Interview Excerpts “Columbia comes to the institutionalization of women and gender studies late…” Alondra Nelson, Audio, Core Faculty, Founding, Interdisciplinary Leadership “…it wasn’t clear how the relationship with Barnard was going to work out” Early Challenges, Jean Howard, Video "We were totally self-starting." Audio, Early Challenges, IRWAG to IRWGS, Sarah Chinn “…we have these needs as students that this institution is not meeting…” Audio, Early Challenges, IRWAG to IRWGS, Mario DiGangi “It was a place where women could come together…” Audio, Founding, Historical Context, Joan Ferrante “It was not fully prepared for coeducation quite yet…” Audio, Early Challenges, Historical Context, Laura Ciolkowski “…creating their own and standing on their own and insisting on their own…” Farah Griffin, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “Theorizing Activism and the Justice Initiative…” Christia Mercer, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “My hope for the next generation of women’s studies…” Alice Kessler-Harris, Core Faculty, Historical Context, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “Organizing teach-ins on Title IX…” Intellectual Spaces, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Patricia Dailey, Video “It was being in this context at IRWGS that broadened the kind of work that I did…” Audio, Core Faculty, Intellectual Spaces, Lila Abu-Lughod “…I was not bereft of a community, it just looked different” Audio, Early Challenges, Marcellus Blount “…a time of an opening up of queer issues” Annie Barry, Audio, Early Challenges, Historical Context, IRWAG to IRWGS “I would like to continue to build disability studies at Columbia…” Audio, Intellectual Spaces, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Rachel Adams “Women Creating Change…” Intellectual Spaces, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Marianne Hirsch, Video “We needed some place that would be a center for women’s issues…” Audio, Founding, Historical Context, Joan Ferrante “There hadn’t been a queer series yet…” Christia Mercer, IRWAG to IRWGS, Video “IRWGS has been the place where you look for women leaders…” Alondra Nelson, Core Faculty, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “The separation between students and faculty was a problem…” Audio, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Shamus Khan “…a space for intellectual work" Audio, Intellectual Spaces, Lila Abu-Lughod “…those are feminist questions” Audio, Intellectual Spaces, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Julie Crawford "It was a very contentious issue…" Audio, Early Challenges, Intellectual Spaces, Rosalind Morris “The review was a really big break…” Audio, Core Faculty, Early Challenges, Victoria De Grazia “Why is there not the political will at Columbia to make gender issues central?” Audio, Early Challenges, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Martha Howell “…that was why the institute was a very important move” Audio, Founding, Historical Context, Joan Ferrante “My assumptions about what was possible in this country were very different from theirs…” Farah Griffin, Intellectual Spaces, Video “How could you be a feminist and yet be writing an objective history?” Alice Kessler-Harris, Historical Context, Video “…it was invariably “the men” and “the girls.” Audio, Gillian Lindt, Historical Context “The Open Forum on Women at Columbia meeting…” Audio, Historical Context, Robert Hanning “No one ever questioned the fact that I wanted to do feminist oriented work…” Audio, Early Challenges, Sarah Chinn “…the logic of response would have been very different” Audio, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Shamus Khan “This is a political history…” Audio, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Lila Abu-Lughod “…students are pushing against the limits of the curriculum” Core Faculty, Intellectual Spaces, Interdisciplinary Leadership, IRWAG to IRWGS, Marianne Hirsch, Video “…the English Department was a place that was looking to the past, not the future.” Early Challenges, Founding, Jean Howard, Video “We did have women but they didn’t stay.” Audio, Early Challenges, Joan Ferrante “You can’t study gender in isolation from race, or class, or ethnicity…” Audio, Intellectual Spaces, Laura Ciolkowski “JFAB: it’s there to advocate for junior faculty…” Interdisciplinary Leadership, Patricia Dailey, Video “…the institutional home of power women” Audio, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Shamus Khan “…to expand the category of gender…” Audio, Interdisciplinary Leadership, IRWAG to IRWGS, Marcellus Blount “…we need an intellectual space” Audio, Core Faculty, Intellectual Spaces, Lila Abu-Lughod “…what was needed was departmental buy-in” Early Challenges, Martha Howell, Video “How does intellectual history look different?” Farah Griffin, Intellectual Spaces, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “It was called the Office for Diversity Initiatives…” Interdisciplinary Leadership, Jean Howard, Video “…was it happening curricularly on the graduate level? Not really.” Audio, Early Challenges, IRWAG to IRWGS, Sarah Chinn "It was the first time that we had a graduate student conference dealing with lesbian and gay studies issues." Audio, Early Challenges, IRWAG to IRWGS, Mario DiGangi “…a shared institutional history” Audio, Early Challenges, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Marcellus Blount “Setting the picture of the women who were originally involved…” Audio, Historical Context, Joan Ferrante “…the support came in response to student requests” Audio, Early Challenges, IRWAG to IRWGS, Rosalind Morris “It’s not that people were against women’s studies, it just hadn’t occurred to them.” Audio, Gillian Lindt, Historical Context “…organizing to protect intellectual freedom…” Early Challenges, Intellectual Spaces, Victoria De Grazia, Video “The other vision of what women’s studies should do and could do…” Early Challenges, Martha Howell, Video “Studying intersectionally with other aspects of social difference…” Intellectual Spaces, IRWAG to IRWGS, Marianne Hirsch, Video “This was the best part of my job visit…” Audio, Early Challenges, Rachel Adams “If there’s a proven breeding ground for institutional actors, it’s IRWGS…” Audio, Core Faculty, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Julie Crawford “…I didn’t feel there was enough outreach” Christia Mercer, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “…I’m giving up a lot of what’s important to me to hopefully do this other kind of work…” Alondra Nelson, Core Faculty, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “Feminist thinkers were thinking with all those who had come before…” Early Challenges, Jean Howard, Video "…these are young people who are organizing and responding because they also know the history." Farah Griffin, Intellectual Spaces, Interdisciplinary Leadership, Video “…these are our collaborators, these are equal partnerships” Audio, Intellectual Spaces, Lila Abu-Lughod “More and more women getting prizes…” Audio, Historical Context, Joan Ferrante
