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Postdoctoral Fellow

SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji is the postdoctoral research fellow in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame (2025-2027). She earned her PhD in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She studies abortion politics in South Korea in relation to U.S. population control governance during the Cold War. Her dissertation was selected as the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press' First Book Prize.

Scholar-in-Residence

Julia Kowalski, associate professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs, is the Gender Studies Internal Scholar-in-Residence for 2026-27. She is a cultural anthropologist by training, and works at the intersections of anthropology, gender studies, and critical policy studies. She is a fellow of the Kellogg, Klau, Kroc, and Liu Institutes and is concurrent faculty in Anthropology. Her research examines how policy experts and stakeholders seek to address gender inequality as they confront cultural and historical variation, translate transnational categories across scales and contexts, and manage changing tools of knowledge production. Her earlier research was based in north India and explored how people made sense of the transnational category of “gender-based violence.” Her current research examines how transnational advocacy networks in multilateral organizations and NGOs use the category of “unpaid care work” to promote social transformation. Her research has been published in journals such as American Anthropologist; Feminist Anthropology; Violence Against Women; Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society; and is forthcoming in Signs. Her first book, Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence, was awarded the the Michelle Z. Rosaldo prize from the Association of Feminist Anthropology, honoring first books advancing feminist ethnographic research.

Steering Committee

The Gender Studies Steering Committee advises and assists the Director on matters pertaining to the Program’s academic curriculum and programming. Members of the Committee also help to promote the Gender Studies Program as a scholarly community committed to the interdisciplinary study of gender and sexuality. Current Steering Committee Members