Thirty Years of Gender Research

Panelists briefly discussed gender research in their field of expertise over the past thirty years. The floor was then opened to the audience for questions and discussion.

Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Department Chair

Ian Hodder has excavated the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey to explore the processes by which people construct their own identities (including gender identities) at the time of the origins of settled life and farming. His publications include Reading the Past, The Domestication of Europe, and the Theory and Practice in Archaeology. Professor Hodder is a Fellow of the British Academy, and holder of Gordon Childe Prize from the Institute of Archaeology and the Oscar Montelius Medal from the Swedish Society of Antiquities.

Diane W. Middlebrook, Professor of English, Emerita

Acclaimed writer and critic, Diane Middlebrook is author of Her Husband, a biography of the creative partnership of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and Suits Me, the life story of Billy Tipton, a female jazz musician who lived as a man for fifty years. A longtime member of the English Department, Professor Middlebrook directed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender from 1977-1979 and also chaired the Program in Feminist Studies. Among her many awards are Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, and fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio.

Myra H. Strober, Professor of Education and Professor, by courtesy, in the Graduate School of Business

Myra Strober, the founding Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, is a labor economist whose research focuses on feminist economics, and on gender issues in work settings, particularly in the professions and management. Her most recent book, co-authored with Agnes Chan, is The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work and Family in the United States and Japan. She has also written on women in management, the dynamics of occupational segregation, the economics of child care, and the distribution of marital assets in divorce. Myra served as the first Chair of the National Council for Research on Women and as President of the International Association for Feminist Economics.

Londa Schiebinger, Professor of History of Science and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Londa Schiebinger is a leading international authority on gender and science. Her publications include The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science; the prize-winning Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science; Has Feminism Changed Science?; and Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She has also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin.

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Home People News Events Calendar Fellowship Programs Research Studies Grants and Prizes Publications and Podcasts Art at the Institute Links Support our Work	Thirty Years of Gender Research Panelists briefly discussed gender research in their field of expertise over the past thirty years. The floor was then opened to the audience for questions and discussion. Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Department Chair Ian Hodder has excavated the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey to explore the processes by which people construct their own identities (including gender identities) at the time of the origins of settled life and farming. His publications include Reading the Past, The Domestication of Europe, and the Theory and Practice in Archaeology. Professor Hodder is a Fellow of the British Academy, and holder of Gordon Childe Prize from the Institute of Archaeology and the Oscar Montelius Medal from the Swedish Society of Antiquities. Diane W. Middlebrook, Professor of English, Emerita Acclaimed writer and critic, Diane Middlebrook is author of Her Husband, a biography of the creative partnership of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and Suits Me, the life story of Billy Tipton, a female jazz musician who lived as a man for fifty years. A longtime member of the English Department, Professor Middlebrook directed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender from 1977-1979 and also chaired the Program in Feminist Studies. Among her many awards are Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, and fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio. Myra H. Strober, Professor of Education and Professor, by courtesy, in the Graduate School of Business Myra Strober, the founding Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, is a labor economist whose research focuses on feminist economics, and on gender issues in work settings, particularly in the professions and management. Her most recent book, co-authored with Agnes Chan, is The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work and Family in the United States and Japan. She has also written on women in management, the dynamics of occupational segregation, the economics of child care, and the distribution of marital assets in divorce. Myra served as the first Chair of the National Council for Research on Women and as President of the International Association for Feminist Economics. Londa Schiebinger, Professor of History of Science and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Londa Schiebinger is a leading international authority on gender and science. Her publications include The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science; the prize-winning Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science; Has Feminism Changed Science?; and Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She has also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin.
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