Nancie Caraway

Nancie Ellen Caraway (born February 2, 1942) is the former First Lady of the U.S. state of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. She is the spouse of former First Congressional District U.S. Representative and former Governor of Hawaii Neil Abercrombie. Caraway is a University of Hawaii at Manoa political scientist, feminist scholar and activist, a member of the university's Globalization Research Center and its Director of Women's Human Rights, leading its Trafficking Project.[1] She is also a mentor and lecturer at the East–West Center.[2]

Nancie Caraway
First Lady of Hawaii
In role
December 6, 2010 – December 1, 2014
GovernorNeil Abercrombie
Preceded byVicky Cayetano (2002)
Succeeded byDawn Ige
Personal details
Born
Nancie Ellen Caraway

(1942-02-02) February 2, 1942
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1981)​

Caraway was born in Alabama and arrived in Hawaii from Houston, Texas. She received her bachelor of arts degree in political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1980. She was a resident of New York City while studying for her Master of Science degree in journalism at Columbia University. She married her husband, Neil Abercrombie, in 1981 in Palm Springs, California.[3] She returned to Hawaii and completed a master of arts in 1986 and doctorate in 1991, both in political science.

Following her husband to Washington, D.C. where he served in the United States Congress, Caraway became an assistant professor at Georgetown University, George Washington University and American University.[4]

An author, Caraway won the Victoria Schuck Award—an international award for the best book on women and politics—from the American Political Science Association for her 1992 book, Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism,[5] also the title of her University of Hawaii at Manoa doctoral dissertation.

Further reading
  • Caraway, Nancie (1991). Segregated Sisterhood : Racism and the Politics of American Feminism (1. ed.). Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-719-3.

References
  1. University of Hawaii at Manoa Globalization Research Center Staff and Faculty
  2. Globalization Research Center Curriculum Vitae
  3. New York Times article about the marriage
  4. Abercrombie for Governor biography of Nancie Caraway
  5. Victoria Schuck award recipients (PDF)
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