Visiting Scholar Program

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender welcomes Visiting Scholars from around the nation and around the world. Faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and researchers from other institutions whose work focuses on women or gender may be housed at IRWG for as long as one academic year. Visiting Scholars will have full access to the Institute’s community and will automatically be affiliated with the Women’s Studies Department.

• Visiting Scholars may join one or more existing study groups or organize one of their own.
• Visiting Scholars will be offered the opportunity to present their work at an Institute–sponsored forum.
• Visiting Scholars will ordinarily be housed at the Institute, where they will be provided with:
  • office space with a computer and phone
  • an e–mail account
  • University Library privileges
• No salary, stipend, research funding, health insurance, or travel or moving reimbursement is included.
• A small fund (a total of $125/semester, not to exceed $250 for an academic year) will be provided for long–distance phone calls, fax, and copying charges.

Appointments may be requested for summer, fall, or winter terms, or for an entire academic year. Appointments will be awarded based on a fit between the candidate’s interests and those of the faculty, scholars, and researchers currently affiliated with the Institute, and will be subject to space availability.

Applications should include a cover letter describing the candidate’s research interests and project(s) to be pursued at the Institute, a curriculum vita, and the names and contact information for three references. Candidates should also identify current U–M faculty members, scholars, or researchers with whom they plan to work or whose work relates to their own. Applications for the next academic year are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Please send applications to:

Visiting Scholar Program
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
University of Michigan
1136 Lane Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1290
Attention: Prof. Deborah Keller-Cohen

If you have any questions, please contact Prof Deborah Keller-Cohen, Senior Associate Director, at (734) 764–9537 or e–mail dkc@umich.edu.