Graduate Certificate Student in Women's Studies
bgauger@umich.edu
Women's and Gender Studies
About
Bri is a PhD candidate in urban planning and a graduate certificate student in women’s studies. Her dissertation is a history of feminist thought and activism in the American urban planning academy from 1965 to the present. Building on oral history accounts she conducted with many of the first women to become planning scholars, the dissertation explores how ideas and strategies have traveled between feminism and planning and examines the informal and institutional and practices that have shaped the various meanings of feminism in the discipline.
Fields of study:
- Intellectual history
- Gender and urban space
- Social movements
- Feminist epistemologies and methodologies
Awards:
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, 2019-2020
- Doctoral Student Award in Urban Planning, 2018
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) Community of Scholars, 2018
- Center for the Education of Women (CEW) Margaret Dow Towsley Scholar, 2016-2017
- Rackham Summer Award, 2016
