Barbara Callaway
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

Barbara Callaway earned her B.A. at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Boston University. She currently serves the Department as Graduate Placement Chair. She has done research sponsored by the Foreign Area Fellowship program in Nigeria, the SSRC in Ghana, the Fulbright-Hays Program at UCLA, Harvard, and the University of Nigeria; and the Fulbright Program at the University of Ghana and Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. She has chaired the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the Committee on Professional Ethics of the American Political Science Association, served on the Board and various committees of the African Studies Association, and is currently Vice President for Leadership of the International Women's Forum. She is currently finishing a biography of Hildegard Peplau and a book on the Politics of Nursing. Her current research is to focus on the efforts of relief agencies and NGOs working in refugee camps to foster the norms of civil society among women and children who were the victims of traumatic violence in their own societies. Her publications include:

A Formidable Woman: Hildegard Paplau--Psychiatric Nurse of the Century, The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Change in West Africa (1993), Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria (1987), "The Role of Women in Kano City Politics" in Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century (1991), "Gender and the Development Agenda" in West African Regional Development and Cooperation (1990), "Women and the State in Islamic West Africa" in Women, Development and the State (1988), "Law, Education and Social Change" in Women in the World: 1975-1985 (1986), "Contrasting Socialization of Igbo and Hausa Women and Political Efficacy," in Women and Politics (1988), "Women and Political Participation" in Comparative Politics (1987), and "Ambiguous Consequences of the Seclusion of Women" in Journal of Modern African Studies (1984).