Megan Gargiulo from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese received the Marianne A. Ferber Scholarship for her dissertation project, entitled "Race, Gender, and Recogimiento: Discursive Negotiations of Space, Sexuality, and Productivity in Late Colonial Mexico." Honorable mention went to Rachel...
The history of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies is the featured exhibit this month at the Main Library building. The display highlights key moments in the four decades of the department, spotlights the 1986 National Women’s Studies Association Conference which was held at Illinois,...
The Discovery Partners Institute will provide a seed grant for a project headed by Terri Barnes (GWS and History), Mauro Nobili (History) and Laila Hussein Mustafa (International Area Studies Library). Their group seeks to create innovative education materials in gaming and/or virtual reality...
Olivia Hagedorn from the Department of History was awarded the 2019 Smalley Fellowship in Gender and Women's Studies for her dissertation proposal entitled "'Call Me African': Black Women and Disaporic Cultural Feminism in Chicago, 1930-1980."
Toby Beauchamp has been named a 2019-2020 Helen Corley Petit Scholar, which is awarded for the "development of the scholarship and teaching of early career faculty members in the College." In addition to the title of Helen Corley Petit Scholar, the award comes with funds to support research and...
Throughout the 1960s and 70s thousands of young men and women left Iran to seek education and opportunity abroad. A group of particularly adventurous and charismatic friends met up in San Francisco. Best in the West locates their experiences, as young men establishing their lives in a new country,...- A binary system of gender is not a fact of nature. Nor is it politically neutral. It has been (and is being) wielded and enforced as a way to consolidate power and to stigmatize, target, discipline, punish, and exclude those who are deemed non-conforming: usually transgender people, intersex...
Ruth Nicole Brown has devoted her career to what she calls “engaged scholarship” with black girls to create new worlds with, ask questions of, and celebrate black girlhood. The professor of gender and women’s studies remains active on campus, in the surrounding Urbana-Champaign area, and across...
Elizabeth Corr is one of the first students to graduate with a degree from Illinois in Gender and Women's Studies in 2004. As the Director of Art Partnerships at the National Resources Defense Council in Chicago, she works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of...
GWS Professor CL Cole heads the Department of Media and Cinema Studies. Cole, a department head since 2014, was cited for growing and strengthening her department by recruiting new faculty members, conceptualizing and developing a new curriculum, increasing undergraduate enrollment and developing...- Outstanding GWS Student: Kelly Durgan, GWS Major Outstanding GWS TA: Silas Cassinelli, Department of English, GWS Graduate Minor Outstanding GWS Professor: Toby Beauchamp, GWS
Emily DiFilippo, a GWS graduate minor, received the IPRH Prize for Research in the Humanities for my book chapter entitled “Post-Op in the Real World: Cancer and Queer Resistance in Isabel Franc and Susanna Martín’s Alicia en un mundo real (2011)." This chapter is included...- Saniya Lee Ghanoui, Department of History Title of Dissertation Proposal: Hot-Blooded Teens and Silver Screens: Transnational Sex Education between the United States and Sweden, 1910-1960s Taylor-Imani A. Gates, Department of Educational Policy Studies ...
- Should We Pass on ‘Passing Women’?: The Stakes of (Trans)gender Ontologies for Korean Namjangyeoja Dramas Abstract: Scholarship has gendered the protagonists of namjangyeoja dramas, South Korean live-action television dramas that focus on...
Professor Ruth Nicole Brown is one of seven recipients of the Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship for her project, Black Girl Genius Week. The fellowship is designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement as part of the scholarly vocation, and awards a...