Democratic Women's Caucus Director of the Women In Politics Reading Group
Julie Thomas
Julie Thomas has taught in Gender Studies since 1997. She recently completed her PhD in Russian History and Gender Studies at Indiana University, with the dissertation “International Intercourse: Establishing the Global Discourse on Birth Control in the Interwar Era”. Julie has traveled extensively - including research trips to Russia and participation in a faculty exchange program in 2000 (to teach women’s studies in the American Studies program) with the American University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). Her areas of focus in gender studies include the construction of gender in the international arena and relationship violence prevention programming. As an active volunteer in the community, Julie is involved with: Middle Way House as an on-scene victim’s advocate and as a member (and past President) of the Board of Directors; Indiana Equality (as a member of the South Central Indiana Steering Committee). In addition, she serves as the faculty advisor for two student groups at Indiana University: Friends of Middle Way House and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. Julie has two projects in progress: a data study of the Monroe County Prosecutor’s response to violence against women; and an article on the research, development, and provision of birth control in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.