Contrasting portraits of two chairs of the AAUP's Committee on Women in the Academic Profession.

Committee W in the Age of Intersectionality

BY ANNE SISSON RUNYAN As Committee W (the AAUP’s Committee on the Women in the Academic Profession) marks its hundredth year since its founding, it is worth reflecting on its role in the age of intersectionality. The rise of feminist intersectional scholarship and activism discussed in my piece on “What is Intersectionality and Why Does…

Academe Explores Gender on Campus through Intersectional Lens

POSTED BY KELLY HAND The new issue of Academe uses the feminist concept of intersectionality to consider gender on campus in relation to race, class, and other categories that shape our understanding of higher education. Contributors reframe problems such as sexual violence, declining access to public education, the vulnerability of contingent faculty, and the exploitation of graduate…