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SUNY Potsdam's Dr. Sullivan Catlin to present "Feeding the Communal Family"
10.01.09
SUNY Potsdam Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Heather Sullivan-Catlin will present a talk as part of SUNY Potsdam’s Anne Righton Malone Women’s and Gender Studies Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. in the eighth floor lounge of Raymond Hall.
Dr. Sullivan-Catlin’s presentation, “Feeding the Communal Family,” will be based on her recent sabbatical research on the role of common meals in cohousing communities.
Cohousing communities are cooperative neighborhoods where privately owned, individual households are clustered around a “common house” with shared facilities including a dining room for “common meals.”
The presentation examines the tension between community and family in one cohousing community and analyzes the extent to which communalizing meals helps balance household labor by gender.
Dr. Sullivan-Catlin also teaches courses for the Women’s and Gender Studies and Environmental Studies Programs. Her teaching and research interests include gender, families, social movements, community and sustainability as well as service-learning and other forms of experiential education.
Last year, she was honored with the SUNY Potsdam President’s Award for Excellence in Community Service. Her most recent publication is “Service Learning in Sociology: Replacing Hopelessness with Efficacy” in “Ideas That Work in College Teaching: The SUNY Potsdam Perspective” (2008, SUNY Press), edited by Dr. Robert Badger, SUNY Potsdam professor of geology.
The lecture is free, and the public is invited to attend.
Contact:
Heather Sullivan-Catlin
(315) 267-2570 | sullivha@potsdam.edu