The Gender Institute welcomes all members of the UB community to participate in our programs, to propose new initiatives, and to apply for cosponsorships, fellowships, and grants.
Yige Dong, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
"Women’s Work and the Politics of Livelihood in a Chinese Mill Town"
Ndubueze Mbah, Associate Professor, Department of History
"Rebellious Migrants: Forging Abolition, Cosmopolitan Identities, and Postcolonial Spaces in West Africa, 1840s-1960s"
Deborah Reed-Danahay, Professor, Department of Anthropology
"Sideways Migration Among French Women in London"
Elizabeth Scarlett, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
"Women Authors and Women Directors: Gender Disparities in Film Adaptation"
Amy VanScoy, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science
"Conceptions of Expertise Among Librarians Through a Gender Lens"
Co-investigators: Heidi Julien, UB and Deborah Hicks, SJSU
Alexandra Zirkle, Assistant Professor
Department of Jewish Thought
"UB Humanties Working Group"
Dana Venerable, PhD Candidate, Department of English
"Collective Composition for Weathering Black Experience: Embodying Signature Moves of 20th and 21st Century Black Performance."
Azalia P. Muchransyah, PhD Candidate, Department of Media Study
"Media Activism and the Paradoxes of HIV Advocacy in Indonesian Prisons and Related Populations."