NCCROW's Hurricane-Related Projects

An online database of abstracts of research projects that look at the hurricanes with a focus on issues of women and gender. Click here to enter database.

***Call for Submissions***
We invite all researchers who are conducting relevant projects, regardless of methodology, to submit abstracts of their works-in-progress or completed studies to this online database so that we can begin to capture the ways in which the storms, their aftermaths, and recoveries are differently experienced by women with respect to race, class and community.

A database of citations to various types of online publications and articles that discuss the hurricanes in relation to issues of women and gender. Click here to enter database.

Currently in the data collection stage, this project will soon offer information regarding the status of local organizations that provide services specifically to women. Though services for women were scarce prior to Katrina, they have obviously been impacted by the storm and in many cases have diminished. It is the goal of this project to understand the effects that the hurricane has had on women’s organizations, as well as to consolidate information about the services that are currently available.

The data that is collected will be made publicly accessible online, enabling clients to easily find the information they need. It is extremely important for this data to be collected and for resources to be made available in order to insure that women form an integral part of the rebuilding of New Orleans.

For more information or to submit information about your organization, contact Cheryl Schmitz, NCCROW intern, at cschmitz@tulane.edu.

The Newcomb College Center for Research on Women has partnered with Tulane University’s Office of Service Learning to train and assist students with the collection of oral histories from alumnae, faculty, staff and students of Newcomb College affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This project seeks to document the multiple ways the hurricane and its aftermath have affected these women’s lives. In particular, we are interested in women’s perception of how the hurricane affected their role in the family, in the community, and/or on campus. Given the post-Katrina announcement of Tulane University’s restructuring and the end of Newcomb College as a degree-granting women’s college within Tulane, we will also ask the interviewees to speak of Newcomb’s past and unknown future.

This project is part of a larger coalition project, In Wake of the Hurricanes. This collaborative effort to gather oral histories is spearheaded by the Louisiana Folklife Program and in partnership with the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, which has agreed to act as a secondary repository for all the oral histories collected.

For more information about this project, please contact NCCROW Librarian, Cristina Hernandez, at chernan2@tulane.edu

This project seeks to document and archive the resistance to, and the general dialogue about, the elimination of Newcomb as a degree-granting college as outlined in Tulane University’s post-Katrina renewal plan.

To this end, we have been archiving discussion forums and other relevant materials posted on the following websites:

http://renewal.tulane.edu/

http://tulane.dailyjolt.com/

http://ncsenate.blogspot.com/

http://www.thehullabaloo.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Renewcomb/

http://new.petitiononline.com/aschklar/petition.html

http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/Newcomb_College/

http://www.newcomb.tulane.edu/NewcombAlumnaeOffice/Home.html

We would greatly appreciate any additional links to other websites that contain relevant information or dialogue that we can document. We are also very interested in collecting any of personal letters, exchanges, emails, journals, or any other documentation that pertains to this matter.

To suggest a link or to discuss donating personal papers, please contact NCCROW student worker, Stephanie Bordy at sbordy@tulane.edu