Staff
The Yale Women Faculty Forum is staffed by two Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associates who work in conjunction with the WFF Chair, Council, and Steering Committee. The Postdoctoral Associates design and implement innovative programs and projects and oversee the research components of WFF's initiatives.
- Allison Tait , Ph.D., J.D., Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate
- Liena Vayzman, Ph.D., Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate
Allison Tait, Ph.D, J.D.
Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate, 2011-12
allison.tait@yale.edu
Allison Tait received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D. in French from Yale University, and J.D. from Yale Law School. Her scholarly work explores intersections between law and gender, most specifically within the structures of the home and workplace. Her research in French literature focused on the deployment of marriage metaphors in early-modern French political theater, and female citizenship as related to marriage contracts in the same period. More recently, she has written about married women's property in early-modern England and post-Revolutionary America, theories of marriage and the violation of monogamy norms, and the gendering of caretaking in the workplace. At WFF, Allison Tait co-directs programs promoting gender equity and conducts research on the status of women faculty at Yale and within the academy.
Liena Vayzman, Ph.D.
Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate, 2010-12
(203) 432 2372
(203) 432 8828 fax
liena.vayzman@yale.edu
Liena Vayzman earned her B.A. from Vassar College and M.A. and Ph.D. in History of Art from Yale University, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art and the Histories of Photography. Her scholarship focuses on women artists in the avant-garde within a larger interest in gender, sexuality, and representation. At Yale, she has held curatorial fellowships at the Yale University Art Gallery, working on the Societe Anonyme and Thomas Eakins exhibitions. She has taught courses on gender, photography, and art history at Rhode Island School of Design, CUNY, The New School, and San Jose State University prior to joining the WFF staff. Dr. Vayzman is at work on a book about the French Surrealist photographers and Resistance activists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the topic of her Ph.D. dissertation. She has written on the work of Maya Deren, Richard Prince, Alice Austen, Dziga Vertov, as well as the intersection of contemporary art and the politics of sustainability. She was a co-founder of the MicroClimate Curatorial Collective in San Francisco and organized interactive media art projects for ATA/Artists Television Access. At WFF, Liena Vayzman co-directs research and programs promoting gender equity at Yale and in the academy. In 2010-11 with WFF Associate Ruth Vaughan, she conducted archival research on Yale's first women PhDs in the 1890s.
