KAREN GARNER
Director of the Women’s Center, Florida International University


Karen Garner directs the Women’s Center at Florida International University. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin . Her research interests include women’s history, U.S. international relations, and modern East Asia. Her current research project-- “Women and Global Leadership: Theory and Practice in the World YWCA, 1925-2000” --analyzes the separate but related problems of women’s global leadership and the challenges in building global feminism over the course of the 20th century. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University in Lithuania, 2003, and published her first book, Precious Fire, Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution, also in 2003.


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