Intersectional Research across the Disciplines

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: ASJE019 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (host committee)

Language: English

Intersectional Research Methods Across the Disciplines

Critical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. Advancing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches is an invaluable tool scholars and researchers undertake in conducting meaningful intersectional research. Its empirical findings will further benefit practitioners tasked with designing intersectional policy. Presentations will examine methodological questions concerning innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and ways to overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research. Panelists are contributors to the Research Handbook on Intersectionality edited by Mary Romero, published in Elgar 2023 Sociology Series. Panelists are sociologists engaged in critical interdisciplinary projects, such as critical studies of gender, sexuality, indigenous, citizenship, and social justice and community studies.

Panelists:

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (University of Connecticut)

Patricia M. Lengermann (George Washington University) and Jill Brantley (George Washington University)

Ghassan Moussawi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Jennifer Jihye Chin (University of California, Los Angeles)

Session Organizer:
Mary ROMERO, Arizona State University, USA
Oral Presentations
Centering Region and Multi-Scalar Lenses in Intersectional Research
Ghassan MOUSSAWI, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
: Making Sexuality, Gender, and Migration Intersectional
Salvador VIDAL-ORTIZ, University of Connecticut, USA
Intergenerational Care, Intersectional Feminism and Reproductive Justice
Jennifer CHUN, University of California Los Angeles, USA
The American Settlement Movement 1885-1940: Sociology, Progressivism and Intersectionality—Experimenting with and across Lines of Difference
Patricia Lengermann LENGERMANN, The George Washington University, USA; Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley NIEBRUGGE-GRANTLEY, The George Washinton University, USA