Julie Shayne presents paper at the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) annual Winter Conference

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne (she/her/hers) was invited by SWS president Dr. Roberta Villalón to be a featured guest on the panel “Celebrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives as Integral to Feminisms.” Her paper was called “Reflections from a Feminist Editor: Blending Sociological Analysis and Feminist Theory to Create Interdisciplinary Texts and Pedagogy.” In it, she argued that feminist sociologists must collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines, including librarians, and train students in interdisciplinary methods as an effective tactic for building academic and activist coalitions.

Shayne drew on her publishing trajectory and pedagogical experiences, all deeply shaped by the last fifteen years of her career in IAS. The entire conference was hybrid, allowing speakers to join panels from as far away as Australia, to the Dominican Republic, to Turkey. Shayne’s panel was livestreamed and will eventually be uploaded to the SWS’s newly launched YouTube channel.