Julie D. Shayne

Julie Shayne was born and raised in California. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Shayne became active in Latin American politics during the Reagan administration as a result of the intensive U.S. intervention in Central America. As a solidarity activist Shayne traveled to El Salvador for the first time in 1985. Since then, she has been able to incorporate her political convictions into her intellectual pursuits.

Julie Shayne is a Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, Affiliate Associate Professor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies & Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her areas of expertise include revolution, gender, feminism, exile, and cultural production in Latin America and the diaspora.

Shayne's second book They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism was awarded the Pacific Sociological Association's Distinguished Scholarship Award in March 2011.

http://www.julieshayne.net/