2026-03-02
- Jasmin Patrón-Vargas (BA '11), who double majored in Latina/Latino Studies and Gender and Women's Studies, went on to earn her PhD and is currently an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. Read about how her LLS/GWS degree helped her pursue a career that's meaningful to her!
2026-02-27 - Ingrid Sinclair’s feature-length film Flame (1986) tells the story of two young African women who join the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe in the 1970s. The film follows Flame and Liberty as they are faced with sexual harassment by male freedom fighters and later, by the patriarchy of the newly liberated Zimbabwe. Flame was a Cannes Film Festival selection...- 2025-12-04 - GWS is now accepting applications for Graduate Instructors for Summer 2026, and Teaching Assistants and Graders for AY 2026-27! Application deadline for all positions is February 1, 2026. Please direct any questions to Tasha Robles at tmatos@illinois.eduGraduate Instructors: Summer 2026GWS 201:...
- 2025-10-05 - Check out all the classes GWS has to offer in Spring 2026!
- 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!
2025-08-28 - Adrian King joins GWS as the 2025-26 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transgender Studies- 2025-02-24 - Sanchez describes her campus internship working with non-traditional students in the humanities.
- 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"
- 2024-12-16 - Applications will be accepted through January 10, 2025 for this postdoctoral research position in the GWS department!
- 2024-11-27 - GWS Seniors Abigail Estrada and Emma Murphy held internships in Washington, D.C.
- 2024-09-30 - The exhibit features Jen Everett's work on Black life, care, and intimacy.
- 2024-09-26 - Professors Beauchamp and Nguyen won a three-year grant to build trans studies scholarship and pedagogy across the Big Ten campuses
- 2024-06-10 - Check out this year's GWS departmental awards for outstanding students, teaching assistants, and faculty!
- 2024-06-10 - This year's winners of our department's student scholarships and research awards!
- 2024-01-25 - Prof. Kashani's first book is out from Duke University Press!