
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 ...

2023 Graduate Student Research Awards
May 2023 The Institute for Research on Women and Gender has awarded 10 doctoral students summer 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 ...

“I have a crisis for you”: Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War
An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk August 25—December 16, 2022 Lane Hall Exhibit Space (open M-F, 9am-4pm) 204 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How I Spent My Summer at IRWG
by Tuğçe Kayaal In summer 2020, I worked as a graduate student research assistant for IRWG’s multidisciplinary gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual harassment project. In my academic research, I explore various forms of gender-based violence in different historical settings with a focus on the Middle East. This assistantship was my first job in which I had ...