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SUMMARY:Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment: Women and Gender Studies under Attack
DESCRIPTION:The latest assault on academic freedom came early in 2026 when Texas A&M University in the USA moved to close its women’s and gender studies program following the firing of a faculty member for classroom content on gender identity. New College of Florida\, Wichita State University (Kansas)\, and Towson University (Maryland) also closed women and gender studies programs. The field of women and gender studies traces its origins to the 1960s- and 1970s-women’s liberation and resistance movement. These departments and programs remain vulnerable under the current Trump administration and other states like Texas are implementing similar polices limiting classroom discussions on “race or gender ideology”. \nSimultaneously\, qualitative inquiry—particularly feminist\, interpretive\, and critical—is often characterised as suspicious; accused of being rooted in ideology therefore lacking scholarly credentials\, not worthy of academic stature—a threat. Women and Gender Studies and qualitative inquiry are not simply aligned; they are co-implicated. Those who contest critical race theory and intersectionality\, race\, gender\, and ethnic studies\, and reproductive autonomy are also challenging how knowledge is generated\, whose accounts are trusted\, which methods and theories matter\, and whose stories fill the narrative landscape. This assault on Women and Gender studies is also an assault on interpretive and embodied knowledge\, and relational ways of being and knowing. \nJoin us on April 1st\, 2026\, at 1:00 p.m. EST\, (12 noon CST\, 11:00 a.m. MST\, 10:00 a.m. PST\, 8:00 p.m. UK) for the second in our series of Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment with Dr. Heidi Lewis\, the immediate past President of the National Women’s Studies Association. Her work is primarily focused on feminism (emphasis Black feminism) in this session she shares a feminist analysis\, current research and insights on Women and Gender Studies and how we might resist\, navigate\, and defend this work in the changing political landscape. The session will open with the reading of feminist poetry in the African diasporic tradition of call and response. Our two poetry readers are Tiffani Kelly PhD candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma and Victoria Obeng MA candidate in Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. This online webinar will provide an opportunity to hear about Dr. Lewis’ work in this area and to ask questions. To register please CLICK HERE.  \nDr. Heidi R. Lewis is David & Lucile Packard Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies\, Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in Gender & Women’s Studies\, Series Editor of Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality\, and immediate past President of the National Women’s Studies Association. Her work is primarily focused on Feminism (emphasis Black Feminism)\, Hip Hop (emphasis Rap)\, and Media Studies. Along with several peer-reviewed articles\, book chapters\, and public-facing articles written for New Black Man\, The Feminist Wire\, Ms.\, and other publications\, she is the co-editor of In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk (edition assemblage\, 2021) with Dana Asbury and Jazlyn Andrews. Her most recent project\, Make Rappers Rap Again!: Interrogating the Mumble Rap “Crisis” (August 2025)\, is the first to be published in the Oxford University Press Theorizing African American Music Series.
URL:https://qualitativeinquiry.org/event/qualitative-inquiry-in-this-moment-women-and-gender-studies-under-attack/
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SUMMARY:Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment: The Dismantling and Assault of Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:That we are living through “interesting or challenging times” seems to fall short of the dizzying speed\, unpredictability\, and multiple directions with which the landscape of qualitative research\, science\, and higher education is under attack in the United States. (and elsewhere). The current administration in Washington DC has been clear in its actions over the past year that programming\, curriculum\, access to federal research funds\, policy and practice will be determined by the executive branch of federal government. Gender and Ethnic studies\, social justice\, DEI\, academic freedom\, science\, and academics themselves are being targeted. The holding hostage of universities\, colleges\, and educational institutions has become the centerpiece of the administration’s assault on higher education. However\, these ideas and actions did not simply emerge with the current Trump Administration; the groundwork began well before the 2024 election. \nJoin us on February 24th\, 2026\, at 1:00 p.m. EST\, (12 noon CST\, 11:00 a.m. MST\, 10:00 a.m. PST\, 8:00 p.m. UK) for the first in our series of Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment with Dr. Abby Ferber and Dr. Marc Spooner. They will share their analysis\, research and insights of the shifting terrain in higher education and how we might navigate these ongoing machinations of autocratic change. This online webinar will provide an opportunity to hear about the work in this area by two well established scholars from a U.S. perspective and a Canadian perspective. Register for the event here. \nDr. Abby Ferber is Professor of Sociology\, and Chair of the Women’s and Ethnic Studies Department\, is also the co-founding Director of the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado\, Colorado Springs. Ferber’s research examines issues of privilege from an intersectional perspective. Her books include White Man Falling: Race\, Gender\, and White Supremacy\, Home Grown Hate: Gender and the White Supremacist Movement and she is currently working on the third edition of her co-authored textbook\, The Matrix of Race: Social Construction\, Intersectionality and Inequality. She has written about the online abuse and harassment of faculty\, situating it within its wider social and political context. She co-developed and directs the Matrix Center’s signature program\, The Knapsack Institute: Transforming Teaching and Learning\, a virtual institute now in its third decade\, which provides a supportive learning community for educators committed to equity and inclusion\, something we all need right now. \nDr. Marc Spooner is a full professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina\, in Saskatchewan\, Canada. His research interests include audit culture\, academic freedom\, and the effects of neoliberalization and corporatization on higher education; as well as social justice\, activism\, and participatory democracy. He has published in many venues\, including peer-reviewed journals\, book chapters (two editions of the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research\, 5th & 6th)\, government reports\, and a wide variety of popularizations. He is the co-editor of the award-winning book: Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education (UofR Press) as well as the forthcoming (February\, 2026) Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities (UofR Press).
URL:https://qualitativeinquiry.org/event/qualitative-inquiry-in-this-moment-the-dismantling-and-assault-of-higher-education/
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