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Honorary Doctors at the Faculty of Social Sciences 2012
Professor Cynthia Enloe
Cynthia Enloe, professor at Clark University in the US, has played a decisive role in the major impact that gender studies now has in research on international relations.
She shows how norms of masculinity characterise both the global economy and relations between countries. Through studies of development, migration, international organisation, the tourism industry and the military she shows how sexist norms and violence put their mark on a number of phenomena within these areas.
Today, Cynthia Enloe’s books are required reading already at the undergraduate level at Lund University. Some of her most acclaimed works are Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Sense of International Politics (1989), Maneuvers: The international Politics of Militarizing Women´s lives (2007) and her book on the Iraq war, Nimo’s war, Emma’s war: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War.
Read more about Cynthia Enloe on Clark University's homepage (new window)
Professor Meric Gertler
Meric Gertler, professor and dean at the University of Toronto, has managed to combine work as an academic leader with qualified research. Among other things, he has developed economic geography research into innovation, labour markets and the significance of institutions for regional development.
In one of his most acclaimed works, Manufacturing Culture (2004), he studies the institutional differences between different corporate cultures and the significance of the geographical proximity of companies within the same sector, in so-called clusters. In spite of the fact that modern technology allows all manner of long-distance communication, physical and cultural proximity are often important for the effective transfer of knowledge.
Over the past ten years, Meric Gertler has had close contact with Lund University, as a visiting lecturer, as a member of a research team, as a faculty examiner in the public defence of theses and as a member of the board of CIRCLE, Lund’s centre for innovation research.
Read more about Meric Gertler on the University of Toronto's homepage (new window)
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