Rosemarie Skaine writes sociology with a human face. She records the voices of women and men into history.
Rosemarie Skaine earned her M.A. in Sociology. She holds honorary society memberships in Pi Kappa Delta, speech, Alpha Kappa Delta, sociology and Quill and Scroll, journalism. Publications other than eleven books include coauthored national and international journal articles. Other activities include general consultation, consultation on three television documentaries, expert testimony, numerous presentations to all types of groups and interviews with media. She participated in the South Dakota Center for the Book's three day program, "Maintaining Democracy in an Unstable World," August 2002. She was a panel member with Ambassador George McGovern and Dr. Robert Watson in Mitchell, S.D. Following the panel, she made presentations in Aberdeen, Brookings and Sioux Falls, S.D. She participated in the Teachers Exchange Program while in China with her husband, Professor James Skaine, at Beijing Normal, Hebei Teachers, and Shaanxi Teachers, and Guangxi Teachers Universities, May 1991. She traveled to Havana, Cuba with the U.S. Delegation to the XII International Congress on Family Law, September 2002. In January 2004, she traveled to Kenya and Tanzania to study for her next book on FGM. One of the many rewarding visits was to the Maasai tribe.
Skaine taught Composition II at Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, Iowa and Industrial Sociology and The Family at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. She also taught high school English at Ovid Central School, Ovid, New York. Rosemarie has varied travel experiences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, France, Italy, China, Greece, Cuba, Kenya and Tanzania.
The Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America was presented in 1997 to Rosemarie Skaine for her outstanding work on intolerance in North America for her book, _Power and Gender: Issues in Sexual Dominance and Harassment_, McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 1996.
Rosemarie Keller Skaine's biography appears in the 25th Silver Anniversary Edition of Who's Who of American Women, 2006-2007, published in November 2005. In 2007, her biography appeared in: Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who of American Women. In 2008, her biography will appear in the 25th Silver Anniversary Edition of Who's Who in the World, in the 62nd Edition of Who’s Who in America, the 2008-2009 Edition of Who's Who of American Women and the 2009 Edition of Who's Who In America. Her biography is being considered for the 2009 Edition of Who's Who in the World. Special editions are companion volumes to Who's Who in America published since 1899. The Marquis Who's Who in New Providence, New Jersey, is the publisher of the original Who's Who in America.
Her biography also appears in Educational Communications Inc.'s, Who's Who Among America's Teachers: the Best Teachers in America Selected by the Best Students, 6th Ed., vol. 3, 2000. Skaine was nominated by Connie Kerns, Composition II student at Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, Iowa.
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Rosemarie Keller Skaine has completed writing her 11th book, Women of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era: How Lives Have Changed and Where They Stand Today. McFarland Publishers will publish the book in 2008.
