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): ...

Congratulations to Jingyi Gu, Recipient of the 2021 Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in GWS The 2021 Barbara and Donald Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in Gender and Women's Studies has been awarded to Jingyi Gu, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Institute of Communications Research in the College of Media, along with a graduate minor in Gender and Women's Studies. ...

We're excited to announce that Tasha Robles joins Gender and Women's Studies as our new Academic Program Coordinator on Friday, November 13, 2020!  As Academic Program Coordinator, she will serve as academic advisor for students; help coordinate courses and curriculum; participate in planning public programs and communication; and provide a range of other administrative...

As scholars and teachers of intersectional feminist, queer, and transgender studies, GWS faculty are committed to confronting, understanding, and undoing the longstanding histories of racism, conscious and unconscious, that have structured institutions, culture, and everyday life for centuries in the United States. In light of recent public expressions of Islamophobia made on Twitter by an...

Professor Karen Flynn recently authored "Black Canadians and Pandemics" for Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, published by the History Departments at Ohio State University and Miami University. In this piece, she connects the experiences of Black Canadians under the 1918...

Gender and Women’s Studies is truly thrilled to have secured a new, standing postdoctoral fellowship in transgender studies, the first of its kind in the country. This recurring position reflects our department’s commitment to research, teaching, and public engagement in trans studies, and it responds to growing student demand for trans studies work at Illinois. The fellowship enables GWS to...

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is delighted to introduce our new assistant professors and Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow, who will all be joining us this fall.  Damian Vergara Bracamontes comes to us from Yale University with a Ph.D. in American Studies and a graduate certificate in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies.  A scholar of...

Welcome to GWS!  Amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, GWS remains steadfast in its commitment to your well-being and academic progress.  All of the courses taught by core GWS faculty are being offered remotely in Fall 2020.  (Please see the Fall Course Guide for...

Professor Ghassan Moussawi's new book "challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm."

In the wake of continued systemic state and vigilante violence against Black people in the United States, including the murders most recently of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade, and given the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and Indigenous communities, we pause to grieve these profound and preventable losses.  We breathe deeply and...