Higher Education

Leadership and Leadership Development

Women on Power: Leadership Redefined. The provocative essays cover a broad range of topics, including the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, global perspectives on women's environmental activism, mothering as a catalyst to social activism, and women in the enclaves of veterinary medicine and sports. 

Sports and Fitness

Physical Education and Sport in a Global Context: Honoring the Legacy, Charting the Future. A 50th Anniversary Conference held in the spring of 1999 addressed equity in sports and progress made by female athletes from around the country.

Corporate Women

Managing Lives: Corporate Women and Social Change, Sue J.M. Freeman (1990).

Employment Issues

The Whistle-Blowers: Exposing Corruption in Government and Industry, Myron Peretz Glazer and Penina Midgal Glazer (1989).

Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women Into the Professions, 1890-1940, Penina Midgal Glazer and Miriam Slater (1987).

The Economics of Comparable Worth, Mark Aldrich and Robert Buchele (1986).

Environment

The Environmental Crusaders: Confronting Disaster and Mobilizing Community, Penina Midgal Glazer and Myron Peretz Glazer (1998).

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power, edited by Susan C. Bourque et al. (1989).

Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Architectural Feminism, Polly Wynn Allen (1988).

Women, Welfare and Higher Education: Towards Comprehensive Policies, edited by Martha Ackelsberg, et al. (1988).

Women Living Change: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Susan C. Bourque and Donna Robinson Divine (1985).

Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns, Susan C. Bourque and Kay B. Warren (1981).

Higher Education

Women's Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum, edited by Marilyn Schuseter and Susan Van Dyne (1985).

History

Women's History as Women's Education: Essays, Natalie Zemon Davis and Joan Wallach Scott (1985).

Family Life in Seventeeth Century England: The Verneys of Claydon House, Miriam Slater (1984).

Politics

Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, Donna Robinson Divine (1994).

The Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, edited by Jill Ker Conway and Susan C. Bourque (1993).

Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and Struggle, Martha Ackelsberg (1991).

Sports

Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study Thirty Three Year Update (2010).

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Annual Student Research Conference on Gender. The conference includes presentations by both undergraduate and graduate students and is multidisciplinary, focusing on issues and knowledge related to gender. Submissions are invited from students in all academic fields, and may include a wide variety of formats: papers, posters, performances, exhibits, symposia, and roundtables. The aims of the conference are to showcase the excellent research students are doing, to provide students with the opportunity to receive feedback on their work, and for students, faculty, and community members to share information on current research on gender.

Current Research:

• Gender, Parental & Job-status Influences in Applicant Evaluations (a survey of employment issues as seen/evaluated by university students).

• Job Perceptions, Company Communications & Employee Evaluations (how perceptions and company communication affects evaluations in work settings).

• Role Model & Current Self impacts on Possible Self-views (an extended self-schema survey of influences on university students' self-views).

Feminist Thought and Scholarship:

A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity (Second Edition),Hilary Lips (2002).

"Issues of Power and Risk at the Heart of the Teaching/Research Nexus," Psychology of Women Quarterly, 23, Hilary Lips (1999).

"College Students' Visions of Power and Possibility as Mediated by Gender," Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24, Hilary Lips (2000).

Center for Gender Studies Annual Report (1995-2008)*:

Available Online>>

* Only Reports from 1995 to 2002 are available for viewing online.

Grants/Scholarships

Archives

Mapping Women's Achives Project Directory. Begun in 2001 with initial funding provided by Professor Emerita Irene Tinker, this directory represents an ongoing effort to identify archival repositories in the United States with significant collections relating to women. Its purpose is to aid potential donors in more easily identifying archival repositories to which their papers could be donated. An equally important benefit is to aid researchers in locating primary source materials of relevance to women's studies. The database is searchable by organization name, city, state, or keyword. A form is available for electronic submission of new or updated repository information. The Directory is available on the Women and Leadership Archives website: http://www.luc.edu/orgs/gannon/archives/

Summer Research Grants to support and encourage research on women and their contributions to society. Up to three research grants are awarded to Loyola University Chicago graduate students each summer for research utilizing the holdings of the Women and Leadership Archives.

Business -- Business Leadership and Leadership Development

Annual Women in Business Conference. The topic for the annual conference to be held on October 4, 2002, is "Connecting and Connections: What Has Changed for Women in Business Today?" (See Women in Business Conference archives at www.luc.edu/orgs/gannon)

Leadership and Leadership Development -- International Development

Women and Leadership Archives. The WLA collects, preserves, organizes, describes, and makes available materials that advance original research on women and their roles and contributions to society, with a particular emphasis on women as leaders. Among the collected materials are records and papers in the areas of educational, civic, religious, and business life, primarily in Chicago and the Midwest.

Institute of Women and Leadership. With a mixture of practical and visionary opportunities, the institute initiates creative programming that supports, strengthens, and enhances women's leadership. From developing leadership skills to interacting with acknowledged leaders, offerings are structured for university students, faculty, and staff, as well as outreach to off-campus women. The Institute also provides for two Gannon Faculty Fellows each Spring Semester.

Gannon Scholars Leadership Program. The Gannon Scholars Leadership Program is a four-year women's leadership program administered by the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership.

Visiting Scholar Program. The Visiting Scholar Program brings researchers from around the world to Loyola for periods ranging from one month to a year to study issues of concern to women. The primary purpose of the program is to provide research support for scholars conducting research on women's issues.

Science and Technology

The Women in Science Enabling Research (WISER) program offers freshman and sophomore women an introduction to laboratory research and creates an environment for them to communicate with fellow women scientists, as well as to learn about and be encouraged toward scientific careers.

Women's Studies

Women's Studies Program. The Women's Studies Program offers a wide range of degree options: an undergraduate minor, an undergraduate major, a Graduate School certificate or concentration, and an M.A. Degree. (See www.luc.edu/depts/women-stu)

Annual Women's Conference. This event, to be held March 22 in the year 2003, is organized around Life and Arts: Women's Experience. The conference will continue to establish the practice of presenting a stimulating topic of interest to women that encourages the process of raising consciousness, educating, and working for social change.

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Institute of Women and Leadership

2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar
Center for Feminist Research

The Center For Feminist Research is pleased to announce that the 2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar, directed by Professor Karen Tongson, will focus on "Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of Popular Music."  In addition to Tongson, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, next year's seminar will include the following group of faculty and graduate students:

1. Edwin Hill, Assistant Professor of French, Italian, Comparative Literature and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project "La Rage: Losing it in the French Peripheries," explores anti-colonial discourses of rage in French hip-hop culture and literature, in order to offer a timely intervention into debates about the 2005 and 2007 riots in the French banlieus, or urban peripheries, and France's "ultra-peripheries"--its colonial territories in the West Indies.

2. Kara Keeling, Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), and African American Studies in American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "'Electric Feel': Transduction, Errantry and the Refrain" ascertains what logics inherited from particular popular musics might offer ongoing efforts to renegotiate bonds, institutions and political possibilities shaped by the violences characteristic of capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberal multiculturalism and contemporary geopolitics.

3. Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication (Annenberg) and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project, titled "The World Begins Here: Love and Death and Music in Tijuana" tracks the transnational flows of culture from Tijuana's founding as a family-owned cattle ranch in the aftermath of the 19th century creation of a US-Mexico border, to its current state as a chaotic urban sprawl of well over two million people. In these histories, Kun hears what he calls the 'aural border': a bi-national territory of sonic performance and listening; of melodic convergence and dissonant clashing. 

4. Shana Redmond, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "Timing is Everything: The Feminine Antiphonies in 'We are the World'" revisits this anthem of global "relief"--particularly its redeployment in the wake of the 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti--in order to expose the feminized musical tropes that organize conditions of aid and aid occupation, which developed in post-disaster sites like Ethiopia in 1985, and Haiti in 2010. 

5. Mina Yang, Assistant Professor of Music (Thornton). Her project, "Dancing into Visibility: Asian-American B-Boys and the Hip-Hop Trans-Nation," situates her extensive research on b-boying in Asia and Asian America within the context of racial discourses in the United States and hip-hop history, and against the backdrop of emergent transpacific economies and cultural geographies.

6. Micha Cardenas, Ph.D. student in Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (SCA); artist and theorist. Her project, titled "Femme Disturbance," combines scholarship, poetry and performance components to explore how musicality and figures like Janelle Monae and Ke$ha (among others) help foster antirationalist theories of genderqueer solidarity, politics and action. 

The CFR's "New Directions in Feminist Research" is organized annually around a particular theme.  The seminar offers participants an opportunity to work collectively on thematically linked projects, and also creates public events--invited speakers, panels, conferences--that engage the broader feminist community of faculty and students at USC.  Stay tuned for announcements for such events in 2012-13.

The Center for Feminist Research Newsletter

Our Spring 2012 newsletter is now available online! Please follow the link below and click on Spring 2012. Past issues available here as well.

Issues Available Online>>

Graduate Fellowships:

Diana Meehan Fellowship in Feminism and Communications

The Center for Feminist Research will award two $2000 Fellowships to two advanced graduate students working in the general area of feminism and communication. Applicants should be advanced students who are working either on a dissertation or on an original creative project.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

·       a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified

·       a curriculum vita

·       a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)

·       two letters of recommendation

·       an unofficial transcript

Cagney and Lacey Fellowship

The Center for Feminist Research will award one $2000 fellowship to a returning woman student who is enrolled in a graduate program in the USC School of Cinema/Television. The student may be in any year of study except her final year. Please note, a returning student is one who has had a break of several years between her undergraduate training and matriculation in graduate school; she is usually of non-traditional school age.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

• a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified
• a curriculum vita, which should reflect your circumstances as a woman student who has returned to academia
• a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)
• two letters of recommendation
• an unofficial transcript

All queries and applications should be sent to: cfr@usc.edu

Arts

Global Issues

International Women's Film Festival. Annual series of films made by and about women.

Community Service (and Activism)

Women's Action Coalition. The institute is a member of the Women's Action Coalition, a group of more than 150 women's organizations in Western New York. Consultation with and contributions to reports on women by the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women is provided. Currently, IREWG is part of the planning for a Women's Pan American Leadership Conference to be held in 2001, commemorating the 1901 Pan Am Exhibition held in Buffalo. The conference will focus on the political, economic, and health status of women in the Americas.

Curriculum Development

Gender and the Changing Curriculum: Educating With(out) the Difference(s). This interdisciplinary, day-long conference explored new ways that the curriculum could be changed to better include women and gender. The program included integrating gender and science, gender-inclusive syllabi, gender and technology, gender and the media, and roundtable discussions on the impact of gender on one's position as faculty, administrator, or student member of a university community.

Teaching about Women and Gender is a workshop on teaching gender where syllabi are presented.

Course Competition for Developing New Interdisciplinary Courses for Women, 1998-99. The competition awarded grants to cover development costs for new courses. Five new courses resulted: Women and Science, Biology of Women, Mathematics in Context, Labor Market Segmentation, Gender & Ethnicity, and Gender and Technology.

Scholar-in-Residence, March 22-26, 1999. This program reflects the strategy for introducing new, intellectually challenging voices on gender issues to the UB community for a sustained period. With presentations and seminars for students and faculty colleagues, the scholar's visit has an "intellectual multiplier effect." IREWG's first resident scholar/artist was Vera Frankel from Toronto. Her work combines multiple media - video, text, and computers - in stimulating presentations on identity and Diaspora. The week-long visit allowed for lectures, workshops, and "crits" for students in art and media studies.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Women at the End of the Twentieth Century. This lecture series featured women scholars addressing issues that women face as the century draws to a close. Topics included poor and working-class women, women who abuse drugs and alcohol, and more.

Annual Celebration of Scholarship on Women and Gender. Showcases multidisciplinary activities, research, course work, and community.

Faculty Lectures and Seminar Series.

Research Awards Competition.

Girls and Adolescents

Urban Girls 2000 Conference to be held April 14-16, 2000. This conference will stimulate new ways of thinking about girls and translate those thoughts into carefully developed action programs, with particular emphasis on local initiatives. Professor Lani Guiner will be the keynote speaker. Sponsored with the School of Graduate Education

Symposium on Female Adolescence, April 26, 1999. Sponsored by IREWG and the Department of History, this symposium addressed such topics as adolescence, sexuality, race, and compulsory sterilization in the South. It also offered historical perspectives on female adolescence.

Science and Technology

Building a University Community of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Conference planned for 2000, focusing on mentoring and retaining women in the STEM disciplines.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

IREWG Newsletter. Published twice a year.

IREWG Report on Activities, 1997-1999. Summary of the institute's first two years of operation.

# Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Transnational Feminisms. This symposium will focus on the formation of a complex weaving of feminisms(s) globally with special attention to the relationship between feminist movements and feminist theories and the "new world order," hence the current reconfiguration of economic, social, and political arrangements world-wide. The symposium also seeks to be self-reflexive and consequently to raise issues about the place of women's and/or gender studies in the weave. No one disciplinary perspective will be privileged at the symposium and we welcome contributions from outside of the academy. Among issues that could be addressed in the symposium are: identity; interactions between different social movements; gender or sexual preference based rights; cross border theoretical travels.

Feminism, Democracy, and the Changing World Order. The Women's Studies Department hosted an event addressing feminism, democracy, and the changing world order. Lectures and discussions were administered by the department.

Gender and Work Space(s) was a spring symposium, held April 14 and 15, 2000. It explored the relationship between gender, sexuality, and work; the multidimensionality of gender at work; gender and the cyber work space; gender, work, and the changing world order; and gender, work, and the state, among other topics.

Homeland Security: Feminist Critiques. Proposed for April 2003.

#Our Talk Newsletter 

Topics relevant to feminist scholarship and activisim are addressed in this newsletter.

#The Ray Glass Memorial Peace and Society Fund Award

The Women's Studies Program is pleased to announce the creation of the Ray Glass Memorial Peace & Society Fund Award. This award will be given out annually to one undergraduate and one graduate student.

S&FOnline

www.barnard.edu/sfonline

The Scholar & Feminist Online, a triannual, multimedia, online-only journal of feminist theories and women's movements, provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women's most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks. The journal builds on these programs by publishing related scholarship and other applicable resources. A forum for scholars, activists, and artists whose work articulates the ever-evolving role of feminism in struggles for social justice, S&F Online brings you the latest in cutting-edge theory and practice.

New Feminist Solutions

www.barnard.edu/bcrw/newfeministsolutions

Marking the newest direction in BCRW's more than thirty-five-year-old tradition of print publication, New Feminist Solutions is a series of reports geared toward informing and inspiring activists, policy-makers and others. Each report was written in collaboration with organizations and individuals who, like BCRW, have made a concerted effort to link feminist struggles to those of racial, economic, social and global justice. The reports are based on conversations and ideas emerging from conferences held at Barnard College, and are published in conjunction with websites featuring additional information from these events. Copies of the reports are free. They can be downloaded from the New Feminist Solutions website. Print copies can be requested by emailing bcrw@barnard.edu.

BCRW Newsletter Published biannually, the BCRW newsletter provides event information and feature articles that communicate some of the broader issues engaged by the events, thus providing readers with a new way of understanding the work of the Center as a whole.

The following issues are available to download in PDF format:

Spring 2010

Fall 2009

Spring 2009

Fall 2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Guide to NYC Women's and Social Justice Organizations

www.barnard.edu/bcrw/guide

This rich guide puts you in touch with the artists, activists and organizations whose work is most crucial to you. You'll find valuable information from nearly five hundred citywide organizations that work for sexual, racial, economic and social justice. The directory reflects our longtime commitment to building far-reaching, and sometimes unexpected coalitions.

Student Initiated Events Fund

The Student Initiated Events Fund provides the opportunity for any student involved in an activist group at Barnard or Columbia to receive funding from the Women's Center to bring a local activist or scholar to a student-oriented program to discuss issues of gender, feminism, or women's lives. Alternately, a student may suggest a topic for a larger Women's Center program.

To apply, please send the following information to bcrw@barnard.edu: Name of student organization; student contact information; description of the event in as much detail as possible.

For further information, please email the address above or stop by the Center.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Support for women's studies and research. WGRI hosts and supports a number of events and awards that support women's studies and gender-related research at the university. Colloquia, brown bag lunch series, receptions/luncheons, and the administration of travel and student research grants are included among the institute's activities.

Distinguished Professor Award

The purpose of the Women and Gender Research Institute Distinguished Professor Award is to recognize the outstanding leadership of women professors in their scholarly or creative work or to recognize the leadership of men or women professors who conduct research on gender issues.

Mentoring

Newsletter

Grants:

PhD Student Grant

These awards support women PhD students conducting research in their disciplines, or men and women PhD students conducting gender research.

Faculty Travel Grant

Faculty Research Grant

Speaker and Events Sponsorship

The Women and Gender Research Institute (WGRI) provides small sums for a limited number of speakers and events on the USU campus. WGRI reserves funds for major speakers initiated by WGRI.