Biography
Enloe spent her early life on Long Island in a New York suburb. After completing her undergraduate education at Connecticut College in 1960 (which, Enloe reports in The Curious Feminist, had one of the highest rates amongst colleges in the American Northeast of married female students), she went on to earn an M.A. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1967 in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. For much of her professional life she taught at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Having retired from Clark, Enloe is a research professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment. She is a former Director of Clark University’s Women Studies program and still a frequent and energetic lecturer. In addition to serving as an editor for such scholarly journals as Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Cynthia Enloe has written nine books, mostly published by the University of California Press. Much of Enloe’s research centers on women’s place in national and international politics. Her books cover a wide range of issues encompassing gender-based discrimination as well as racial, ethnic and national identities.
She lives in Boston with partner Joni Seager
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