The Deborah Gerner collection of personal papers contains teaching materials (lecture handouts, syllabi, exams) from her professorship in the Department of Political Science at KU, as well as similar materials from Gerner’s teaching positions at the University of Iowa, Northwestern, and Hamilton College.

The collection includes several examples of undergraduate and graduate student work; most of these materials are intermixed with Gerner’s course materials and can be found in boxes 1, 7, 9-11, and 13. Gerner’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate student work can be found in boxes 15 and 17; also included are her curriculum vitae, articles, material documenting committee work in professional organizations (ISA, APSA), book reviews, talks, and conference papers, newspaper articles featuring or about her, and correspondence related to her published works. Gerner’s job search materials from the 1980s are found throughout, as well as correspondence and committee materials related to women in the profession of Political Science, and dual-career academic couples, both of which can be found in Boxes 14 and 16, with the bulk in Box 18.

Courses taught by Gerner include International Relations, International Mediation and Conflict Resolution, International Political Economy, U.S. Foreign Policy, Politics of the Middle East, Women in Politics: Comparative Perspectives, and Human Rights: Comparative Perspectives. Gerner’s letters, e-mails, notes, and memos about the beginning of the Masters in International Studies (MAIS) program at KU are also included.

Gerner’s letters, notes, and interviews from her travel to the Middle East and North Africa from 1985-1992 (Palestine, Israel, Oman, Jordan) can be found in boxes 4, 10, 16, and 18. Also housed in box 18 are letters from a Gerner student with lengthy descriptions of Zimbabwe, with a focus on women and gender issues, from 1985-1989. Gerner's notes and letters are lengthy and descriptive, with many personal observations; subjects include women and gender issues, academic freedom, political activism, issues of class, race, nationality, the Palestinian Human Rights Information Center (PHRIC), Jewish-Arab relations, religion, and the political situation. Related materials (booklets and pamphlets from these countries, in both English and Arabic) can also be found in Boxes 2 and 18.

Articles, booklets, and research notes related to Gerner and Schrodt’s research with machine coded event data and the Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) are primarily found in boxes 12 and 13, but can be found throughout.