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  • A background of pink and purple clouds, with text reading, "GWS Faculty Social Justice Partial Bibliography," and "Read some of our faculty's work on policing, disposession, antiblack violence, migration control, and antiracist organizing."
    GWS Faculty for Social Justice Partial Bibliography
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    Read the GWS Fall 2020 newsletter!
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  • In white text, "Announcing our new Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Transgender Studies at the Department of Gender and Women's Studies" over a dark abtract background
    New Postdoctoral Fellowship in Trans Studies
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  • Fall 2020 Message to Our GWS Students

    Welcome to GWS!  Amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, GWS remains steadfast in its commitment to your well-being and academic progress. 
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  • New Faculty and Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow Join GWS In Fall 2020

    The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is delighted to introduce our new assistant professors and Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow, who will all be joining us this fall. 
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  • Apply To Be Our Academic Program Coordinator

    The Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for an Academic Program Coordinator.  The Department seeks candidates who have familiarity with the field of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies; strong communication skills, including knowledge of social media and communications design software; ability to prioritize and o
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  • History of Sexuality in the U.S.
    GWS 387

    History of Sexuality in the U.S.

    This course explores a wide variety of sources to understand how notions of sexuality have emerged and been contested at key moments in U.S. history.
    Course Description for GWS 387
  • Black Lives Matter
    GWS 201

    Race, Gender and Power

    Are prisons necessary? Why do international borders exist? When was heterosexuality invented? How does colonialism continue today? What do all these questions have to do with gender and race? Sign up for this course, and come find out this summer.
    Course Description for GWS 201
  • Galindo Coatlicue + State
    GWS 395

    Latinx Feminisms

    This course examines Latinx feminist thinking in its complex and uneven genealogies. In order to maintain these complexities, we will consider texts from a range differently situated thinkers in order to think more deeply about Latinx feminisms.
    Course Description for GWS 395
  • Digital and Gender Cultures
    GWS 345

    Digital and Gender Cultures

    New for Fall 2020
    Course Description for GWS 345
  • GWS 378 Summer I
    GWS 378

    Fairy Tales and Gender Formation

    The stories we tell children are full of imaginative realms and fantastic characters. They teach about love, family, friendship, and many "positive" values that are crucial to early psychological and social development.
    Course Description for GWS 378
  • Politics of Fashion
    GWS 275

    The Politics of Fashion

    This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2020 for a: UIUC Cultural Studies - U.S. Minority
    Course Description for GWS 275

Fall 2020 Message to Our GWS Students

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Welcome to GWS!  Amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, GWS remains steadfast in its commitment to your well-being and academic progress. 

GWS Faculty Position: Assistant Professor of Latinx Gender Studies

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The Department of Gender and Women's Studies invites applications and nominations for a full-time tenure-track faculty position in Latinx gender studies at the rank of Assistant Professor.

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