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January 29, 2025

Call for Applicants | 2025 Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship

The Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender (ISSG) seeks applications for the 2025 Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship. The Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship was established in 2017 in memory of Elaine Combs-Schilling (1949-2016), feminist Professor of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The graduate fellowship offers up to $2000 to support travel connected to summer dissertation research.

January 23, 2025

2025 Annual Graduate Conference Call for Papers

How do feminist, queer, and trans ideas move across space, time, and people? In what ways do they spread, transfer, and intersect? The 2025 Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender Graduate Conference at Columbia University (in-person) welcomes papers that imaginatively investigate the dynamic and multiple forms of “movement” of feminist/queer/trans thought that include, but not limited to, transit, contagion, and movement.