Gender and Women's Studies Program

Wendy Kozol is a professor of Comparative American Studies. Her research and teaching interests include feminist theories and methodologies, visual culture studies, transnationalism and popular media, citizenship, militarization, and human rights activism. Kozol is the author of Life’s America: Family and Nation in Postwar Photojournalism (Temple 1994). She has co-edited two anthologies with Wendy Hesford (The Ohio State University): Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the ‘Real’ (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Just Advocacy: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Representation (Rutgers University Press, 2005). Her new book project is titled Visible Wars and American Nationalism: Militarization and Visual Culture in the Post-Cold War Period. Most recently, she published an article in Peace Review, titled “Visual Witnessing and Women’s Human Rights.”

Current Courses:

CAST 202: Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality
CAST/EAS 241: Living with the Bomb
CAST 300: Feminist Research Methodologies
CAST 407: Picturing War

Wendy Kozol

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	Wendy Kozol Professor (1992) Rice Hall 112 440-775-6679 Wendy.Kozol@oberlin.edu
B.A., Oberlin College, 1980 M.A., University of California, L.A., 1986 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1990
Wendy Kozol is a professor of Comparative American Studies. Her research and teaching interests include feminist theories and methodologies, visual culture studies, transnationalism and popular media, citizenship, militarization, and human rights activism. Kozol is the author of Life’s America: Family and Nation in Postwar Photojournalism (Temple 1994). She has co-edited two anthologies with Wendy Hesford (The Ohio State University): Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the ‘Real’ (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Just Advocacy: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Representation (Rutgers University Press, 2005). Her new book project is titled Visible Wars and American Nationalism: Militarization and Visual Culture in the Post-Cold War Period. Most recently, she published an article in Peace Review, titled “Visual Witnessing and Women’s Human Rights.” Current Courses: CAST 202: Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality CAST/EAS 241: Living with the Bomb CAST 300: Feminist Research Methodologies CAST 407: Picturing War

Wendy Kozol

Site designed and maintained by: Linda Pardee

Updated 04/07/2008

Site designed and maintained by:
Linda Pardee