IRWG Faculty Seed Grant Awards, Fall 2023
Established in 1996, IRWG Faculty Seed Grants are designed to stimulate gender research across U-M campuses. These grants support individual and collaborative research projects across disciplines. This year, IRWG has two cycles for Seed Grant proposals: Fall 2023 and Winter 2024. The next deadline is February 23, 2024 for the winter cycle. Recipients from the fall ...
Winter funding opportunities for faculty research
We are thrilled to announce a series of upcoming research funding opportunities for University of Michigan faculty. With application deadlines extended to February 23, 2024, these opportunities hold immense potential for groundbreaking advancements across a variety of disciplines. Our first notable funding opportunity is the Joan Schafer Research Faculty Award in Sport, Fitness, and Disability. ...
Melynda Price receives grant to co-direct Monument Workshop at the University of Kentucky
IRWG director Melynda Price and Professor Zachary Bray of the University of Kentucky’s J. David Rosenberg College of Law, have been awarded a $2 million grant by the Mellon Foundation to establish the Monument Workshop at the University of Kentucky. Before coming to U-M in August 2023, Price was the director of the Gaines Center for the ...
Gender: New Works, New Questions series highlights faculty books
November 2023 This fall, IRWG hosted two special panel discussions as part of our long-running series, Gender: New Works, New Questions. In September, we celebrated Ava Purkiss’s Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) with a conversation with Jennifer Dominique Jones and Meg ...
Call for Exhibit Nominations
The Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender invite nominations for an exhibit to be hosted in the Lane Hall Exhibit Space from January–July or August–December 2024. Proposed exhibits should be broadly related to issues of women and gender. The nomination period for the Winter Semester exhibit is September ...
Power & Partnerships in Community Engagement: Strategizing with IRWG Affiliates
As part of our new relationship with the Ginsberg Center, we are pleased to offer a workshop for IRWG affiliates on Tuesday, September 12 from 12-1pm in Lane Hall. This special session of Ginsberg Center’s Power & Partnership in Community Engagement is designed with IRWG affiliates and grant applicants in mind. This interactive workshop will ...
Melynda Price Named as IRWG Director
We are thrilled to welcome Melynda J. Price as IRWG’s next director! Her five-year appointment as executive director of IRWG takes effect August 28, and she will also hold an appointment as professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. Professor Price comes to us from the University of Kentucky, where she served as the John and ...
2023 IRWG Faculty Seed Grant Awards
IRWG has awarded six Faculty Seed Grants for faculty projects on women, gender, and sexuality. The grants support individual research activities, initial research efforts, performances, and community-based research. “I am thrilled that IRWG is able to support these important research projects, which engage questions of vital interest across fields and disciplines,” notes interim director Allison ...
Legendary Women of Environmental Justice in Detroit
In 2022, Professors Carmel Price and Natalie Sampson (UM-Dearborn) and community partners received an IRWG Faculty Seed Grant for their project titled Arab American Women: Environmental Justice Narratives. The project explores the narratives of Arab American women experiencing environmental injustice and leading efforts to address it. Their team was also awarded an Engage Detroit grant and will be ...
IRWG Affiliates Honored with Thurnau Professorships
February 2023 Five University of Michigan faculty members have been named Arthur F. Thurnau Professors in recognition of their contributions to undergraduate education. Two of these extraordinary professors are also IRWG affiliates! Gary W. Harper and Lisa H. Harris were among the newly honored faculty who will hold the Thurnau title for the duration of their ...
Faculty-Led Program Areas Have a New Name & Approaching Deadline
November 7, 2022 In response to the changing needs of our community, IRWG has been rethinking some of our long standing programs. Faculty-Led Program Areas will now have an annual call and an initial program period of two years with the possibility of renewal. They also have a newly defined purpose, are open to all ...
Job Posting: IRWG Director
The University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women & Gender invites inquiries and nominations for its next Director. The next Director will establish, enact, and amplify an ambitious vision for IRWG’s future, identifying opportunities for impactful research, diversifying Institute funding, maintaining a positive organizational culture, and further enhancing the Institute’s exceptional reputation. The University ...