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 East and North Africa (MENA). The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seen momentous upheavals since 2011, and this …
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 announced at the UW Diversity Forum. Professor Schalk is part of the thirteenth cohort of Outstanding Women of Color awardees. …
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 expand sexual assault services on the UW–Madison campus. This project’s goal is to “bring together campus and community sexual assault …
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 GWS matter in the day to day of your professional life? GWS matters a lot day-to-day in my professional life. …
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 who represent the diverse communities that CORE serves in its research and related efforts. The CORE Research Program Manager (application …
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 flag using watercolors. Check out all that Wheelhouse Studios, an open art studio located in the lower level of Memorial …
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 “founding mother” of Women’s Studies, a field she pioneered after she left Wisconsin. Howe was the founder of the Feminist …
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 seven women who helped start and organize it in 1970 and lived together in a women-only commune from 1971-1976. Pernille …
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 to the gender binary” has won the 2020 Distinguished Publication Award, by the Distinguished Publication Awards Committee of the Association …
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 linked below. Rodlyn (she/her) plans to focus her studies on the history of Philippine colonial violences and how their legacies …