Stepanka Korytova, Associate Faculty in the Labor Studies program, on the IU Bloomington campus, is the 2011 recipient of the Zirin Prize by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS). The Zirin Prize “aims to recognize the achievements of independent scholars and to encourage their continued scholarship and service in the fields of Slavic or Central and Eastern European Women\'s Studies.”
Professor Lynn Duggan, together with Nalini Visvanathan, Nan Wiegersma, and Laurie Nisonoff, co-edited The Women, Gender and Development Reader,(2nd ed.) published in summer 2011 by Zed Press.
A delegation from the People’s Republic of China interested in learning about labor rights has met with Dr. Marquita Walker and Dr. Charles Davis of the Labor Studies Program during a national tour of the United States