Isom News and Announcements
Oxford Pride Week to Celebrate State’s Queer Community
Movie screening, poetry night, and 'Long Live the Queens' parade scheduled
Call for Applications: Isom Fellows
A two-year research fellowship at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Agency, Autonomy, and Embodiment
Imprisonment starts in the mind. We cannot have what we cannot imagine. We cannot desire when we don’t know our own desires, and know how to fulfill them. We cannot change an injustice until we can name it and see it.
College of Liberal Arts Launches Inaugural Cluster Hire Initiative
The goal of this cluster hire initiative is to attract and support diverse scholars.
Kate Tsang brings Sarahfest 21 to a "Marvelous" Conclusion
Kate Tsang is an artist, filmmaker, and Emmy-nominated writer creating imaginative, offbeat stories with heart.
Dr. Karen Tongson "returns" to deliver 2021 Queer Studies Lecture
The lecture will explore the “benefits of distraction” as not only a research method but also an ethos for approaching queer studies.
Special Sarahfest Pop-up Art Show Merges Literature, Writing, and Art
Common Good Atlanta (CGA) alumni bring their special pop-up exhibit See Us Differently to the Powerhouse in Oxford, MS. This event is hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies in partnership with Emory University’s Rose Library, the Creative Writing program at the University of Mississippi and Oxford’s Yoknapatawpha Arts Council.
Sarahfest: D.I.Y. Style
Singer Kelly Hogan services as first Sarahfest Artist-in-Residence.
Isom Center Names 2021-23 Fellows
Fellowship emphasizes interdepartmental collaboration in gender and sexuality research
Isom Center Celebrates 40 Years of Women’s Studies
UM academic, social support center continues leading with yearlong reflection
Isom Center to host UM Summit on Women and Civic Engagement
The event will feature a wide range of conversations about the many ways that women are engaged in our larger communities: running for office, organizing nonprofits, building community, starting businesses, advocating for change, and transforming institutions.
Isom Fellows Program Seeking Applicants
The Sarah Isom Center invites instructional faculty at the University of Mississippi to apply for a two-year fellowship at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. Isom Fellows will be asked to contribute to the Isom Center through research, teaching, and service.
Isom Center Fellows to present research on gender and sexuality
“These fellowships are made possible by continued support from the Office of the Provost. “We are deeply grateful for the Provost’s embrace of interdisciplinary work in gender and sexuality, across the humanities and social sciences,” said Dr. Jamie Harker, Isom Center director.”
CROSSING BORDERS: A Vision for the Twenty-First Century
Borders are always fictions. They are sometimes necessary fictions; they provide definitive shape and certainty to the unknown or the uncomfortable. They delineate between high and low culture, valued and not valued, and acceptable and unacceptable. We use borders to define art, music, food, nations, and more, often basing our personal borders on our own passions and pleasures.
Isom Affiliate Kathryn McKee Named New Director of Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Dr. Kathryn McKee will be the first woman to lead the groundbreaking center’s work
Graduate positions with the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies for 2019-2020 Academic Year
The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies is pleased to announce two opportunities for graduate students interested in gender and sexuality for 2019-2020.
Working to Increase Trans Visibility at UM
During Trans Awareness Week (Nov. 12-19), the Isom Center will be profiling trans students, alumni, and other community members, who showcase the diversity of our campus community.
Honoring Dr. Joanne Hawks’ Legacy of Feminist Leadership
Dr. Joanne "Jan" Hawks was the founding director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies from 1981-1998. The Isom Center. This video commissioned by the Isom Center reflects on her life and legacy on the 20th anniversary of her passing.