1136 Lane Hall
204 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI
48109–1290
Phone: 734–764–9537
Fax: 734–764–9533
IRWG happily welcomes our new director, Professor Sarah Fenstermaker.
Prof. Fenstermaker is a distinguished sociologist, who comes to us from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where she was the first woman tenured in Sociology. She was the founding chair of the UCSB Women's Studies program (now Feminist Studies), and, most recently, she directed UCSB's Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research. Prof. Fenstermaker received wide acclaim for her book with Candace West, Doing Gender, Doing Difference, which advanced our understanding of difference, including race, class, and gender as accomplished in the course of face-to-face interaction rather than as social roles assumed in interactional exchange. She has been the recipient of honors and awards from both her campus and her professional society.
