The Center for the Study of Social Difference is an interdisciplinary research center supporting collaborative projects that address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.

The Center’s work has two overarching research themes

Projects

Women Creating Change engages distinguished feminist scholars from diverse fields throughout Columbia University who focus on contemporary global problems affecting women and on the roles women play in addressing these problems.

Projects

Imagining Justice brings together scholars, activists, and artists on projects that envision new ways of fighting inequality and promoting gender, racial, economic, and environmental justice in global and domestic contexts.

 
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Travesti and Trans Latina Activism - From the Streets to the Screen
Feb 25
Travesti and Trans Latina Activism - From the Streets to the Screen
From Menstrual Moment to Menstrual Movement
Feb 25
From Menstrual Moment to Menstrual Movement

Periods are having their moment – in this Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR) webinar we hear from people who are turning it into a movement.

Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Parenting in Pandemic with Jessica Calarco and Meryl Alper
Mar 8
Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Parenting in Pandemic with Jessica Calarco and Meryl Alper

The coronavirus pandemic inaugurated a global shift to online learning, working, and socializing. This event considers the immediate and longterm effects such a move has on parents and on forms of mothering in particular.

Travesti and Trans Latina Activism - From the Streets to the Screen
Mar 11
Travesti and Trans Latina Activism - From the Streets to the Screen
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CSSD Director Honored as One of 50 Explorers Changing the World

Paige West is highlighted by Forbes as one of 21 women to receive this recognition.

Call for Proposals Now Open
Call for Proposals Now Open

The Center welcomes proposals for new working groups that would begin in Fall 2021 or Fall 2022. The submission deadline is Monday, March 22, 2021 by 11:59pm.

NEW CSSD Podcast - Just Three
NEW CSSD Podcast - Just Three

Listen now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

Episodes, show notes, and transcripts can be found on the Just Three podcast page here.

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Engendering the Archive Working Group Fellow was a guest on The Dean's Table

Mabel O. Wilson spoke with Fredrick Harris, Columbia University Dean of the Division of Social Science.



Mabel O. Wilson interviewed by Washington Post

Engendering the Archive Working Group Fellow spoke to the Post about the Capitol riots and racial injustice in the police responses to protesting.

Maya Sabatello featured in the Research Ethics & Compliance – Film Discussions series

The Director of the Precision Medicine Working Group will be discussing the science fiction film “Gattaca, on March 8th from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm.

Queer Aqui Co-Director Authors New Book

Jack Halberstam’s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020) is published by Duke University Press.

CSSD Media Fellow Awarded Open City Fellowship by The Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW)

As an AAWW fellow Jessica Jacolbe will report on Asian diasporic and Muslim communities in New York City.

CSSD Director Honored as One of 50 Explorers Changing the World

Paige West is highlighted by Forbes as one of 21 women to receive this recognition.