What does feminist theory have to do with research in Antarctica? Join Dawn Sumner, FRI Director and geobiologist, as she shares how insights from feminist research can impact fundamental science.
The founders of the Feminist Research Institute created a brilliant vision with immense possibility. We are making good on their vision. We have something solid we can stand on that shows people what we are about.
In January of 2023, I joined the Feminist Research Institute (FRI) as a research assistant and worked on a project exploring the mobility justice movement. As an undergraduate student new to research, I was expecting to mostly observe the graduate students and FRI’s Director, Sarah McCullough, as they championed the project. In most research settings, undergraduate students play minor roles and mostly observe. Instead, I became a fully integrated member of the research team, an experience that has profoundly shaped my understanding of equity, mentorship, and learning.
The What is Feminist Research? Initiative explores specific examples of feminist research in action at UC Davis and beyond.
Video Series
The video series features feminist scholars sharing the meaning of their research. Watch the entire series featuring interviews with Alondra Nelson, Georgiann Davis, Gargi Sen, and many more.
Sara Ahmed visited UC Davis on February 15, 2018 to speak on "Complaint: Diversity Work, Feminism, Institutions." A video recording is now available for those who were unable to attend the lecture.
On November 1, 2017, Alondra Nelson—professor of sociology at Columbia University and president of the Social Science Research Council—visited UC Davis to share her work on science, technology, and social inequality.
Nelson is the author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome (2016), and Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (2011) as well as two edited anthologies.
Michelle Murphy is Professor in the History Department and Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, and co-organizer, with Natasha Myers, of the Toronto Technoscience Salon.
Shobita Parthasarathy, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, a co-founder of Michigan’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, and Faculty Affiliate in the Feminist Science Studies program.
