Results for "gender"

Projects

Open source software participation in context of lives and careers: a longitudinal panel study

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Research shows that cis-women and other minority groups (e.g., Hispanic, Black, LGBTQIA+, etc.) are very underrepresented in open source software (OSS). We aim to improve equity and diversity in OSS by understanding…

The Inca Cloister: A Third-Wave Feminist Study of Archaeology and Ethnohistory

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Women in the Inca Empire (c. 1400-1535) dominated the imperial religious hierarchy, and the cloister that trained them (the aqllawasi) was the only state institution that selected and trained promising young people…

Faculty

Jason Abrevaya

Affiliated Departments:
Economics, Statistics and Scientific Computation
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Dr. Abrevaya's research has focused on econometric methodology, applied microeconomics, and demography. His work has utilized large-scale birth databases within the United States to research topics including…

Kamran Aghaie

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies
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Modern Islamic history; Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran; modern Iranian history; Shi'ism; Islamic rituals; social and cultural history; religious and political discourses; historiography;…

Kamran Ali

Affiliated Departments:
Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, South Asia Institute
Research Interests:

Gender, Sexuality, Health, Development, Labor History, Political Economy; Post-Colonialism; 
Urban Social Histories, Popular Culture, Historiography, Memory, Liberalism, Middle 
East; South Asia (Egypt,…

Jacqueline Angel

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, LBJ School of Public Affairs
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Social policy and programs on aging; health care policy; demographic methods; gender roles.
Aging and health among Mexican American women; health care policy and older women; poverty; demographic change

Jossianna Arroyo Martinez

Affiliated Departments:
African and African Diaspora Studies, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
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Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures (1800s to present), the relationships between literature, ethnographic and sociological discourses in Latin America,Afro-…

Hina Azam

Affiliated Departments:
Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies
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Islamic law and jurisprudence, women and Islam

Venkataraman Bhaskar

Affiliated Departments:
Economics
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Dynamic Games and Contracts

Economics of Marriage and the Family

Industrial Organization

Development Economics

Daniel Birkholz

Affiliated Departments:
English
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History of cartography, post-Medieval Medievalism, biography and psychoanalysis, documentary culture, manuscript study, visual culture, gender studies, regionalism, nationalism, imperialism, archeology / material…