WSRP Lecture Series

On February 20, Monica L. Mercado (Colgate University), Visiting Assistant Professor of North American Religions, gave the lecture, “Girlhood and the Making of American Catholicism."

Alicia Izharuddin (University of Malaya), Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam, gives a lecture entitled “‘Bureaucratic Islam and the Romance Industry in Southeast Asia.”

Kimberly Blockett was a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin when her thesis director, Nellie McKay, encouraged her to read a spiritual narrative from 1846 written by Zilpha Elaw, a free black woman who travelled up and down the East Coast of the...

WSRP 2017–18 Research Associate Avital Davidovich-Eshed, PhD (Bar Ilan University), Visiting Lecturer in Women's Studies and Judaism, delivers her talk, "Enclosed Gardens Revealed: The Concept of Virginity in Medieval Jewish Culture."

Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) 2017-18 Research Associates discuss their research and share their thoughts on the ethical responsibility of scholars to be engaged in the study of gender. Listen

The Nigerian lawyer and activist Hauwa Ibrahim, formerly a lecturer at HDS and a research associate of the School’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program (WSRP), spoke in New York recently on Mother’s Without Borders: Steering Youth Away from Violent...

Sound is an integral aspect of many faith traditions. But what happens when women are kept from those sounds? What are the sonic dimensions of gender and religion? While working as a WSRP Research Associate this year, Rosalind I. J. Hackett is aiming to...

On November 13, 2013, Jacquelyn Williamson spoke about her research on the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Williamson is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies...

On February 12, 2014, Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion and WSRP Research Associate Hsiao-wen Cheng spoke about her research. Her talk focused on medicine, exorcism, and female sexualities in medieval China.

On April 2, 2014, Zilka Spahic Siljak, WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, spoke about the subject of her book, "Shining Humanity: Life Stories of Women Peace-builders in Bosnia and Herzegovina," which was published in Bosnia last year and will...