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  • GWS Spring 2026 Course Guide
    2025-10-05 - Check out all the classes GWS has to offer in Spring 2026!
  • FAQ for GWS 399: Internship Class
    2025-10-05 - Interested in applying your GWS coursework to real world projects, and working with local organizations? Check out this FAQ for GWS 399, and earn course credit while contributing to your community and gaining new skills!
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    New Postdoctoral Fellow in Trans Studies, Adrian King
    2025-08-28 - Adrian King joins GWS as the 2025-26 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transgender Studies
  • GWS Major Jalixa Sanchez Discusses Odyssey Project Internship
    2025-02-24 - Sanchez describes her campus internship working with non-traditional students in the humanities.
  • Aparajita Santra gives 2025 Smalley Lecture, March 13
    2025-02-19 - Aparajita Santra (PhD candidate, Department of Architecture) will give the 2025 Smalley Lecture, titled "Liminal Publics and Invisible Lives: Exploring the Embodied Spatial Knowledge Production of the 'Maids' of Kolkata, India"
  • Position Announcement: Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transgender Studies
    2024-12-16 - Applications will be accepted through January 10, 2025 for this postdoctoral research position in the GWS department!
  • GWS Majors Discuss Experiences as Legislative Interns
    2024-11-27 - GWS Seniors Abigail Estrada and Emma Murphy held internships in Washington, D.C.
  • Professor Blair Ebony Smith Co-Curates Exhibit on Black Life & Kinship
    2024-09-30 - The exhibit features Jen Everett's work on Black life, care, and intimacy.
  • GWS Professors Launch Big Ten Trans Studies Initiative
    2024-09-26 - Professors Beauchamp and Nguyen won a three-year grant to build trans studies scholarship and pedagogy across the Big Ten campuses
  • 23-24 Outstanding Awards
    2024-06-10 - Check out this year's GWS departmental awards for outstanding students, teaching assistants, and faculty!
  • The Gender and Women's Studies Department Awards 2023-2024
    2024-06-10 - This year's winners of our department's student scholarships and research awards!
  • Professor Maryam Kashani Publishes Medina by the Bay
    2024-01-25 - Prof. Kashani's first book is out from Duke University Press!
  • Professors Beauchamp and Nguyen Win the 2023 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award
    2023-12-19 - The award recognizes their work to support trans studies on campus.
  • 22-23 Outstanding Awards
    2023-06-25 - OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARD WINNER Muskaan Siddique
  • GWS 2022-2023 Award Winners
    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. 

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Gender & Women's Studies

1205 W. Nevada St.

MC – 137

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-2990

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