Olivia Hagedorn from the Department of History was awarded the 2019 Smalley Fellowship in Gender and Women's Studies for her dissertation proposal entitled "'Call Me African': Black Women and Disaporic Cultural Feminism in Chicago, 1930-1980."
The Everyday Interval of Resistance
Pick up a Fall Course Guide at GWS!Shizu Saldamando, "Sandra and Tammy, Hollywood Forever," oil paint, mixed media on wood
Hell Holes or Saviors
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Forgetting Vietnam
Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
Feminist Friday
40 Years of GWS
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GWS Internship ProgramClassroom Knowledge in Action!
Toby Beauchamp has been named a 2019-2020 Helen Corley Petit Scholar, which is awarded for the "development of the scholarship and teaching of early career faculty members in the College." In addition to the title of Helen Corley Petit Scholar, the award comes with funds to support research and teaching. Professor Beauchamp's book, Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices, was released this month by Duke University Press.
Throughout the 1960s and 70s thousands of young men and women left Iran to seek education and opportunity abroad. A group of particularly adventurous and charismatic friends met up in San Francisco. Best in the West locates their experiences, as young men establishing their lives in a new country, within the context of the Vietnam War, changes in Iran, and the social, political, and musical atmosphere of San Francisco in the 60s and 70s. See Best in the West on vimeo.
GWS 378Discusses how femininity and gender formation are related through fairy tales. As children grow they are taught the difference between male and female roles.
GWS 335Examines the history and theory of film, television, and their interrelationship through one or more specific case studies. Topics may include: film and feminist movements; girl films; queer TV; gender, sport and TV.
GWS 275Through the politics of dress, this course investigates the inseparable links between cultures, aesthetics, and politics, as demonstrated in debates about Muslim practices of veiling, the role of clothing in colonialism's "civilizing" mission, immigrant and "third world" sweatshop labor and globa
GWS 470This course familiarizes students with the major concepts, frameworks, and central debates animating transgender studies scholarship and politics.
GWS 204Examines the history of gender in videogames, focusing on how movements like #GamerGate, #RaceFail09, internet bullying, doxing and trolling emerged as the coordinated effort to consolidate and maintain videogames and geek culture as the domain of masculinity and whiteness.
GWS 366This course explores the complex relationship between gender and disability, including the fraught connections that certain avenues of feminist, queer, and transgender politics have with disability.
GWS 333Explores the phenomenon of autobiography in the contemporary world. Students will read theories of autobiography, and ask questions about how writing about the self is gendered, and how representations of the self fare in the outside world.
GWS 363Aspects of popular culture, including television, magazines, newspapers, social networking sites, and internet sources to name a few, are ways that health information is disseminated. Students will examine how we define health and understand disease as related to popular culture.
Spotlight
Aubree Henderson is a therapist-in-training turned nonprofit professional based in Brooklyn, New York. A Champaign-Urbana native, Aubree earned a Bachelor’s degree in Gender & Women’s Studies and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. She went on to earn her M.Ed in Counseling & Human Development from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked primarily with adults in recovery from substance abuse.
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