E.J. Graff is a Senior Researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.

In that position, Graff is heading the Gender and Justice Project, where she is investigating and exposing some of the serious inequities, injustices, and human rights issues that confront many women and their families.

Most recently, Graff collaborated on former Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy's book Getting Even: Why Women Still Don't Make As Much As Men--And What To Do So We Will (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 2005). Her first book, What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution, examined 2,500 years of a central pillar of social life, and asked why, for the first time in history, our society is considering opening the institution to same-sex couples.

Since 2001, she has been a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. She has been a Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Journalism at Harvard Law School, a recipient of The Nation Investigative Fund Research Award, and a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library, where she wrote her first book.

Graff is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a contributor to TPMCafe.com. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Times, Ms., The Nation, The New Republic, Women's Review of Books, and in a score of anthologies. As an expert in social policy, she has appeared in several documentaries; has frequently been interviewed by public and commercial media outlets such as NPR, CBC, BBC, PBS, MTV, satellite radio, and cable news; and gives talks and engages in debates at universities, conventions, churches, synagogues, and other public forums, in the U.S. and abroad.