Dr. Patricia Richards
(Curriculum
Vitae) Dr. Patricia Richards, Associate Professor
of Sociology and Women's
Studies, has been at the University of Georgia
since 2002. She is an affiliated faculty member with
the Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Institute
of Native American Studies. She received a Ph.D.
in Sociology from University of Texas - Austin in 2002.
Her specialty areas include sociology of gender; global
sociology; race, class and gender; social movements,
and qualitative methodology.
Dr. Richards's book, Pobladoras, Indígenas and the State: Conflicts Over Women's Rights in Chile, was recently published by Rutgers University Press. In the book, she examines how state policy shapes the promotion of women's interests but at the same time contribute to the marginalization of particular classes and racial-ethnic groups. The book contributes to understandings of how actors who differ by gender, class, and race/ethnicity are articulated into the nation under reestablished democracies.
In Dr. Richards's current research, she continues to focus on the gendered and ethnically structured aspects of national identity. She is conducting an ethnographic study of racial-ethnic relations in two Chilean localities in the context of the struggle for indigenous rights. 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.
Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants
2008. Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Georgia.
2007. Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Georgia
2004. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship, University of Georgia
2004. M. G. Michael Award for New Initiatives in Research, University of Georgia
Selected Publications
Richards, Patricia. 2007. “Bravas, Integradas, Obsoletas: Mapuche Women in the Chilean Print Media,” Gender & Society, 21(4): 553-578.
Richards, Patricia and Yun-Joo Park. 2007. “Negotiating Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Mapuche Workers in the Chilean State,” Social Forces, 85(3): 1319-1339.
Richards, Patricia. 2006. "The Politics of Difference and Women's Rights: Lessons from Pobladoras and Mapuche Women in Chile." Social Politics.
Richards, Patricia. 2005. "The Politics of Gender, Human Rights, and Being Indigenous in Chile." Gender & Society 19:199-220.
Richards, Patricia. 2004. Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State : Conflicts Over Women's Rights in Chile. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Contact Information
Department of Sociology
314 Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
706-542-3235 (office)
706-542-4320 (fax)
plr333@uga.edu
