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Denise Walsh
Denise Walsh is Assistant Professor of Politics and Studies in Women and Gender. She received her M.A. from
Columbia University and her Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. Walsh was a co-winner of the
Journal of Southern African Studies 2006 Best Article Prize. Her dissertation, "Just Debate: Culture and
Gender Justice in the New South Africa," received the Best Dissertation Prize for the Women in Politics
Research Section of the American Political Science Association in 2007. During the 2008-09 academic year,
Walsh was in residence at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, where
she completed her first book, Is Democracy Bad for Women? Walsh’s research focuses on how states
respond to demands for women’s rights. Her first book analyzes outcomes on women’s rights in Poland, Chile and
South Africa, and argues that the quality of democracy is crucial for advancing gender justice. Walsh’s
second book project, Rejecting the Culture versus Women’s Rights Dilemma, will investigate state responses
to competing claims for women’s rights and cultural rights in countries with dual legal systems. Walsh
received the UVA Lantern Society Award for Leadership in Women’s Education in 2007, and teaches courses on
gender in developing countries, multiculturalism and women’s rights, the public-private binary and radical
democratic politics, and gender politics in Africa.
Address:
Studies in Women and Gender
216A Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
dmw3v@virginia.edu
(434) 982-2131
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