Topics include leadership and management, the construction of feminist and non-hierarchical organizational models, the nature of work, the construction of careers and the intersections of work, family, and leisure. The interdisciplinary readings and discussion have led to projects in teaching, research, and practice. This group will complement the study group focusing on research and research design issues in the study of ethnicity, class, and gender. This interdisciplinary group of faculty is interested in studying recent narratives by women with mental illness. They hope to develop a research project that systematically analyzes women s accounts of their experiences with mental illness in order to understand the often harmful effects of prevalent treatment approaches for women, and to identify the supports and interventions which women acknowledge as being most helpful in their journeys toward recovery.
New faculty are welcome.
This group will focus its efforts on exploring and bridging technological inequalities. To increase awareness among students, parents, teachers, districts, and researchers, of the gender gap across all levels of the educational hierarchy, the group will collaborate with various populations. Young girls will be one particular group focused on as issues concerning the technological gender gap are addressed. As a multidisciplinary group of faculty and Ph.D. students, we aspire to deepen our understanding of narrative theory, narrative methods, and narrative inquiry. This study group will engage in collective reading and discussion of the theoretical aspects of narrative and will jointly explore narrative work in a variety of disciplines.