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Below are descriptions of UROP research projects available in the Program in Women's and Gender Studies. For additional information, please see the UROP Coordinator. To aid you in your UROP search, a comprehensive listing of Women's and Gender Studies faculty can be found at: http://web.mit.edu/wgs/people/.
Once you've found your UROP, follow all UROP procedures for pay or credit. For information on special funding that may pertain to your research see the "Awards" section of this site.
- Prof. Christopher Capozzola, E51-180, x2-4960, capozzol@mit.edu
- Research on legal cases about gender and citizenship in US history, particularly in the early twentieth century. Students will be encouraged to develop their own research projects on topics such as immigration and naturalization; military service; eugenics and reproductive rights; marriage and parenting. No specialized legal knowledge is needed; this UROP is a good opportunity to explore legal issues in the context of women's history.
Another UROP opportunity specifically for Fall 2009 involves research to complement a museum exhibition at Harvard, "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993." UROP student will prepare a multimedia presentation and prepare portions of an essay on social movements of the 1980s and 1990s.
Most research can be done at home or at the MIT Libraries. Students interested in a UROP for pay must secure UROP Direct Funding.
- Prof. Thomas DeFrantz, 10-272, x3-6957, defrantz@mit.edu
- Dance History Resource materials for publication on World Wide Web site. Research gender and autobiography in American dance history. Transfer articles and videotapes into digital format, and create a web-based source for the course 21M.670J/SP.472J Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography. Use of Dreamweaver required; UROP can learn the software if necessary. Familiarity with web design and interest in dance and theater required.
- Prof. Rebecca Faery, 14N-332, 253-3062, faery@mit.edu
- The project I am currently working on is a collection of personal essays that constitute a memoir of my having been during the Vietnam War the wife of a West Point graduate and career Army officer, and at the same time a passionate opponent of the war. The book's working title is One Woman, One War: Remembering Vietnam. While the project is in a conventional sense a personal memoir, I think of it as being more importantly a work of cultural criticism, one that examines the Vietnam era--its domestic and foreign politics, the burgeoning of second wave feminism and the gender revolution that followed in its wake, the Civil Rights Movement and the recurring mood of racial crisis across the nation, and how all those elements came together in the war itself and the protests against it at home--through the lens of personal experience, that of one woman, me, who lived with and through that particular war in painfully personal ways and whose life, like America itself, was forever changed by it. The research assistant will do research on the Vietnam war period, with a focus on women and race, to develop an extensive bibliography on the issues relevant to the project.
- Prof. Sally Haslanger, Rm 32-D926, shaslang@mit.edu, x3-4458
- Prof. Margery Resnick, Rm. 14N-333, x3-5277, resnick@mit.edu
- Life Histories of MIT Women Graduates - An Oral History Project: conduct, transcribe, and edit interviews of MIT alumnae to create an archive of the lives of MIT women graduates. Final transcripts will be housed in the MIT archives, creating a source for those interested in questions of gender, science, technology, life at the Institute, and life after graduation for women during this century.
- Prof. Susan Silbey, Rm 16-233, ssilbey@mit.edu, x3-5962
- Research on women and minorities in engineering and science, legal regulation of science, and environmental health and safety in research laboratories.
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