04/24/2022 - The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is pleased to announce that Ava L.J. Kim is our 2022-2023 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in Trans Studies at the University of Illinois,...
News
04/01/2022 - This year the Department of Gender & Women's Studies was able to award two undergraduate Thompson Scholarships to Emily Morrissette and Michael Ross Jacobson. The scholarship is named after Jean...
03/31/2022 - The 2022-2023 Humanities Research Institute Program Fellows has been awarded to not one, but two of our stellar faculty members, Dr. Damian Vergara Bracamontes and Dr. Emma Velez on this year's...
03/31/2022 - The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize is awarded by the National Women's Studies Association and recognizes groundbreaking monographs in women's studies that make significant and multicultural feminist...
12/13/2021 - The 2022 Barbara and Donald Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in Gender and Women’s Studies has been awarded to Catalina Hernandez, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Art Education in the School of Art...
06/25/2021 - Two GWS professors are among the faculty whose research projects received funding from the Presidential...
06/09/2021 - Professor Ghassan Moussawi has received the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award from...
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:...