Rachel Kahn Best, Assistant Professor of Sociology Abigail Dumes, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Yi-Li Wu, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies & History While many doctors claim that Lyme disease—a tick-borne bacterial infection—is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond … Read more
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Michigan Lydia Kelow-Bennett, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan Supriya M. Nair, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth … Read more
Join us for a virtual book launch of Meat! A Transnational Analysis on Friday, April 9 at 1:00 PM EASTERN TIME (12PM Central/10AM Pacific) What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can “bloody” vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? … Read more
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Professor, American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s and Gender Studies, U-M David Caron, Professor, French and Women’s and Gender Studies, U-M Holly Hughes, Professor, Art & Design, Theater and Drama, and Women’s and Gender Studies, U-M Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance, written by Lawrence La … Read more
Alicia Spencer-Hall, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (UK) Blake Gutt, Assistant Professor of French, Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan Scott Larson, Lecturer IV, American Culture, University of Michigan LaVelle Ridley, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan Trans and Genderqueer Subjects … Read more
Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine (NYU Press, 2021), stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with … Read more
Author: Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Division Chair of Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, St. Catherine University; past Program Director of Faculty Research Development at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), University of Michigan Aliyah Khan, Associate Professor of English Literature and Languages & Afroamerican and African Studies; Director of the Global … Read more
Paige L. Sweet (author), Assistant Professor of Sociology Richard M. Tolman, Sheldon D. Rose Collegiate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Professor of Sociology, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy For women who have experienced … Read more
Nadine Naber, Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (interim); Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies/Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago This workshop is intended for faculty and postdoctoral fellows affiliated at the University of Michigan (all campuses, all ranks). Nadine Naber is a public scholar, activist, author, and teacher from Al-Salt, … Read more
Petra Kuppers, Professor of English Language and Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, Art and Design Charli Brissey, Assistant Professor of Dance Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Professor of Spanish, American Culture, and Women’s and Gender Studies This event is part of IRWG’s Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights new books by our faculty. This event … Read more
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Author, University of Michigan Nayan Shah, Respondent, University of Southern California About the Event: Join the Global Islamic Studies Center for the book launch of Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling by Dr. Charlotte Karem Albrecht on March 9th at 3 PM ET. Dr. Karem Albrecht will discuss how Syrian … Read more
Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor of American Culture & Women’s and Gender Studies Jennifer Dominique Jones, Assistant Professor of History & Women’s and Gender Studies Megan Sweeney, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor, Departments of English, Afroamerican & African Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled … Read more