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 in a volume entitled Consequential Art: Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain, ...- 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 Title of Dissertation Proposal: Revolutionary Mothering: Black Mothers’ Coping and Resiliency in...
- 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 the lives of female-assigned people who pass as men, as “women." I argue that we must push back...
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 grant of $50,000.
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGANIZATION We, faculty in the department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, write to express our support for the Graduate Employees’ Organization in their effort to bargain a fair contract with the University. Graduate...- Professor Nguyen talks about art, punk, and politics. Art Now is an award-winning mini-documentary series that has produced over 80 episodes on local artists working in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding areas since July 2010. A joint production by the Urbana Public Arts Program and Urbana Public Television, Art Now highlights members of the Urbana's creative community and introduces...
- Check out GWS alum Sarah Alo (2012) and her collaborators Flavia Borges and Devon Carson in MENACE, a micro-series on Instagram! "Ana, Daisy and Jane never planned to know their neighbors, but when alerts encourage women to protect themselves they forfeit their fierce independence to hide out together. After a rollback of women’s rights triggers increased violence in the near future, a male pride...
Prominently mentioned in her Vermont legislative bio is the history future state Rep. Kiah Morris ('06) was a part of in the mid-2000s at Illinois. “A place that is close to my heart is the old Women’s Studies house. I spent so many days there preparing my thesis and finding inspiration from faculty and peers there," says Morris, who earned...
Prof. Toby Beauchamp's essay ("When Things Don't Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics") in Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/ Homo Normativities, has been awarded the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies. The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) was founded in 1991 as the first university-based research center in...- Women’s studies programs began popping up at universities around the country in the 1960s, and today, the academic discipline is still on the rise. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of women’s and gender studies degrees in the United States has increased by more than 300% since 1990, and in 2015, there were more than 2,...
- We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We unequivocally answer and amplify the call from the Palestinian Feminist Collective for “feminists everywhere to speak up, organize, and join the struggle for Palestinian liberation.” We condemn the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in ...