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Image caption: Anita Hill delivers the Jing Lyman Lecture in celebration of our 50th anniversary 
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The Clayman Institute for Gender Research began in 1974 as the first of its kind and remains at the 
cutting edge of gender research.

The Institute empowers students and scholars in three key ways. We conduct and invest in intersectional gender research; mentor students through fellowships and internships; and inspire, translate, and amplify gender scholarship. More about us

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Clayman Conversations: Gender, Power, and AI

AI experts called on researchers and institutions to look more deeply and critically at the foundations of the technology, its gender and racial biases, and its impacts on people and resources

Fatima Suarez

Author talk: The new Latino fatherhood

UNLV Sociologist and former Postdoctoral Fellow FATIMA SUAREZ shared her research centering what fatherhood means to Latino men in the U.S., arguing for a "new fatherhood" model often missing from current discourses

Amrapali Maitra

Culture and domestic violence intervention

Anthropologist and clinician AMRAPALI MAITRA shared her ethnographic research in Kolkata examining how culture informs women's experience of and response to domestic violence

Pedro Regalado

Latino New York: Building business and community

In a preview of his forthcoming book, historian PEDRO REGALADO demonstrated how Latino New Yorkers in the 20th century navigated the city’s role within U.S. empire and forged a collective identity influenced by shared gender norms and economic experiences

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Fetterolf, Bergmann, and Koplitz

Three grad students win Lozoff and Yalom prizes

ELIZABETH FETTEROLF and RACHEL BERGMANN earned the Marjorie Lozoff prize for their work together on gendered online spaces and "looksmaxxing." The Marilyn Yalom prize goes to DANIEL KOPLITZ for their work in music history and queer theory

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Transgender Studies Quarterly Issue 13.2: Trans philosophy

This special issue expands the growing field of trans philosophy as a subfield of scholarship and a commitment to survival under conditions of precarity, loss, and transformation. Guest editors are PERRY ZURN and TALIA MAE BETTCHER 

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Announcing: Online edition of "upRising" magazine

Learn about gender research today, with a focus on the Clayman Institute's current projects and intergenerational research teams. Meet our student researchers and hear about the hands-on skills they learn at the Institute. Also, Institute leaders share their vision for the research program

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five colored circles with text: 50-plus years of gender research; 100+ podcast episodes; 5,200 Gender News subscribers; 17 fellowship opportunities; 297 fellows supported
At a moment of intense global crisis, the Clayman Institute offers an ideal model of an inclusive, diverse, and generative environment that should be the standard in academia.
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Marci Kwon, Art and Art History
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