E.J. Graff

Areas of Expertise

Gender and Justice (including Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Media Criticism); LGBT Issues; Journalism

Email: ejgraff@brandeis.edu

Current Project

As Associate Director at the award-winning Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, E.J. Graff is helping Founding Director Florence George Graves build the new nonprofit journalism. Graff is the Institute’s senior researcher directing the Gender & Justice Project, where she investigates and reports on injustices facing women and children.

Biography

E.J. Graff is Associate Director and Senior Researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she researches and reports on injustices facing women and children. Previously, Graff collaborated on former Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy’s book Getting Even: Why Women Still Don’t Make As Much As Men--And What To Do So We Will (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 2005), which investigated how illegal discrimination contributes to the gender wage gap. Graff’s first book, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution, examined more than 2,500 years of history of a central pillar of our social life.

E.J. Graff’s award-winning work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Good Housekeeping, The Nation, and many anthologies. She has appeared in documentaries and been interviewed widely on public, commercial, and satellite radio and television, including ABC, BBC, MTV, and NPR. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and Harvard Law School. Her work is cited in legal journals and NGO documents, used in courses, entered as courtroom exhibits, and quoted by policymaking bodies.

Education

M.F.A., Warren Wilson College

B.A., Ohio University Honors Tutorial College

Representative Publications

Murphy, Evelyn F. with E.J. Graff.  Getting Even: Why Women Still Don’t Get Paid Like Men – And What To Do About It.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Graff, E.J. What is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.

For recent articles, please visit the website of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

Links

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism

Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men - And What to Do About it

What is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution