Led by the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group, “Menstruation, Gender, and Rights: Interdisciplinary Approaches” will explore the contemporary discourse around menstruation in global and local contexts.

Students in the course will develop a proposal for an interdisciplinary research project and engage in a workshop on public engagement with The OpEd Project.

The course will be co-taught by an interdisciplinary team of working group faculty fellows, including:

Inga Winkler, Lecturer in Human Rights
Noémie Elhadad, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Lauren Houghton, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Anja Tolonen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College
Chris Bobel, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston.

The development of this course was funded by the Columbia University Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Award, which funds the creation of a new course with up to $20,000.

For a complete course description and call number, click here.

To view the course syllabus, click here.

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