sarah-marie belcastro
Curriculum Vita of Women's Issues in the Sciences, May 2008

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Publications:

• Interpretations of Feminist Philosophy of Science by Feminist Physical Scientists, with J. M. Moran, NWSA Journal, 15 (1) Spring 2003, 20 - 33.
• Book Review: Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation, AWM Newsletter, 32 (4) July-August 2002, 7 - 12.
• Intervening Discourse about Feminist Physical Sciences and Mathematics, in revision.

Course:

Smith College, Interterm 2007. Critical Reading and Discussion: Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling.

Presentations:

• Women in Science and Mathematics: From Haverford Towards Tenure, panel organized (with J. Blue and L. Van Zee) and presented at Haverford College Reunion, May 2006
• How the way we ‘see’ mathematics changes mathematics, January 2006, MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio
• A Conjecture about... Feminist Mathematics?, January 2003, MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore
• Spoke to Dr. Mariah Birgen's Gender and Science class at Wartburg College, May 1999, on my experiences in graduate school and the feminist sociology of the physical sciences.

Study of Feminist Scholarship:

• FemSci: Five feminist scientists met electronically to discuss feminist science issues. Daughter group of Wisegrad, April 1997 - 2002
• Women's Studies Reading Group: met with a group of 9 faculty members from across UNI to study Judith Butler's Excitable Speech, Spring 2000
• Women In Science and Engineering--Graduate (Wisegrad): Seminar at the Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan; Group met to discuss topics such as the climate for women in the sciences, the possible existence of a feminist science, sociology and politics of science, and the future of graduate education, March 1995 - April 1997
• Independent Study on Women in Math and Science: Course of seven students run by Dr. Lyle Roelofs with the purpose of designing a Haverford College class on the historical, educational, career and climate issues of women in the sciences, Spring 1991

Service/Activism Activities:

• Associate Director, Center for Women in Mathematics at Smith College, July 2007 - present
• Women's Studies Social Action Project, UNI, May 1999 - 2001
• Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies Program, UNI, Sept. 1997 - 2001
• Women's Studies Advisory Board Member, UNI, Sept. 1998 - 2001
• Programming Committee of Women's Studies Program, UNI, Sept. 1997 - May 1999
• Women In Math and Science (WIMS): co-founder with six other women; in 1991 the group received The Edmund J. Lee Memorial Award for the student organization which has done the most to advance the interests of Haverford College during the current academic year, Sept. 1989 - April 1991.