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An online gender study journal produced by SUNY Cortland has been named as a top research journal in Europe by the France-based European Science Foundation.
The journal,“Wagadu: A Journal of Trans-national Women’s and Gender Studies,” offers editorials, book reviews and articles
on issues regarding gender and women’s studies.
Co-founded by Mecke Nagel, a professor in the department of philosophy, the journal was launched in 2004. Funds to start “Wagadu” (http://web.cortland.edu/ wagadu/) came from a New York State/UUP Joint Labor/Management Committee grant.
In an Aug. 13 letter, the foundation notified the college that Wagadu was selected to be listed on a European humanities reference index of top gender studies research journals.
The foundation (www.esf.org) is an association of 77 member organizations in 30 European countries dedicated to scientific research.
The proposal to start “Wagadu” was very compelling to Henry Steck, a distinguished service professor in the department of political science at SUNY Cortland. Steck, an early supporter of the project, was on the Labor/Management Committee on Technology that awarded the start-up grant for “Wagadu.”
“It was a stand-out project then and it has been widely recognized worldwide since,” Steck said. “I also was pleased at the time the award was made to professor Nagel, since so many applications we received were for projects on more technical technology concerns, many of them very good. But here was a case of an application that had an intellectual and scholarly focus.”
To read “Wagadu” online, go to http://web.cortland.edu/wagadu.
— Michael Lisi