Current Scholars

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Students on Brandeis Campus

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Current WSRC Scholars 2023-24

Pnina Abir-Am
Pnina Abir-Am
Resident Scholar

Focus: Women scientists, RNA, gender bias

Becky Behar
Becky Behar
WSRC Scholar

Focus: photography | traditions and customs of Sephardic Jewish women 

Edith Chears
Edith Chears
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Organizational leadership and advancing women’s leadership

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Donna Dodson
Resident Scholar

Focus: Historical representations of Amazons and female heroes in myth and life

Susan Eisenberg

Focus: On equal terms, women in construction, digital media project

Karen Frostig
Karen Frostig
WSRC Scholar

Focus: public memory, genocide, art, social justice

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Margaret Morganroth Gullette
WSRC Scholar

Focus: American eldercide: How it happened, how to prevent it the next time

K. Melchor Quick Hall
K. Melchor Quick Hall
WSRC Scholar

Focus: International Black feminisms book

Marjan Kamali
Marjan Kamali
WSRC Scholar

Focus: creative writing, culture, publishing

Evangelina Macias
Evangelina Macias
Affiliated Faculty

Focus: Indigenous Dance Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Dance, Critical Dance Studies

Marisol Negron
Marisol Negron
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Race, gender, class, and sexuality in the making and unmaking of national and diasporic imaginaries

Amrita Pande
Amrita Pande
WSRC Scholar

Focus: the intersection of globalization and the intimate

Phoebe Schnitzer
Phoebe Schnitzer
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Survey: Pre-college sexual education curricula in the U.S.

C. Rose Smith
C. Rose Smith
WSRC Scholar

Focus: visualizing the identities of Black and queer women through photography

Heather Treseler
Heather Treseler
Resident Scholar

Focus: Poem manuscripts, work on poet Elizabeth Bishop

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Carmel Ohman
Carmel Ohman
Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow

Focus: African American literature, visual culture, sexuality studies, black feminism

Ji Min Bang
Ji Min Bang
Mellon Sawyer Graduate Student Fellow
Ginny Chadwick
Mellon Sawyer Graduate Student Fellow