Partnership List
Fall 2019
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Pnina Abir-Am, WSRC Resident Scholar
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Elizabeth Sangiorgio, Student
Description: This project explores the internationally renowned career of Carolyn Cohen, (widely known as C2) the first woman professor of Biology at Brandeis University. She pioneered the structural study of muscle proteins by X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy, among other technologies; created a research community which grew from three founders to 40 scientists; served as a role model for generations of men and women scientists; and became a spokesperson for the rights of women scientists to gender equality in and out of science. The project capitalizes on C2's Personal Papers at Brandeis University Archives which the Scholar helped organize for conservation; (see essay by The Justice, 12-6-18 on a talk the Scholar gave at WSRC on C2's career) so as to conduct archival research and oral history with C2's colleagues and mentees at and beyond Brandeis. The plan is that the Student will serve as co-author of an essay for journals in the history of science & WGS.
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Nancer Ballard, WSRC Resident Scholar
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Savannah Jackson, Student
Description: The Heroine’s Journeys and Beyond project identifies and articulates post-gendered life arcs that encompass features of both The Hero and The Heroine Journeys and values struggle as much as achievement and ongoing/ incomplete journeys as much as the reaching of destinations. The project includes an enduring short-form multi-media website-blog platform that has received more than 98,000 views from visitors in over ninety countries. See https://heroinejourneys.com.
The Fall 2019 project will expand and enhance the content and reach of the established Heroine's Journeys website-blog platform, articulate a new non-gendered narrative arc and meta-arc analysis and explore grant opportunities to bring our work to women, members of the LGBTQ community, and others who face or have survived mental and physical illness, poverty, societal prejudice, or violence and whose lives or work can be enriched by new narrative life-arc paradigms.
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Susan Eisenberg, Resident Scholar
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Lydia Begag, Student
Description: On Equal Terms Project Director Susan Eisenberg has been documenting, analyzing, and framing gender equity issues in the workplace, with a focus on the construction industry, for more than four decades. The Project is looking for a Student-Scholar Partner with an interest in how power imbalances are maintained, and strong skills in digital media or transcription to join this semester’s work which includes adding content to an interactive online exhibition (https://onequalter.ms) and an interview-based book project about women who work as high voltage lineworkers. Our approach combines solid research with the arts to impact public policy.
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K. Melchor Hall, WSRC Visiting Scholar
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Dannie Brice, Student
Description: This book project is a fresh and nuanced look at ecofeminist possibilities where contributors challenge conventional separations between theory and practice, feminism and womanism, teaching and learning, global and local, humanity and nature, and personal and structural. In working with this project, the student would have the opportunity to suggest individuals (and possibly groups) who represent the best of ecofeminism (or ecowomanism) practice for book vignettes. Also, the student would participate in researching the opening chapter that will frame the cutting-edge anthology.
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Ruth Nemzoff, Resident Scholar
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Eliana Padwa and Zoe Applbaum, Students, 25 hours each
Description: We will write advice columns on Jewish life from multi-generational perspectives. We will also work on a project on how to talk about feminism and Zionism. In addition, we collaborate via email and social media for professional purposes.
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Amelia LeClair, Resident Scholar
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Hannah Gudeman, Student
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Susan Wilson, WSRC Resident Scholar
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Megan Catalano, Student
Description: Though her name lives on in Roxbury's Dimock Street and in the Dimock Center that still straddles that road, Susan Dimock's (1847-75) important story has been essentially unknown in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To her contemporaries in Boston of the 1870s, however, she was known as a strong, selfless pioneer in American medicine — among the first group of physicians to provide professional health care by, and for, women, and one of the finest, most respected surgeons (male or female) in Massachusetts. I am working on the first full-length biography of her life.
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Linda Pololi, Resident Scholar, Senior Scientist, WSRC Resident Scholar
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Kacy Ninteau, Student
Description: The National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine& — known as “C-Change” for culture change — is seeking an intern to help prepare and evaluate a Mentoring and Leadership program at Brandeis for medical school faculty. The student will be supporting C-Change research projects including the Mentoring and Leadership Institute.
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Phoebe Schnitzer, WSRC Resident Scholar
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Elaina Pevide, Student
Description: In the current survey, undergraduates at UMass Lowell shared their experiences with pre-college sex education and their recommendations for future sex ed curricula.Our data revealed compelling gender differences, conveying young women's notable dissatisfaction . Their comments have led us to consider the proposals of feminist writers on sex education, as a context for understanding these critiques and proposing changes for future programs.
the Cascading Research Group, 2019-2020. The CRG acts as a forum to present work-in-progress and
exchange ideas about empirical projects. Brandeis faculty and WSRC Scholars work with graduate
student SSPs to explore the literature, research design, and findings.
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Karen V. Hansen, Director of the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center and Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Samantha Leonard, Graduate Student
Description:
Defining cascading as the process of falling from a particular social location in ways that precipitate additional declines, the project asks: what are the social, structural, and familial conditions that accelerate or minimize this widespread and poorly understood phenomenon? How do kinship, social networks, race and gender, employment status, and access to public resources, for example, act as mediating forces in the onset, duration, or prevention of cascades? This project maps the networks and processes that can either turn a triggering event into a plunging spiral or activate a set of economic and social responses that foster resistance and resilience.
- Tatjana Meschede, Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, Visiting Associate Professor UMass Boston; Visiting Scholar, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- Gabrielle Hibbert, Graduate Student
Description: This study will examine the reciprocal relationship between wealth and health for women of color and impacts on the well-being of their children. Central to this research will be the exploration of the role of gendered racism on the relationship between maternal health disparities and wealth disparities among women of color in their reproductive age group, and their impacts on the well-being of their children ages 0-18. We propose gendered racism as an intervening variable, explicitly underscoring the role of a specific type of racism that partially drives inequality in America, and may exacerbate the relationship between health and wealth inequities.
- Smriti Rao, Associate Professor of Economics and Global Studies, Assumption College; WSRC Scholar
- Cynthia Kipkorir, Graduate Student