- 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...
- 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...
- 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 (...
- 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...
- 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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Professor Ghassan Moussawi has received the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Sexuality Section. This award highlights an...
- 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...
- 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."...
- 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...