Core Faculty: Patricia Richards

Dr. Patricia Richards, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. Her book, Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State: Conflicts over Women’s Rights in Chile, was published in 2004 by Rutgers University Press. The book takes the case of Chile to examine how class and ethnic differences and inequalities among women are reflected in and reproduced by state structures intended to represent women's interests. In addition to her work in Chile, she has conducted field research in Ecuador and Bolivia. While at the University of Texas, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Latin American Sociology and won a University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her other recent publications include “Bravas, Integradas, Obsoletas: Mapuche Women in the Chilean Print Media,” in Gender & Society, 21(4): 553-578, 2007, “Negotiating Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Mapuche Workers in the Chilean State,” in Social Forces, 85(3): 1319-1339, 2007. (Co-authored with Yun-Joo Park), and “The Politics of Gender, Human Rights, and Being Indigenous in Chile,” in Gender & Society 19(2): 199-220, 2005. Professor Richards is currently working on a book about intercultural relations in the context of struggles over resources and indigenous rights in Southern Chile. She is interested in documenting the ways that national identity and development ideologies are reproduced and reinterpreted at the local level, and how race/ethnicity, class, and gender hierarchies are articulated in the process.

Curriculum Vita

Mailing Address:
Department of Sociology
University of Georgia
314 Baldwin Hall
Athens GA 30602-1611