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 ...
Allison Alexy Appointed IRWG Interim Director
August 2022 We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Allison Alexy as interim director of IRWG. Her one-year appointment takes effect September 1. The Office of the Vice President for research has retained the executive leadership consulting firm WittKeiffer to assist with a national search for IRWG’s next director, which will take place ...
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, ...