Current Scholars

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Students on Brandeis Campus

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Current WSRC Scholars 2024-25

Pnina Abir-Am
Pnina Abir-Am
Resident Scholar

Focus: Women scientists, RNA, gender bias

Becky Behar
Becky Behar
WSRC Scholar

Focus: photography | traditions and customs of Sephardic Jewish women 

Michelle Bowlder
Michelle Bowdler
Michelle Bowdler
Edith Chears
Edith Chears
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Organizational leadership and advancing women’s leadership

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Donna Dodson
Resident Scholar

Focus: Historical representations of Amazons and female heroes in myth and life

Susan Eisenberg

Focus: On equal terms, women in construction, digital media project

Karen Frostig
Karen Frostig
WSRC Scholar

Focus: public memory, genocide, art, social justice

Florence Graves
Florence Graves
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Investigative Journalism

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Margaret Morganroth Gullette
WSRC Scholar

Focus: American eldercide: How it happened, how to prevent it the next time

K. Melchor Quick Hall
K. Melchor Quick Hall
WSRC Scholar

Focus: International Black feminisms book

Marla Jaksch
Marla Jaksch
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies & Art Education

Marjan Kamali
Marjan Kamali
WSRC Scholar

Focus: creative writing, culture, publishing

Dorothy Kim
Dorothy Kim
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Medieval literature, drama, digital humanities

Aditi Malik

Focus: Political and Gender-Based Violence;  Political parties, social movements and contentious politics; and ethnic and gender politics with regional specializations in Africa and South Asia

Marisol Negron
Marisol Negron
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Race, gender, class, and sexuality in the making and unmaking of national and diasporic imaginaries

Phoebe Schnitzer
Phoebe Schnitzer
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Survey: Pre-college sexual education curricula in the U.S.

C. Rose Smith
C. Rose Smith
WSRC Scholar

Focus: visualizing the identities of Black and queer women through photography

Cassie Tanks
Cassie Tanks
WSRC Scholar

Focus: Aarchivist, Digital Humanist, Historian

Heather Treseler
Heather Treseler
Resident Scholar

Focus: Poem manuscripts, work on poet Elizabeth Bishop