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!
- 2023-12-19 - The award recognizes their work to support trans studies on campus.
- 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...