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Project Description | Workshop | Program | Participating Institutions
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The goal of the three-year Women's Studies, Area and International Studies Curriculum
Integration Project (WSAIS)was to strengthen links between women's studies and area and
international studies at the university and college level. Funded in 1995 by the Ford
Foundation, the WSAIS project aimed to transform curricula by increasing the level of
understanding of the uniquely local experiences of women around the world, and by exploring
the gendered implications of recent global changes (e.g., the end of the Cold War; the
emergence of newly democratized political systems; and the growing interdependence of national
economies).
The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) administered and oversaw this
project, which was located on thirteen university and college campuses. While all the projects
focused on faculty development and curriculum transformation,
each institution had a unique approach to internationalizing the content of women's studies
courses and bringing gender perspectives to international and area studies (e.g., summer
institutes, intensive seminars, student internships, visiting scholars, mentoring
opportunities) in order to fulfill project objectives.
To view the full program from the NCRW 1997 Conference: "Intellectual and Curricular Challenges in Integrating Gender and International Perspectives into Teaching and Research" sponsored by WSAIS Click Here.
A listserv, an NCRW-sponsored WSAIS Workshop in October 1997, and
panels at professional meetings provided the opportunity for project directors to discuss
practical, methodological, and theoretical issues that arose during the development and implementation of their
various programs.
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PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
NCRW and the campus program directors also discussed next steps for this work in order to
encourage continued collaboration across disciplinary and theoretical boundaries. Click on the links below
for details on the participating institutions and their projects:
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State University of New York
at Albany Center for Latino, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute for Research on Women, Center for the Arts and Humanities Internationalizing Women's Studies: Crosscultural Approaches to Gender Research and Teaching |
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University of Arizona Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), Center for Middle Eastern Studies, East Asian Studies Department, Latin American Area Center, the African Studies Working Committee Global Processes and Local Lives: Comparative Approaches in Women's and Area Studies |
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University of California at Berkeley Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, Programs of International and Area Studies International Gender Systems in Comparative Perspective: A Research and Training Program for the U.C. Berkeley Campus |
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Five College Women's Studies Research Center with Area Studies Faculty from Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Curricular Crossings in Women's Studies: Women's Health and Welfare in a Global Perspective |
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University of Maryland at College Park Women's Studies Program, Curriculum Transformation Project, Office of International Affairs Women and Gender in an Era of Global Change: Internationalizing and "Engendering" the Curriculum |
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University of Michigan The Women's Studies Program, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the International Institute at the University of Michigan Differences Among Women: International Perspectives |
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University of Minnesota Women's Studies Department, the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (CAFS), Institute of International Studies, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation Ways of Reading: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching and Research in Women's Studies, International Studies, and Area Studies |
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New York University Women's Studies Program, East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Africana Studies, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies |
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Princeton University Program in Women's Studies, Program in Latin American Studies Feminism, Identity and Politics in Latin America |
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Rutgers University Women's Studies Program, Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) New Curricular Frameworks: A Gender/Area Studies Collaboration |
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Spelman College The Women's Research and Resource Center Women and African Diaspora Studies Program |
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Tulane University Newcomb College Center for Research on Women Faculty Study Groups: Developing Feminist Global Perspectives, 1995-1998 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Women's Studies Research Center, Council of Area and International Studies Programs Internationalizing Women's Studies and Integrating Gender Research into Area Studies Programs [top] |
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