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Jennifer Suchland, Assistant Professor

Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures: http://slavic.osu.edu/
Department of Women's Studies: http://womens-studies.osu.edu/

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Office Information
420 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: suchland.15@osu.edu
Fax: 614-688-3107

Office Hours:
Winter Quarter 2012: Wednesdays 10-12 and by appointment.

Education:
PhD (2005): Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin. Graduate Certificate (2005): Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin. MA (2005): Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin. BA (1996): Southwestern University, Department of Political Science (with Honors).

General Background:
I work with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of rights, law and political discourses. Thus far, my research has been preoccupied with questions of how rights-based categories emerge and evolve and what is at stake in those articulations. My current project is a genealogy of global political discourses on women's human rights looking specifically at sex trafficking and sexual harassment. I am interested in how rights norms developed at the global level and comparatively, looking specifically at Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Key Research Concepts: Genealogy; Sex Trafficking; Human Rights; Law; Gender; Geopolitics; Cold War; Feminist Methodologies; Postsocialist Cultural Studies; Theorizing the Global and Transnational. Select Recent Publications: "Is Postsocialism Transnational?", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Summer 2011. "Is there a Postsocialist Critique?" Journal of Personality, Culture, Society (in Russia), Summer 2011. “Contextualizing Discrimination: The Problem with Sexual Harassment in Russia,” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Vol. 29, Number 3, 2008.

Human Rights
Transnational Feminist Theories