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Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
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Director, Office of Nationally Competitive Awards (ONCA)
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29733
(803) 323-3906
disneyj@winthrop.edu
BIO
Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney, Associate Professor of Political Science at Winthrop
University since 2002, has recently been appointed Director of the new Office of
Nationally Competitive Awards (ONCA). Dr. Disney completed her Ph.D. with
distinction at The Graduate School and University Center of The City University
of New York (CUNY). Her dissertation, The Theories and Practices of Women’s
Organizing: Marxism, Feminism, Democratization, and Civil Society in Mozambique
and Nicaragua was awarded the American Political Science Association (APSA)
Women and Politics Best Dissertation Award in 2003, and a paper based on two
chapters of her dissertation was awarded the Christian Bay Award for the Best
New Political Science Paper presented at the APSA that same year. Dr. Disney’s
book manuscript based on her award-winning dissertation entitled, Women’s
Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua, is currently under
review.
Her areas of teaching, research, and scholarship are in the fields of
Comparative Politics and Political Theory, specifically in the areas of
Colonization and Development, Third World Feminisms, and Global Women’s
Movements. She teaches courses in Comparative Politics, Women and Global
Politics, African Politics, International Political Economy, and Social Movement
Politics and Political Protest. She is also an active member of her campus
community, serving on the Academic Council, the African American Studies
Committee, and the Women’s Studies Committee. Dr. Disney also serves as a
faculty advisor to several student groups, including Amnesty International
Winthrop Chapter, the Socialist Student Union, and the Blackmon Road Crew (BRC).
She is also President of the Board of Directors of A Place for Hope, the 501© 3
community resource center of the Blackmon Road Community of York County, South
Carolina. Under her leadership, the Board of Directors has raised $40,000 per
year in annual sponsorships for the next five years, totaling $200,000 in
support. Dr. Disney recently received a Presidential Community Service Award and
a Combining Service and Learning Award from Winthrop University for her work in
the Blackmon Road community, and for bringing that work into the classroom in
the form of engaged service learning.
Selected Publications
“Mozambique: Empowering Women Through Family Law,” in Hannah Britton and
Gretchen Bauer (eds.) Women in African Parliaments. Lynne Rienner Press, 2006.
“Incomplete Revolutions: Gendered Participation in Productive and Reproductive
Labor
in Mozambique and Nicaragua” in Gender and Globalization: Marxist-Feminist
Perspectives, a special edition of Socialism and Democracy, No. 35, Vol. 18, No.
1,
Winter/Spring 2004.
“Democratization, Civil Society, and Women’s Organizing in Post-Revolutionary
Mozambique and Nicaragua,” in New Politics, Vol. IX, No. 4, Winter 2003,
p.533-560.
“Democracy,” Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s
Issues and Knowledge, Routledge, 2001.
“Feminist Organizational ‘Success’: The State of U.S. Women’s Movement
Organizations in the 1990s,” co-authored with Joyce Gelb, Women and Politics,
vol 21 (4), 2000, pp. 39-76.
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(Office of Nationally Competitive Awards)