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...
- Visiting Lecturer Daniel McCarthy (PhD Music) published "Queering Abuelita: Reconciling Loss through the Speculative,” in the Winter issue of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 11(4): https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.27
Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Gender & Women's Studies College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a Chancellor...- Two of our GWS faculty, Professors Blair Ebony Smith and Mimi Thi Nguyen, will be participating at events for Pygmalion Festival, September 22-24, 2022. Opening on September 24, 2022 with a reception (12-6 PM) at Krannert Art Museum, Black On Black On Black On Black "will feature Black faculty in the School of Art &...
- Several professors have recently received named scholar positions for their contributions to research, education, and the academic mission of the College of LAS, including our own Terersa Barnes (Gender and Women's Studies and History). Barnes’ current main research project focuses on a South African philosophy professor who was also a state censor, prosecution witness, and...
- 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...