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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.
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.
Prof. Elizabeth Povinelli Awarded Honorary Degree in Arts from the University of Antwerp
ISSG Core Faculty Member and Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Elizabeth Povinelli, was recently awarded the 2025 University of Antwerp honorary degree in Arts.