Professor Elizabeth Sharrow, associate professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of History and Director of Faculty Research at the UMass Institute for Social Science Research, will join the 2023-2024 cohort of the Mellon Foundation Building Academic Leaders in the Humanities Program.
Organized by Five Colleges Inc. and supported by a 3-year $1.6 million Mellon Foundation grant, the program aims to build a pipeline of humanities faculty into leadership roles in higher education. Throughout the course of the year, participants will connect with peers across the Five Colleges and learn from leaders and experts in key areas of academic administration.
Sharrow’s research interests are in the politics and history of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the politics of gender and race in US politics, the politics of the family, and the politics of college athletics. They are co-author of Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sport (Cambridge University Press). Their award-winning scholarship has been published in many scholarly and public forums including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. Sharrow is the recipient of numerous grants, including from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Association of University Women, the American Political Science Association, the Gerald Ford Presidential Foundation, and more.