2007-2008

Gratzia Villarroel will be a Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar during the 2007- 2008 academic year. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of International Studies at St. Norbert College De Pere, Wisconsin. Dr. Villarroel’s scholarship focuses on the interplay of gender, class and race and the impact that these variables have on the political participation of women in Latin America. Her publications include Bolivia: Women's Rights, the International Women's Convention, and State Compliance in Women's Rights: A Global View and Women, Adamocracy and the Bolivian Social Revolution in Women and Revolution in the Third World. While at Harvard she will work on her manuscript entitled, In the Footsteps of Bartolina Sisa: Bolivian Indigenous Women, Evo Morales and the Bolivian Indigenous Revolution.