• GWS Prof. Beauchamp Interviewed on Rise of Anti-Trans Legislation
    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...
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    Welcome our 2022-2023 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Reseach Associate, Ava L.J. Kim
    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'...
  • Two Thompson Scholarship Winners
    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...
  • Dr. Ghassan Moussawi is Awarded the Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize
    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:...
  • Congratulations to our Humanities Research Institute Program Fellows 2022-2023
         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...
  • Congratulations to Catalina Hernandez, Recipient of the 2022 Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in GWS
    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...
  • GWS Professors Barnes and Flynn receive funding from U of I Presidential Initiative on Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities
    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 receives Early Career Award from American Sociological Association
    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...
  • GWS Statement on Deadnaming
    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 receives Social Actions Initiative Award from Sociologists for Women in Society
    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...
  • Karen Flynn is awarded HRI seed grant
    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...
  • Terri Barnes receives LAS Impact Award!
    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...
  • Ghassan Moussawi featured on LAS Experts site
    Professor Ghassan Moussawi is being featured on the new LAS Experts website.  You can listen to the interview here: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2021-03-24/when-danger-becomes-norm.  
  • AAS/GWS Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
    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 and spas outside Atlanta, Georgia, and to their loved ones near and far. We also send the same to all Asians and Asian Americans who have experienced gendered racial violence and racialized sexual...
  • GWS 202 - Sexualities Course Featured in the Daily Illini
    GWS is making headlines! Check out the DI's feature on GWS 202: https://dailyillini.com/.../gws-202-sexualities-prepares.../. Congrats to Prof. Moussawi and to TAs Shwetha Delanthamajalu and Megan Gargiulo for this...