Carol (Kelley) Ready
Heller School for Social Policy and Development
Sustainable International Development Program
P.O. Box 549110, MS 078
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
(781) 736-2732
kready@brandeis.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Gender. Social movements. Kinship. Reproductive and sexual health. Latin America.
Background and Description
Kelley Ready, Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), is an anthropologist who works on issues of gender, sexuality and Latin America. She has taught at a variety of universities in the CUNY system as well as Northeastern University and Holy Cross College. Her work with women and social movements has centered on Central America. She writes and speaks on human rights and women in El Salvador. Recently Kelley has been monitoring the Central American recipients of a small grant program of the Women in Development Office of USAID. These grants were provided to organizations working to improve women’s labor rights in export industries. A description of the program can be found here . Her essay “La Ciguanaba y el espíritu de las relaciones de género en El Salvador” was published by Plumstock Mesoamerican Press and UNIFEM in 2002 in Mujeres, Género e Historia: América Central Durante los Siglos XVIII, XIX,y XX” edited by Eugenia Rodríguez Sáenz. In addition to teaching courses on women and development, Kelley serves as the Assistant Director of External Relations for the Sustainable International Development Master's program in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.