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 ...
Anna Kirkland Awarded Collegiate Professorship
August 2022 Outgoing IRWG director Anna Kirkland will be appointed as the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, effective September 1. Each faculty member honored with a Collegiate professorship selects its name from the ranks of previous University of Michigan faculty. Kim Lane Scheppele ...
Anna Kirkland to Step Down as IRWG Director in August
April 2022 Anna Kirkland will step down in August after a five-year term as executive director of IRWG. Anna joined the institute in 2014 as the associate director, and then was named director in 2017. Under her leadership, IRWG has catalyzed feminist research projects on transgender health, gender-based violence and sexual harassment, feminist data science, ...
Working group publishes recommendations for a successful COVID-19 vaccination program
IRWG director Anna Kirkland was part of an NSF-funded COVID-19 Working Group that recently published recommendations for strengthening public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines through social science research, community-focused implementation, transparency, and public oversight. “This working group brought together a wide range of expertise to think through what will be needed politically and socially as well ...
Q&A with Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Program Director for Faculty Research Development
This interview with Dr. Stitt was featured in the Fall 2015 issue of Genderscapes, IRWG’s annual newsletter. One of the main services IRWG provides to the university is the fostering of innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship. Director Sarah Fenstermaker recognized that IRWG’s already strong presence as an incubator for feminist research would be strengthened with the addition ...