With the aim of creating a truly international permanent exhibition we have established an International Exhibition Advisory Committee of scholars and museum experts from around the world. We are honored that the following professionals have offered to contribute their time and cultural perspectives to our exhibition development process.
■ | Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder and President, Women's Learning Partnership; Former Minister of State, Women's Affairs in Iran |
■ | Bolanle Awe, Former Director, Institute of African Studies; Historian, University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
■ | Margot Badran, Visiting Scholar, Program of African Studies, Northwestern University |
■ | Christine Bard, Professor of History, University of Angers, France; Head of Archives du Féminisme |
■ | Aparna Basu, Professor Emerita of History, University of New Delhi, India; President, All-India Women’s Congress (AIWC) |
■ | Purnima Bhatt, Professor of African History, Hood College, Maryland |
■ | Ida Blom, Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Bergen, Norway |
■ | Marilyn Boxer, Professor of History, Emeritus; Former Vice President, Academic Affairs, San Francisco State University |
■ | Gabriela Cano, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico |
■ | Krassimira Daskalova, Professor of History, St. Kliments University, Sofia, Bulgaria; President International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) |
■ | Felicia Ekejiuba, Former Head of African Section, UNIFEM |
■ | Anita Göransson, Professor in Gender, Economic Change, and Organization, Linköping University, Sweden |
■ | Maria Grever, Professor of History and Theory, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
■ | Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
■ | Noriyo Hayakawa, Historian, Ferris University, Yokohama, Japan |
■ | Suad Joseph, Professor of Sociology, and Middle Eastern Women's Studies, University of California, Davis |
■ | Sheila Kitzinger, Social Anthropologist of birthing practices and motherhood around the world, Oxford University |
■ | Dorothy Ko, Professor of Chinese History, Historian of early Chinese women, Barnard College |
■ | Louise Lamphere, Anthropologist, University of New Mexico |
■ | Kari Gaarder Losnedahl, Curator, Bergen Museum, University of Bergen, Norway |
■ | Edith Mayo, Curator Emeritus in Political History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian |
■ | Ann McGrath, Director, Australian Center for Indigenous History, The Australian National University, Australia |
■ | Debra Michals, Exhibit Developer; Women's Historian, Boston, Massachusetts |
■ | Francesca Miller, Independent Scholar, Latin American Women's History; prize-winning author |
■ | Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, Professor of Women's History, University of Porto, Lisbon, Portugal; and São Paulo, Brazil |
■ | Mary O'Dowd, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; Past President, International Federation for Research in Women’s history (IFRWH) |
■ | Shana Penn, Open Society Institute Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Women's Leadership Institute, Mills College, California |
■ | Natalia Pushkareva, Women’s History, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
■ | Samina Quraeshi, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami, Florida |
■ | Lyn Reese, Women in World History Curriculum, Berkeley, California |
■ | Ruth Rosen, Former Professor of U.S. Women's History, University of California, Davis; Researcher, Rockridge Institute |
■ | Leila J. Rupp, Professor of Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Former Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Women’s History |
■ | Joni Seager, Dean of the Faculty, Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada |
■ | Fatou Sow, Professor of Sociology, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal; University of Paris |
■ | Margaret (Peg) Strobel, Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies and African History, University of Illinois |
■ | Ashraf Zahedi, Sociologist, Beatrice Bain Center, University of California, Berkeley |
■ | Wang Zheng, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Chinese History, University of Michigan |
