Faculty / Staff
Gale Summerfield
Associate Professor of Human and Community Development
Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
320 International Studies Building, MC-480
105 South Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: (217) 333-1977
Fax: (217) 333-6270
E-mail: summrfld@illinois.edu
Education
Education
Ph.D. 1986, University of Michigan, Economics
M.A. 1979, University of Michigan, Economics and in Chinese Studies
B.A. 1975, University of Michigan, Asian Studies and Music Literature (With Highest Distinction)
Research Interests
Gender, human security, and transnational migration.
My research focuses on gender, development and globalization issues including strategies to improve conditions during economic and financial crises. I have written on gender aspects of reforms in China and other developing countries, risk and international economic crises, transnational care work, and cross-border sourcing. Current projects focus on human security issues of immigrants and their host communities in small townsa and rural areas of the Midwest in the U.S., gender issues in China since WTO accession, and equity in the global labor market.
I am the director of Women and Gender in Global perspectives program (WPPG) that offers an interdisciplinary graduate minor in Gender Relations in International Development (GRID) and sponsors seminars and symposia at UI (for more information see: http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp/ ).
I am especially interested in working with students interested in gender equity, migration, and family impacts of globalization.
Selected Publications
Summerfield, G., & Jaquette, J. (Eds.) (2005). Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization: Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Jaquette, J., & Summerfield, G. (Eds.) (2005). Gender Equity and Land Reform in Rural China. In Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Summerfield, G., Aslanbeigiu, N., & Pressman, S. (Eds.) (2003). Toward Gender Equity: Strategies and Policies. Special issue of International Journal of Politics, culture and Society, 16 (3).
Summerfield, G. (Guest ed.). (2001). Risks and rights in the 21st century. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 15.
Aslanbeigui, N, & Summerfield, G. (2001). Risk, gender, and development in the 21 st century. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 15, 7-26.
Summerfield, G. (2001). Gender and development: Transforming the process. In B.N.Ghosh (Ed.), Contemporary Issues in Development Economics (pp. 57-69). Routledge.
Summerfield, G. (2001). Ester Boserup. In the International encyclopedia of behavioral and social sciences.
Aslanbeigui, N, & Summerfield, G. (2000). The Asian crisis, gender, and the international financial architecture. Feminist Economics, 6, 81-103.
Pressman, S., & Summerfield, G. (2000). The economic contributions of Amartya Sen. Review of Political Economy, 12, 89-113.
Tinker, I., & Summerfield, D. (Eds). (1999). Women's rights to house and land: China, Laos, Vietnam. Lynne Rienner Publishers: Boulder.
Pyle, J., & Summerfield, G. (1999). Economic restructuring. In J. Peterson and M. Lewis (Eds.), The Elgar companion to feminist economics (pp. 289-302). Edward Elgar Publishers: Cheltenham, UK.
Summerfield, G. (1997). Economic transition in China and Vietnam: Crossing the poverty line is just the first step for women and their families, Review of Social Economy, 55, 201-14.
Awards and Honors
2003-2004 Chancellor's Initiative on International and National Policy, UI, with team of researchers, Gender and Human Security of Mexican Immigrants in Illinois
2003-2004 Chancellor's Initiative on Humanities in a Globalizing World, UI, with team of researchers, Gender and Human Security of Mexican Immigrants in Illinois
1994 Winner of the Helen Potter Award from the Association of Social Economics for Best Article in 1994: "Effects of the Changing Employment Situation on Urban Chinese Women," Review of Social Economy, 52 (1), Spring 1994: 40-59.
1991 Guest speaker invited by the Chinese Ministry of Finance for the International Conference on Price Reform in Xi'an, China.
Courses Taught
HCD 592: GRID Research Methods
HCD 595G: Gender Roles in International Development