Work/Life Narratives Project

The Work/Life Narratives Project records interviews with women who have visited the U-M campus. Typically our subjects have pursued unusual careers, served as leaders in their fields, and provided information and inspiration to young women. These interviews illustrate many different career patterns and alternative ways of balancing work and personal life; they may assist other women as they plan their own careers. Because the subjects of these interviews are exceptional women, we also expect this archive to serve as a research resource for future scholars.

The recordings are available for one-week loan from IRWG. Please contact the institute at (734) 764-9537 to check availability.

Following is a list of interviewees. Click here for more information on each.

• Laurie Anderson
  Musician, Performance Artist
• Pat Bane
  Executive Director, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation
• Martha Clarke
  Dancer, Choreographer
• Barbara Corday
  Professor & Department of Production Chair, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California
• Karina Epperlein
  Dancer, Filmmaker, Theater Artist
• Liz Lerman
  Founder, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
  Washington, D.C.
• Donna Lopiano
  Executive Director
  Women's Sports Foundation
• Jadwiga Maurer, Professor, Author, Holocaust Survivor &
  Halina Filipowicz, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Bebe Miller
  Choreographer, Dancer
• Meredith Monk
  Composer, Performance Artist
• Kary Moss
  Executive Director, ACLU of Michigan
• Sara Moulton
  Executive Chef for Gourmet Magazine & Television Host on the Food Network
• Zorica Mrsevic
  Professor of Law and Lecturer in Women's Studies, University of Belgrade
• Leslie Neal
  Associate Professor of Dance, Florida International University
• Jane D. Pratt
  President and CEO,The Mountain Institute
• Nina Rosenblum
  President, Daedalus Productions, Inc.
• South African Constitutional Gender Equality Clause Consultants
  • Penelope Andrews
    City University of New York Law School, Queens College
  • Mojanku Gumbi
    Legal Advisor to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki
  • Tuli Madonfela
    Deputy Director, Planning Unit, South Africa Ministry of Justice
  • The Honourable Mavivi Manzini
    Member of South African Parliament
  • Christina Murray
    Professor of Law, University of Cape Town
  • Kgomotso Moroka
    Advocate, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Chrissie Stansfield
  Documentary Filmmaker
• A Conversation with Enid Sutherland and Alice Fulton
  Enid Sutherland, Composer and Cellist and Alice Fulton, Poet and Writer
• Violette Verdy
  Professor of Dance
  School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• Barbara Zahm
  Producer and Director of Films and Videos, New York City
• Eleonora Zielinska
  Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Penal Law, Warsaw University

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