Research Awards: Patricia Richards

Patricia Richards, a core faculty member of the Institute for Women's Studies, has been awarded a Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship for the 2005 - 2006 year. The CHA Research Fellowship Program supports University of Georgia Faculty engaged in humanities research or artistic creation or performance by facilitating release time from teaching.

Dr. Richards, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. Her recent book, Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State: Conflicts over Women’s Rights in Chile, was published in 2004 from 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 extensive 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 2002-2003 University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her other recent publications include “Expanding Women’s Citizenship? Mapuche Women and Chile’s National Women’s Service,” in Latin American Perspectives 30(2): 41-65, 2003, and "Reviving Social Rights in Latin America: The Potential Role of International Human Rights Documents," in Citizenship Studies 4(2): 189-206, 2000. Her research continues to focus on the gendered and ethnically structured aspects of national identity.