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 ...
Lane Hall exhibit on Ukraine featured in professional association magazine
March 24, 2023 The March issue of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies news magazine features a transcribed conversation between Jessica Zychowicz and Grace Mahoney, during which they discuss curating the “I have a crisis for you”: Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War exhibit held at Lane Hall in the fall, ...
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 ...
We’re hiring an IRWG Graduate Fellow for Exhibits!
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) announces a paid position for a UM graduate student (at any level or program) to assist with our Lane Hall gallery exhibits. We are looking for someone interested in curating and setting up feminist/gender/sexuality-related art and media exhibits in the Lane Hall gallery space. The Lane ...
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 ...
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP), November 18-21, 2020
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) November 18-21, 2020 Virtual – Register on Eventbrite The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future ...
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 ...
Call for Proposals: Gender, Women’s Suffrage & Political Power Conference
We’re delighted to cosponsor the Gender, Women’s Suffrage & Political Power: Past, Present, and Future conference with MSU’s Center for Gender in Global Context. The conference is scheduled for November 19-21, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. *IRWG will pay for hotel accommodations for up to 5 U-M graduate student presenters. Decision letters will go out in ...
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 ...
U-M and MSU Gender Research Institutes Collaborate on Fall 2020 Conference on Women’s Suffrage, Past and Present
November, 2019 In a historic collaboration, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, and Michigan State University’s Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) and Department of History will jointly present the Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference, November 19-21, 2020 ...
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, ...