Location: MIT

Wednesdays 5:30-8:30PM

Full year course. Meets every other week.

The workshop will provide dissertators in interdisciplinary women’s and gender studies a collaborative environment to pursue their writing goals. We will use different formats: Students will present work-in-progress and receive peer review. We will have some readings and guest speakers to discuss challenges in writing a dissertation and preparing publications, as well as methodological and theoretical issues of interdisciplinary feminist research. We will also discuss and practice techniques for presenting conference papers, publishing articles, and preparing for the academic job market.  The workshop has several goals:

1. to address challenges in the conception and completion of a dissertation;

2. to explore the methodological and theoretical issues involved in discipline-based and interdisciplinary feminist research;

3. to learn about and practice writing and editing techniques such as story boarding, reverse outlining, and to discuss how to convert chapters to publishable articles;

4. to address disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and broader audiences without losing one’s (feminist) voice;

5. to establish a regular writing routine with accountability and peer encouragement.

Faculty

Kathrin Zippel, Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, has published on gender politics in the workplace, public and social policy, social movements, welfare states, and globalization in the United States and Europe.

Her book, The Politics of Sexual Harassment in the United States, the European Union and Germany, (Cambridge University Press) won several awards.
Her current research explores gender and global transformations of science and education. In her book, Women in Global Science: Advancing Careers Through International Collaboration (Stanford University Press), she argues that global science is the new frontier for women, providing both opportunities and challenges as gender shapes the dynamics and practices of international research. She directs a NSF- funded interdisciplinary network analysis to study the diffusion of ideas on gender equity interventions among U.S. Universities. 

Zippel is a co-chair of the Social Exclusion and Inclusion Seminar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Harvard University and was a residential fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. She served as co-PI of Northeastern’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant. She held a Humboldt Research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich; was a guest at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the WZB Social Science Research Center in Berlin, and the European University Institute in Florence. Zippel received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a post-doc at the European Union Center of New York at Columbia University.