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Faculty Athletics Representative

Associate Professor of American Studies Genevieve Clutario serves as Wellesley's Faculty Athletics Representative and represents Wellesley and its faculty in the institution’s relationships with the NCAA and its conference(s). The Wellesley FAR is a tenured faculty member who is appointed by the Academic Council Agenda Committee, serving a three-year term with the option of one reappointment. The FAR’s functions are as follows:

1. Helps to ensure a quality student-athlete experience and promote student-athlete well-being.
2. Serves as an independent advocate for student-athletes.
3. Assists in the oversight of intercollegiate athletics at the campus and conference levels to assure that they are conducted in a manner designed to protect and enhance the physical, psychological, and educational well-being of student-athletes.
4. Oversees the nominations of student-athletes for NCAA grant, scholarship, and recognition programs.
5. Helps promote student-athlete success in the classroom, in athletics, and in the community by striking a balance among academic excellence, athletics competition, and social growth as they prepare for lifelong success.

Genevieve Clutario | Associate Professor of American Studies

Genevieve Clutario is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. She specializes in interdisciplinary and transnational feminist approaches to Filipinx and Asian American histories. Her work is especially interested racial and gendered formations and U.S. empire building in the global south. She is currently completing her first book, Beauty Regimes (Duke University Press, forthcoming), a book that examines the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of fashion and beauty systems that lay at the heart of modern empire and Philippine nation-building projects.

She published, “Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests,” in the anthology, Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (Brill Press, 2017) and “World War II and the Promise of Normalcy: Filipina Lives Under Two Empires” in Beyond the Edge of the Nation: Transimperial Histories with a U.S. Angle (Duke University Press 2020).

Before arriving at Wellesley, Clutario was an assistant professor in History and History and Literature at Harvard University. She continues to pursue research and teaching interests focused on Asian American narratives in global perspectives; Filipinx studies; comparative histories of culture and modern empire; transnational feminisms; and gender, race, and the politics of fashion and beauty.