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'''WINIFRED POSTER: PhD -Lecturer at Washington University lecturing on...Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Career & Personal Interests

Winifred Poster received her bachelor’s degree from the prestigious Berkley University in California. She then went on to receive her PhD from Stanford University for Sociology. From then on she went to teach at Northwestern University as well as the University of Illinois.

Her research was focused on the rise of the global technology workforce. Winifred researched about how the rise of the global technology workforce impacts woman and the different ethnic groups around the world. Her studies then switched to learning about low income communities. Poster was fortunate because her research was made possible through grants from the National Science Foundation. She is also known for conducting some of the first in depth ethnographies of outsourcing by U.S. firms to India. Her interests, however, were not solely on ethnographies and the different ethnic groups. Poster was also interested in all aspects of global equalities. Some of these interests include race, class, gender and sexuality. She then went on to analyze how these interests affect employment, work-family dynamics and activism. Regionally her focus was on South Asia but also studied North Africa and Eastern Europe.

Currently Winifred Poster lectures at Washington University. She focuses on women, gender, and sexuality studies. “Recently, I am looking forward to mixing with the art of the world through the wonderful photographer and scholar Annu Palakunnathu Matthew," stated Poster. If you are interested in learning more about Matthew's work, please feel free to check out her website online.  The exhibit is named “Virtual Immigrants.”  This exhibit can be found in the in the Indian call centers section.  Poster has truly enjoyed teaching various lectures and discussions that relate to Matthew's photo installation exhibits at the URH and at Stockton College in New Jersey.

Poster would also suggest that individual’s feel free to check out the special issue of American Behavioral Scientist that she co-edited with George Wilson. This special issue was focused on race, class and gender in translational labor inequality. Some of the many people who contributed to this article include, Saskia Sassen, Arlie Hochschild, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Edna Bonacich, Lise Widding Isaksen, Sambasivan Uma Devi, Sabrina Alimahomed, Jake Wilson, Eileen Otis and Elizabeth Aranda.

Overall, if you would like to learn more about Winifred Poster please feel free to check out her website online at … http://artsci.wustl.edu/~women/wgs_w_poster.htm

Selected Publications

1) "Who's On the Line? Indian Call Center Agents Pose as Americans for U.S.-Outsourced Firms," Industrial Relations, 46(2):271-304. 2007.

2) "Saying 'Good Morning' in the Middle of the Night: The Reversal of Work Time in Globalized ICT Service Work." Pp. 55-112 in Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 17: Workplace Temporalities, edited by Beth Rubin. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. 2007.

3) "Work-Family Relations in Transnational Perspective: A View from High-Tech Firms in India and the United States," with Srirupa Prasad. Social Problems, 52(1):122-146. 2005.

4) "Organizational Change, Globalization, and Work-Family Programs: Case Studies from India and the United States." Chapter 7, pp. 173-209 in Work-Family Interface in International Perspective, edited by Steven Poelmans. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Press. 2005.

5) "Three Reasons for a Transnational Perspective on Work-Life Policy." Chapter 17, pp. 375-400, in Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives, edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Press. 2005.

6) "Dangerous Places and Nimble Fingers: Discourses of Gender Discrimination and Rights in Global Organizations." International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 15(1):77-105. 2001.

7) "Racialism, Sexuality, and Masculinity: Gendering the 'Global Ethnography' of the Workplace." Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society, 9(1):126-158. 2002.

8) "The Limits of Micro-Credit: Transnational Feminism and USAID Activities in the United States and Morocco," with Zakia Salime. Chapter 12, pp. 189-219, in Women’s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics, edited by Nancy A Naples and Manisha Desai. New York: Routledge. 2002.