IRWGS Executive Committee
The day-to-day operations of the Institute are governed by a set of bylaws, and overseen by members of the Institute's Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is composed of all Core Faculty at the Institute, the Chair of Barnard WGSS, teaching faculty for a given year and the subsequent year, and additional faculty as invited by the Institute Director. The Director is expected to ensure a disciplinary balance among EC members each year.
IRWGS Executive Committee Members, 2020-21
- Lila Abu-Lughod, IRWGS Core Faculty Member/Anthropology (Columbia)
- Vanessa Agard-Jones, IRWGS Director of Undergraduate Studies/Anthropology (Columbia)
- Claudia Breger, Germanic Languages (Columbia)
- Elizabeth Castelli, BCRW Director/Religion (Barnard)
- Julie Crawford, English and Comparative Literature
- Denise Cruz, English and Comparative Literature
- Yasmine Ergas, School of International and Public Affairs (Columbia)
- Katherine Franke, Law School (Columbia)
- Eileen Gillooly, English and Comparative Literature (Columbia)
- Jack Halberstam, IRWGS Core Faculty Member and Director/English and Comparative Literature (Columbia)
- Saidiya Hartman, IRWGS Core Faculty Member/University Professor, English and Comparative Literature (Columbia)
- Marianne Hirsch, IRWGS Director of Graduate Studies/English and Comparative Literature (Columbia)
- Ellie Hisama, Music (Columbia)
- Gil Hochberg, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (Columbia)
- Maja Horn, Spanish & Latin American Cultures (Barnard)
- Jean Howard, English and Comparative Literature (Columbia)
- Rebecca Jordan-Young, Department Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Barnard)
- Tey Meadow, Sociology (Columbia)
- Manijeh Moradian, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Barnard)
- Debashree Mukherjee, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (Columbia)
- Frances Negrón-Muntaner, English and Comparative Literature
- Elizabeth Povinelli, IRWGS Core Faculty Member/Anthropology (Columbia)
- Camille Robcis, History/French (Columbia)
- Neferti Tadiar, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Barnard)
- Kendall Thomas, Law School (Columbia)
- Darío Valles, ACLS Teaching Fellow, IRWGS/Anthropology (Columbia)
- Paige West, CSSD Director/Anthropology (Barnard)
- Eliza Zingesser, French (Columbia)