Our dedication to research includes the Feminist Research Alliance Workshop, a work-in-progress series featuring UB faculty, the Signature Lecture series, conferences and symposia, writing and reading groups.
For more information on these initiatives, please visit our Events page.
To read more about how the Gender Institute supports research, visit our Grants & Opportunities page.
Marla Segol, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Students in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, has recently published "God’s Magical Womb: Pregnancy, Power, and the Feminized Divine in Jewish Ritual Texts" in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The article explores the ritual functions of medical and mythical embryologies in Jewish ritual texts from late antiquity to the present.
Marla is a Gender Institute Affiliate and was awarded a GI Faculty Fellowship in Fall 2022.