

2004-2005 Foundation Board Member for Naral Pro- Choice Minnesota
2003-2004 Graduate Committee Representative, Feminist Studies
2002-2003 COGS Representative, Feminist Studies

Publications or Presentations: N/A

Courses Taught (Instructor or as TA)

Spring 2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant, WOST 1002 Politics of Sex, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fall 2004 Graduate Teaching Assistant, WOST 1003 Women Write the World, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Spring 2004 Graduate Teaching Assistant, WOST 1002 Politics of Sex, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Favorite Course and Why?
Politics of Sex. I enjoyed TAing for this course both times because it continues to ground me in the core ideas of Feminist Studies. The course discusses the interrelation between sex, sexuality, gender, gender roles, gender identity, etc. We encounter these concepts in our daily lives so the students and I frequently used current events as a way to apply what we were learning in class.

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