Dr Ann Varley, University of London Research Fellow (January to April 2007)
Dr Ann Varley is a member of the Department of Geography at the University College London (ULC). Dr Varley was the first to have been awarded the University of London Research Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for four months, between January and April 2007.
Dr Varley can be contacted via email at a.varley@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Dr Varley is one of the leading international experts in the fields of housing and tenure legalisation and gender in development in Latin America. She has made a number of seminal contributions to these fields, including her 1996 article in World Development on female-headed households. Her 2000 contribution in Dore and Molyneux (eds.) on "Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law" is her mastery of legal material and how she combines her attention to the legal framework with insights from field work on how the law actually plays out in daily life. Her interest in the intersection of law and society led her to co-organise a conference on this theme at the Institute of Latin American Studies - now the Institute for the Study of the Americas - and a co-edited work on Law and Gender in Contemporary Mexico with Professor Carmen Deere.
Details on her research interest, publications and her biography are available on the UCL page
Her project during her fellowship was to complete a book-length manuscript Gender and the Meanings of Home in Urban Mexico.
Dr Varley gave a paper at the Dean's Seminar entitled 'Home and identity: housing narratives from urban Mexico' on 16th May 2007.
View Dr Varley's fellowship report.
