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The Sexuality Research Fellowship Program: Ten Years After

by Items Editors

Ten years ago Diane di Mauro, director of the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) (1995–2006), reflected on the SSRC’s effort to develop the field of gender and sexuality studies beyond the public health sphere. For Pride Month, Items republishes di Mauro’s retrospective to offer readers a window through which to reflect on the development and history of this field over the years. The SSRC will also be revisiting the SRFP in the fall of 2018 with a digital media project highlighting contributions from former fellows.

June 19, 2018

From Our Fellows

How Movements Like #MeToo Can Address Marginalization, Isolation, and Alienation Among Activists

Items Admin·March 7, 2018

Omotayo Jolaosho, 2009 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient, recently published an article about South African women’s activism in the journal Signs titled "Awkward Activisms: Gender and Embodied Mobilization in a Postapartheid South…

March 7, 2018

From Our Fellows

Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: A Story of Transformation

Items Admin·September 7, 2017

The Next Generation Social Sciences program responds to an emerging dilemma within higher education in the global South caused by the extraordinary emphasis on increasing undergraduate enrollment without proportionate investment in faculty…

September 7, 2017

From Our Fellows

Border Matters: Gender, Precarity, and the Body on Mexico’s “Forgotten Frontier”

by Heather Wurtz

A 2016 International Dissertation Research Fellowship recipient, Heather Wurtz is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University. Her dissertation research assumes an ethnographic approach along the Mexico-Guatemala border to examine how migrant women navigate their reproductive lives within complex institutional settings. The “Research Snapshots” series is an initiative aimed at highlighting important and innovative research by SSRC fellows who are currently conducting or who have recently returned from doing international research.

May 23, 2017

From Our Fellows

Gender Refugees and Border Lines: An Interview with Dr. B Camminga

by Francesca Freeman

B Camminga, a 2016-17 Next Generation Social Sciences Completion Fellow, studies transgender refugees establishing a new life in South Africa. SSRC staff, Francesca Freeman and Natalie Reinhart, interviewed B at a workshop in Nairobi, and B shared reflections on their dissertation research.

May 19, 2017