The Departments of Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of the Social Causes and Consequences of Reproductive Health Inequities. The successful candidate will …
Year: 2019
Faculty Position in Gender and Women’s Studies/Psychology – Cluster Hire
The Departments of Psychology and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek to hire a tenure-track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor with research and teaching interests in the psychological aspects of sexual …
The Rise of Women’s Studies
Wisconsin Women at 150
May 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the awarding of bachelor’s degrees to women at UW-Madison. UW Women at 150’s mission, initiated in 2018-19 and to be continued beyond, is to celebrate the contributions of …
Administrative Staff Positions in Gender and Women’s Studies
Administrative Staff Positions in Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison Gender and Women’s Studies is seeking a new half-time (50%) Administrative Assistant (USA2) for the main office. Please find the direct link to the job posting …
GWS Faculty & Graduate Students Awarded Support for Interdisciplinary Borghesi-Mellon Workshop
Professors Chris Garlough and Annie Menzel with graduate students Agnes Muyanga and Flint Devine have been awarded support for an interdisciplinary Borghesi-Mellon Workshop in 2019-2020! This Borghese-Mellon Workshop — titled “Care: Politics, Performances, Practices” — hopes to …
The Future is Female – and Black, and Disabled
Professor Sami Schalk is interviewed for Space the Nation in the SYFY Wire. Schalk “believes today’s mainstream science fiction erases disability in the same way some early utopian science fiction erased racial differences, even as …
Chair of GWS Weighs in on the Newly Elected Local School Board
Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies, Professor Aili Tripp, weighs in on how the impact of the newly elected, all female-identified Madison Metropolitan School Board, one that also includes several women of color, may have …
How the Partnership of Church and State Shaped Women’s Reproductive Rights
Professor Jenny Higgins shares expertise on how the expanding influence of health care institutions funded by religious groups in Wisconsin contributes to the changing landscape of women’s reproductive care and policy.
Lowbrow Culture and Guilty Pleasures? The Performance and Harm of Academic Elitism
Professor Sami Schalk, in Inside Higher Ed, questions the arbitrariness and biases of scholarly standards for so-called lowbrow subjects and activities.