News & Events
Video: Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, and Difference
Orientation offered students the opportunity to hear from the 2023–24 WSRP researchers.
Research Associate Xhercis Méndez Works to Create Diverse Intellectual Spaces and Educational Experiences
As a WSRP Research Associate for 2022–23, Méndez works to create intellectual spaces where a diversity of experiences can find a voice.
Video: Rachel Salomons and the World of Jewish Midwives in Early Modern Europe
Research Associate Jordan R. Katz discusses the dynamic role of the early modern European Jewish midwife.
Video: Conjuring Nonbinary Futurities and Decolonizing Methodologies
Research Associate Xhercis Méndez delivered a lecture on conjuring, gender, and decolonization
Research Associate Elyan Jeanine Hill on ‘Women's Ritual, Dance, and Identity’
Dr. Elyan Hill, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African Religions at Harvard Divinity School’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program in 2022-23, specializes in African and African Diaspora art history.
Research Associate Tulasi Srinivas on Water, Gender, Caste, and Religion in Emerging Climate Justice and Sustainability Initiatives
Srinivas is the Colorado Scholar and Visiting Professor of Women's Studies and South Asian Religions at the Women’s Studies Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School.
WSRP Announces 2023–24 Research Associates
Jessica J. Fowler, Elena Herminia Guzman, Samira K. Mehta, S. Zahra Moballegh, Z. Fareen Parvez, and Ashley M. Purpura named 2023–24 WSRP Research Associates.
Video: Dancing Altars
Research Associate Elyan Hill discusses embodied visualities and domestic enslavement in Togolese sacred arts.
Research Associate Kinitra Brooks on ‘Celebrating the Women of the Black South’
Dr. Kinitra Brooks specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture.
Research Associate Jordan Katz on How Jewish Women Shaped Community in Early Modern Europe
Katz, an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, focuses on Jewish cultural history, history of medicine, and women and gender in the seventeenth-and-eighteenth centuries.
Video: What is “’Awra”?: Women, Gendered Space, and Islamic Law
Research Associate Rahina Muazu discusses awra and the female voice in Islamic law.
Video: Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live
Research Associate Kinitra D. Brooks delivered a lecture on conjure feminism and Dona Kimpa Vita.