Humanities and Gender

Gender studies represent a field of research where the scholarship is necessarily transdisciplinary.  From its inception, the Institute for Humanities Research has supported a diverse array of projects with gender studies at their core. Gender and Sustainability, Religion, Reform and Gender, Gender and Law Reform in Sudan, Gender, Language and Visual Culture in 21st Century Comparative Literature, and Gender, Sexuality and the Media represent a sampling of the projects undertaken with funding from the IHR.

In 2007 The Reverend Jenny Norton provided an endowment for the IHR to support an annual Research Cluster focusing on gender. The Norton fund is designed to stimulate research on women in any field and on any topic.

ihr fellows

Visiting Fellows

Semiotics and Race: Race and Genomics Lisa Anderson, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies and Theatre, School of Social Transformation

ihr seed grants

School(ing) Girls: Localizing Transnational Gender Identities in Kenya's Maasailand Project Director(s): Heather Switzer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation; Larisa Warhol, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, Center for Indian Education, School of Social Transformation

Girl Talk: An Exploration of Gender. Sexuality, and the Media, Project Director(s):Yasmina Katsulis, Women & Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation; Georganne Scheiner, Women & Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation; Vera Lopez, Justice & Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation

ihr research clusters

Religion, Gender, and Reform, 2009-2010

Gender, Language, and Visual Culture in 21st Century Comparative Literature, 2008-2009