Job Posting: IRWG Director
Submitted by heidiab on Mon, 09/19/2022 - 10:07amThe University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women & Gender invites inquiries and nominations for its next Director.
The University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women & Gender invites inquiries and nominations for its next Director.
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.
Anna Kirkland will step down in August 2022 after a five-year term as executive director of IRWG.
In this 90-minute online workshop, publishing consultant and developmental editor Laura Portwood-Stacer will guide participants through the often opaque world of scholarly book publishing, providing the clarity you need in order to approach publishers and pitch your book with confidence.
IRWG director Anna Kirkland was part of an NSF-funded COVID-19 Working Group that recently published recommendations for strengthening public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines through social science research, community-focused implementation, transparency, and public oversight.
Two-part workshop for faculty, with grant writing best practices, techniques, and brief feedback on your proposal Specific Aims/Project Objectives.
Michigan faculty are engaged in all kinds of exciting research. From healthcare to the humanities, the scope of gender research is vast. On our decentralized campus, it can be difficult for feminist researchers to find one another. That is where IRWG comes in. With our new affiliate faculty program, we are gathering and connecting scholars from across the university who are integral to gender research.
This September, Sarah Fenstermaker will conclude her five-year term as IRWG director and will retire to her home in California.
Dr. Fenstermaker had a long career of feminist scholarship in sociology and women’s studies and was a longtime campus administrative leader at the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining us at Michigan in 2012.
Call for Proposals: Joan Schafer Research Faculty Award in Sport, Fitness, and Disability
Three faculty members are serving on a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study the impact of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce.