Effectively Advocating for Diversity and Excellence in Faculty Searches Using Film

Coleen Carrigan’s research interests focus primarily on the socio-economic, historical relations of power which determine the value of women’s labor. In her undergraduate and graduate studies, and in her positions at the Women’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor and University of Washington ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change, she has performed independent and collaborative research on women’s labor value, the sexual and racial divisions of labor as well as institutional transformation and best practices for the advancement of underrepresented groups in academia. She has communicated her findings in research papers, grant proposals, public presentations, short films and in journal publications. Her work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Luce Foundation and the University of Washington Labor Center. She earned a Masters in Socio-Cultural Anthropology for her work on the historical and social relations of reproduction in Bahia Brazil. In her doctoral research in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Washington, she continues to engage feminist critical race theory and participatory, ethnographic methodologies in her examination of unexamined bias and politics of reproduction in cultures of technology.