The Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies (IGWS)

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IGWS Explores Links between Cultural Gate-Keeping Concepts and Regional Research on Gender Issues

AUC’s Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies (IGWS) is researching ways in which cultural gate-keeping concepts determine the lens through which gender issues are identified, investigated and explored in regional research in the global south. The project, part of a Ford Foundation research capacity building grant, seeks to expand IGWS’s institutional capacity to conduct investigative social science research on gender issues in the Middle East region. More

The Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies (IGWS)

The Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies (IGWS) is an academic research institute and a graduate teaching center for scholars, researchers and graduate students interested in gender issues in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.

The research institute serves as a resources nexus through which research projects, conferences, workshops, policy debates and educational programs on gender issues are engaged.

The graduate center provides students with an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective in GWST with a special emphasis on the Middle East and North African region.