Rosemarie Skaine

Email: rskaine@cfu.net

Home page: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/4459/index.html

Rosemarie Skaine earned her M.A. in Sociology. She holds honorary society memberships in Pi Kappa Delta, speech, Alpha Kappa Delta, sociology, National Forensic League 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 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. Rosemarie has taught Composition II at Hawkeye Community Collge, Waterloo, Iowa and Industrial Sociology and The Family at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. She has also taught high school English at Ovid Central School, Ovid, New York.

Skaine has traveled in Canada, China, Cuba, Mexico, England, France, Italy, Greece, Kenya and Tanzania. In 2002, she participated as a Delegate in the XII International Congress of the Family in Havana, Cuba. In January 2004, she traveled to Kenya and Tanzania to study for her book on FGM.

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 has been selected 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.

Skaine's biography is being considered for inclusion in the forthcoming 2010 Edition of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

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.

Rosemarie Skaine has been inducted into the Grand Island Senior High Hall of Honor. Grand Island Senior High located in Nebraska is Skaine's alma mater. She is one of two chosen for 2008 who will be inducted in a 2009 ceremony. The Grand Island Education Foundation supports programs for the Grand Island public schools, and the Senior High Hall of Honor is one of the programs.

Skaine is currently writing for ABC-CLIO on women in combat.

Interests: Nonfiction: athletics, entertainment, military, national and international women; fiction: short stories, novels

Published writer: Yes

Freelance: Yes

Published works:

Fiction

Nonfiction