Women

Rutgers University Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

28 October 2011

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities The Women’s and Gender Studies Department, in collaboration with the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers University, is pleased to announce a two-year postdoctoral fellowship supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The selected fellow will receive a stipend of $51,500 each year as well as an [...]

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Rosario Morales, 1930-2011

14 April 2011

Rosario Morales, 1930-2011 by Aurora Levins Morales and Richard Levins Born in 1930 to immigrant parents from Naranjito, Rosario grew up in Harlem and the South Bronx, in a working class home. She attended Hunter College in the late 1940s, where her interests in science and social justice led her to join the Communist Party. [...]

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2010 PRSA Dissertation Award Winner

14 April 2011

Radost A. Rangelova, “House, Factory, Beauty Salon, Brothel: Space, Gender, and Sexuality in Puerto Rican Literature and Film.” (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2009). Editor’s Note: The following is the citation read at the PRSA awards ceremony that was part of the 9th Biennial Conference, held in Hartford, CT, on [...]

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