GWS Undergraduate Advisor Susan Nelson has won one of this year’s L&S Academic Advising Awards! Susan’s contributions to our students and our department go above and beyond. The L&S Academic Advising Award is awarded to exemplary advisors “who have gone beyond the call of duty and worked across school and college lines to serve the …
Dylan is a junior majoring in Life Sciences Communication and pursuing the LGBTQ+ Studies certificate alongside certificates in Classical Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Dylan is also the mastermind behind the Department of Integrative Biology and Slow Food UW’s well-curated social media accounts. Read more about Dylan’s plans below. When and why did you …
Jenny Higgins, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Laurel Rice, Professor and Chair of UWSMPH’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, wrote a Capital Times article called, “Access to contraception and abortion is as critical as ever during COVID-19 pandemic.” Noting that health care systems in both Wisconsin and in the …
Lariisa Stewart is a senior graduating in August 2020 with a GWS major and a LGBTQ+ Studies certificate. Read Lariisa’s reflections on transferring to UW-Madison, choosing the major, writing a senior thesis, and preparing for graduate programs in Curriculum and Instruction. When and why did you choose GWS and LGBTQ+ Studies? I took my first …
Associate Professor Sami Schalk’s essay, “Understanding Oppression,” has been featured in the Spring 2020 Issue of Letters and Science Magazine, Sift and Winnow. Schalk writes, “Everyone needs to have a basic understanding of systems of oppression because all of us will interact with people different from us and potentially hold power over people less privileged …
GWS Lecturer Dr. Kate Phelps has received a 4W Initiative Innovation Grant for her “body mapping research project that is exploring experiences of gendered embodiment in the university setting, especially related to how the perceived risk and threat of sexual violence can manifest and live in the body in various ways.” 4W Innovation Grants allow …
We are hiring TAs now for online summer and face-to-face fall courses in Gender & Women’s Studies. We will be hiring for: Gen&WS 102: Gender, Women, and Society in Global Perspective (face-to-face in fall) Gen&WS 103: Gender, Women, Bodies, and Health (online in summer and face-to-face in fall) Gen&WS 200: Intro to LGBTQ+ Studies (online …
Assistant Professor James McMaster, whose faculty position began in Fall 2019, has been featured in a UW-Madison “Faculty Focus” piece. In Fall 2019, he began teaching courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies. His work focuses on care theory in conversation with queer, feminist, and Asian Americanist critique and cultural production. See …
Associate Professor of GWS and History, Judy Houck has been featured in the Fall 2019 edition of The Honors Challenge for the College of Letters & Science (p.5), for her honors seminar Gen&WS 531: Women and Health in American History. “The course tackles provocative questions in its exploration of women and health, investigating the effect …
Bill Basquin, class of 2011, graduated with a Philosophy major and a Gender and Women’s Studies certificate. Bill completed most of their undergraduate coursework in the late 1980s and early 1990s, circling back to finish their degree so that they could apply to graduate programs. Bill completed an MFA in Visual Arts from the University …