2024-06-10
- OUTSTANDING UNDER GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD WINNER
Aly Cigelnik
- 2024-06-10 - Congratulations to GWS' Departmental award winners from Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. You can read more about what the awards and the criteria here: https://gws.illinois.edu/resources/department-awards. Smalley Award Winner: Aparajita Santra
- 2024-01-25 - Professor Maryam Kashani (GWS/Asian American Studies) published her book Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival on Duke University Press in September 2023: From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish...
- 2023-12-19 - Professors Toby Beauchamp and Mimi Thi Nguyen won the 2023 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Advocacy for LGBTQ Affairs, specifically for their collaborations to build trans studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Read more here about the award.
- 2023-06-25 - OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARD WINNER Muskaan Siddique
- 2023-06-10 - Congratulations to GWS' Departmental award winners from Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. You can read more about what the awards and the criteria here: https://gws.illinois.edu/resources/department-awards.
- Congratulations to Claire Accardo, who won the Scharre Thompson this year! The Jean Scharre Thompson Scholarship is a one-time annual award providing support in the amount of $2,000 to an undergraduate student majoring in Gender and Women’s Studies. Jean Scharre Thompson was a high school teacher and educator who had a lifelong interest in and commitment to women's rights and women's...
- Congratulations to Muskaan Siddique for winning this years Ramier Grant! The Mary Ramier Grant aims to inspire undergraduate women to develop as successful leaders, activists, and professionals. Muskaan's project will be an exhibit showcasing original interviews conducted with Muslims in Elgin, Illinois, and other primary sources documenting the aftermath of 9/11 for South Asian Muslim-...
- The Department of Gender and Women's Studies is thrilled that Professor Ghassan Moussawi is a recipient of the 2023 LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. As an interdisciplinary scholar of transnational approaches to gender and sexuality, Professor Moussawi's ability to deftly facilitate conversations across fields and across students from a multiplicity of disciplines is remarkable...
- Visiting Lecturer Daniel McCarthy (PhD Music) published "Queering Abuelita: Reconciling Loss through the Speculative,” in the Winter issue of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 11(4): https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.27
Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Gender & Women's Studies College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a Chancellor...- Two of our GWS faculty, Professors Blair Ebony Smith and Mimi Thi Nguyen, will be participating at events for Pygmalion Festival, September 22-24, 2022. Opening on September 24, 2022 with a reception (12-6 PM) at Krannert Art Museum, Black On Black On Black On Black "will feature Black faculty in the School of Art &...
- Several professors have recently received named scholar positions for their contributions to research, education, and the academic mission of the College of LAS, including our own Terersa Barnes (Gender and Women's Studies and History). Barnes’ current main research project focuses on a South African philosophy professor who was also a state censor, prosecution witness, and...