Women's Studies Research Center

About the WSRC

The WSRC building entrance The Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis University is a hub of interdisciplinary exchange between scholars, artists, faculty, and students, all of whom conduct innovative research and create art with a focus on gender issues and women’s lives.

Unique in its breadth of projects, the WSRC is part of a newly established national network of university-affiliated gender research institutes. As a convening space on campus, the center supports interdisciplinary dialogue, research and art, and shares insights and discoveries with the university and the larger public.

Programs

The WSRC advances knowledge, public dialogue, and social justice through interdisciplinary inquiry and the creative arts, focused on women, gender and sexuality.  It is comprised of:

  • The Scholars Program: A program housing scholars studying gender and sexuality issues in an interdisciplinary environment
  • The Student-Scholar Partnership Program: A program that pairs Brandeis University students with WSRC scholars for semester-long research assistantships
  • The Kniznick Gallery: The Kniznick Gallery is devoted to the artwork by or about women, and hosts the permanent art collection as well as scholarly art projects at the WSRC

Throughout the year, members of the Brandeis WSRC Scholars Program present their work through events such as receptions, book launches, film screenings, lectures, panels, performances and concerts that are open to the public.

“I am delighted to be an affiliate of the Brandeis WSRC. Support for this thriving center for interdisciplinary thinking and scholarship makes possible intellectual breakthroughs that inform and inspire.”

Anita Hill

University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies