Clayman Institute for Gender Research

10/11/2026

New op-ed on campus sexual assault from a respected researcher, Cornell alum, and friend of the Institute from her Stanford PhD days:

Fraternities hold a functional monopoly on nightlife for students under 21 at universities. Break them up.

10/10/2026

Op-ed on campus sexual assault from a respected researcher, Cornell alum, and friend of the Institute from her Stanford Ph.D. days:

Fraternities hold a functional monopoly on nightlife for students under 21 at universities. Break them up.

10/01/2026

Today at noon! Come to Attneave House as Director ADRIAN DAUB discusses his new book, 'What Tech Calls Governing,' which explores how tech culture approaches hierarchy and dominance, and what role a very specific form of masculinity plays in tech culture's ethos. https://buff.ly/qGIzhjP

09/29/2026

Book talk this Thursday Oct. 1: Join us as Director ADRIAN DAUB discusses his new book, 'What Tech Calls Governing,' which explores how tech culture approaches hierarchy and dominance, and what role a very specific form of masculinity plays in tech culture's ethos.

Expanding upon the work begun in What Tech Calls Thinking, Adrian Daub explores which ideas of politics, power, and dominance characterize the tech industry, and how those ideas came to be.

06/19/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 graduate student prize winners! ELIZABETH FETTEROLF and RACHEL BERGMANN earned the Marjorie Lozoff prize for their work together on gendered online spaces and "looksmaxxing." The Marilyn Yalom prize goes to DANIEL KOPLITZ for their work using q***r theory and premodern music history to reconsider the formation of musical norms. https://buff.ly/QvRYv3v

06/18/2026

From recent Clayman Conversations event on GENDER, POWER, AND AI: Experts on AI called on researchers and institutions to look more deeply and critically at the foundations of the technology, its gender and racial biases, and its impacts on people and resources. Featuring Safiya Noble of UCLA; Catherine D'Ignazio of MIT; and Angèle Christin of Stanford, moderated by Genevieve Smith. Post-event story: https://buff.ly/JvJRnQk

06/18/2026

From the latest Gender News: In a preview of his forthcoming book, historian PEDRO REGALADO demonstrated how Latino New Yorkers in the 20th century navigated the city’s role within U.S. empire and forged a collective identity influenced by shared gender norms and economic experiences. Read at: https://buff.ly/SpTTvOF

06/17/2026

From Gender News: Anthropologist and clinician AMRAPALI MAITRA shares her ethnographic research in Kolkata examining how culture informs women's experience of and response to domestic violence. Read: gender.stanford.edu

05/19/2026

This Thursday May 21, please note start time at 1 p.m. PT: Join us for a conversation with Writer in Residence Moira Donegan and sociologist Katie Gaddini as they discuss how and why right-wing, Christian women have risen to the forefront of American politics.

RSVP for online event: https://buff.ly/YwWRqf7

05/19/2026

New issue of TSQ: Trans Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century Americas. By lengthening the timeline of trans histories, scholars respond to those who would dismiss trans as new and undeserving, and also shine new light on trans presence in art and history. Work from Eagan Dean, our former postdoctoral fellow, is included!

Read TSQ: https://buff.ly/jpVHKIR