Working Group: Beyond the Academy: Histories of Gender and Knowledge

This Working Group considers the intersections of gender and science. It does so in contexts other than accredited institutions, state-sponsored universities, and research institutes. Our focus is the creation, transfer, and appropriation of scientific knowledge well beyond university seminars and research laboratories. Moving beyond the parameters of formal academic achievement, we seek to recast the ways we define science itself.

The first meeting of our Working Group took place in June 2010, a second meeting held was in July 2011.  A Working Group Book will be published in 2012. 

Members of this Working Group include Carla Bittel (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, U.S.A.), Mineke Bosch (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Polyxeni Giannakopoulou (Technical University of Athens, Greece), Liesbeth Hesselink (University of Leiden, Netherlands), Sally Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota, U.S.A.), Kirsten Leng (University of Michigan, U.S.A.), Elaine Leong (University of Warwick, U.K.), Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.), Constance Putnam (Concorde, MA, U.S.A.), Maria Rentetzi (Technical University of Athens, Greece), and Elizabeth Watkins (University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A.).