yale women faculty forum wff Annual Report 2009–10 1 wff yale women faculty forum executive summary May 14, 2010 On behalf of the Women Faculty Forum, we share with you our 2009–10 Annual Report. This was a pivotal year for the Women 4 2009–10 Structure Faculty Forum as we celebrated the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College. The Women Faculty Forum hosted a day-long Co-Chairs symposium commemorating coeducation, which featured a film Steering and Council screening, panels, and a walking tour of women’s history at Yale. Working Group committee members We also partnered with both the Association of Yale Alumni and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, to celebrate the 10 Celebrating Women at Yale diverse history of women at Yale at two conferences in the spring. This year, the Women Faculty Forum also released its Report on Sexual 40th anniversary of coeducation Misconduct at Yale, continued our policy research and data collection Opening reception on gender equity in the academy, and supported efforts to improve Women’s Leadership Initiative conference childcare availability at Yale. This year, we also continued to provide Nikki Giovanni lecture mentoring and professional development programming for women in Collaborative celebrations with AYA and WGSS the academy, by cosponsoring events with a variety of organizations Tour of women’s history at Yale across the University. Peter Palmquist exhibition Breaking the Veils 20 Institutional Change Data collection and policy research Shirley McCarthy Laura Wexler Mentoring and faculty development Professor of Diagnostic Radiology Professor of American Studies Caregiving and Yale Babysitting Service Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Professor of Women’s, Gender, Report on sexual misconduct at Yale Women Faculty Forum Co-Chair and Sexuality Studies Women Faculty Forum Co-Chair 26 Looking Forward to 2010–11 3 Alice Prochaska, the next Dean of Somerville College at Oxford and former Yale University Librarian and WFF Council member, at the 2009 Women Faculty Forum Opening Reception. Structure The Women Faculty Forum is directed by two Co-Chairs, the Steering Committee and Council, with support from staff members. We have student liaisons from professional and graduate schools across the university, and our membership includes 900 faculty, administrators, students, and alumnae from across all schools of the University. 4 5 co-chairs council shirley mccarthy linda bockenstedt anne trites Diagnostic Radiology and Internal Medicine School of Drama Obstetrics & Gynecology and Rheumatology t. kyle vanderlick laura wexler victoria l. brescoll School of Engineering American Studies and School of Management and Applied Science Women’s, Gender, hazel carby lisa walke and Sexuality Studies American Studies and School of Medicine African American Studies sarah weiss steering carol carpenter Music School of Forestry and constance e. bagley Environmental Studies council-at-large School of Management kamari clarke Anthropology hannah brueckner sarbani basu Sociology sheila levrant de bretteville Astronomy School of Art deborah davis seyla benhabib Sociology caren gundberg Political Science paula kavathas Orthopaedics and Philosophy Laboratory Medicine, susan holen-hoeksema alicia schmidt camacho 2009–10 Co-Chairs Immunobiology and Genetics Psychology American Studies and carolyn m. mazure margaret homans Ethnicity, Race and Migration Psychiatry and Psychology English and Women’s, Gender judith chevalier laura wexler shirley mccarthy priya natarajan and Sexualities Studies School of Management Professor of American Studies Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Astronomy and Physics amy hungerford and Professor of Women’s, Gender, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology glenda gilmore English and Sexuality Studies judith resnik History Yale Law School christine jacobs-wagner dolores hayden Laura Wexler is former Chair of the Shirley McCarthy joined the Yale School of reva b. siegel Molecular, Cellular and Architecture, Urbanism, Developmental Biology Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Medicine faculty in 1984. Her research inter- Yale Law School and American Studies Program, and a recent recipient of a Henry ests are in the applications and cost effec- joan argetsinger steitz mary lui paula e. hyman American Studies R. Luce Foundation grant for the study tiveness of magnetic resonance imaging of Molecular Biophysics History and Biochemistry of Women, Religion, and Globalization. the body, gynecologic applications of MRI joanne meyerowitz frances rosenbluth History and American Studies Her scholarship centers upon intersections and other imaging techniques, including meg urry Political Science Physics and Astronomy of race, gender, sexuality and class with CT. Previous studies have included prospec- sharon oster jessica stockholder Yale School of Management visual culture. Her book, Tender Violence: tive evaluations of MRI versus other imag- School of Art Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperial- ing techniques in the diagnosis and detec- nancy l. ruther emilie m. townes Political Science ism, won the Joan Kelley Memorial Prize tion of disease and the underlying anatomy Yale Divinity School of the American Historical Association and/or physiology accounting for the image vicki schultz katie trumpener Yale Law School for the best book in women’s history and/ appearance. She is a fellow in the Interna- Comparative Literature and English or feminist theory. She is also co-author tional Society of Magnetic Resonance in jody sindelar Yale School of Public Health of Pregnant Pictures, and co-editor of Medicine, and is considered an international elisabeth wood Political Science several volumes including Interpretation leader in her field. Professor McCarthy helen siu Anthropology and the Holocaust and The Puritan Imagi- completed her undergraduate studies at nation in Nineteenth Century America. SUNY-Albany, her medical training at Yale joann sweasy Therapeutic Radiology and her Ph.D. at Cornell. and Genetics 6 7 2009–10 Working Groups 40th anniversary caregiving institutional change sexual misconduct of coeducation paula kavathas (co-chair) caren gundberg (co-chair) shirley mccarthy (co-chair) sara rockwell constance e. bagley jessica svendsen Professor, Laboratory Medicine, Professor, Orthopaedics Professor, Diagnostic Professor, Therapeutic (co-chair) Postgraduate Associate, Immunobiology and Genetics Radiology and Professor, Radiology and Pharmacology Professor, Practice Women Faculty Forum amy hungerford (co-chair) Obstetrics & Gynecology of Law and Management laura wexler (co-chair) Professor, English jody sindelar amy wrzesniewski Professor, American Studies, hannah brueckner (co-chair) Professor, School of priya natarajan (co-chair) Associate Professor, and Professor, Women’s, susan abramson Professor, Sociology Public Health Professor, Astronomy Organizational Behavior Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Manager, WorkLife and Physics linda bockenstedt (co-chair) joan steitz nancy alexander jennifer frederick Harold W. Jockers Professor, Sterling Professor, Molecular melanie boyd Timothy Dwight Associate Associate Director, Internal Medicine and Biophysics and Biochemistry Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, Chubb Fellow, WFF Alumnae/i Graduate Teaching Center Rheumatology and Sexuality Studies Advisory Council Co-Chair arun storrs basmah safdar victoria brescoll Postgraduate Associate, victoria brescoll jill cutler Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Women Faculty Forum Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean, Yale College Emergency Medicine School of Management School of Management jessica svendsen eve rice pamela schirmeister susan gail clark Postgraduate Associate, carole goldberg Yale College Class of 1973 Associate Dean, Graduate Joseph F. Cullman Adjunct Women Faculty Forum Director, SHARE Center School of Arts and Sciences Professor, Wildlife Ecology arun storrs and Policy Sciences joann sweasy janet henrich Postgraduate Associate, celia schultz Professor, Therapeutic Associate Professor, Women Faculty Forum Associate Professor, Classics francine foss Radiology and Genetics Internal Medicine Director, Yale Cancer Center jessica svendsen arun storrs meg urry isabel polon Postgraduate Associate, Postgraduate Associate, jodie lutkenhaus Israel Munson Professor, Yale College 2011 Women Faculty Forum Women Faculty Forum Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy Chemical Engineering alice prochaska sarah weiss jessica svendsen University Librarian Associate Professor, Postgraduate Associate, carolyn mazure Department of Music Women Faculty Forum Professor, Psychiatry arun storrs Postgraduate Associate, vera wells merle waxman rhea paul Women Faculty Forum WFF Alumnae/i Advisory Director, Women in Medicine Professor, Child Study Center Council Co-Chair marie robert joan winant Professor, Pathology Yale College Class of 1973 8 9 Celebrating Women at Yale This year commemorated numerous landmarks for women’s history and gender scholarship at Yale University. The Women Faculty Forum created programming that honored the histories and stories of women at Yale while also focusing on the status of gender equity today. With our own programming and with our partnerships, we sought to engage the Yale community and to enliven the history The Women Faculty Forum celebrated of women and gender scholarship by hosting panels, film the 40th anniversary of coeducation screenings, exhibitions, and walking tours of women’s of Yale College by hosting a day-long symposium on January