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Bailey Wins Strand Diversity Award
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Dr. Alison Bailey and President
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Alison Bailey, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women’s Studies Program, has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the David Strand Diversity Achievement Award atIllinois State. The Strand Award was established and endowed over ten years ago by President Emeritus David Strand to recognize an individual faculty or staff member who has been instrumental in extraordinary curriculum or program activities that assist the University in responding to its commitment to diversity. "Professor Bailey has been dedicated to improving society’s response to diversity for better than a decade, and her current activities demonstrate that this will continue to be a major goal for her,” said Dean Olson. “She has indeed had a strong and positive impact on diversity in the university community and will continue to do so. The College congratulates Professor Bailey on this recognition of her commitment to diversity.”

Bailey has also worked to establish opportunities for people to engage in diversity activities by serving as a regular organizer and host for the Midwest Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP). She has also increased opportunities for the ISU community to participate in diversity activities with a recent grant she was awarded to bring filmmaker Judith Helfand to ISU and IWU for a three-day lecture and film series as part of the Living Ethics Series. Bailey has been a member of many university communities involved with diversity issues, including the Underrepresented Groups Task Force, Women’s Studies Curriculum Committee, and the Committee for Multi-Cultural Concerns in University Studies. She is the founder of the Bloomington/Normal Clothesline Project, which is a visual display bringing community awareness to issues of violence against women and girls. In addition, Bailey has offered regular support to the Women’s Mentoring Network and Programming as well as to the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, the student feminist group on campus.  

Bailey was appointed Director of Women’s Studies in July of 2005. Her research interests include applied ethics, feminist theory, critical race theory, and political philosophy. She is the author of Posterity and Strategic Policy: A Moral Assessment of Nuclear Policy Options, which was the result of her anti-nuclear work in Colorado and Wyoming in the early 1980s and a six-month residency at Greenham Common Womyn’s Peace Camp in Newbury, England. Her most recent work examines cultural responses to racism, women of color’s critique of feminist movements, and whiteness studies. Bailey’s current research project explores issues of the intersections of race and epistemolgies of ignorance. In addition, Bailey is currently co-editing a special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosphy focusing on race and reproduction with Jacqueline Zita, as well as co-editing Feminism and Philosophy: An Introductory Reader with Chris Cuomo to be published by McGraw Hill. Her research on gender and race privilege has appeared in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, The Journal of Social Philosophy, and Feminist Ethics Revisted. Bailey earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Cincinnati.  

Past recipients of the Strand Diversity Achievement Award are Dr. Nancy Tolson (English), Dr. Christopher Horvath (Philosophy and Biological Sciences), Dr. Kim Pereira (Theatre), Ms. Marilyn Boyd (International Studies), Dr. María Canabal (Family and Consumer Sciences), Ms. Madeline Hoss (Thomas Metcalf School), Dr. Ming-Gon John Lian (Special Education), Dr. Maura Toro-Morn (Sociology and Anthropology), Dr. Louis Perez (History), Dr. Ronald Strickland (English), Dr. Julia Visor (University Center for Learning Assistance), and Dr. Savario Mungo (Curriculum and Instruction).

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