Institute for Research on Women

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New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555
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http://irw.rutgers.edu/ [1]
irw@rci.rutgers.edu [2]
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At the forefront of feminist research for over thirty years, the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) advances cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scholarship on gender and women. Affiliates include 900 faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates drawn from a wide range of disciplines on all three Rutgers University campuses. Each year, the IRW holds a thematically-based Distinguished Lecture Series featuring feminist scholars and activists from Rutgers and other universities, convenes a weekly interdisciplinary research seminar for select faculty and graduate students, and hosts top visiting scholars from the US and abroad as part of its Global Scholars Program. Since 2007, the IRW has also created an Undergraduate Learning Community to introduce undergraduates to the work of leading feminist scholars, enabling participants to work with faculty mentors to create their own feminist research projects.

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Principal Staff

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ph.D., Director

Sarah Tobias, Ph.D., Associate Director
E-mail: stobias@rci.rutgers.edu

Marlene Importico, Office Manager
E-mail: importic@rci.rutgers.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Culture & Identity [4], Sexuality & Gender [5], Women's Movements [6], Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies [7], Equality, Diversity & Inclusion [8], Women's & Girls' Leadership [9]

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Projects & Campaigns

The IRW’s programs include its:

· Interdisciplinary faculty/graduate seminar

· Distinguished Lecture Series

· Global Scholars Program

· Undergraduate Learning Community

The seminar, lecture series and learning community all revolve around a common theme. Recent and upcoming themes include:

· The Art & Science of Happiness (2010-11)

· Gendered Agency (2009-10)

· The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture (2008-9)

· Communities: Research and Action (2007-8)

· Thinking About Gender: Health and Bodies (2006-7)

Reports & Resources

IRW Books:

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism (ed.Nancy A. Hewitt, 2010)
The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (ed. Dorothy Sue Cobble, 2007)
Working-Class Subjectivities and Sexualities (Special issue of International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 69 (Spring 2006), ed. Dorothy Sue Cobble and Victoria Hattam)
Gendering Disability (ed. Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison, 2004)
Feminist Locations: Local and Global, Theory and Practice (ed. Marianne DeKoven, 2001)
Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics (ed. Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan and Debra Keates, 1997)
Reproductive Laws for the 1990s (ed. Sherrill Cohen and Nadine Taub, 1989)
Women, Households, and the Economy (ed. Lourdes Beneria and Catharine R. Stimpson, 1987)
Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory and Writing By Black Women(ed. Cheryl Wall, 1989)

IRW Working Papers:

· Femininities, Masculinities and The Politics of Sexual Difference(s): Working Papers from the 2003-2004 Seminar, edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Beth Hutchison and Amanda B. Chaloupka [10]

· Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Working Papers from the 2002-2003 Seminar, edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Amanda B. Chaloupka, and Beth Hutchison

· Modes of Knowledge and Action: Working Papers from the Women in the Public Sphere Seminar 1998-1999, edited by Beth Hutchison

· Power, Practice, Agency: Working Papers from the Women in the Public Sphere Seminar 1997-1998, edited by Marianne DeKoven

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Opportunities, Grants & Fellowships

Fellows at IRW

Visiting Scholars:

Since the IRW interdisciplinary research seminar began in the 1996-1997 academic year, the IRW has hosted more than 45 visiting scholars and Rockefeller Resident Fellows in the Humanities. Take a moment to discover who's been at the IRW [11] and find out about their subsequent publications, as well as their IRW projects during their terms at Rutgers. We welcome updates [2] to this growing database.

Rutgers Faculty Fellows:

IRW seminar Rutgers faculty fellows since 1997 have included participants from across the social sciences and humanities as well as practicing artists, medical researchers and members of the faculties of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy and Planning and the Schools of Social Work, Business-Newark and Law (Camden and Newark).

List [12]of Seminar Faculty Fellows, 1997-present.

IRW Global Scholars [13]

The IRW is an ideal place to situate individual projects within a community of scholars who meet at a weekly seminar to discuss their work-in-progress as it addresses a common theme. IRW Global Scholars typically hold academic appointments elsewhere but wish to be in residence at the Institute for a semester or a year.