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In “A Fringe of Her Own,” Paley presents her collection of handmade Jewish ritual objects that deconstruct and reinterpret the tallit, tzitzit, and tefillin, typically worn by men. Recognizing the gap that exists between Jewish women and ritual objects, Pale > more
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Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am is a historian of science who has published widely on the history of women and gender in science, the history of molecular biology, and the history of public memory. > more
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Lisa Krissoff Boehm is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Manhattanville College. She was formerly Interim Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Urban Studies at Worcester State University, Senior Associate Dean > more
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Ann W. Caldwell is President Emerita of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, a degree granting graduate school, where she served for ten years. She began her career as a newspaper reporter and was editor of the Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni > more
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Penina Adelman is working at the intersection of creative expression and spiritual quest. She has been interested in these two aspects of living since she was a young girl who wrote poetry while sitting in the woods. > more
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Nancer Ballard has authored several books of nonfiction, Dead Reckoning, a volume of poetry, and numerous short works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. > more
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Ornit Barkai is a documentary filmmaker whose cinematographic works offer intergenerational, multicultural perspectives on narratives of social memory and memorialization in a variety of genres and formats. > more
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Rosalind C. Barnett is a Senior Scientist at the Women’s Studies Research Center. Alone and with others, she has published over 115 articles, 37 chapters, and nine books. > more
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Mary G. Berg teaches Latin American literature and translation at various Boston area universities, including Harvard Extension. She grew up in Colombia and Peru. > more
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Helen A. Berger is a sociologist who specializes in the study of contemporary Paganism and Witchcraft, a new religious movement which venerates the female divine to the exclusion of, or in conjuncture with, the male divine. > more
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Linda Bond is a visual artist whose work explores the mediated experience of wartime. Pausing to examine the details of violent events, her drawings in gunpowder & graphite and large scale mixed media installations are a personal attempt to humanize... > more
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Meg A. Bond is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Women & Work at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. > more
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Marguerite G. Bouvard is the author or 12 non-fiction books in the area of women and human rights as well as 8 books of poetry, two of which have received awards. > more
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Lora Brody is best known for her images of Red Sox fans as well as a series of photographs that document the final decade of an iconic snack shop at Provincetown’s Herring Cove Beach. > more
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Terry Byrne has been writing about the arts for two decades. She served for 11 years as the Boston Herald’s chief theater critic and columnist, writing about the theater community in and around Boston > more
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With a keen focus on ‘improving human performance’ (HPI), Edie is an accomplished transactional and transformational leader, manager and organizational role model with many years of leadership experience. As the President of her 17-year-old training consul > more
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Emily Corbató’s work, which has been shown throughout the US, focuses on photographic journals from around the world, “street” photography including her “Glorious Women”, architecture, Judaic subjects and nature as observed from her studio on Plum Island MA > more
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Liane Curtis is a musicologist and the founder and President of both The Rebecca Clarke Society, and Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, non-profit organizations which are based at the WSRC. > more
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Paula Doress-Worters came to the WSRC/Brandeis from her work in second wave feminism to explore a long-standing interest in Ernestine Rose, a 19th century women’s rights advocate whose contributions had been under-recognized by historians. > more
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Nurit Eini-Pindyck is a visual artist who was born and raised in Israel. Previously worked as computer programmer and systems analyst in management and consulting teams, she has been collaborating with scholars from various disciplines since joining WSRC. > more
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Susan Eisenberg is a poet, multidisciplinary artist, policy analyst, public speaker and educator who re-imagines the everyday, playing with scale and juxtaposition to investigate issues of power and social policy. > more
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Born and adopted in the United States, Dr. Ellerman received her doctorate at Harvard; studied at Boston University, the University of Geneva, and the Liceo Classico Michelangiolo in Florence > more
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Rachel Joffe Falmagne is Professor of Psychology and past Director of Women’s Studies at Clark University, as well as past President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. > more
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Fran studied art and sociology at Brandeis University, received an MSW in psychiatric social work, and then an MFA from Boston University in graphic design and photography. > more
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Ms. Frank is one of Boston’s most in demand conductors. From professional freelance CD recording projects to workshops for professional conductors and singers, Ms. Frank continues to direct some of Boston’s best musical ensembles. > more
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Elise Franklin will receive her PhD in History from Boston College in 2016. Her research focuses on the process of decolonization between France and Algeria. She draws on gender analysis and social and intellectual historical methods to analyze the trajector > more
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Janet Freedman served as Dean of Library Services and Professor of Education at UMass Dartmouth. She chaired the Department of Education, directed the Women’s Studies Program and co-directed the university’s Center for Jewish Culture. > more
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Karen Frostig works as a conceptual, interdisciplinary artist engaged in international activist projects dealing with traumatic memory, inherited erasures, and new forms of testimony. She exhibits her work across the US, in Europe and the Middle East. > more
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Elinor Gadon is a cultural historian whose research interests and publications are focused on the analysis of myth and image in their cultural context as they affect issues of gender. Her specialty is the art and culture of the Indian subcontinent. > more
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Cheri L. Geckler is a clinical neuropsychologist and photographic/mixed media artist. As a neuropsychologist, she was a member of the clinical faculties at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School > more
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Rajashree Ghosh has worked in the field of social development in the arenas of gender, education, health, and environment. She has worked for the United Nations World Food Programme in India. > more
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Nance Goldstein uses her scholarship in new leadership challenges to working with healthcare clinicians to improve the workplace experience for those who heal us. Her work assists frontline and middle managers lead their staff to deliver. > more
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Anne Gottlieb works in professional theatre as an actor, director, producer and creator of collaborative work. > more
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E.J. Graff is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she researches and reports on injustices facing women and children. > more
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Florence George Graves is the founding director of Brandeis University’s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where a staff of journalists conducts major investigations on issues related to political and social justice. > more
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Margaret is a cultural critic and prize-winning writer of nonfiction, an internationally known age critic, essayist and activist. Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in American, her latest book, was the winner of a 2012 Eric Hoffer Prize. > more
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Trisha Gura is the author of Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women (Harper Collins, May 2007) and contributor to Going Hungry: Writers on Self Denial, Desire and Anorexia (Anchor, 2008). She is a former molecular biologist. > more
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Praised as “a first-rate instrumentalist” (Boston Globe), Venezuelan viola da gambist and music scholar Laury Gutiérrez specializes in music by women composers and early music from Ibero-America. > more
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Kia M. Q. Hall conducted Fulbright-funded research (2011-2012) in Honduras among the Afro-indigenous Garifuna women who make cassava bread, or ereba in the Garifuna language, and is completing a book about that research. As a Black feminist scholar-activist, > more
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Mary Oestereicher Hamill is a pioneer of participatory photo-based art regarding social issues. In a multi-year project begun in the 90’s, she loaned video cameras to homeless people and transformed the imagery and sound into collaborative interactive instal > more
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Inez Hedges recently turned to playwriting as a creative outlet for her research on 20th Century Europe. She enjoys working with directors and actors to bring difficult issues before audiences in ways that both entertain and inform. > more
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Suzanne B. Hanser, Ed.D., MT-BC is the founding chair of the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music. She is past President of both the World Federation of Music Therapy and the National Association for Music Therapy. > more
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Hilde Hein was born in Germany and grew up in California. She studied at Reed College and Cornell, and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. She taught at Los Angeles State University, Tufts, Boston University, and Holy Cross Coll > more
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Lois Isenman was a Science Scholar at the former Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, where she began her work with intuition, exploring the biological and cognitive mechanisms that likely underlie this mysterious mental capacity. > more
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Laurie Kahn is interested in telling compelling, visually interesting stories that don’t normally find their way to the screen. Laurie’s film A Midwife’s Tale was part of PBS’s The American Experience series and won numerous awards including a national Emmy. > more
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Amelia LeClair received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Theory and Composition from UMass/Boston and her Master of Music in choral conducting from New England Conservatory, studying with Simon Carrington. > more
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Maria Lopez was the first Latina appointed a judge in the Massachusetts Trial Court system. She earned a reputation as a fiercely independent, liberal judge, resigning from the bench in the midst of controversy. > more
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Louise Levesque Lopman is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts where she taught and chaired the Department of Sociology, and established the Women’s Studies Program which she directed for five years. > more
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Frances (Frinde) Maher is a former high school teacher and Professor Emerita of Education at Wheaton College. She is the co-author, with Mary Kay Tetreault, of The Feminist Classroom, (1994 and 2001). > more
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A musician all my life, I’m currently active as a composer, conductor, writer, teacher, and performer on violin, viola, and historical keyboard instruments. I am the founding Music Director of Foundling Baroque Orchestra and Women’s Advocacy Project. > more
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Mary G. Mason, Professor of English, Emerita, Emmanuel College, was Director of Women’s Studies for ten years. Her doctoral work was in nineteenth century English literature but her major interest has been on the theory and practice of women’s life narrative > more
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Dr. Brenda Gael McSweeney is an academic and researcher specializing in Gender and International Development. She headed UN Volunteers and led UN programs in West Africa, India, and the Caribbean for thirty years. > more
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June Ellen Mendelson is an advocate for universal health care, with a focus on mental health. At the center of her concern is that the current reform will bring about a comprehensive and effective mental health care system. > more
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Annette Liberman Miller has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in Boston, many regional theaters and has been a leading actor with the Shakespeare and Co. Repertory theater in Lenox, MA for 18 years. She is on the Screen Actors Guild. > more
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Vivian Montgomery is an award-winning fortepianist and harpsichordist, recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2013-14, she will be on a Fulbright in Cairo, teaching Women and Music courses at the Uum Kulthum Mu > more
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Rachel Munn is an architect with over ten years of professional experience (formerly an Associate at MDS in downtown Boston). Her academic interests focus on the interrelation of architecture, place, memory and memorials. > more
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Naomi is working on a novel about a rabbi and her congregation, set in the early 1990s. She has written poetry, essays, and short stories, which have appeared in online and print journals and newspapers. > more
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Ruth Nemzoff is a former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire legislature and former Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare in that state. She wrote an historical analysis of the “Changing Perceptions of Mothers of Children with Disabilities.” > more
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In 1995, Siti Nurjanah co-founded the Institute for the Study of Religion and Democracy (eLSAD) and in 2009, she co-founded Women and Youth Development Institute of Indonesia, both based in Surabaya, Indonesia. > more
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Patricia Palmieri grew up in Fresh Meadows, New York, attended public schools, skipped the 8th grade in a program known as “special progress” and graduated from Hunter College. She was in the last “all girl” class and wore buttons to “ban the boys.” > more
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Linda Pololi, Senior Scientist, is nationally recognized for her extensive research and innovative contributions to the professional and personal development of faculty in academic medicine, including women and underrepresented minority groups. > more
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Susan Porter is an historian whose primary research fields are nineteenth-century American social history, gender history, child welfare history, and Jewish history. > more
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Smriti Rao is an associate professor of economics and global studies at Assumption College in Worcester MA. Her research is motivated by a desire to understand the ways in which economic inequalities intersect with gender inequalities in developing countries > more
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Monica Raymond is a prize-winning poet and playwright. She was a Jerome Fellow for 2008-09 at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, and a 2013 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Playwriting. > more
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Susie Rivo is an independent documentary filmmaker. Her award-winning film, Amy, screened at over 20 film festivals, including Sundance, and was broadcast on several PBS stations, including WNET (NYC) and KQED (San Francisco). > more
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Gabriel Robinson grew up in West Virginia. Her childhood interest in fairy tales and wild places translated into a B.A. in Religion from Bard College, and later into a Ph.D. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago. > more
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Robin A. Robinson is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Coordinator of the Community Engaged Research Initiative, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from Brandeis University and a > more
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The basic thrust of Ellen Rosen’s research has been on the intersection of class and gender. Her first book, Bitter Choices: Blue Collar Women in and Out of Work was based on a study of 200 women factory workers who were employed in traditional women’s facto > more
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Karin Rosenthal’s photographs of the nude in nature reside in numerous private and museum collections including the Boston MFA, Boston Public Library, Santa Barbara MFA, the Fogg, Rose, and Danforth Art Museums, ICP, and the Yale University Art Gallery. > more
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Andrea's photography has always shown her interest in women's bodies and emotions. Her work has been shown in many juried solo and group shows. Her interests and creative process were profiled in an online article as Cambridge Art Association's "Artist of > more
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Rosie Rosenzweig’s early poetry was anthologized in the first gender-friendly American Hebrew prayer book as well as in various feminist anthologies. As the founder of the Jewish Poetry Festival in Sudbury Massachusetts.. > more
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Ellen Rovner is a cultural anthropologist who studies the intersection of gender, class, food, and ethnicity. She is an adjunct professor at Boston University, teaching in the Masters in Liberal Arts and Gastronomy program. > more
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Rochelle Ruthchild is a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, and a Visiting Scholar at the WSRC. > more
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After many decades of scholarship, academic administration and social activism, Roberta Salper has most recently been Executive Director of Political Research Associates, a progressive think-tank in Boston that monitors the full spectrum of the political Rig > more
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Angela Shpolberg currently studies cultural diplomacy between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the years immediately following the Russian Revolution. She is a Center Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and was the 2012 Patterson > more
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Born, raised and educated in Leningrad, USSR, Ludmila Shtern worked as a Senior Research Fellow in the Geology Department at Leningrad University, and is the author of 17 scientific papers in geology. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1976. > more
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Eric Silverman is a cultural anthropologist at Wheelock College in American Studies and Human Development. He is currently completing a book on the history of Jewish clothing, focusing on messages about gender and ethnic identity. > more
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My deep interest, visible in all of my work, involves how we are influenced by and how we influence the land, how cultures evolve in relation to (and affect) their geography, just as we, as individuals, evolve, becoming who we are because of our families, an > more
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Susan Wilson is an award-winning photographer, writer, educator, and lecturer whose stories and images about the arts, entertainment, history, and culture regularly appeared in the Boston Globe from 1978 to 1996. In 1994, she began writing and photographing > more
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Pam Swing is an anthropologist, folklorist and photographer. Recently, Pam has become fascinated by her militant suffragist grandmother, Betty Gram Swing. From 1917-1920, Betty worked full time for the National Woman’s Party. > more
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Susan Thomson is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell (UML). Her courses include Social Anthropology, Community Service, Sociology of the Family, and Sociology of Health and Healthcare. > more
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Rhoda Unger is professor emerita of psychology at Montclair State University. She has written/ edited nine books on the psychology of women and gender and more than 85 articles and book chapters in this field. She has also published several recent articles i > more
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Rahel Wasserfall is the Director of Evaluation and Training at CEDAR and Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University (WSRC). She has broad experiences in the evaluation of educational programs in complex multilingual and cr > more
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Stephanie Wasserman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. During 2014/2015 she will be teaching two courses: 1. Biological Basis of Motivation and 2. Developmental Psychology. > more
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When Kristin Waters compiled and wrote critical introductions for Enlightened Conversations: Women and Men Political Theorists, (Blackwell 2000), she challenged teachers and researchers to be more inclusive of race and gender. > more
Welcome Our New Director, Dr. Karen V. Hansen
Karen V. Hansen joins the WSRC as the new Director and continues to serve as Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She is delighted to lead an institution that supports research > more
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