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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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Q&A with Daub on new book, 'What Tech Calls Governing'
Taking readers from investor meetings to lecture halls, Director ADRIAN DAUB explores how tech culture approaches hierarchy and dominance, and what role a very specific form of masculinity plays in tech culture's ethos
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Susan Stryker on her new book 'Changing Gender'
Groundbreaking trans scholar and Distinguished Visitor SUSAN STRYKER discusses her new book Changing Gender in a conversation with Director ADRIAN DAUB
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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
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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
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
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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