JUNE 2021

Tenured and promoted

Congratulations to these former Clayman Institute fellows for their recent academic promotions. To all our former fellows—if you have professional news or publications to share, we'd love to hear from you at gender-email@stanford.edu.

• ASHLEY FARMER, former postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute, has been promoted and tenured at the University of Texas at Austin, where she serves as associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and history.

• Former Postdoctoral Fellow ERIN CECH, associate professor of sociology and mechanical engineering (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan, was promoted and awarded tenure.

• SUSAN D. FISK, who was a graduate dissertation fellow at the Clayman Institute, has been tenured and promoted to associate professor of sociology at Kent State University.

Faculty Women's Forum awards

Our sincere congratulations to the 2021 winners of the Stanford Faculty Women's Forum awards, which include many familiar names from the Clayman Institute faculty, staff and fellows over the years. Read more about the winners. Among them are:

• Former Faculty Fellow MARCI KWON (pictured), Inspiring Early Academic Career Award

• Former Faculty Fellow SHERI SHEPPARD, Outstanding Sponsor Award



• Outstanding Leader Awards to former Director SHELLEY J. CORRELL and former Faculty Fellow SARAH SOULE

• A Lifetime Achievement Award established in honor of DEBORAH RHODE, a former Institute director. Recipients include former Faculty Fellows HAZEL MARKUS, CECILIA RIDGEWAY and HANNAH VALANTINE as well as former Directors MYRA STROBER and IRIS LITT.

• The Carol Muller Outstanding Service Award, named in honor of CAROL MULLER, a former faculty fellow

Graduate Student Award

JUSTINE MODICA, former graduate dissertation fellow and a PhD candidate in history, received a Graduate Student Community Impact Award from the Stanford Alumni Association. Among her efforts on campus, Modica advocated for expanded health insurance benefits for student families and worked to assist graduate students needing food resources. Congratulations!

Write for our Gender and the Pandemic series

Attention Stanford faculty, lecturers, researchers and administrators: you are invited to contribute to our Gender and the Pandemic writing series. We know many of you have a gendered perspective on current events or wish to draw on existing gender research to reflect on the current moment.

If you are a Stanford employee and would like to propose an article, which we will feature on our Web site and social media, please contact Senior Research Scholar Arghavan Salles (arghavan@alumni.stanford.edu). If we agree to your proposal, we will compensate you for your time.

Fake Accounts: The Reality of the Online World

In her gripping debut novel, LAUREN OYLER explores fiction and reality in the internet age. A March 25 discussion co-hosted by the Clayman Institute spanned a variety of topics—including online personalities, literary culture, and Twitter politics—but was primarily motivated by the underlying concern about distortion and creation in virtual spaces.  

READ MORE ABOUT THE EVENT

“I am very concerned that people will want to go back to the way things were in the before times, even though we are not the same people we were then.” 

- Arghavan Salles,

Clayman Institute senior research scholar