GSWS and Alice Paul Center Director: Nancy Hirschmann |
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September 30, 2014, Volume 61, No. 07 |
The Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women have appointed a new director, Nancy J. Hirschmann. She succeeds Christine Poggi, professor of history of art who led the program from 2011 to 2014.
Dr. Hirschmann, formerly the R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Chair, a chair designated for faculty working in the area of gender and sexuality and a professor in the political science department, is the author of many monographs, articles and edited volumes in feminist theory ranging from the concept of freedom to domestic violence, welfare and the intersection of disability with gender and sexuality. Her book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, won the Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on women and politics. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and others. Dr. Hirschmann previously served as the graduate chair and the vice chair of the department of political science as well as vice president of the American Political Science Association.
“Penn has many of the country’s leading feminist scholars in a variety of departments and schools, and GSWS brings them together for the benefit of the students and the university with creative programming, cross-listed courses and fellowship programs to assist junior faculty and students doing work in gender and sexuality studies,” Dr. Hirschmann said. “I’m very excited to be working more actively with these colleagues and our terrific staff Demie Kurz, Melanie Adley and Luz Marin to continue this important work, but also to make its contributions more visible to the rest of the campus, build stronger connections with other programs and departments and to support and promote the hiring of more faculty working in the area of gender, sexuality and women’s studies. At a time when diversity has rightfully become an important issue on the Penn campus, GSWS is an important partner and resource for the University to draw on to enhance and support its efforts.” |