Scholarly Community
Scholars who are doing research on women, gender, and sexuality can find a strong support system and network at IRWG.
Funds, resources such as space and technology, and administrative support are available for residencies, projects, groups, and collaborations.
Read below for information on our Faculty Affiliates program and to learn more about our current IRWG Incubators and initiatives.
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IRWG Affiliates
There are over 250 IRWG affiliates from more than 80 different departments at the University of Michigan who make up a core group for creating collaborations, meeting like-minded scholars, and participating in planning sessions and brainstorming to build ambitious research projects. Gender may be the primary focus of their work, or it may be just one part among many.
Find Scholars
- Browse our database of IRWG affiliates by name, department or research tag.
- Visit the Michigan Experts website to explore profiles of all faculty at the University of Michigan, where you’ll find publications, social media activity, and potential collaborators.
Current Programs and Initiatives
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MiStory Incubator: Comparative Analysis of Culture and Trauma Recovery
Our Multicultural Study of Trauma Recovery group (MiStory), comprised of 35 members from 13 countries, examines how internalized cultural perceptions impact survivor recovery. We have applied cultural lenses to theory and instrument development to document survivors’ strengths and challenges. This incubator application supports year one of a three year project. Aim 1 is the…
Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CRSI)
The Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CRSI) seeks to develop forums and dialogue produced at the junction of postcolonial, empire, comparative ethnic, critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. Highly innovative scholarship, cultural production, and activism have attended closely to how formations of race, class, colonialism, gender normativity, and bodily capacities, and sexuality are deeply intertwined. This…
Initiative to End Sexual and Gender Harassment, Harm, and Violence
Mission Statement: The University of Michigan Initiative to End Sexual and Gender Harassment, Harm, and Violence is committed to interdisciplinary research, education, and practice to foster safe and inclusive social environments. Our approach is grounded in principles of intersectionality and social justice. We believe profound transformation comes from altering systems, communities, and organizations, rather than…
Consortium for Gender Responsive Prisoner Healthcare
About the Consortium Director: Emily SluiterAssociate Director: Jacqueline WilliamsThe intersections of gender and incarceration manifest in several complicated- and frequently dangerous- ways. The Consortium for Gender-Responsive Prisoner Healthcare aims to gather the often-siloed efforts of academics, formerly incarcerated people, healthcare professionals, prisoner advocates, victims and their families, Department of Corrections officials, and public health directors…
Sustainable Health Activities Research Program
While improvements in healthy behaviors, such as regular physical activity, eating in healthy ways, and getting sufficient sleep, improve physical and mental health and greater well-being, there is little evidence about how to promote healthy behaviors in ways that are sustainable. Yet without sustainable behavior change, any improvements that are achieved cannot be maintained. One…
Feminist Theory and Music Conference 2024
The Feminist Theory and Music Conference, planned for June 2024 in Ann Arbor will provide a venue for explorations of intersections in music scholarship between gender/sexuality and such identity categories as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, disability, age/ageism, and others. While the biennial conference has convened regularly since 1991, the Michigan Feminist Theory and Music Conference…
Global South Gender and Sexuality (GS2) Collective
The Global South Gender and Sexuality (GS2) Collective aims to develop a multidisciplinary space for engagement with issues of gender, sexuality, and racialization through postcolonial, decolonial, and critical area studies approaches. It spotlights innovative conceptual frameworks for research on subaltern feminist, queer, and transgender pasts and presents in the Global South, while centering the politics…
Ni une más (Not One More)
A trailblazing world premiere production, Ni une más braids music, theatre, and dance to tell survivors’ stories of growing agency. From the tender “Te recuerdo” (I remember you) to the rumbling subway sounds of “Metro Asfixia;” from the ironic rap, “This Doesn’t Happen at Michigan,” to the foot-stomping chorus, “It’s Not My Fault,” this audience-engaging production is…
Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)
Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) fosters intellectual conversation and interdisciplinary connection among faculty, graduate students, and staff engaged in research and scholarship on the social, cultural, and material production of sexuality. Since its founding in 2001 LGQRI has sought to connect abundant sexuality-studies resources on the Michigan campus and to establish a locus around which contacts…