Gloria Bowles (link to: http://www.gloriabowles.net/)
UCB Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, First Coordinator UCB Women's Studies Program
In 1973, when she was a graduate student in Comparative Literature, Gloria Bowles worked to create a women's studies program at UCB and in that same year became its first coordinator, initiating the process of course development. She is the author of Theories of Women's Studies (1983) and Living Ideas: A Memoir of the Tumultuous Founding of Berkeley Women's Studies (2009), available on her website.
Arlie Hochschild (link to: http://www.asanet.org/about/awards/bernard/hochschild.cfm)
UCB Emerita Professor of Sociology and Affiliate of the Women's Studies Program
In the early 1970's, when Arlie Hochschild was a UCB Assistant Professor, she started the women's caucus in sociology and helped found the women's studies program. Her books include The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Commercialization of Intimate Life, and the co-edited Global Woman.
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Great Britain was the major imperialist power of the mid-19th century, and its holdings included huge swaths or North America and Canada as well as large investments in Latin America, including Mexico. Given its interests in the Western Hemisphere on the one hand, and its military prowess on the other, why did Great Britain go along with the United States' expansionist moves toward Mexico? In an era when the U.S. was still a wannabe "Great Power," how did the upstart nation double its size at the expense of Mexico with the apparent assent of the dominant powers of that time?
Alex Saragoza is an associate professor of History in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.