As the Director of the Women and Gender Summer Fellowship, I am excited to welcome nine amazing scholars studying across a wide variety of fields at the University of Michigan. Each of you are scholars who want to solve social problems and make our world a more just and equitable place. I can’t wait to learn alongside each of you! Below is a description of the Women and Gender Summer Fellowship. Welcome to the UROP family!
The Women and Gender Summer Fellowship Program (WAGSFP) provides a stipend for U-M students to conduct cutting edge research with a University of Michigan faculty member for 10 weeks. The community of scholars who participate in WAGSFP will also engage in programming throughout the summer in addition to their research. Students will participate in seminars to learn more about current and emerging research in women and gender studies, read and share articles related to research in women and gender studies, learn how to publish their research and engage in other professional development activities. At the end of the 10 weeks, fellows are required to present their research project at the UROP Summer Research Symposium.
This program is funded by a generous gift from the Riecker Foundation in collaboration with the Center for the Education of Women.
Projects are welcome in a wide variety of areas including women’s cancers (ovarian, endometrial, etc.), gender and sexuality, queer studies, third world feminism, cultural representation and literature, women and labor, feminist theory, immigration and citizenship, and social activism. Research projects can be in any field or discipline including laboratory and clinical research studies related to maternal health, genetic research related to diseases affecting women such as breast and ovarian cancer, genetic screening, health care disparities related to women or LGBTQ populations, women and gender studies including work in history, American culture, global studies, anthropology, psychology, political science, public policy, economics, literature, etc. WAGSFP Fellows are matched with a project in our database (submitted by UM faculty, research scientists, and postdoctoral fellows) according to their interests.
Chris Bohle, UROP Associate Director of Curriculum and Retention