02/14/2011
A SUNY Cortland geography professor will explore the connection between female workers and the distance they must travel to work in large cities, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at the College.
Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo a 2010 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities recipient, will present “Do Women Work Close to Home? Gender, Race and the Journey to Work in the U.S.,” at 4:30 p.m. in Moffet Center, Room 2125.
The lecture continues the 2010-11 Rozanne M. Brooks Lecture Series, which are all free and open to the public. A reception to welcome Johnston-Anumonwo starts at 4 p.m. in the Rozanne M. Brooks Museum, located in Moffett Center, Room 2126.
A 23-year faculty member, Johnston-Anumonwo has distinguished herself in the fields of urban geography, African studies and geographic education. Her areas of interest encompass gender, race, transportation, urban employment issues, gender and development and multiculturalism.
Having conducted research on commuting in various U.S. metropolitan areas, she will attempt to reframe the scholarly inquiry about if and why female workers have shorter commutes than men.
“Taking into consideration widespread patterns of defacto racial residential segregation across the metropolitan U.S., I use a framework that emphasizes place-specific analyses and incorporates changes over time and across places,” Johnston-Anumonwo said. “Evidence from different cities sheds light on the key issues that are essential for a thorough assessment of the significance and implications of persistent research findings about gender and racial inequalities in employment access in the modified contemporary U.S. metropolitan context.”
Johnston-Anumonwo has co-authored and co-edited four books and has contributed nine chapters in public books that serve as texts in classrooms both on and off the SUNY Cortland campus. Her research findings appear in journals in her discipline.
A dynamic and popular speaker and recipient of numerous travel grants, she has made more than 54 presentations at statewide, national and international conferences on topics ranging from gender and ethnicity to human geography and geographic education.
Johnston-Anumonwo holds a B.Ed. in teacher education from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and an Ed.M. with a concentration in international development from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She earned her Ph.D. from Clark University where her dissertation study focused on “A Geographic Perspective on Occupational Segregation.”
The Brooks lecture series honors the late Rozanne Marie Brooks, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and SUNY Cortland professor emerita of sociology and anthropology. A SUNY Cortland faculty member for 36 years, she died in 1997. The 2010-11 Brooks Lecture Series is sponsored by a grant from Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) and the Cortland College Foundation.
For more information, contact the lecture series organizer and Brooks Museum Director Sharon R. Steadman at (607) 753-2308 or sharon.steadman@cortland.edu.