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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...

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.  

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 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...

In "Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19," Professor Karen Flynn (GWS/African American Studies) takes a long historical view of the unequal experience with medical institutions that Black people, particularly Black women, have experienced during the COVID pandemic, both as medical workers and as...

Teresa Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Center for African Studies, has been selected to receive the Provost's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which recognizes sustained excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching and contributions to...

Attention Graduate Students!  GWS is looking for graduate students who are interested in teaching for Summer 2021, (Fall and Spring).  Please see the position announcement here (for summer): https://gws.illinois.edu/hiring-summer-2021-grad-instructors and here (for AY 21-22): ...