Assistant/Associate Professor Position
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Department of Gender and Women's Studies invites applications and nominations for a full-time Assistant/Associate Professor tenure-track faculty position...
- The LAS Experts series features "professors studying everything from volcanoes to financial risk, poetry, and emotions." This May 2022 installment features Associate Professor and GWS Chair Mimi Thi Nguyen about her forthcoming manuscript The Promise of Beauty, and about her favorite publication (it's a zine). Not many professors have been described as “scholar,” “punk,” and “zine author” in...
- LAS News interviewed our inaugural Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate Sawyer Kemp and Chair Mimi Thi Nguyen about our "unique" "first of its kind" fellowship: [Sawyer] Kemp’s work in theater and literary history allowed Illinois students and others to consider the long histories of gender and how that can be used as part of today’s rhetoric. In their first year in the role,...
- Professor Toby Beauchamp is interviewed by Jody Heckel for the Illinois News Bureau about the rise in anti-trans legislation across the United States. Why are we now seeing so many states with proposed bills seeking to restrict the actions of transgender people or regulate issues related to them? We are living in a time of rising authoritarianism, in the U.S. and...
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, Urbana-Champaign. Currently a PhD Candidate completing her dissertation in English at the University of Pennsylvania, she will begin an appointment as Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women'...- 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 Alice Scharre Thompson who "was a high school teacher and educator who had a lifelong interest in and a commitment to Women's Rights and Women's Education..." Both Emily and Michael are...
- 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 contributions to women of color and transnational scholarship. During the selections for the year 2021, the prize was awarded to Dr. Ghassan Moussawi for his book titled Disruptive Situations:...
- 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 topic of Un/Doing! This fellowship takes place over the course of one academic year. As part of the award, Dr. Vergara Bracamontes and Dr. Velez will form part of The HRI Fellows...
- 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 and Design, along with graduate minors in Gender and Women's Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Dance. The Smalley Fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate minor in Gender and...
- Two GWS professors are among the faculty whose research projects received funding from the Presidential Initiative on Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities, which was developed by U of I President Tim Killeen to enhance and celebrate the arts and humanities at the University of Illinois...
- Professor Ghassan Moussawi has received the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Sexuality Section. This award highlights an exceptional scholar (whether in a tenure-track faculty position, a term faculty position, or engaged...
- 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 proper names and pronouns. Deadnaming as well as misgendering withhold recognition of another’s personhood. These practices can humiliate and hurt trans and non-binary persons and create an educational...
- 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) for her project, “Feed the Block: Political Education and Community Empowerment." Jessennya is co-founder of the grassroots mutual aid collective "Feed the Block," based in Southern...
- 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 to the Grand Research Challenge application deadline in November 2021. She received the grant to develop a project entitled, “Remembering Black Life in Color: Care...
- Professor Terri Barnes has been recognized, along with other Illinois Global Institute and centers directors, with an LAS Impact Award for supporting online and hybrid course development. The group includes: Teresa Barnes, Jerry Davila, Hadi Esfahani, John Karam, Colleen Murphy, Andy Orta, Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, Emanuel...