women's studies
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February 3, 2020
Cotera creates digital archive to document Chicana artifacts
Maria Cotera, associate professor of American Culture and of women’s studies, co-founded the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project, a digital archive for documenting Chicana artifacts.
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September 3, 2019
Accolades — September 2019
Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.
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May 6, 2019
Professor’s varied background helps him teach mindfulness, self-awareness
Ramaswami Mahalingam has had jobs ranging from dishwasher to poet to structural engineer. Now a professor of psychology and women’s studies, he uses that background in studying how certain lines of work are devalued and workers marginalized, and in his teaching of mindfulness and self-awareness.
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June 11, 2018
Film scholar devotes career to music
One of the flagship scholars of her field, Caryl Flinn has devoted her career to studying film music.
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April 16, 2018
Women’s Studies
The first women’s studies course at U-M, one of the first of its kind in the country, was organized by a group of volunteer female professors in 1971.
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May 11, 2017
TV accentuates traditional women’s roles at expense of their needs
College women who frequently watch television or who believe that the content is real, tend to endorse the gender roles that are portrayed often on TV, a U-M researcher says.
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March 28, 2017
Study finds trust, satisfaction high in consensual open relationships
Monogamy is considered by many to kindle commitment, trust and love, but a new U-M study finds that those in nonmonogamous relationships are just as happy.
