(NAME-MCE) Dissertation research on peace/social justice. Can you Help?

[McKevitt, Susan]

Looking for a few good women!

 

Hi everyone, as many of you know I am enrolled in the PhD in Leadership
& Change Program of Antioch University. I am in my 4th year and am
getting ready to embark on the research aspect of my dissertation work
and am looking for a few good women, 40 as a matter of fact.  My working
dissertation title is; What Keeps Us Going: Factors That Sustain U.S.
Women's Long-term Peace and Social Justice Activism.

 

I plan to conduct an electronic survey over the next few months with 40
women who were active in the 60s and 70s through the anti-war, women's
liberation and/or civil rights movements and who continue their
peace/social justice activism today. That is, they have forty plus years
of working for social change.  Their interests and focus may be
different from the 60s but their activism to create a more peaceful and
just society continues. After completion and analysis of the survey
results, I will conduct in-dept telephone interviews with a subset of
this group.

 

I am looking for women of all backgrounds hoping to have a sample that
represents the wonderful diversity we have in this country.  They can be
famous or not, working nationally or locally; what is important is that
they have been steadfast (with logical ebbs and flows) with their
activism in pursuit of peace/social justice over the long-term.

 

I'm contacting you because I know you personally, I was given your name
by someone who knows you, or you are a member of a peace/social justice
list and I believe you might know of women who fit this long-term
activist description.  I'll then contact these individuals, indicating
that you have given me their names and email/phone numbers and ask them
if they would be willing to participate in my research. Of course, they
will be able to say no, but I hope that through this process, I will be
able to find a great sampling of women willing to participate.

 

Please note, in addition to any names of friends and colleagues that you
might suggest, if you fit the criteria and would like to volunteer
yourself for the study that would be terrific! You may submit your and
as many other names as you like besides your own.

 

Thank you for any support you can offer me in finding these wonderful
women.  It would help me if you could respond by August 30, 2008.  If
you have any questions, please contact me either by email
(smckevitt at phd.antioch.edu ) or by phone (603-938-2401 evenings).

 

Sincerely,

Sue McKevitt

PhD candidate

Antioch University

PhD in Leadership & Change

smckevitt at phd.antioch.edu 

 

 

 

 

 


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