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The Institute for Research on Women is part of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. In addition to support from SAS, the Institute's programs have received funding from the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Rutgers Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the State of New Jersey, and the Fund for New Jersey.
The IRW's staff works to provide opportunities for faculty and graduate students
to share perspectives on current scholarship on women and gender
from a variety of disciplinary and methodological backgrounds.
Our affiliate members
include some 900 faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates
drawn from a wide range of disciplines on all three of the University
campuses.
- To
join the IRW as an affiliate member and get notices about our
events in campus mail, please email
us with your name, Rutgers affiliation (if student, please
indicate whether graduate or undergraduate and include expected
date of graduation), and campus mail address.
- To
receive our newsletter and information about our lecture series
in the US mail, please contact
us with your name and mailing address.
The IRW's programs promote innovative
scholarship on women and gender through interdisciplinary forums,
lectures, and conferences that bring together IRW affiliates with
top visiting scholars from the US and abroad.
Each year, the IRW selects
faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral residential fellows
to participate in a weekly interdisciplinary research seminar on current themes.
The IRW's Executive
Committee members represent the broad disciplinary interests
of the affiliates and participate in shaping the IRW's current
and future activities.
We are located on the Douglass campus of Rutgers-New Brunswick at 160 Ryders Lane, second floor. |
