Background:
Well, I'm from Queens, New York originally, and took graduate degrees at Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Areas of interest: History of Africa, medical history, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, ethics.

Interests/Activities:
I have a book, --Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria--coming out from the University of California Press later this year. I am very involved with the CWRU Women's Studies Program, for which I serve as advisor. I am also interested in modern dance.

Comments:
My impression of the program is that it has already accomplished some spectacular things in a short time, but is also still experimenting with its identity. Bringing in Cornel West and several other very exciting speakers has been great. I have been involved with the terrific senior projects by Annemarie Strassel and Sheira Schlair, and these seem to me to embody the program's potential. I became involved with the program because of the opportunity to work with especially dynamic, thoughtful, motivated students.