On September 19, 2024, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Elizabeth Bernstein, Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of Sociology, were selected as recipients of Incite Institute’s Breakdown (Re)generation Grant.
Incite, a Columbia University interdisciplinary research institute is dedicated to creating knowledge for public action. The institute’s Breakdown/(Re)generation Grant supports initiatives within Columbia University Arts and Sciences that address breakdowns in the social and natural worlds.
With this grant, Jordan-Young and Bernstein will co-lead a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to examine how the concept of “recovery” is interpreted across different fields, including biomedicine, pandemic politics, climate change, economics, and other fields of governance. Using a feminist/intersectional STEM and transformative justice framework, the team will explore the connections between scientific practices and systems of power, focusing on creating the most equitable approaches to recovery.