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The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies

The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies (FQT Center) is Penn’s premier institutional site supporting collaborative academic research, artistic production, and public engagement for scholars, artists, students, and activists who are invested in gender and sexuality studies. This includes scholars of feminist, queer, transgender, disability, and environmental studies that center a history of U.S. enslavement, genocide, settler colonialism, and exclusionary immigration policy—all of which continue to shape gender and sexuality in the present—as well as those who stress the colonial, imperial, transnational, and global frameworks within which gender and sexual categories and identifications take shape. Since its founding in 1982, the FQT Center (originally named the Alice Paul Center) has hosted cutting-edge speakers, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and artists-in-residence and sponsored field-defining workshops, conferences, symposia, and year-long research programs.


  • Alice Paul Center Visiting Artist: Arielle Brown
    • Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women
      • 2019
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • Provosts Interdisciplinary
      • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Performing Environmental Feminisms
    • Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women; Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Department of Music
      • 2020
      • Collaborative Provosts Interdisciplinary
      • Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Initiative
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Citywide Special: An Oral History of Philadelphia’s Drag Communities
    • Eva Pensis
      • 2025
      • Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Bridging Dyke and Trans Feminisms: An Intergenerational Exhibition and Salon Series
    • Heather Love and Juno Rosenhaus (Founder, Dyke+ ArtHaus) with support from M.C. Overholt (Weitzman) and S.E. Eisterer (GSWS/FQT)
      • 2025
      • Community Partnerships
      • Department of English
      • Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Weitzman School of Design
  • Trans Oral History Project – Artist Collection
    • Nat Rivkin and The Trans Oral History Project
      • 2023
      • Department of English
      • Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • Project Support
      • School of Arts & Sciences
  • The Sis Uprising
    • Ricardo A. Bracho
      • 2020
      • 2020 Black Artists Support
      • Making Art Grant
      • Responsive Opportunity
      • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Neutrøis
    • Syd Zolf
      • 2025
      • Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
      • Department of English
      • Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
      • Independent Creative Production
      • Making Art Grant
      • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design

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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

John McInerney (he/him)
Executive Director
215-573-0874
mcinernj@upenn.edu

Chloe Reison (she/her)
Associate Director
215-573-2159
reison@upenn.edu

Elizabeth Shaw (she/her)
Administrative Assistant
215-898-5930
elizshaw@upenn.edu

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation offices are located at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia PA

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