Sarah Fenstermaker - Gender, Considered: Feminist Reflections Across the US Social Sciences

is Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and former Director of the University of Michigans Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Fenstermakers research on domestic labor and the workings of gender, race, and class has resulted in numerous publications, most notably The Gender Factory: The Apportionment of Work in American Households, Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change (with C. West) and Sociologists Backstage: Answers to 10 Questions about What They Do (with N. Jones). Her most recent research (with V. Jenness) examines the accomplishment of gender and sexuality among transgender inmates in the California mens prison system.

is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Womens Studies at UM. Recent books include her coauthored book with Virginia Valian, An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence (MIT Press, 2018), a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues co-edited with Andrea Hunter on The social past in the personal present: Psychology, history and social justice (2015, volume 71(2)), and many journal articles and book chapters. Her research focuses on academic and life experiences related to race, class, and gender and on political attitudes and activism.