The Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis University is a hub of interdisciplinary exchange between scholars, artists, faculty, and students, who conduct innovative research and create art with a focus on gender issues and women’s lives.
The WSRC, which hosts the Kniznick Gallery, the Scholars Program, and the Student-Scholar Partnership Program, advances knowledge, public dialogue, and social justice through interdisciplinary inquiry and the creative arts.
Current Happenings at the Center
Photo Credit: artist Donna Dodson
December 10, 2024
“The Circe Effect: Women’s Creative Power Reclaims the Narrative”, is a group exhibition at the Hotchkiss School's Tremaine Art Gallery, with WSRC Scholar Donna Dodson, among others. The exhibit is inspired by themes explored in the best-selling novel “Circe” by Madeline Miller, and the artists seek to address the issues surrounding the idea of when women orchestrate the narrative, stereotypes are challenged and recast. Find out more about this artistically thought-provoking exhibit.
The University of Chicago Press has nominated Margaret Gullette's book "American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It" for a Pulitzer in nonfiction and the National Book Award. Read more about Margaret Gullette's newly published book.
In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negrón tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music’s Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period... and how it capitalized on salsa’s Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience. Read more about Marisol Negron's newest offering.
WSRC Scholar and accomplished author Marjan Kamali has published a new book, “The Lion Women of Tehran.” With glowing industry reviews from Oprah Daily and bestselling authors, this novel is not be missed. Read more about "The Lion Women of Tehran".
WSRC scholar Dr. Edith Chears has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Zimbabwe for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Learn more about Dr. Edith Chears' award.
Current Exhibition at the Kniznick Gallery
On View: Sept. 12, 2024 - Jan. 30, 2025
"Wrongs & RIGHTS" brings together five decades of work supporting the intergenerational battle for reproductive rights, while speaking in a wider sense to the erosion of rights in America after the June 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade.