BARBARA CALLAWAY, Professor, earned her B.A. at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Boston and Harvard Universities. She currently directs the Rutgers Study Abroad Program in Britain and Ireland. She has conducted research in Nigeria sponsored by the Foreign Area Fellowship Program of the Ford Foundation, in Ghana sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, she has held Fulbright-Hays Fellowships at UCLA, Harvard, and the University of Nigeria; and been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Ghana and Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. She has chaired the Committees 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 served as Vice President for Leadership of the International Women's Forum. She is currently conducting research on Islamic Feminism and Fundamentalism. Her biography of Hildegard Peplau won best book of the year awards from the American Nurses Association, The American Psyhiatric Nurses Association, and the Journal of Nursing History. Her subsequent book on the Politics of Nursing also won the best book award from the American Nurses Association. Over the past decade she has studied the impact of war on women and children who were the victims of traumatic violence in their own societies. Her publications include:

"Aminatu, Queen of Zaria" in Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2005),"Voices of Change" in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (2005), The Politics of Nursing (2004), A Formidable Woman: Hildegard Paplau--Psychiatric Nurse of the Century (2003), 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).