Vania Brightman

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    Graduate Student
    1058 Social Sciences
    brigh009@umn.edu

    Education
    Colorado State University
    1998 MA in Political Science
    (Comparative Politics, Eastern Europe in particular, and Environmental Policy)
    Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies
    Thesis: Intersections of Women and International Environmental Relations: The Creation of a Feminist Framework and its Application to Rio and Beijing.

    University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
    1994 BA in Political Science, Latvian Studies

    Interest Areas and Experiences
    Sociology of Culture
    Sociology of Gender
    Sociology of the Environment
    Sociological Theory - social movements and Feminism

    I am particularly interested in the issue-areas of human trafficking and prostitution and the "selling of the body" and "bodies as tools" in their most general sense. Additionally, I am interested in international environmental issues and particularly the ways in which these issues intersect with gender.

     October 11th, 2005

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