News

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...

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...

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...

GWS is making headlines! Check out the DI's feature on GWS 202: https://dailyillini.com/.../gws-202-sexualities-prepares.../...

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,...

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,...

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....

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...

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;...

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...