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...
GWS congratulates this year’s recipients of the GWS Awards for Outstanding Student, TA, and Faculty. The GWS Outstanding Student is Paul Michael Atienza, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, who was recognized for his contributions to “our department’s intellectual culture and sense of community” and his “dedication to collaboration, dialogue, and exchange.” Specifically,...
The Department of Gender and Women's Studies is pleased to announce that Shwetha Delanthamajalu (Sociology) will receive the 2020 Marianne A. Ferber Scholarship for her dissertation proposal, "Moral panics and policing of sex and love in the time of Hindutva." The award is given to the most outstanding dissertation proposal related to Gender and Women's Studies; secondary considerations...- Here's some information for you about GWS Courses and how to join the GWS Solidarity and Mutual Aid Society.
- Congratulations to Teresa Greppi (Spanish and Portuguese) Erin Grogan (English,) and Kadin Henningsen (English), for receiving the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants.
Professor Ghassan Moussawi has been named a LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Scholar by the College of LAS. The award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the College of LAS.
Taylor Mazique, a junior double majoring in GWS and History, has been awarded the 2020 Jean Alice Scharre Thompson Scholarship in GWS. The scholarship recognizes outstanding GPA as well as involvement in activism and social justice work.
Congratulations to Erin Grogan, who was selected to receive LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. Erin is a doctoral student in the Department of English, and has been a teaching assistant for GWS 275, The Politics of Fashion, and GWS 202, Sexualities. This semester they are the instructor for GWS 350, Feminist and Gender Theory.
The 2020 Barbara and Donald Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in Gender and Women's Studies has been awarded to Tiffany Harris, a graduate student in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. The Smalley Fellowship is awarded to a graduate minor in GWS whose dissertation proposal promises to make an outstanding contribution to the field of gender and/or sexuality...
“Abolition examines the interconnected power dynamics across prisons, police, immigration, gendered and sexual violence, environmental justice, disability justice, and more, in order to propose an abolitionist democratic present and future. Professor Toby Beauchamp (Gender and Women’s Studies) and Professor Naomi Paik (Asian American Studies) have been appointed CAS Resident Associates...