Premilla Nadasen elected next President of the NWSA
CSSD co-director of Social Justice After the Welfare State and Faculty Fellow of Geographies of Injustice, Premilla Nadasen, was elected next President of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).
Premilla Nadasen, Faculty Fellow with Geographies of Injustice and a co-director of Social Justice After the Welfare State, was elected next President of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).
As President of the NWSA Governing Council, Dr. Nadasen will take office in November 2018 and serve for two years. The NWSA Governing Council serves as the Board of Directors for the organization and meets twice annually: in June and November.
Established in 1977, the National Women's Studies Association has as one of its primary objectives promoting and supporting the production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research and service in academic and other settings.
Congratulations to CSSD graduate fellows and assistants on defending their dissertations
Ph.D. students from several CSSD working groups have completed their programs this year.
Congratulations to the following Ph.D. candidates who have defended their dissertations and received their Ph.D.s this year! All of these students have been invaluable members of working groups at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, as graduate fellows or graduate assistants:
From the Women Mobilizing Memory working group:
Nicole Gervasio (English)
Andrew Crow (English)
Alyssa Greene (German)
From the Social Justice After the Welfare State working group:
Anna Halperin (History)
George Aumoithe (History)
From the Pacific Climate Circuits working group:
Patrick Nason (Anthropology)
Democracy and The Welfare State: The Two Wests In The Age of Austerity will be presented at the Columbia Global Centers - Paris
Columbia Global Centers - Paris, in partnership with Columbia University Press and Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po will host a book presentation for Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity, edited by CSSD project director Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna.
Columbia Global Centers - Paris, in partnership with Columbia University Press and Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po will host a book presentation for Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity, edited by CSSD project director Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna.
Alice Kessler-Harris is project director for CSSD working group Social Justice After the Welfare State. The research of CSSD working group Social Justice After the Welfare State inspired the creation of this book.
The book presentation will be held at the Columbia Global Centers - Paris
4,Rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris, France.
Co-Director of CSSD project Social Justice After the Welfare State, Alice Kessler-Harris, is featured in a NYTimes article
Alice Kessler-Harris is featured in a NYTimes article on workplace power dynamics and the slow progress for women in traditionally 'masculine' fields. CSSD will host a book event with Kessler-Harris on April 4, 2018.
Alice Kessler-Harris is featured in a NYTimes article on workplace power dynamics and the slow progress for women in traditionally 'masculine' fields.
Kessler-Harris discusses the problems with characterizing certain jobs as ‘manly’ and the negative implications these have for women employed in these sectors.
Click here to read the article.
Alice Kessler-Harris is a co-director of CSSD project Social Justice after the Welfare State. She is also co-editor of the book “Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity,”
CSSD is hosting a book launch event for Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity on April 4, 2018.
Alice Kessler-Harris named to the Board of Governors of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize
CSSD Project Co-Director Alice Kessler-Harris has been named to the Board of Governors of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
CSSD Project Co-Director Alice Kessler-Harris has been named to the Board of Governors of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. The prize, established in honor of the late senator, awards $100,000 to “a new play or musical that enlists theater’s power to explore the past of the United States, to participate meaningfully in the great issues of our day through public conversation, grounded in historical understanding.” Kessler-Harris joins fellow CSSD Project Co-Director Jean Howard on the Board of Governors.
Kessler-Harris was Co-Director of CSSD Project Social Justice After the Welfare State, and is both R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History and Professor Emerita at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. CSSD eagerly looks forward to hosting a panel, “Democracy After the Welfare State”, in honor of the publication of Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity, edited by Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna.