TrAIN

Visiting Fellow - Tate/Train Visiting Fellow - Fullbright Visiting Distinguished Chair

Ethel Brooks is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University. She is currently the 2011-2012 US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of the Arts London. Brooks is the author of Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), which received the award for Outstanding Book for 2010 from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is co-editor of the special issue of WSQ on "Activisms,” (2007) and editor of the forthcoming “Comparative Symposium on Romani Feminisms” for Signs. She has contributed articles to a number of academic journals, including Nevi Sara Kali and International Working Class History, as well as book chapters in Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective (2003) and Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas (2007).

She is currently working on two book projects: Disrupting the Nation: Land Tenure, Productivity and the Possibilities of a Romani Post-Coloniality, and (Mis)Recognitions and (Un)Acknowledgements: Visualities, Productivities and the Contours of Romani Feminism, both of which focus on political economy, gender and racial formations, cultural production and the increasing violence against Romani (Gypsy) citizens worldwide. Her op-eds on the treatment of Romani people in various European countries have recently appeared in the UK’s Guardian.

We would like to welcome Dr Ethel Brooks, Fullbright Visiting Distinguished Chair, to TrAIN and CCW.