The University at Albany, SUNY was one of the first institutions in the United States to begin offering courses on women (1971) and to establish a Women's Studies Program (1973). For fifteen years the program has grown and flourished and the institution as a whole has been able to gather the strongest interdisciplinary faculty in the SUNY system with expertise on the study of women's experiences.
A significant number of faculty from a variety of departments who have been affiliated with the Women's Studies Program have produced an impressive corpus of scholarship. At least twenty books on women have been published in the last decade by the University's faculty. The major areas of research interest have been women and work, women and development, feminist criticism, gender and history, gender and language, and women and public policy. There are also major regional interests in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Black and Hispanic women in the United States. Future issues of IROW News will each cover our publications and research in these fields.