Towson University
Institute for Teaching and
Research on Women
http://www.towson.edu/itrow
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Contact Information:
317 Lida Lee Tall
8000 York Rd.
Towson, MD 21252
Phone: 410-704-5457
Fax: 410-704-3469
E-mail: itrow@towson.edu
CENTER DESCRIPTION
The Institute for Teaching and Research on Women (ITROW) at Towson University promotes research on women's experiences and the insitutions that affect women. It also encourages the integration of scholarship on women and diversity into educational curricula through support for its affiliated center, the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women (NCCTRW). It aims to communicate the results of research on women in all their diversity to the general public.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Cultural, racial, religious, and ethnic diversity; curriculum development; economic and social status of women; economic development; education; girls and adolescents; poverty; urban women and girls; women's studies.
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
Neighborhood Research. ITROW is currently conducting research on the effects of economic restructuring and neighborhood characteristics on women and children. The Institute's Neighborhood Research Group has emerged from an overall interest in the political economy and its current patterns of restructuring, with a special emphasis on its impact on low-income women and child development. One goal of the project is to identify key characteristics of neighborhoods, schools, and families that can help children living in poor and violent neighborhoods develop into healthy adults.
The National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women (NCCTRW) helps faculty members transition their higher and secondary education courses to include more scholarship on women. A particular new focus of NCCTRW is women in an international context. The National Center offers publications and access to other resources from curriculum transformation programs. NCCTRW also plans meetings and commissions papers on new developments in scholarship on women, including summer workshops abroad. The center's web site (www.towson.edu/ncctrw/) offers new resources and links to information about curriculum transformation and women's history. NCCTRW has published pamphlets on disciplinary critiques and books on conducting curriculum transformation. It is developing a network of international leaders and scholars of women's studies.
Fact Sheets About Women. ITROW compiles and distributes fact sheets and bibliographies on women covering a broad array of issue areas. Recent fact sheets have focused on economic restructuring, adolescent girls and depression, women in science, the wage gap, and women and the criminal justice system.
PUBLICATIONS
ITROW News. Newsletter containing recent news of ITROW's activities, reviews of research, position papers, and bibliographies.
Gender and Communication in Organizations: A Review of Research and Annotated Bibliography, Beth Vanfossen (1994). Research on how women can make their voices heard in mixed-gender groups.
Evaluation of Substance Abuse Assessment, by Beth Vanfossen and Gordon Bonham (1992). Evaluation of the role of substance abuse in domestic violence.
The Impact of Development, the Commercialization of Agriculture, and Economic Dependency on Women's Participation in Agricultural Production, by Beth Vanfossen and Frances Rothstein. A cross-cultural comparison of how development affects women's roles.
Assessment of Multicultural Education in Women's Studies: A Research Report by Beth Vanfossen (1995). This publication lists the stages of incorporation of diversity scholarship into women's studies courses which emerged in an assessment of multicultural teaching in women's studies courses. It also presents a schema of competencies which can be expected of students exposed to multicultural teaching, including expected knowledge, awareness,and skills.
An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class, Jean Belkhir (1996). An essay on race, gender, and class in the U.S., a bibliography organized by discipline and topic, and an index of keywords.
The Effect of Gender/Class/Race on Women, Crime, and Justice: A Bibliography, Natalie J. Sokoloff (1994). A bibliography organized by topic.
The Preparing of Professional Educators to Incorporate Multiculturalism into the Liberal Arts Curriculum, an Annotated Bibliography by Lena Ampadu (1994). An annotated bibliography on the training of professional educators for multicultural education.
The Evolution of the Issue of Sexual Harassment in the United States, by Beth Vanfossen. The history of the development of policy and thought on sexual harassment.
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