06/09/2021 - Professor Ghassan Moussawi has received the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award from...
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05/25/2021 - The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies stands with trans and nonbinary students, staff, and faculty at the University of Illinois, who each deserve to be recognized and referred to by their...
05/24/2021 - We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We unequivocally answer and amplify the call from the Palestinian Feminist Collective for “feminists everywhere to speak up, organize, and join...
05/21/2021 - Jessennya Hernandez, Ph.D. student in Sociology and GWS graduate minor, has received the Social Actions Initiative Award from Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS...
04/26/2021 - Professor Karen Flynn (GWS/African American Studies) has been awarded an HRI Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Seed Grant, which will support the development of a collaborative team proposal leading up...
04/19/2021 - Professor Terri Barnes has been recognized, along with other Illinois Global Institute and centers directors, with an LAS Impact Award for supporting online and...
03/24/2021 - Professor Ghassan Moussawi is being featured on the new LAS Experts website. You can listen to the interview here: https...
03/18/2021 - With heavy hearts, the Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies send strength and love to the eight victims, including six Asian women, murdered at three massage parlors...
03/15/2021 - GWS is making headlines! Check out the DI's feature on GWS 202:...
03/09/2021 - In "Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19," Professor Karen Flynn (GWS/African American Studies)...
03/02/2021 - Teresa Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Center for African...
02/12/2021 - Attention Graduate Students! GWS is looking for graduate students who are interested in teaching for Summer 2021, (Fall and Spring). Please see the position announcement here (for summer):...
12/15/2020 - Congratulations to Jingyi Gu, Recipient of the 2021 Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in GWS The 2021 Barbara and Donald Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in Gender and Women'...
11/13/2020 - We're excited to announce that Tasha Robles joins Gender and Women's Studies as our new Academic Program Coordinator on Friday, November 13, 2020! As Academic Program Coordinator,...
11/12/2020 - As scholars and teachers of intersectional feminist, queer, and transgender studies, GWS faculty are committed to confronting, understanding, and undoing the longstanding histories of racism,...
