GWS and Political Science Professor Marwa Shalaby (with Ellen Lust and Lena Wängnerud) has been awarded a grant of approximately $50,400 USD from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) Foundation to study gender politics in the Middle …
Year: 2020
Professor Sami Schalk Receives Outstanding Women of Color Award
GWS Professor Sami Schalk has received a 2020-21 UW-Madison Outstanding Women of Color Award! This is an annual honor presented by the UW-Madison Office of the Interim Deputy Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer, and …
Professor Kate Walsh Has Been Awarded a $500,000 U.S. Department of Justice Grant
Kate Walsh, Professor of GWS and Psychology, and head of the of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crimes, to …
Shaunna Newton – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2017
Shaunna Newton graduated from UW-Madison with majors in Gender and Women’s Studies and Spanish and a certificate in Global Health in 2017. Shaunna completed a MPH at the University of Maryland in 2019. How does …
CORE is Hiring
CORE (Collaborative for Reproductive Equity) is hiring for two positions who will help build CORE and share their expertise in support of its mission. In keeping with CORE’s values, CORE is especially excited about candidates …
Open House LC + Wheelhouse
Open House Learning Community and Wheelhouse Studios came together last week for an LGBTQ+ pride themed watercolor night and had a blast! It was a great time to (virtually) gather and paint the progress pride …
Florence Howe, “Mother of Women’s Studies,” Has Passed Away
Florence Howe, outstanding graduate student in the Department of English at UW-Madison from 1951-1954, has passed away. Howe was a prominent leader in the world-wide feminist transformation of education, and is widely accepted as the …
Professor Pernille Ipsen Published a Danish-language Collective Biography of her Seven Mothers
Professor Pernille Ipsen published An Open Moment, a Danish-language collective biography of her seven mothers. Published in August 2020, An Open Moment recounts the history of the modern Danish women’s movement through the lives of …
GWS Chair Janet Hyde Receives Distinguished Publication Award
GWS Chair, Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women, and Professor of GWS and Psychology Janet Hyde’s 2019 American Psychologist article on “The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges …
GWS Welcomes 4 Incoming MA Students
GWS welcomes 4 incoming MA students: Rodlyn-mae Banting, Jenny Fierro-Padilla, Sonia Olmos, and Amy Pearce. Below, please find brief bios for each of them; more information can be found on their respective pages, which are …