CANCELED: The Impact of Women's and Gender Studies in Academia and Beyond

This lecture has been canceled due to a family emergency.
Jill Bystydzienski will discuss the variety of women's and gender studies programs in higher education today as well as international collaborations in this area. Her broad range of work has addressed such topics as women, gender and politics in a global perspective and building cross-cultural coalitions. Her new book is Intercultural Couples: Crossing Boundaries, Negotiating Difference. She has also researched barriers to the advancement of girls and women in science, technology and engineering fields. Jill Bystydzienski is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. Prior to that she was a faculty member in Sociology and directed the Women's Studies Program at Iowa State. Part of the Women's & Gender Studies Program 35th-Anniversary Celebration.