About
IROW
IROW
policy and program initiatives are decided by members of
the Advisory Board. Current board members are: Edna
Acosta-Belén, Iris
Berger, Christine
E.
Bose, Gwen
Moore and Julie Novkov (director).
The
Institute for Research on Women (IROW), University at Albany,
is a member of the National
Council for Research on Women (NCRW). The main
functions of IROW are:
1)
to promote and facilitate individual and collaborative research
and scholarship on women and gender;
2) to publish conference papers, instructional materials,
bibliographies and other material pertinent to the study
of women and gender;
3) to disseminate information on women's studies and gender
research to scholars, educators, and organizations in the
public and private sectors in the Capital region, the nation
and abroad;
4) to establish linkages and joint projects with other women's
research centers in the United States and internationally,
in order to promote research, training and educational exchanges
of faculty, students and materials;
5) to provide technical and consultant services in specialized
areas to public and private institutions in the United States
and abroad;
6) to organize conferences, workshops and lectures that
enable scholars to discuss and advance the current state
of research on women and gender;
7) to provide an organized vehicle for faculty to seek external
funding for individual or collaborative research projects
and to aid grant writers through an on-campus proposal review
service;
8) to facilitate contact with our faculty and the use of
the institution's research facilities for visiting scholars
and fellows.
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Connections
with the University at Albany
The University at Albany was a pioneer in the development
of women's studies, beginning courses on women in 1971 and
establishing a Women's Studies Program in 1973. As one of
the few institutions in the country with a Women's Studies
Department, the University now has the strongest interdisciplinary
faculty in the SUNY system with expertise in the study of
women's experiences. Among these faculty, there are also
major regional strengths in Latin America, Russia and Eastern
Europe, Asia, and Africa, and strong expertise in the Latino,
African-American and Asian populations of the United States.
Coming from a wide variety of departments, University at
Albany faculty who are IROW Associates have produced an
impressive body of scholarship, including more than fifty
books in the past decade. These publications reflect the
seven major research areas of our faculty: (a) international
and cross-cultural studies of women and gender (b) women
and development (c) women of color in the U.S. (d) gender,
work and organizations (e) women, literature and art (f)
women and science, and (g) family and employment policy.
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Faculty
Associates
IROW Faculty Associates have come from the departments of
Women's Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Art,
Art History, English, Africana Studies, History, Sociology,
Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology, Counseling Psychology,
Hispanic and Italian Studies, Physics, Political Science,
Judaic Studies, French Studies, Economics, Theatre, Communication,
German and Slavic Languages & Literature, Reading, and
Physical Education.
Associates
have also included representatives from the Center for Policy
Research, Student Counseling Center, Center for Excellence
in Teaching and Learning, Center for Women and Government,
Affirmative Action, University Library, the Research Director
of UUP, and the Provost & Vice President of Academic
Affairs.
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