Studies in Women & Gender
Mailing Address:
Studies in Women & Gender
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400172
Charlottesville, VA USA
22904-4172
Physical Address:
227 Minor Hall
Charlottesville, VA

People

Denise Walsh

Denise Walsh
Denise Walsh (PhD, New School for Social Research) is Associate Professor of Politics and Studies in Women and Gender. Her research focuses on the production of gender, ethnicity, and race, the struggle of subordinated groups to exercise political power, and their interaction with the state. Walsh’s current book project, Culture and Women’s Rights: the Contradictions of Intersectionality Policies in Liberal Democracies, investigates why policies addressing minority group rights and women’s rights in Canada, India, and South Africa rarely advance social justice. Walsh’s first book, Women’s Rights in Democratizing States: Just Debate and Gender Justice in the Public Sphere(Cambridge University Press, 2010), compares Chile, Poland, and South Africa, and finds that democratic institutions often obstruct advances in women’s rights.

Her forthcoming publications include a book chapter on quotas in South Africa and an article on women’s rights in Chile and South Africa for Comparative Political Studies. Walsh won the Best Dissertation Prize from the Women in Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association in 2007, and the Hannah Arendt Award in Politics from the New School for Social Research in 2006. She was a co-winner of the Best Article Prize from the Journal of Southern African Studies in 2006. Walsh’s research has been funded by the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, the Center for International Studies at the University of Virginia, and a series of University of Virginia Summer Research Grants. Walsh received the UVA Lantern Society Award for Leadership in Women’s Education in 2007. She teaches courses on identity and the state, gender politics in developing countries, gender and human rights, and gender politics in Africa.

Address:
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics and Studies in Women and Gender
P.O. Box 400787
S185 Gibson Hall S454
1540 Jefferson Park Avenue
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
denise@virginia.edu
(434) 982-2131