In February 2025, I became inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in Gender & Women’s Studies. In this role, I determined the bibliography’s taxonomy and selected the Founding Editorial Board, and I also approve all articles and authors and participate in the article review process.
For more than 70 years, Gender & Women’s Studies has taken interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational, and feminist approaches to studying the complex relationships between gender, sexuality, race, class, age, and other positionalities; the ways schools, churches, hospitals, households, and other public and private spaces function as systems of power; the politics of knowledge production and dissemination; and other topics that interrogate patriarchy, gendered racism, misogyny, heteronormativity, and related mechanisms of subjugation and oppression.
Combining the features of annotated bibliographies and high-level encyclopedias, Oxford Bibliographies in Gender & Women’s Studies provides cutting edge, authoritative, and peer-reviewed research guides written by experts who provide critical perspectives on the field as it was, is, and might come to be. For researchers at any level, this resource provides a tremendous starting point for papers, theses, dissertations, syllabi, and other projects, and because of its digital nature, each module is always expanding in terminology, ideas, and methodologies.
The Founding Editorial Board includes Matt Richardson, Department Vice Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Area Editor for Humanities; Dorothy Takyiakwaa, Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies at Pennsylvania State University and Area Editor for Social Sciences; Joseph Osmundson, Clinical Associate Professor of Biology at New York University and Area Editor for Natural Sciences; Anna Croon, Associate Professor of Informatics at Umeå universitet and Area Editor for Technology; Paula Drumond, Professor of International Relations at Instituto de Relações Internacionais PUC-Rio and Area Editor for Law & Policy; Isis Nusair, Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and International Studies at Denison University and Area Editor for Interdisciplinary Approaches; Rachel Kuo, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Area Editor for Feminism; and Rushaan Kumar, Associate Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and Area Editor for Organizations & Social Movements.
Oxford Bibliographies in Gender & Women’s Studies is scheduled to launch on Oxford Academic next year.
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