The Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender announces the winner of the 2026 Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship: Channelle Chevelle Russell.
The inaugural year of Agora: A Gathering of Art and Philosophy by Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in partnership with Mousse is nearing its conclusion. ISSG Faculty Member Elizabeth Povinelli joined Agora in January to deliver a lecture titled "Politics & Aesthetics after Geontopolitics."
Congratulations to affiliated faculty Professor Anooradha Siddiqi on the launch of her new book series.
Congratulations to ISSG Affiliate faculty member, Professor Ruth Opara, for publishing “Songs and female names in contemporary Nigeria: a mother’s prayer or men’s muse?” in the Ethnomusicology Forum.
Congratulations to ISSG Core Faculty Member and Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Studies, Julia Bryan-Wilson, for being awarded a Teiger Foundation grant for "Disobedient Spaces," co-curated with Natalia Brizuela. The project is the first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld.
This workshop aims to bring together participants across fields spanning (but not limited to) literary studies, Black studies, art history, film & media studies, cultural theory, studies in gender & sexuality, theater and performance studies, disability studies, and aesthetic philosophy.
Tey will give a lecture at the next ESS meeting and receive sponsorship for talks on two campuses within the Society's jurisdiction during her year as the Williams Lecturer. Tey was also awarded by the ASA for her article, "The Fragile Male: An Experimental Study of Transgender Classification and the Durability of Gender Categories.”
Professor of Anthropology and former ISSG Director, Rosalind Morris, was announced as co-winner of the eleventh annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award for her book Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa.
Congratulations to ISSG Core Faculty Member and Professor of Contemporary Art and LGBTQ+ Studies, Julia Bryan-Wilson, for selection as a 2025-2026 Faculty Visitor at Reid Hall!
We are proud to announce that the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University, the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), and the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study (Gordon Institute) at Teachers College are partnering on an interdisciplinary, faculty-led research working group on the university and crisis, co-directed by ISSG Core Faculty, Professor C. Riley Snorton.
Calling all fans of drag! RSVP NOW FOR ISSG's Drag Ball and Pre-Ball Workshop
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2025, 6pm-8pm, hosted by Junior Mintt with sounds by DJ Kneaku and a Drag Performance Workshop, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 6PM - 8PM with Theydy Bedbug and Issa Big Dragon.