2024 Graduate Student Research Awards
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender has awarded 14 graduate students funding to support wide-ranging projects related to women, gender, and sexuality. Two Boyd/Williams Dissertation Grants were awarded for projects related to women and work. Through this award, IRWG supports projects that promote knowledge about and enhance understanding of the complexities of women’s roles ...
Community of Scholars Program Alumni Survey Reveals Transformative Impact
The IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars Program (COS) is a collaboration that was established in 1996 between the Rackham Graduate School and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and remains the only feminist dissertation writing workshop at the University of Michigan. The main goal of the fellowship is to support graduate students from any Rackham ...
Announcing 2022 Graduate Student Research Awards
April 2022 The Institute for Research on Women and Gender has awarded 10 graduate students funding to support wide-ranging projects related to women, gender, and sexuality. Eight IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars summer fellowships were granted to students in the humanities and social sciences, whose dissertations focus on women, gender or sexuality. The students were selected ...
Applications Open for Graduate Student Fellowships
IRWG announces two fellowships for doctoral students, accepting applications through January 10, 2022: The Boyd/Williams Dissertation Grant is awarded to a U-M doctoral student writing a dissertation related to women and work. Through this award, IRWG seeks to support projects that promote knowledge about and enhance understanding of the complexities of women’s roles in relation to ...
Announcing 2021 Graduate Student Research Awards
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender has awarded 12 graduate students funding to support wide-ranging projects related to women, gender, and sexuality. Two Boyd/Williams Dissertation Grants were awarded for projects related to women and work. Through this award, IRWG supports projects that promote knowledge about and enhance understanding of the complexities of women’s ...
Accepting Applications for Graduate Student Fellowships
IRWG announces two fellowships for doctoral students, accepting applications through January 6, 2021: The Boyd/Williams Dissertation Grant is awarded to a U-M doctoral student writing a dissertation related to women and work. Through this award, IRWG seeks to support projects that promote knowledge about and enhance understanding of the complexities of women’s roles in relation to ...
2020 Community of Scholars Virtual Symposium
2020 Community of Scholars Virtual Symposium The Community of Scholars is an interdisciplinary feminist workshop allowing a select group of doctoral candidates from a range of disciplines—ranging from Comparative Literature to Public Health to Education—to engage with each other in rigorous, generative conversations. This Symposium showcases the research and writing that emerged from an intensive ...
Announcing 2020 Graduate Student Research Awards
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender has awarded 12 graduate students funding to support wide-ranging projects related to women, gender, and sexuality. Two Boyd/Williams Dissertation Grants were awarded for projects related to women and work. Through this award, IRWG supports projects that promote knowledge about and enhance understanding of the complexities of women’s ...
Giving Blueday 2019
IRWG is pleased to participate in Giving Blueday once again this year! What is Giving Blueday? Giving Blueday is the University of Michigan’s annual day of giving. Scheduled to coincide with Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving following Thanksgiving weekend, Giving Blueday is a day for everyone who loves Michigan to join together to ...
Graduate Student Spotlight: 2019 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars
For more than two decades, IRWG and the Rackham Graduate School have partnered to offer a unique summer fellowship for graduate students. The Community of Scholars (COS) fellowship provides summer funding combined with a weekly seminar to support interdisciplinary feminist scholarship among PhD candidates. In 2019, ten students from fields across the humanities, social sciences, ...