The Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey announces a competition for at least two residential fellowships for the 2001-2002 academic year. The Institute invites applications from scholars conducting innovative interdisciplinary work addressing the intersectionality of gender, race, and ethnicity in relation to modern and postmodern structurations of the local and the global.
Fellows receive stipends and health insurance.
Feminist scholarship is now well positioned to address the complex interrelations of the particular and the universal, the local and the global, in relation to constructions of gender, race and ethnicity. About the IRW A leading nexus of interdisciplinary feminist research for twenty years, the Institute for Research on Women has been a central force in making Rutgers University widely known as a distinguished and hospitable research environment for the study of women and gender. The IRW promotes intellectual exchange on gender and women's studies among several hundred Rutgers scholars on the New Brunswick campuses. Each year, the IRW hosts visiting scholars, lecturers and keynote speakers from across the country and around the world who are working on gender-related subjects in a range of disciplines. About the Fellowships 2001-2002 is the final year of fellowship funding at the IRW through this program.