Current Scholars

Students on Brandeis Campus Fall 2021
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Resident Scholars 2021-22

Focus: Organizational Leadership & Advancing Women’s Leadership

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

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

Focus: American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It the Next Time

Focus: Latin American women composers, concerts, recordings

Focus: International Black Feminisms book

Focus: Compositions such as "The Green House" and performances

Focus: Elections in Indonesia and women's empowerment

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

Focus: U.S. women journalists writing about Russia

Focus: Poem manuscripts, work on poet Elizabeth Bishop
Visiting Scholars 2021-22

Focus: Women's activism during the suffrage era and the 1920s in the U.S., the battle for the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S., constitutional law, with a particular focus on the role of state supreme courts.

Focus: Domestic Violence/Coercive Control, Power and Subordination

Focus: Women's Political Power in Post War Years

Focus: Trauma and literary theory, Representation of trauma in art and literature, Post-war PTSD, male gaze, and female subjectivity

Focus: Death, Sexuality, Gender, State, Nation, Postcolonial and Intersectional Feminisms

Focus: Writing biography of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski

Focus: Phenomenological exploration of older, black women's lived experience under the cover of Covid in South Carolina's Gullah Geechee Cultural Corridor. Intersection of race, gender, sexual citizenship, and aging.

Focus: Transnational feminism, feminist globalization studies, social movements

Focus: Documentary Photography Gender issues and Social Justice
Dissertation Scholar 2021-22

Title of Dissertation: “Conceiving Motherhood: The Reception of Biblical Mothers in the Early Jewish Imagination”

Title of Dissertation: “Aging in Modern Hebrew Literature: Feminist and Queer Readings of the Subject and the Nation”

Focus: Contemporary U.S. Women & Queer Art and Literature, Trauma Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Diaspora Studies