Institute for Research on Women

Conferences and Workshops:

Recent IROW conferences and workshops have included Cross-Cultural Approaches to Curriculum Transformation; Workshop on Global Women's History; Gender in International Perspective: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Curriculum Transformation; and Women in the Global Economy: Making Connections.

Collaborative Grants

Ford Foundation

The University at Albany’s Gender Studies in Global Perspective project received a $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to promote and strengthen gender studies graduate training with an international focus. The project is a collaborative effort of the Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) and the Institute for Research on Women (IROW). Co-directors of the project are Edna Acosta-Belén, Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Women’s Studies and Christine Bose, associate professor in the departments of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies. One of the main goals of the project, according to Bose, is to "foster growing interactions between area studies (which focus on geographic areas of the world such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia) and gender studies." Bose adds, "This program provides an incentive, through the use of assistantships, to encourage students to combine these interdisciplinary fields of study and indirectly encourages the University to hire faculty to support these fields. Through this program, international interests and an interest in gender can be linked." The three-year effort made available a minimum of five graduate assistantship awards per year for those students specializing in women’s studies or pursuing gender studies in a global context. Selections will be made in an open competition, the criteria for which will be announced later this fall. A postdoctoral fellow position and an annual lecture will also be supported by the project. The University made a commitment to continue beyond the grant period by providing three assistantship awards per year for an additional five years (2001-2006) for graduate students doing gender-focused research from a global perspective in any department in the social sciences and humanities.

IROW News. A bi-annual newsletter containing scholarly articles; director's notes; information on conferences, projects, events, visiting scholars and guest speakers; and research and publication news of IROW associates.

Gender in Global Perspective (1996). Conference papers of the project Internationalizing Women's Studies: Cross Cultural Approaches to Gender Research and Teaching.

Women in International Perspective: Selected Course Outlines, edited by Iris Berger (1995). A collection of syllabi on women in international perspective, including sections on global women's issues, politics, development, class, race, equality, and area studies.

Electronic Access to Research on Women: A Short Guide, Judith Hudson and Kathleen Turek (1994). A guide on using the Internet to conduct research.

Integrating Latin America and Caribbean Women into the Curriculum and Research, edited by Edna Acosta-Belen and Christine E. Bose (1991). A resource guide including essays on the status of women's research and scholarship, curriculum integration strategies, course syllabi, and bibliographic resources.

Albany PR-Womenet Database, Edna Acosta-Belen and Christine E. Bose, with Anne R. Roschelle (1991). An annotated multidisciplinary bibliography on Puerto Rican women.

An Interdisciplinary Guide for Research and Curriculum on Puerto Rican Women, Edna Acosta-Belen, Christine E. Bose, and Barbara R. Sjostrom (1991). A set of suggestions for revising and developing courses and for formulating research projects on Puerto Rican women.

Grants